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Pat Eddery - Walter Swinburn come to mind(lets not talk about piggot)
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eddie hide gave me my first winner from first bet 35 years ago
the ones that ride a "notebook" winner when I aint looking.....
Seriously my boyhood hero for some reason was Brian Taylor. He was just about to retire when he accepted a chance ride in Hong Kong on a known rogue. The horse threw him,kicked him on the head and basically killed him. Very similar to Manny Mercer more than 20 years before but Mercer is much better remembered.
John Gorton was one of my favs! Bill Williamson to.
Steve Cauthen one of the best judges of pace i have seen, and old Scobie Breasley.
Dean Mckeown on track - although he is now on BF
George Duffield on the topweight in a 7f handicap or John Lowe on the bottom weight were systems you could set your watch to.
Mick Kinane
Norman Williamson
Tommy Carmody
Charlie Swan
Norman Williamson
Tommy Carmody
Charlie Swan
I always liked Mick Kinane on the big occasion. He hardly ever got things wrong - top class. Also have many great memories of the Cecil - Cauthen combo They gave me my best ever year punting back in 1985.
graham bradley, dean gallagher and dermot browne are my top three!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Dermot Browne was wonderful on Browne's Gazette"
Not on THE big day Pauli
Not on THE big day Pauli
Two jockeys that would have got the greatest hammering on here (if it existed back then) would have been Cash Ashmussen and John Reid. I still can't forgive Reid for getting Royal Acadamy beaten by Dayjur, shocking ride
I was being sarcastic NG. I remain convinced BG would have won that day and secured the trainers championship for Monica Dickinson.
gemini01 20 Dec 12 16:53
graham bradley, dean gallagher and dermot browne are my top three!!!!!!!!!!!!
you must be a layer
graham bradley, dean gallagher and dermot browne are my top three!!!!!!!!!!!!
you must be a layer
Gerbs my list is unique, them three were proper jockeys in their own right
Swinburn, the best big race jockey ever, better than Cauthen 
i also miss.
I also loved Greville. When i started seriously in the mid 80s, Harwood/Starkey were amazing.
i also miss.
I also loved Greville. When i started seriously in the mid 80s, Harwood/Starkey were amazing.
i had 2 grand on Spectrum ridden by John Reid when he won the Irish Guineas.
Better days, the old days were always better days.
Better days, the old days were always better days.
Piggot always lost when he should have won and won when he should have lost, always foiling my shilling yankee one way or another.
'Placepot Pat' if that man could snatch fourth when he could have been second or third then fourth it was.
Philip Robinson when on a good front runner
Johnny Seagraves I am told by some older people I know. Apparently always did the biz when the money was down.
Bruce Raymond was Mr Reliability. If he was born 30 years later would be a regular top 5 jockey.
joe mercer and eddie hide, oh and greville starkey, and tony ives
Tony Ives for Bill O'Gorman is a good shout. The dinosaurs on here will all remember him on that great horse Provideo.
Emma O'Gorman for pops nags surely? Saw Provideo win at Beverley and was at Southwell when a very young Emma rode her first winner, she came in Members bar later with pops and looked about 12 years old
Cash Asmussen must warrant a mention as well I would have thought, he was one of the all time greats.
i used to make bundles backing anything franca vittadini rode..she was a class apart
was it give thanks or something similar she won a big race on at aintree?
an unsung journeyman - Billy Worthington - especially round Market Rasen - was the oldest jump jockey until he feel off Terdad and broke his neck - incredibly he made a seemingly full recovery.
I was at Longchamp when Carroll House won the Arc, on the Saturday Cash rode 5 winners I think it was. I stand to be corrected as it was a long time ago but Cash was one of the top jocks for sure.
what about the money printing machine that was the haslam/jago combo in sellers
benji coogan also had a purple streak riding for mel brittain
^ I don't know, you show a Beverley and a Southwell and somebody comes over the top with a Longchamp, bah!
I would say Wille The Shoe as well but I can't forgive him for the ride on Hawaiian Sound. Lester on board and that would have been a Derby winner. Letting Starkey get the run on the rails on Shirley Heights to do him close home was a schoolboy error.
@ Big_Issue, we are not playing top trumps here, just chewing the fat old stick!
Emma Spencer - could ride anythin'................. apart from a racehorse that is...............
The stocking sliding down her leg that day was a classic, it probably saw The Catt coming and just started to fall away in anticipation 
Adrian Maguire kept on falling off Barton Bank
Over the jumps, i liked Peter Niven and Richard Guest.
Over the jumps, i liked Peter Niven and Richard Guest.
Shocked to see no post from reculver nominating Mornington Crescent, he must have gone into hibernation...!
Good calls on the suggestions of Steve Cauthen & David ' Gyspy Boy ' Goulding.
