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A very bold move using your first post to start a thread and your second to attack a veteran.
And no. McCoy is the greatest. Moore is merely exceptionally brilliant.
Bill Shoemaker
Lester Piggott
Steve CauthenRyan Moore might one day surpass those three but that day has yet to come. Right now, he’s just the best of his generation.
Johnny Murtagh is in my opinion the best flat jockey I’ve seen, but Moore is not far off him. Smullen is the best riding in Ireland, it’s rare he’s beaten one that should have won. Like Smullen, Moore makes very few mistakes, and, like Murtagh, he wins plenty of races you feel others wouldn’t.
He is fantastic – but fallible – in more pockets than the late, great Ron Moody during the vital stages in the home straight in the week’s biggest race
Shame he’s so boring at least McCoy had more character.
Moore has character.
I like his character, he is who he is at the end of the day. I think the only Moore ride I have backed this week is Gleneagles, so I have missed out big time and yes it has been frustrating watching him ride so many winners.
I agree about Johnny Murtagh, that season he retired had some of the best rides I have seen. I cant remember many he was on, but Novellist in the King George was a highlight.
I think there’s too much emphasis on all this anyway, he doesn’t claim to be the best so its best just to sit back and appreciate what we are watching. It was great last year when a lot of Aussies poo pooed him and said he was an average jock and then he goes and bolts up in the Melbourne cup. That was hilarious.
Richard Hughes 11/8 now for the jockeys title. How much will he want it in his last season is the question?
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Moore is the best jockey I’ve seen on the flat.
As for McCoy. In terms of quality Ruby Walsh was always a league above.
BOOM the best jockey ever has a winner at Royal Ascot.
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He is definitely the best of his generation. He’s at least 1O pounds better than the other
British/UK flat jockeys riding today. Although he is not up against the standard of
jockeyship the likes of Piggott , Eddery , Carson, Cauthen and Kinane had to face ,
he nevertheless belongs in that group of elite jockeysIn my lifetime , Piggott was the best – Eddery not far behind.
Piggott was like Muhammad Ali, a one-off , who broke all the rules
in terms of text book riding – yet still became a legend.If you carefully examine Sir Gordon Richards’ career record and how
he had to travel all over the country in search of winners – without the aid of modern transport –
then there is , without question , solid grounds for him to be crowned the best British/Irish
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Aloft probably the best ride in the history of the sport (i am talking through my wallet )
but it was GoodAsk the same question in 20 years and we can make a considered judgement.
Jockeys come and go, they need to perform at the highest level over a sustained number of years to be deserving of the title greatest.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
I have to say I am not a Moore fan. One forgets how many times he gets hemmed/boxed in and gets beat when really he should have won.
He as had an exceptional week, however as we have seen with Ruby at Cheltenham, riding the best horse in the race makes it a whole lot easier, so lets not get too carried away.
Also having the top tariners and owners to ride for help a huge amnount.
To liken him to Lester Piggott is a litle premature as I have never have and probably never will see a jockey as good as him.
Like McCoy and this to my mind makes a great jockey and that is the ability to win on a horse that should not have won as opposed to winning on horses that should win.
Time will tellShame he’s so boring at least McCoy had more character.
He isn’t boring he just rides as a job he isn’t interested in interviews and personalities and talking to Bob Cooper.
Why can’t he just ride and go home, why does everyone think sportsmen have to be interested in the job they do, he can ride a horse, doesn’t mean he has to take part in all the other bits.
but it was Good
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