Re:How professional are jockeys

the duke wrote: In recent times I have carefully looked into the loading of horses and the start in particular concentrating my focus on the jockeys.One can clearly see that many of them are not really concentrating and ensuring that their mounts get the best possible start.Instead they looking around at other stalls and seem like they disinterested in the job at hand.

Suffice to say that Anton can bring the widest drawn mount onto the rails and gain pole position within the first 200m......

I believe that the stripes must look into the starts more closely and those jockeys just going through the motions must be brought to book. These jockeys are paid to ride horses and it's their full time occupation and they must give their utmost attention to the job at hand..... imvho....

mr hawaii wrote: Too many repeat performing stables that do not school horses properly make Jocks look bad.

the duke wrote: In recent times I have carefully looked into the loading of horses and the start in particular concentrating my focus on the jockeys.One can clearly see that many of them are not really concentrating and ensuring that their mounts get the best possible start.Instead they looking around at other stalls and seem like they disinterested in the job at hand.

Suffice to say that Anton can bring the widest drawn mount onto the rails and gain pole position within the first 200m......

I believe that the stripes must look into the starts more closely and those jockeys just going through the motions must be brought to book. These jockeys are paid to ride horses and it's their full time occupation and they must give their utmost attention to the job at hand..... imvho....

durbs wrote:

mr hawaii wrote: Too many repeat performing stables that do not school horses properly make Jocks look bad.

Exactly.
Look at a race yesterday where a horse got injured in the stalls just because it was in there for so long as other horses where very reluctant to load.
The stipes have got to fine the offenders as it's very unfair on the ones that get taught properly how to load in the gates.
And give the horses no more then 30 seconds to load or scratch them.
Put this into place and watch how many horses will come to the course as quite as lambs.
No delays and no potential of horses getting injured in the stalls.
Surely getting a horse to load and jump on terms must be the trainers priority.

mr hawaii wrote:

durbs wrote:

mr hawaii wrote: Too many repeat performing stables that do not school horses properly make Jocks look bad.

Exactly.
Look at a race yesterday where a horse got injured in the stalls just because it was in there for so long as other horses where very reluctant to load.
The stipes have got to fine the offenders as it's very unfair on the ones that get taught properly how to load in the gates.
And give the horses no more then 30 seconds to load or scratch them.
Put this into place and watch how many horses will come to the course as quite as lambs.
No delays and no potential of horses getting injured in the stalls.
Surely getting a horse to load and jump on terms must be the trainers priority.

......saw this incident and could not believe that the handlers were clueless on how to proceed....the horse had got its entire rear over the top of the back of the gates and was left hanging with back legs off the ground.....the 1st priority should have been to remove all the horses from the gates before trying to open and extract the horse.... instead they stood around for several minutes pondering on what to do....not only are the schooling of horses to blame but handlers and starter need to be reschooled too....:whistle:

....also remember that a several yards outsource schooling and pre-schooling....before horses are brought into their yards.....

A stopwatch overlay on Teletrack should start as the starter gives a horse 30-45 secs to load - So many well-behaved horses have lost races at the start because of badly schooled animals.