Racehorse Talk

Scary for the bookies.
Mac has slaughtered at least a dozen that I have seen

leave the bloke alone you get on them  so we can have a good look at you. i bet when you go to work every day knowone calls you a spastic or are you. if you are i will spread the word and se how you like it.

Jock,
I know what you mean, but the very nature of a jockey's job means that they are open to Brickbats and Bouquets from hundreds of thousands of people.

The same as other highly paid sportsmen and women, politicans, businesspeople etc.

If they don't want that scrutiny, they can give away the job, and the money that comes with it.

 

exactly as JWH said - i don't mind him as jockey - but at the same time i don't think he compares to bowman - reckon the european style prob suited him better and think he rode well for godolphin

He doesn't hold a gun too anybodies head to back his horses so who are the silly ones he is only doing his job to the best of his ability and if that is no good for anybody don't back him.

Thats all well and good jock until he starts getting them beaten when they shouldn't be

Are you suggesting we should never be critical of a bad ride?

No body is perfect we all butcher one from time to time we don't go out there and do it on purpose. the riding instruction's are what you people don't take into account.

Doesn't the nature of any professional sport demand performance levels?

If a footballer missed 5 tackles a game he gets dropped.

I have never seen a jock get things beaten as often as KM

Nobody expects perfection and sometimes bad luck is simply bad luck  but he stuffs up more than any jock I've seen

I agree with Jock. It is a very dangerous sport and these people dont go out of their way to slaughter them on purpose. Often it is a split second difference to a good and a bad ride. Sure some are better than others and some make less mistakes but Darley are happy to put him on and you all have the choice to back them or not. I have a lot of friends that have been or are jockeys and I say give them a break.

How was Rocky Jock ? 


Cheers


The-Kid

Must be a soft lot today's jocks if they take offence at being bagged by people on a forum. Back when racing was king, it was common for jocks to be abused and pelted at after a Barry...and that was without the help of video replays to be able to confirm if the irate punters had cause.

The old time jocks would be pissing themselves if they read this thread.

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.