Racehorse TALK

I've had a lot of horses slaughtered by bad rides but I've never abused any of them whats the point the race is over. Most of them know when they've done the wrong thing but won't admit it . I just don't put them on again for a while a few have said oh we've served our time . hey jock did you start your aprenticeship on the tablelands I think you rode one for me at grafton ran 2nd I think you'd only had a few rides at the time.

Yes I did, was at Armidale with Don Small.

Rocky was a good day, the new track was nice to ride on big improvement.  Long way down the straight, had a couple of placings.

Thanks for your comments

Good initiative - saw Carrara was going to keep him wide so just moved forward to take up the running. 

If you made as many mistakes as this Clown everyday,There would be no job or work to go to..He rides the best cattle in Syd and stuffs it up daily.He must have pumped oil out of the sheiks 'you no what' at some stage,on his knees...

That's quite big news I'd have thought.

 Friday, 26 March 2010
Kerrin McEvoy Suspended For One Month

Racing NSW Stewards today continued an inquiry into the ride of Kerrin McEvoy on third placegetter Shakes in Race 2 (Tamarama Handicap, 1400m) at the AJC meeting held at Royal Randwick (Kensington Track) on Thursday, 18 March 2010, when further evidence was taken from Kerrin McEvoy and from stable representative David Charles.

Jockey McEvoy was found guilty of a charge under AR135(b) of having failed to take all reasonable and permissible measures throughout that race to give Shakes full opportunity to win or to obtain the best possible place in the field in that near the 600m, as Mossamine improved three-wide to his outside, jockey McEvoy remained racing behind El Sonador when it was reasonable and permissible to position his mount to the outside of the heels of El Sonador which would have ensured Shakes was given full opportunity to win or finish in the best possible placing by having a clear and uninterrupted run in the home straight.

Kerrin McEvoy’s failure to take this measure resulting in Shakes being held up or, in the alternative, not being fully tested until passing the 200-metres.

After taking into account Kerrin McEvoy’s prior good record over a period of 13 years riding in races and as the penalty encompasses the major AJC meetings of the Autumn Carnival, the Stewards issued a penalty of a suspension of licence to ride in races of one calendar month to commence on Sunday, 4 April 2010 and to expire on Tuesday, 4 May 2010, on which day he may ride.

i still want to know how many stewards have sat on a horses arse let alone rode them in a race situation?
has always seemed a bit of a quandary to me.

In Victoria there's at least one steward how used to be a well known rider.

shaun it can't be that hard stand in any tab or pub and all the punters know how to ride them 

but i don't set the rules for how a race has to be run.

Not so sure about some of the comments about KM. Cheers

The number of winners a Jockey rides or his strike rates or Group one winners he rides etc have absolutely no basis for judging his ability as a Jockey,
The horse wins the race not the Jockey!! Very few jockeys can make a horse win a race if the Horse isn't good enough, they can however get them beat with an ordinary ride, any reasonable 3rd rate rider who had the Pick of the Darley horses would ride plenty of winners, have a reasonable strike rate and ride Group one winners if they had a ride in 99% of Group One races usually with your horses in the betting, some times you just get luck in a race, like Viewed in  the CC or Gurners Lane in the MC not knocking either ride but both entailed a hell of a lot of luck or they run 10th!!
the way to judge a Jockeys ability is how many he gets beaten on that should win, McEvoy runs into too much trouble and is "unlucky" too often for me, he has no idea how to get out of trouble and relies on luck to get a run, Brown, Beadman, Bowman, Oliver etc know how to "Create" luck, anticipate trouble before they are involved in it and are rarely beaten on horses because of (bad) luck, McEvoy reacts too slow in a race and doesn't seem to anticipate what is going to happen, all jockeys have bad luck sometimes(Except G Moore) Kerrin has bad luck too often and while he rides Group one winners I don't believe he is a Group One Jockey, England would suit him down too the ground with there long straights(and I know very little re Overseas racing just an observation from a few races I have seen)

I do follow UK racing and on their bigger tracks a punter does not have to concern himself with bad luck, There are certainly badly timed and purely bad rides but bad luck is generally not a problem.

the stewards in sydneya re a joke, mcevoy rides the near perfect race and gets outed for 1 mth, yes he possibly should have gone fraction earlier but horses needed to be near the fence that day to be competitive, i think he will win his appeal.

This is politics, I am far from a McEvoy fan, Callendar carrying on and Punters complaining forced the stewards to act, I have seen many worse rides(a lot by McEvoy) the horse did get a run in time to win if he was good enough( admittedly he probably would have won had he moved out a little earlier) however as I said if he had he probably wins but only by a slender margin, if he had been able to accelerate when he did get the run and won the race, the same people who are critical of his ride would have been saying it was a great ride, it was a small tactical error, this is typical of Kerrin, he thinks and reacts just a little too slow but he always does, if you back or engage a Jockey and he rides to his best ability and a Jockey with an old head(and one of the best J.A. Cassidy) beats him to the punch, blame yourself not Kerrin!