Media Release re: International Jockey Challenge!

dont bother mentioning anyone in the same breath as michael roberts ,,,

Stirling, welcome to the forum.

the challenge in life is to be able to accept other people with their opinions, whether you agree with the opinion or not.
once you have mastered that, you have grown into a man.
we are all born male, but few grow up to become men.

on that basis, I accept your opinion.
common sense however tells me..

Muis Roberts was UK champion for how long?
Hong Kong champions are RSA jockeys...
2008 the internationals lost by 60 points..
2009 the internationals lost by 20 points...
when these internationals go to Mauritius, they dont even shape there..
My opinion.........Marcus, Strydom and Fortune are jockeys, the Uk guys are grooms...have a beer on that!

ps...Uk jockeys looks like woman hanging washing on the line when they come down the last 2 furlongs!

Stirling,

In RSA...........James Maree runs a training school for the grooms...

he teaches them :
1. knees locked
2, back straight
3. chin up
4. how to use a whip
5. how to change a whip in riding

it's a 3 month course...
when does the Uk season ends...
Sure James will accommodate them.....

perhaps they can stay on after international day?

chicken 'n chips Wrote:

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> > I am a big fan of McCoy, Moore and Hughes and
> > everyone loves Frankie (Lester was my hero)
> > SA jocks have proved to be world class Roberts,
> > Marcus, Whyte etc
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> > Its like the soccer everyone thinks their team
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> > the best on the planet
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> when you mention Marcus in the same breath as
> Roberts I hope that you mean Basil.


In the above case I was referring to Basil, however nothing wrong with Anton he is a top class jock.

Guys on the subject of jocks we had this thread running a few weeks ago and never established who was the "richest"?

www.africanbettingclan.com/forum/phorum-...85,142718#msg-142718

@JD:

Maybe a job well done...but just ephemereal in terms of ongoing interest!

Here, I am alluding to the fact that Tellytrack is not only not available to the majority of punters (except if you subscribe to M-Net.... how many R6 pensioner / grant punters can afford the R200+ pm?), it is not even available on M-Net's Easyview package (which has been structured at circa R20 pm for pensioners and the midlle-to-lower income groups). During corportaisation, they promised free live action to the mass!

Like me, many will not be at/ make it to the tracks.

Where's the sense of getting involved when you have a bet but cannot watch the much vaunted action? Like winking at a chick in the dark (that's a media advert I seen)!

Yeh! there are those who will react with 'go watch it free in the pubs, TAB and Sports Betting outlets!'

I don't drink, smoke and cannot stand noisy, screaming crowds in small precints. I also have no transport, cannot afford the high price of a drink in the pubs (I get thirsty often and imbibe a special sugar-free juice at home which I get for half the price from PnP!), am disabled (on a wheel chair), and have to take my medication for diabetes and high blood timeously....at other times, my back (after the spine op), tends to be very painful and I need to get up and walk/exercise.

I watch TV....... soapies and sports, in my little flat...and doze off every now and then!

Oops! he r e c o m e s t h e t h e d d r o w zeeee eeeee z eeeeee......ness!

Hayley Turner to ride in jockeys' challenge

South Africa: Hayley Turner will become the first woman to ride in the annual International Jockeys v South African Jockeys challenge next month.


Racing Association chairman Larry Wainstein, who revealed the news at a reception on Tuesday, said: "Hayley told us that she was coming even if she had to watch from the sidelines, but we want to see her ride."

Kieren Fallon is another newcomer to the event, asare Italian record-holder Umberto Rispoli and US-based Mexican Martin Garcia. Turkish champion Halis Karatas took part last year, while Christophe Soumillon replaces Frankie Dettori as the team's captain.

Anton Marcus leads the home team for the second successive year and is joined by Felix Coetzee, Anthony Delpech, Piere Strydom, Andrew Fortune and Muzi Yeni.

For the first time the challenge, won by South Africa in the last two years, isbeing split into two legs, at Turffontein Johannesburg on November 12 and at Kenilworth in Cape Town two days later.

Wainstein added: "I hope the owners at both courses will enter into the spirit of the event and agree to allow the jockeys to ride in the colours of their own countries. The South Africans would have different coloured caps and sleeves to make it easy for the commentators."

Kenilworth's participation was welcomed by course director Hassen Adams, who said: "The world comes alive when you bring nations together, as we saw in the World Cup, and that is what this event is all about."

How much does this event cost and who pays for it? ie. appearance fee, golf day, sun city etc.....

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> How much does this event cost and who pays for it?
> ie. appearance fee, golf day, sun city etc.....


I think this is a good initiative, but those are valid questions imo

Frodo I was just wondering, closing down tracks, tightening the belt but MONEY for this event??

Yip, agreed

Zip Stirling said - " Your top lads would be lucky to ride in bumpers here ''. Go get knotted ass@ole ! I no longer play UK PA's because I am DISGUSTED by the lack of quality of your jockeys. It seems the rule in the UK is drawn wide, stay wide. What a joke your ' champions ' seriously lack the ability to overcome a bad draw.