What an idiot!!! he couldve killed the horse

didnt have time to pull him up,no where to go

hardly had much choice , took an age to get hold of the rein again by which time he was at the fence

what would you suggest he do ELG at that speed and bearing in mind he is in a race?

he could jump off...he could pull the horse up....

no choice but to try n jump

Don't think he had the time. Thankfully both are ok.

Eastlower - you are the idiot. Had no choice by the time he had got back on the horse.

I think ELG means the Jockey on the loose horse should have pulled it up . .

for nearly half a furlong he's just lying flat on the horses back :o clown.

elg ure obv a**. Why would he not want to try and get second place money

he thought he was colt seavers

just bravado...trying to be a hero.

FFS.

Plus if he had gone out the side door all the muppets on here would be slating him for that, took the brave route and it didnt pay off. Some people are absolute morons!

next your be telling us that arsenal were beating wigan 2-0 with 10 minutes to go & go on to lose 3-2

Thats very harsh calling wayne kavanagh a idiot from your armchair

EastLower Gooner 19 Apr 16:27


he could jump off

Only Richard Dunwoody was the best at that!!!!

i thought he tried really hard to win,and although he couldnae pull his leg thru bravely gave it a go,cant see anything wrong with what he did.

horse let him down at the last....very brave imo

nothing about been a hero , in a situation like that , the instinct of survival takes place . he could easily break his neck coming of the horse . that was pure instinct by the jockey , well done to his judgement .

We rightly lauded Paul townend for similar actions in cork a few weeks back. Horse fell because he hit the fence not because his jockey had no irons

I have some sympathy with ELG's view.

Trying to take a horse over a fence with one or two feet out of the irons is nothing short of crass stupidity at best. However, the jockey had a judgement call to make regarding if he could regain control of the horse in time to take the obstacle.

If he thought he could, then fair enough. If he couldn't, then he should have bailed out.

We have enough horses killed over fences as it is,without putting them at uneccesary risk.

That's my view anyway.

i agree with elg too, the horse was unbalanced, that's why he whacked the fence, he should have bailed out.....without doubt he put the horse at risk.

Dave what was he suppose to do?. He had no steering all he had was reins in his hand it, once your feet are out of the peddles you have no real leverage to pull the horse(unless you are like Gannon or Winston and rode around Ballymun on bareback horses). He was either going to go over or through the fence.

still reeling from wigans comeback imo

what about the jockey killing himself or been permanently paralyzed , if he tried to jump off or trampled by a horse coming from behind . the safest option at the time was trying to stay on the horse.

what a haul ffs who said we're brighter than the footie forum

some people havent a clue and think riding a horse is like sitting on a merrygoround.clowns the lot of them.

once a gooner allways a GOONEEEEER

(unless you are like Gannon or Winston and rode around Ballymun on bareback horses)...

:^0 Don't forget Ballyfermot !!