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Be careful not to get known as only playing big pairs/high cards when playing cash.
If you can spot people who only play the above it can be very profitable to play any two cards against them.  Call a pre flop raise, then if you hit you are very likely to get all their money – my experience of .05/£1 games suggests many players find it very hard to put down an overpair.  If not its an easy fold.
Can’t remember which came first:
a: Washing up for the local fishmonger.  Lovely in the winter when I had to break the ice on the bath before starting to wash the stinking old fish trays.
b: Walking (along with out 6 other people) across fields removing the wild oats.  Apparently they devalue the crop, or did back then.
The former was while I was still at school, the later during the summer holidays.
Sad to say that it has been all downhill since then!
Star Of The Sea is a top read Prufrock.
I can also second The Great Gatsby – read it after being dragged to see a London show about F Scott Fitzgerald.
I am half-way through "The American Boy" by Andrew Taylor. Gripping stuff so far.
VOB is available at 2.16 for over £100 on Betfair.
If the above poll is to be believed it is buying money!
Quote from today’s (Thursday) Racing Post
"After a long consultation with interested parties…"
I wouldn’t class any of the above posts as pro the fourth day, so apart from themselves, local hotels etc. I wonder who they did consult?
Tooting – Just to further enhance your opinion of C Llewellyn i’ll break his figures down further for you.
Chases  390 rides  23 ur
Compare this to: <br>AP McCoy  647 rides only 14 ur<br>M Fitzgerald  332 rides 3 ur<br>R Johnson  585 rides 10 ur<br>T Murphy  403 11 ur<br>A Thornton  438 rides 8 ur<br>J Tizzard  361 rides 4 ur<br>N Williamson  361 rides 8 ur
He does seem to "fall off" with far more frequency than most of the other top jockeys.
If anyone wants a copy of the fall stats. I can send them out, but only if Daylight agrees, or I could send him a bunch and he can send them out.
John – Are you questioning the sexuality of L Vickers or just his riding ability?
Check out R Studholme  8 chase rides 50% fall/ur – poor chap!!!
Sacha – I have not taken into account the difference between summer and "proper" racing.  I do agree that if the horses are of a poorer class in the summer racing then there is a chance that they may fall/ur slightly more often, although I have no figures to prove this either way. The only problem with taking the stats. from this jumps season proper is that at this stage you are working from a small selection of data and that could throw up strange results.
I have the figures for jockey fall and ur only – for the same period as the previous figures.
The average fall/ur in hurdles and chases is:
Hurdles  32905 races  1072 fall/ur  =  3%<br>Chases  20771 races  2066 fall/ur  =  10%
The percentage stats. below include the number of rides and then the % – with Hurdles first
X Aizpuru  232 3% – 68 13%<br>L Aspell  464 2% – 267 12%<br>M Batchelor  307 3% – 133 8%<br>M Bradburne 296 5% – 265 10%<br>L Cooper 264 5% – 57 7%<br>J Crowley 274 2% – 191 7%<br>B J Crowley  217 3% – 141 8%<br>J Culloty  365 2% – 295 9%<br>S Curran  292 6% – 115 16%<br>A Dempsey  269 3% – 145 14%<br>D Dennis  306 4% – 177 14%<br>A Dobbin  546 1% – 355 8%<br>T Doyle  336 2% – 205 6%<br>S Durack  303 3% – 225 13%<br>N Fehily  328 3% – 176 11%<br>B Fenton 289 3% – 192 6%<br>M Fitzgerald  549 2% – 332 5%<br>P Flynn  395 3% – 162 10%<br>D Gallagher  349 1% – 137 9%<br>R Garritty  290 2% – 220 9%<br>J Golstein 282 4% – 141 14%<br>R Greene  376 3% – 198 12%<br>R Guest  202 4% – 167 8%<br>N Hannity  228 1% – 72 13%<br>B Harding  329 3% – 280 9%<br>P Hide  211 6% – 147 7%<br>B Hitchcott  274 3% – 171 15%<br>E Husband  272 3% – 122 6%<br>R Johnson  839 3% – 585 7%<br>J Kavanagh  316 3% – 171 7%<br>F Keniry  444 3% – 257 16%<br>G Lee  473 3% – 202 8%<br>C Llewellyn  576 4% – 390 10%<br>Gary Lyons  238 3% – 72 8%<br>A Maguire  528 1% – 377 7%<br>W Marston  606 2% – 290 8%<br>C Maude  217 2% – 155 8%<br>J McCarthy  329 3% – 274 9%<br>A P McCoy  1045 3% – 647 9%<br>R McGrath  375 2% – 322 8%<br>J P McNamara  341 3% – 225 12%<br>O McPhail  299 3% – 160 10%<br>J Mogford  356 4% – 165 5%<br>T Murphy  468 3% – 403 10%<br>H Oliver  432 5% – 232 12%<br>C Rafter  227 4% – 37 11%<br>K Renwick  237 3% – 154 10%<br>T Scudamore  365 3% – 162 13%<br>T Siddall  225 2% – 92 10%<br>V Slattery  207 2% – 79 9%<br>A Smith  404 4% – 225 8%<br>B Storey  311 3% – 247 10%<br>S Stronge  286 2% – 160 16%<br>A Thornton  469 4% – 438 8%<br>R Thornton  519 2% – 394 7%<br>J Tizzard  276 3% – 361 6%<br>L Vickers  271 4% – 21 29%<br>R Wakley  469 4% – 320 12%<br>R Widger  215 2% – 204 8%<br>N Williamson  454 2% – 361 7%<br>W Worthington  218 2% – 143 8%
It is probably best to compare comparable jockeys due to the class/type of horses they generally ride.  For example while C Llewellyn has a fall/ur % of 10% – which equals the average – many of the other top jockeys have lower %’s.
Sacha – yes the figure do include horses that are pulled up.
I have seperate figures for pulled up/fell/u.r. etc. but thought it may prove a little confusing to show all the figures at once.
Many of the jockeys figures are very near the average, but there are a few interesting ones, especially over fences, who are over that average.
For example A Dobbin, P Flynn, J Goldstein, T Scudamore and S Stronge all have decent averages over hurdles, but are not so hot over fences. ÂÂÂ
They ride, on the whole, for decent stables and there should not be any real difference in ability between the hurdlers and chasers that they get on.
