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Is he angling for Matt Williams’ job? Geraghty and Walsh half a stone superior to the great Christophe Pieux? Keep taking the pills.
I always thought he just did flat racing for No Morals. Strange how he’s suddenly become a jumping judge since the recent downsizing at the firm.
Trilateral sponsorship, Donoghue handing out the trophy, the hot fav stopping as though shot on the run-in……
I smell lizards!
Is he angling for Matt Williams’ job? Geraghty and Walsh half a stone superior to the great Christophe Pieux? Keep taking the pills.
I always thought he just did flat racing for No Morals. Strange how he’s suddenly become a jumping judge since the recent downsizing at the firm.
Strong views are what this is all about? Not sure how many of us would put their views out there in the public (with your actual name) for people to take apart….disagree with alot of what tdk said but good reading all week all the same.
Fair play to TDK, I’ve been reading him since he started and he’s excellent. When you’ve committed your opinion to print pre-race for six months or so you will be entitled to criticise, Glenn.
When you’ve committed your opinion to print pre-race for six months or so you will be entitled to criticise, Glenn.
Well this James Kinght character started it, criticising some foreign jockey. I mean, how many horses has he ridden? When he’s ridden in a few races he’d be entitled to criticise.
I doubt I’d ever get a gig to express my views in the press pre-race as I’m not a card carrying jockey xenophobe, which seems to be a prerequiste.
Where can one read this James Knight chappie?
I’ve never heard of him.
(Yes, I have tried googling, but I gave up after a couple of pages.)
I totally agree with Glenn about journalists’ knocking of French jockeys.
When you’ve committed your opinion to print pre-race for six months or so you will be entitled to criticise, Glenn.
Well this James Kinght character started it, criticising some foreign jockey. I mean, how many horses has he ridden? When he’s ridden in a few races he’d be entitled to criticise.
I doubt I’d ever get a gig to express my views in the press pre-race as I’m not a card carrying jockey xenophobe, which seems to be a prerequiste.
Maybe it was a bit of a cheap Down-esque line – Pieux isn’t that bad, but it was more that Walsh and Geraghty
are that good
at Cheltenham. As it happens, I don’t think PIeux gave Kasbah Bliss a particularly effective ride on the day. Had him held up right out the back off a relatively slow early pace before making a big mid race move on the outside, giving away ground to the whole field in the process. It didn’t affect the result, but it wasn’t a good ride imo…
I see Matt Williams has actually obliged in today’s Cheltenham 2010 tips feature
"… while Kasbah Bliss has failed on too many occasions to be trusted at Cheltenham, and we’ve all seen enough of Christophe Pieux to know
he adds a 7lb steadier at the very least
"
Gerald, i’ll give you a clue, he is posting on this thread.
Glenn, I find your threads interesting and entertaining in equal measure. This one is entertaining yet miles off the mark. Pieux is definitely a crap jockey. I’ve never seen you post any selections either but then I could have missed them.
Yep, all the judges are out in force giving Pieux a kicking while lauding Walsh. Richard Birch was even doing it on Saturday when he wasn’t going maximum on Manure in what turned out to be their worst result in seventeen years!
Pieux has ridden 21 times here over the past five years. Even if you’ve seen and re-seen all those rides how confident would you be about rating him accurately on the basis of them? Matt WIlliams is confident he’s seen
at least
a five standard deviationevent, which is what seeing a professional jockey who’s 7lb below the average amounts to. All I see is a jockey who’s been profitable to follow in the past and is likely to be so this side of the Channel in future.
I think Pieux rides too short for a jump jockey. Thats my only criticism. I had backed Kasbah in the World hurdkle so I was looking closely and from what I saw it was the horse not the jockey that lost the race. And, if Pieux really was that bad, I dont think Doumen would keep putting him up.
Yep, all the judges are out in force giving Pieux a kicking while lauding Walsh. .
For the purposes of balance, I do agree that this post-Festival worshipping of Ruby Walsh has been way over the top. Yes, he is
one of
the best NH jockeys riding, but how many of his Festival winners wouldn’t have won if they had been ridden by an average jock? I’m struggling to think of one winner where he really made "the difference" (a la McCoy on Wichita Lineman…)
All I see is a jockey who’s been profitable to follow in the past and is likely to be so this side of the Channel in future.
You reckon, Glenn? Take out Millenium Royal’s win at 16/1 thirty months ago, and you will have been doing your level-stakes stones on all Pieux’s subsequent rides in the UK.
I’m not saying Pieux is not a talented jockey, but his style is much more suited to Auteuil, where he dominates a weighing room not exactly bursting at the seams with Walsh’s and McCoy’s. He gets ridden to sleep over here (unless he is on a horse with clear form claims) – something some of us have been aware of for a lot longer than the after-timers at the RP.
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