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Hi Barry – and thanks.
Straight from the horses mouth – you can’t do better than that mate !Murphy had the hip op in June:-
Murphy out for eight weeks
By Andrew King 18 JUNE 2010GRAND NATIONAL-winning jockey Timmy Murphy will be sidelined for two months after undergoing an operation on his troublesome left hip, writes Andrew King.
Murphy, who reached the milestone of 1,000 career winners at Taunton in January and partnered Merigo to land the Scottish Grand National two months ago, expects to return to the saddle in late August or early September.
His wife Verity said yesterday: "Timmy is feeling fine after the operation on Wednesday afternoon.
"He reckons he may well be back in less than two months, but it will be down to the doctors to give him the thumbs-up.
"The hip problem stems from an old injury. It had been bothering him for a while, so he decided to have the operation – which involved keyhole surgery – over the summer when things are not that busy.
"Timmy’s retaining owner, David Johnson, and all the other owners and trainers he rides for are aware that he will be out of action for around eight weeks."
His wife jokingly added: "Another reason Timmy has had the operation at this point in the season is that he wants to give AP [Tony McCoy] a headstart in the jockeys’ championship."
Not sure how many horses David Johnson will actually have in training this winter jumps season. He ceased buying new horses a couple of years ago as his business had been hit by the recession.Thus many of his horses are at the veteran stage. That said, I believe he has a couple shared with the Stewart family trained by Nicholls and ridden by either Murphy or Walsh.
I see Timmy is riding for the Wylie’s.
They are not retaining a rider this season.
How long will this love affair last?
Not long knowing the Wylies’
I wish the Wylies’ well for putting so much money into racing but if they keep sacking their retained jockeys they will never get anywhere.
Graham Wylis is a succesful businessman.
You would have thought by know that he may have realised that it is not the jockeys that are the problem.
Still he puts a lot of money into racing so the choice is his.Started with a winner today.
Is it Wylie or Mr Johnston who keeps falling out with the jockeys?
Good to see Timmy still riding David Johnston’s horses too
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I presume it’s Howard Johnson, Coggy; he wastes so much of Wylie’s money on ultimately poor horses that it stands to reason he’d look to shift the blame.
That’s only my opinion though.
Graham Wylie is a succesful businessman.
You would have thought by know that he may have realised that it is not the jockeys that are the problem.
Still he puts a lot of money into racing so the choice is his.I think there is a certain element of "best fit" about it. The Wylies want to keep their string as local as possible to themselves, and Howard Johnson is the trainer in the locality best able to cope with the sheer volume of horses that that entails.
As such, the whole "successful businessman should know better" maxim probably doesn’t really apply. Doubtless Graham Wylie would like some return on investment in terms of Festival wins, etc., but I’ve never got the sense it’s the be all and end all for him.
It’s far likelier that this is a man with an astonishing amount of money simply making sure that if he can’t take it all with him, he’ll spend it in the way most pleasurable to himself and his missus. By the same token, I wonder if anyone from Digitalspy or a similar website knows which party has profited the most from Wylie’s Sage company sponsoring the revival of
The Krypton Factor
on ITV1 – Wylie or the TV company; and if it isn’t Wylie, whether that especially concerns him.
Per the jockey situation, unless something else comes to light I wouldn’t read much more into the deployment of Timmy Murphy on some of Johnson’s horses recently than the rider simply being up north quite a bit right now. There will be increasing numbers of Raymond Anderson Green-owned and / or Andrew Parker-trained animals wanting schooling, work-riding, etc. as the northern season cranks up a gear, I would have thought.
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I thought Graham Wylie sold most of his shares in Sage 6 or 7 years ago to help fund the set up of TSG?
Closer inspection reveals he retired from Sage in 2003 with 108.5 million shares worth £146m. Presumably the selling (and, if so minded, repurchasing) of some or all of these over time has funded his subsequent pursuits. The point is, ultimately, that he’s not short of a bob or two either way, much less of ways to spend it without (as far as I can ascertain from the outside looking in) being wholly dependent on a commensurate ROI.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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