NHRA Female Jockey permanent sex allowance.

Can you imagine Rachael Blackmore getting an allowance 😄

In the name of "equality", next they will have male (as defined) jockeys only being able to hold the reins with one hand...

Only when the one female jockey is winning 50% of all races (even the ones not riding in) will the leftists be happy? A race to the bottom is ever there was one...

Hi Guys watch this documentary on Rachel.

She is so good that she made the great "Muis" Roberts tear!!!

Sammy Silver wrote:

She is so good that she made the great "Muis" Roberts tear!!!

Thanks Sammy........ very nice documentary

IMHO the fairest way would be to have any appie/jockey( if he/she is out of the academy) claim 4kgs for the their 1st 25wins, 2,5kgs for the 2nd 25 wins and 1,5kgs for the 3rd 25 wins. This will help all appies/jockeys and not just the ones who get the better chances and does not discriminate between race,gender, background, connections etc. You keep that claim until you get the prescribed number of wins. Only criteria is ability. The better you are the quicker you lose your claim. Finished and Klaas!

I would take it further than that Craig. Seeing that the vast majority of monies earned as an appy gets "donated" to the academy, I would leave an appy with a claim until he comes out of his indentures. So as an example once the current 1,5kg is done, I would allow a 1kg claim until either time or an agreement is reached regarding graduation into the professional ranks. By doing this appies will still be called upon after the 1,5kg is lost.

As an aside the academy hold on to kids that struggle for far too long - there should be minimum standards set in defined time periods. If a kid cant get to these he gets released. Too many strugglers are kept on long after it is apparent that they will not make the grade.

A further comment - I note that the rest of the world are using the battlers in a variety of guises, most often as work riders preparing horses. These kids must cost the academy a fortune. There should be a fee payable to the academy when this happens

The SAJA suffers from the same disease that sales catalogues suffer from. They only ever tell the good news.

wada wada wada we all know about Lyle and Piere and all the champions.

What about the failures? There are so many.

The academy forces an intake every year and therefore gets its funding etc. Trying to force outcome by forcing intake is not a good strategy as is evident mot years.

They are better off either shutting down or perhaps only taking in 1 student or even none if a minimum criteria is not met......that criteria should not be whether there is a pulse or not.