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On her 5th ride managed to cop a ten day ban, in the last race at Wolverhampton…
Apparently rode to instruction as in holding the horse up last and not whipping the horse…admitted that she should have made some sort of move earlier…
For such an inexperienced lass, on a 100/1 outsider did this ride really deserve a ten day ban?
How many of us could pick dozens and dozens of rides every week where a jockey has misjudged their timing and not got up to win a race, never mind finishing way down the field…
Seemed a bonkers decision to me?
I did not see the race but have to agree. The stewards seem to hit the poor inexperienced jockeys as it is probably less contentious and will get little media as opposed to banning a well known top jockey which would generate bad press.
Just like Premier League refs who show a yellow card to a player for throwing / kicking the ball away yet allow Rooney to hurl abuse at them all season.
They’re seen to be doing their job without upsetting anyone important.
If all such rides were treated the same, Jamie Spencer would be banned 547 days a year.
Stretched out over a period of two and a quarter years, Joannides has ridden the same sort of race on each of her five bookings – out the back, and nudge through the gaps if her mount is going well enough to take a hand.
I saw her second ride, and to date only win, at close hand when doing some radio at Nottingham back in June 2014. Partnering the then William Haggas-trained sprinter Asian Trader, we did admit on air that she hadn’t appeared to have done all that much other than to make sure the late run wasn’t checked by a backpeddling rival, but conceded also that this was possibly as much as she was asked to do aboard a habitually strong, easy traveller.
Joannides to date reminds me in particular of the late Jan Wilson, in so far as that for as many times as such a quiet ride worked for Wilson on Imperial Sword, there were at least as many times when it backfired so badly (often in races not run as much to suit as expected) as to give the impression of a really unsatisfactory, passive effort.
The extent of the defeat in the Wolverhampton race this week was probably indicative of a similar lack of guile on Joannides’ part, and a failure to realise that current or prospective 80-rated animals in a maiden weren’t all likely to come back to her in the same way her rivals in the four handicaps she’d previously raced in might, rather than of anything more sinister. Plenty for her to learn yet.
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