JOCKEYS CONTROL RACING

The guys at the tote lose 90% of the time so they need to blame it on someone, 90% of the time it's the jockey they blame just because the jockey rode the horse.

LOL – yeah 90% is a ridiculous figure

Jocks surely perform to their best ability as athletes, but like many other sport-sectors involving heavy betting - it would be ignorant to think that there is never anything sinister that occur behind the scenes

One of the punters suggested that if a short priced favourite does not win....he felt that the tellytrack presenter should interview the losing jock.

Do jocks get other people to back horses for them in races which they are participating? If the jocks tip the winner then the person who backed the horse has to pay the jock an amount of 20k?

It is an age old "urban legend" that jocks pull moves every time a favorite gets beat...but when Man U or Chelsea loose to a minnow team its just shrugged off as "they had an off day" never a mention that the keeper purposely let a goal in or the ref must have had a bet against Man U... sadly the crooked jock theory is fueled largely by the uninformed..Tero you say that if Sean Cormac is found guilty he must get life or have his hands chopped off etc etc etc...he took his option to appeal on the 14th of March so by now that hearing has taken place an HE IS RIDING so it stands to reason that he won the appeal which means he was ultimately found NOT GUILTY...can you not see that or is it a matter of none so blind as those that will not see??????

Sometimes a horse can't win or place when the jock makes a wrong decision regarding traffic or pace, and I hope/trust its due to a lack of experience or talent. I'm sure 99% of jocks try to win as much races as they can because that leads to more and better rides, and who don't want to be the best in their sport/work?

Titch do you condone wrong doings by jocks? If a jocks is involved in pulling a horse then he deserves to be punished.... to prevent other jocks from committing a similar offence

Titch I think Sean has served his three month suspension and is back riding.

Does anyone know where S'manga Khumalo is. IMO the best black jockey this country has ever produced.

Tero Wrote:

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> Titch do you condone wrong doings by jocks? If a
> jocks is involved in pulling a horse then he
> deserves to be punished.... to prevent other
> jocks from committing a similar offence

I definitely do not condone Jocks pulling up horses nor do I condone Arm Chair critics crying foul with no facts to back up their statements...Nagboy is quite correct Sean did in fact do his 3 month suspension which was the first time in his lengthy career that such a penalty has ever been imposed on him and since his return to the saddle has had no problems what so ever...I did Sean's rides for a short time a few years back and know without any doubt that he is a clean rider who rides to win add to this the fact that the horse he was punished for was a huge outsider and not expected to win, also remember that there are no bookmakers in Singapore so Im not sure how he could profit from deliberately stopping a horse unless the Tote operators where in it :S He is back home for good which is an asset to Durban racing and will make his presence felt for 1 simple reason..he is top class

Harris Wrote:

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> Does anyone know where S'manga Khumalo is. IMO the
> best black jockey this country has ever produced.


Fractured his knee badly in a fall has had an operation and is on the mend..should be back within the next month....BTW he is the 2nd best black Jockey this country has ever produced <

titch do you believe in the tooth fairy as well?

Sorry Titch