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Obviously only my opinion. Mikky, but to my eyes he beat the [expletive] out of the horse.
Prosecuted by the RSPCA and banned by the racing auothorities.
Can’t remember if he did receive a ban, but is often mentioned by ‘racing fans’ as a great ride……………..he got a ‘beaten’ horse up to win.
Great watching. if you do find it, especially if you are a sadist.
Colin (tree-hugger)
Sounds very ugly Colin, I don’t think I want to see it now. Also, hasn’t the rule of only hitting your horse a certain amount of times just recently been introduced. So perhaps, the day McCoy rode Pridwell, that rule wasn’t in existance and he was allowed to hit it as much as he liked, within reason.
I’m just surprised I can’t remember it. Oh well, getting old now and the memory not as good as it used to be
Mike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt7xfyjrIwc
So many fantastic rides that year!!!! And so many fantastic horses!!!! What a year that was.
Obviously only my opinion. Mikky, but to my eyes he beat the [expletive] out of the horse.
Prosecuted by the RSPCA and banned by the racing auothorities.
Can’t remember if he did receive a ban, but is often mentioned by ‘racing fans’ as a great ride……………..he got a ‘beaten’ horse up to win.
Great watching. if you do find it, especially if you are a sadist.
Colin (tree-hugger)
Sounds very ugly Colin, I don’t think I want to see it now. Also, hasn’t the rule of only hitting your horse a certain amount of times just recently been introduced. So perhaps, the day McCoy rode Pridwell, that rule wasn’t in existance and he was allowed to hit it as much as he liked, within reason.
I’m just surprised I can’t remember it. Oh well, getting old now and the memory not as good as it used to be
Mike
Pridwell was a bit of a plough through that ground that day though wasnt he! Poor old boy. And i don’t reckon Isty had been tested on ground that heavy in previous races had he? But AP was very harsh with the stick that day, especially as the ground was like it was. Surely pushing a horse to it’s all via a good thrashing in heavy ground isn’t at all cricket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt7xfyjrIwc
So many fantastic rides that year!!!! And so many fantastic horses!!!! What a year that was.
All of those RUK compilations are wonderful. The 2002 version is a particular favourite of mine, some of the clips still give me goosebumps!
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Mark Perrett on King’s Curate in the 1991 Stayers’ Hurdle. Had to work flat out from a long way out and endure all sorts of problems, before getting up close home. Peter Scudamore, on that wayward rogue Run For Free, emerges with almost as much credit for his ride on the runner-up. Two great rides; two gallant horses; one fantastic race.
Unsurprisingly, I have to nominate a Ruby Walsh ride: Inca Trail in the 2005 Sunderlands Handicap Chase at Sandown. How he kidded that absolute hound into thinking he was enjoying himself, and then drove him up the hill with only hands and heels, was poetry in motion.
before my time so forgive me if i am mistaken but didnt fred winter (i think) win a big race in france on mandarin without stirrups………or was it stan mellor……….or fulke walwyn. ive seen it in black and white and it is still amazing to watch (apologies for not knowing which jockey, im sure someone will tell me) chipmunk,
Dead-heat for me between Peter Scudamore’s effort on Bonanza Boy at Kempton in 1989, and Fred Winter’s ride on the bridleless Mandarin in the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris in 1962, incidentally the last UK-trained winner of the race.
re Pridwell – this is the first race that I thought of – didn’t McCoy say that it was the best ride, in his opinion that he had ever given a horse, and who did he beat, wasn’t it Istabraq or somebody [memory failing a bit]. Pridwell was rather a monkey wasn’t he; can’t say I remember how forcefully he was ridden. Will have to trawl through the archives and find the video.mo [have got drawers full of videos going back for years which I never find the time to watch, some probably on betamax]. mo
I remember sitting in a house full of lads watching the racing one Sunday. It was an early season Cheltenham meeting.
Ruby Walsh won on Azertyoup (sp?) and it was some ride. Francome (is it true he perms his hair?) spent ages enthusing and analysing it, especially the last fence.
One of the lads piped up ‘I dunno why they think he’s(RW, not the horse) so special, looks moderate to me’.
I won’t tell you who the lad was, but I thought the ride was something else.Ruby Walsh coming second on Cornish Rebel in the scottish national so near to the grand slam of nationals.
This is more about the horse rather than the jockey.
SONNY SOMERS.
winning at the age of 16.
my memory of the race was that he showed all the other runners what jumping was all about, skipping over the fences and gaining lengths at each one. He didn’t really need a jockey except to make it legal.
Mind you I could be remembering this through rose tinted specs as the form book comment was —
" hit 3rd, led 6th, clear 14th, unchallenged "
so he clobbered one of the fences before handing out his jumping lesson!
And to top that the old sod won two more at the age of 18!!
Most jump jocks have had their moments in the sun re best rides.Even the likes of Andy Thornton and Leglock Luke.
I shall just go along with the guy who said AP Mc Coy.He gives his all on every ride he has.I’m hoping to see him again soon
The Pidwell race was at Aintree over 2m4f when he beat Istabraq in heavy ground.He Knocked seven bells out of him but the horse was a tricky ride and pricked his ears at the post the little bugger! He out stayed the champ that day.
oh my lord…………SONNY SOMERS……….happy days
how about MAC VIDI………. 16 and still full of running,chipmunkone thing I remember about the Pridwell race was an interview with his owner who said that his dream was to win the Champion Hurdle – although I do tend to be quite critical of McCoy giving horses really hard rides I was pleased for the owner. There’s a good interview with McCoy about the race in the Observer [sorry I don’t know how to cut and paste things] and he said the horse wouldn’t go for the whip anywa, and he just had to kid him along for most of it. McCoy does like these kind of horses, look at Deanos Beano..
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