Jockeys are Overpaid

Ask Ruby Walsh

What a soldier this jockey is.......................and they still make the show go on!!!(tu)

mikesack Wrote:

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> What a soldier this jockey
> is.......................and they still make the
> show go on!!!(tu)

Referring to all jockeys or just the SA ones ??:S

I'm sure there is the flat version similar pic with injuries featuring Willie Carson, but the uk jockeys keep the show going on as they say(tu)

My favourite was an interview with AP McCoy (who has also had some fairly nasty injuries in his time). The interviewer asked him which of his injuries was the worst. AP answered "Nothing hurts as much as coming second !"

Zsuz AP was asked last week how he felt after a fall, he replied not as bad cooper(who had just broken his leg)

Hectic injuries ....

quoted from ESPN


Ruby Walsh has sparked outrage among animal rights campaigners after playing down the death of racehorse Our Conor at the Cheltenham Festival.

Our Conor fell during the Champions Hurdle while contesting the lead with Captain Cee Bee, but Walsh played down the incident, saying "horses are horses" and "you can replace a horse".

He added: "You can't replace a human being. That's my feeling on it."

And campaign group Animal Aid said 34-year-old Walsh had "no respect" for the animals that have brought him so much success.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Dene Stansall said: "He has shown callousness for the animals that have earned him a good living. It's completely disrespectful. To treat the death of a horse in such a way shows that they are merely machines for people to make money.

"Ruby Walsh is the leading jockey at Cheltenham and wants to support the event as much as he can, but you cannot disregard the lives of horses just because they are not humans. We would expect more from him. This shows he has got little empathy for a horse that really suffered before it died."

Read more at www.espn.co.uk/horseracing/sport/story/2...#SOkmpO3hhosoc4y6.99

A slightly more balanced view of his comments here:

www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/ch...eath-of-a-horse.html

intergoal Wrote:

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> A slightly more balanced view of his comments
> here:
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> www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/chelt
> enham-festival/10692788/Cheltenham-Festival-contro
> versy-as-Ruby-Walsh-speaks-bluntly-about-the-death
> -of-a-horse.html

A really good sensible article, that. Thanks.

For me the most telling quote is this "There’s a big difference between you going home tonight and something’s happened to your dog, and you go home tonight and something’s happened to one of your kids." How true is that?

I sometimes wonder about people who claim they love animals more than people. Do these folks know what "love" really is? Or are they confusing it with sentimental soft feelings?

Sometimes real love has to take tough decisions. When I was 14 years old my beloved (much loved!) pony ate some poisonous weed and the vet said, "Sorry, but ..." I had to take the tough-love decision and ask a friend's father to shoot my darling Shadow. My parent were overseas and it was the days before cellphones and Internet. I took the decision on my own, and afterwards I cried and cried.

But even so, let's be honest, it was different than if I'd heard my mother or father had been killed overseas and wouldn't ever come back.

It's jockeys agents that are overpayed....<

gregbucks Wrote:

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> It's jockeys agents that are overpayed....<

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