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What a shocking ride he has just given Timepiece.
He is on the best horse in the race by a considerable way yet tries to get an impossible run up the inside.
Shocking does not really cover it.It makes J O’Brien’s ride on Saturday look good.
Its very hard to say whether she would have won but she faded very tamely and the winner has produced a smart performance to put 5 lengths between her and the rest.
Having said that, Queally still had ample opportunity to switch after the first run failed but chose to compound his misjudgement.
He seemed obsessed with going up the inside and managed to get himself boxed in by one horse!! The winner hosed in, a typical Where the F did that come from? by a Clive Brittain horse at massive odds. I wouldn’t trust that form with a barge pole and I noticed my old pal Firdaws in last place. Hard to believe there was some favourable noises made about that cuddy last year. Jockey should hand his fee back. I am not saying anything was untoward at all but if you were giving lessons on how to get a horse beat, that was a master class today.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.
Or perhaps Timepiece just ran a shocking race. When I saw her entered in a listed race at Yarmouth I thought she can’t be showing much at home.
The brigadier.
I have no idea how you have come to the conclusion that Timepiece must not have been showing much at home. Its last run just a month ago she was beaten 1 1/2 lenghts in a Group 1 by Snow Fairy.
I think it was more a confidence boosting win.
However that was far from what she got.I will put him up for the ride of the week on ATR under the heading "How not to ride a horse"
LOL!
Be fair mate, what happened to Queally could have happened to anyone. He had given her an ok ride and had Firdaws run in a straight line he would have won IMO. Once she was in trouble she went to piece and needed very little excuse to bottle it. She’s from a quirky family apparently, she certainly should never have been caught in the Nassau by The Fugue. She had the race won, round went the tail and she just gave up completely inside the final furlong but was so far ahead she still finished 2nd
She was actually marked up as a dodgy bet by David Johnson because she’s not to be trusted. I noticed he was still shirking way from anything that came near her well after TQ had given up on here…..she looked scared out of her wits so his concerns look well founded
Personally I blame Sir Henry if he actually decided on the game plan Chances are it was just case of business as usual with her and he left it up to TQ who knows?
The plan was obvious : Track the leader and go to the front 2-3 furlongs out like when she won the Falmouth but why take the chance against this bunch of no hopers when she could have set the pace herself?
All she needed to do is the same as she did in the Nassau and with nothing remotely as good as The Fugue in the race they probably wouldn’t have got within 5 lengths of her.
Maybe I’m being wise after the fact but I just don’t see the sense in holding up any horse in a field of that size who is so far ahead of the opposition that it canters faster than the rest of them can run. Especially one who can make the running if required.
The leader kept looking like he was going to come off the rail and every time he did TQ went for the gap but it closed. Shocking luck more than shocking ride imo.
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Timepiece has been handy enough, sometime leading in the past. Drawn on the fence I would have expected him to try to get out quickly and then take up the running or at least settle off the rail.
He gave Wild Coco a similar ride in the Park Hill, somwhow managing to get stuck on the fence with nowhere to go and allowing the Queen’s horse to get first run on him up the straight. On that occasion the filly got him out of trouble, although as a consequence I think she had a much harder race than was necessary.
I don’t think he is the most tactically astute jockey riding today, often sacrificing the tactical advantage by missing the break.
Earlier in the season the whole of Warren Place were on a filly called Running Deer at Lingfield – punted all morning. The expectation of the yard was that the filly would jump quickly and make all, putting her stamina to good use on the tight AW track. TQ completely missed the break, and even failed to get up the leader’s inner when a gap appeared through the first furlong. Although the filly held every chance turning in, she simply hasn’t the turn of foot to win off a slow pace at Lingfield’s AW tight turns. I have it on good authority that there were some very long faces at Warren Place that night.
It has been said in Newmarket, where every punter could have won every race lost, that Mr Queally could get boxed in on a walk-over.
It has been said in Newmarket, where every punter could have won every race lost, that Mr Queally could get boxed in on a walk-over.
I made a rare saturday foray into William Hill this week and Young Tom’s got himself a nice sinecure tipping losers on the tannoy.
I don’t normally comment on posts like the so called bad ride Tom Quelly gave
Timepiece
.
Timepiece
is supposed to be a pattern class horse but the truth is, she is not.
I expect a Patteren class horse to be able to achieve a speed rating of
100+
and
Timepiece
has managed this once in the past two years.
Timepiece:
19Sep12 Yar 10GF C1L 18K
41
19Aug12 Dea 10Gd G1 119K
88
04Aug12 Goo 10Gd C1G1 104K
66
17May12 Yor 10Gd C1G2 56K
63
06May12 Nmk 9GS C1G3 31K
68
24Sep11 Nmk 8GF C1G1 98K
68
21Aug11 Dea 10Gd G1 123K
45
31Jul11 Dea 8Gd G1 147K
107
08Jul11 Nmk 8Gd C1G1 90K
85
13Jun11 War 11Gd C1L 17K
78
03Jun11 Eps 9Gd C1G3 28K
88
12May11 Yor 10Gd C1G2 56K
71
The figures never lie, she is only a
class 3
horse on time
In other words Timepeice is a pig and Tom is exonerated of all fault. Here here to that
He still rode an inauspicious race regardless of the fact that she probably was not good enough on the day. On the whole he is a good to fair jockey, sometimes he rides a very good race, sometimes he rides very poorly.
Under no circumstances would I want to back anything he was riding to the extent that the future depended upon it, Frankel included.
I don’t normally comment on posts like the so called bad ride Tom Quelly gave
Timepiece
.
Timepiece
is supposed to be a pattern class horse but the truth is, she is not.
I expect a Patteren class horse to be able to achieve a speed rating of
100+
and
Timepiece
has managed this once in the past two years.
Timepiece:
19Sep12 Yar 10GF C1L 18K
41
19Aug12 Dea 10Gd G1 119K
88
04Aug12 Goo 10Gd C1G1 104K
66
17May12 Yor 10Gd C1G2 56K
63
06May12 Nmk 9GS C1G3 31K
68
24Sep11 Nmk 8GF C1G1 98K
68
21Aug11 Dea 10Gd G1 123K
45
31Jul11 Dea 8Gd G1 147K
107
08Jul11 Nmk 8Gd C1G1 90K
85
13Jun11 War 11Gd C1L 17K
78
03Jun11 Eps 9Gd C1G3 28K
88
12May11 Yor 10Gd C1G2 56K
71
The figures never lie, she is only a
class 3
horse on time
Well they must lie sometimes as she has won 4 listed races, one Group 1 and been placed in 4 other Group 1’s!!
Admittedly she is not the most reliable but she has talent nonetheless and nobody who saw that race last week could possibly blame the horse for what happened. She was repeatedly blocked off when travelling on the bit and had her chance completely obliterated.
As for TQ – I think people are being very harsh. As a young and relatively inexperienced jockey he was thrust firstly into a prominent position at Warren Place and then found himself the jockey on the greatest horse in the world. He has handled that pressure incredibly well and, in my opinion, has been the perfect partner for Frankel. He is a very cool, calm character (sometimes TOO calm admittedly!!) and I think he has been able to transmit this to the horse especially when getting him down to the start.
I agree he rides the odd stinker but who doesn’t? In fact there is not a SINGLE jockey I would back if my future depended on it!
There IS one horse I would though!
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