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So – the guy rides three winners at one of the gaffs and…. ?
This is what the likes of Ryan Moore do week in, week out….
Why the 3/1 for 2010 then??
Because the Fallon lemmings have smashed him into that price! I wouldn’t back him at 30-1 let alone 3-1.
Kieren Fallon will not be Champion jockey in 2010.
7/2 (Ladbrokes) about a proven Group 1 top notcher who’ll be trying, in a 2 horse race. Even 3/1 is generous. Is this what happens when the odds compilers dont have an exchange market to ape?
7/2 (Ladbrokes) about a proven Group 1 top notcher who’ll be trying, in a 2 horse race. Even 3/1 is generous. Is this what happens when the odds compilers dont have an exchange market to ape?
Good point about the fact there is no exchange market. Rare that bookies can sell a bet at such poor odds these days….
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It is going to be such a disappointment for the weak-minded Fallon lemmings when the realisation dawns that he is, after all, just a jockey. And – as I am sure even Fallon himself would confess, he is very unlikely to be returning at the peak of his powers on Friday. Professional sport just doesn’t work like that – it is likely to be weeks, if not months, until we see Fallon return to his best.
Gawd help us when he does!
6 winners in as many days, with no night racing and a day abroad, – computes to much less than a 30/1 shot for next years title?
Do lemmings have parachutes?"it was a measure of racing’s desperation to retain its place in our sporting culture that Fallon has been welcomed back, by many Flat racing professionals, as the one household name capable of catching the outside world’s attention…"
I think "stupidity" would have been more apt than "desperation to retain its place in our sporting culture".
Other sports have had their "bad boys" – Rio Ferdinand in football, Flintoff in cricket, for example, whose falls from grace have rightly been seen as the excesses of youth and forgiven. But other situations have not been forgiven – Chambers in athletics a case in point, and one can be confident that Richards in rugby union will be another – because, I think, the issues in their cases are seen as subverting the very essence of their sports. Fallon will in my view fall into this second category and his return will prove a negative for the sport.
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