Dec 20, 2012 -- 5:16PM, OliasOfSunhillow wrote:
Two jockeys that would have got the greatest hammering on here (if it existed back then) would have been Cash Ashmussen and John Reid. I still can't forgive Reid for getting Royal Acadamy beaten by Dayjur, shocking ride
was at haydock that day great race
1983 ayr gold cup Kevin Hodgson on polly's brother gave one 18 yr old a 5k lift backed from 33's ante post, won a sh hd from ameghino.
Nicky carlise gave me my biggest laugh at the races one day at musselburgh.
It was end of racing on a miserable day weather wise & handsome nick had just turned over the fav in the last which i was on with a total squib of a horse as he was prone to do.
Anyway there i was standing potless in the pissing rain in a mud laden car park waiting for my lift when wee Nicky saunters up to this big flashy bmw next to me loads his gear in the boot and takes off.
wee hurry fed Nicky,a right job jockey on the lightweights though.
Nicky carlise gave me my biggest laugh at the races one day at musselburgh.
It was end of racing on a miserable day weather wise & handsome nick had just turned over the fav in the last which i was on with a total squib of a horse as he was prone to do.
Anyway there i was standing potless in the pissing rain in a mud laden car park waiting for my lift when wee Nicky saunters up to this big flashy bmw next to me loads his gear in the boot and takes off.
wee hurry fed Nicky,a right job jockey on the lightweights though.
There is only one Piggott . The best ever. I can still picture one of his rides where in the last furlong he was actually facing backwards to pick a spot where to hit the horse to make sure he won and he did. I think it was the Sun Chariot stakes. Cant remember the horse.
Granville Davies on Grey Dolphin and Yangtse Kiang
Reg Crank on Stan's Pride and Cross Master
Reg Crank on Stan's Pride and Cross Master
MORNINGTON CANNON, MY SON SAW HIM RIDE HIS FIRST WINNER,
Those were the days..
Those were the days..
Campbell Gillies
Greg Fairley
Willie Carson
Won a lot of money on them all...
Greg Fairley
Willie Carson
Won a lot of money on them all...
anybody recall a ride piggott gave to a horse for cumani, named fish and chips? never seen a horse win a handicap so simply..piggott was literally laughing at his rivals
i also liked the robert armstrong/e.eldin combination for some reason..cant remember why tbh
steve donoghue rode a treble one day got a nice few quid
the old tony mccoy was miles better than the new sleepy one
Greville,
still alive and well a my favourite cockney rhyming slang.
still alive and well a my favourite cockney rhyming slang.
sweetchildofmine 21 Dec 12 15:08
anybody recall a ride piggott gave to a horse for cumani, named fish and chips? never seen a horse win a handicap so simply..piggott was literally laughing at his rivals
Fish and Chips was favourite for the Cambridgeshire in 85 or 86. Was unplaced under Pigott.
anybody recall a ride piggott gave to a horse for cumani, named fish and chips? never seen a horse win a handicap so simply..piggott was literally laughing at his rivals
Fish and Chips was favourite for the Cambridgeshire in 85 or 86. Was unplaced under Pigott.
yeah aberdonia i meant one of his prep races when he ran up a sequence
FISH AND CHIPS won the EXTEL HANDICAP @ GLORIOUS GOODWOOD now the TOTE MILE
right CUMANI PLOT UP 12 all rates down to about 4
right CUMANI PLOT UP 12 all rates down to about 4
The Malton Strangler-Jock Skilling, Brian Connorton and Eric Aptor rode for Snowy Gray, Eddie Hide around Musselburgh,Johnnie Hutchison-Bradburne what a laugh
greville starkey riding for guy harwood
great combination in the south
great combination in the south
saw mick fitzgerald get the best out of a pal's 8-1 gelding at fontwell in the 5th one winters day few years ago
he was bettling for third from the last hurdle, owner had a bag on each way, he got up by a head, fitz came back in splatered in mud
thought my friend was gonna give him a hug , would have ruined the designer suit !
he was bettling for third from the last hurdle, owner had a bag on each way, he got up by a head, fitz came back in splatered in mud
thought my friend was gonna give him a hug , would have ruined the designer suit !
is duncan keith still about up in banstead ? he was a good jockey imho
was never a fan of starkey or john reid - in fact invariably backed against them...
as someone who started punting in late 70s apart from the obvious francome/piggot/cauthen I liked to follow john carroll on the jack berry 2yos - huge amount of winners although many of them were short odds
as someone who started punting in late 70s apart from the obvious francome/piggot/cauthen I liked to follow john carroll on the jack berry 2yos - huge amount of winners although many of them were short odds
was never a fan of starkey or john reid - in fact invariably backed against them...
as someone who started punting in late 70s apart from the obvious francome/piggot/cauthen I liked to follow john carroll on the jack berry 2yos - huge amount of winners although many of them were short odds
as someone who started punting in late 70s apart from the obvious francome/piggot/cauthen I liked to follow john carroll on the jack berry 2yos - huge amount of winners although many of them were short odds
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