Simon Whitworth

[Anonymous]

I was just going through some stats tonight and found that Simon Whitworth in the last 5 years has rode 1554 horses and has ridden 74 winners which is a meer 5%. Anyone know more about the man like how old he is etc because I might just lay him blind every time he rides.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure there a jockeys with worse records, and relatively few (if any) who come close to making a level stakes profit on every one of their rides.

[davidbrady]

If all those winners were 25/1 then you would lose money

[davidjohnson]

I know that I’d never let him borrow my car.

Horse Racing: Whitworth ‘wanted’ by ex-partner for return of her missing car

Published: 06/11/2006 (Sport) Graham Green
WANTED posters featuring Simon Whitworth appeared in Lambourn at the weekend after clerk of the scales Jane Kugele alleged the former jockey had stolen her car, writes Graham Green.
The couple’s relationship ended last Thursday when Kugele returned from working at Towcester to discover that Whitworth, who had been sharing her home at Wescot, near Wantage, had left and that an Audi A3, which she says is hers and she had allowed him to drive, had disappeared. She says she had earlier asked him to leave.
Whitworth, who relinquished his riding licence in April, is this morning due to enroll on a trainer’s course at the British Racing School and Kugele, frustrated at being unable to contact him over the missing vehicle, plans to journey to Newmarket to see if he turns up.
"I just can’t track the guy down, but most of his contacts are in the Lambourn area, which is why I put up seven or eight posters around the place," she said.
They show a picture of Whitworth, and read ‘Have you seen this man? He has stolen my car’. Kugele has included her mobile number.
"I am prepared to do anything to get my car back, and hopefully the posters will help me find him," she said.
Efforts by the Racing Post to obtain a comment from Whitworth failed yesterday, but his father Eric, a solicitor, said his son’s name is registered in the car’s log-book, and that he considered the posters to be "highly defamatory".
Kugele, who is consulting a solicitor and today starts a fortnight’s holiday she intends devoting to the hunt, went on: "I went to the police, who said it’s a civil matter at the moment because he has had permission to use the car, but what I have to do is find him and then serve him with a notice requesting that he returns my possessions within seven days.
"If I can get that witnessed, the police can then, after the week, put the car on the stolen-vehicles register."
Kugele will not be inconvenienced in terms of attending race meetings if the dark-blue Audi – registration Y566 LGU – has not been returned by the time she is due to return to work, as the Horseracing Regulatory Authority provides her with a company car. But she will not rest until getting it back.
"I wouldn’t say it’s worth a lot – probably about £4,500 – because it’s done a lot of miles, but to me that’s quite a lot of money. It would certainly take me a while to earn that, and I’m determined to get a resolution to it."

Makes you wonder how jockeys with such poor strike rates survive doesn’t it. Have a look at his ride on Salut Saint Cloud at Southwell at Southwell earlier in the year. Perhaps he lacks the strength to ride regularly.

[Cav]

Any Horse (GB)… (Any Trainer) …Simon Whitworth s.i.s: in rr: nt clr run: late hdwy: kpt on ins fnl f

[cormack15]

Is it entirely ethical for a Clerk of the Scales to be in a relationship with jockey?

[Alderbrook]

Any Horse (GB)… (Any Trainer) …Simon Whitworth s.i.s: in rr: nt clr run: late hdwy: kpt on ins fnl f

You missed ‘bltnt arsht’.

[rory]

I once met Simon Whitworth in the bar at Dunstall Park where he offered to lay me one in running at Portman Park (true, honestly); I believe that was the only occasion where the winning jockey has failed to draw the correct weight in a virtual race. Are there no bounds to their nefarious activities?

[Glenn]

The dwellingmost jockey by some way. Achieves comments like ‘dwelt’, ‘slowly away’, ‘missed break’ etc about six times more often than the likes of Frankie Dettori.

[matty]

Hello,

Mr Whitworth rode in Ireland, I tink, once, he must be 68 if he is day..!

[Anonymous]

He rode a 10/1 winner today at Kempon. He must of been reading the forums!

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