UK jockeys

possibly underestimated by some but i really dont think its as big a negative as horses

1: fighting for their heads and being restrained
2: NOT pulling horses out and having no run up the fence

easy Wrote:

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> Rob
>
> I watch US racing everynight. Wide can be a factor
> but sometimes the "rail" is so dead it pays you to
> race wide. This also happens at southwell, very
> very seldom do you see horses winning on the rail.
> The straight races are always won nearside to
> middle.
>
> Then there is the "slingshot" theory. With short
> straights in the USA it pays "BIG " time to
> slingshot into the straight round the outside. SA
> trainser HATE jockeys making their runs round a
> bend.......its just NOT the done thing. BUT in the
> USA jockeys actually ride shorter on 1 side to
> allow for all this manoevering round the bend.
>
> Andrew Fortune once rode a race round a bend and
> slung shot into the straight on July day, i cant
> remember what horse it was but it was for Michael
> Roberts (not muis) it was the same year barellen
> ran 3rd in the July. I remember fortune getting
> slated by roberts for "possibly " damaging the
> horse by making his run round the bend.
>

Was it for one of the races on July Day or the July race itself ? Cos Michael Roberts had a horse at that time called Tourisimo who ran in the July in 1995. Tourisimo won the Mainstay 1800 in the same year after impeding some of the horses in the race, Sleek Machine being one of them.

easy Wrote:

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> possibly underestimated by some but i really dont
> think its as big a negative as horses
>
> 1: fighting for their heads and being restrained
> 2: NOT pulling horses out and having no run up the
> fence

2 more of my pet hates!!!

naresh,


the horse never ran in the july, it won one of the other races on the card.