Take that John Francome!!

She's no Francombe in the saddle, that's fo' sho'

no she didn't ride a finish a circuit to go like he did at Kempton once !

think the 63 yrd old Johnny would have hacked up on that one too

And the 80 year old lester too

Wont be mapped in Cheltenham in 2 weeks time. Period.

to be fair lester would still beat many of the supposed professional jockeys of today never mind the amateurs

joevalue147    02 Mar 16 15:38 
Wont be mapped in Cheltenham in 2 weeks time. Full stop.

Fixed.

Would be interesting to know what this pompous mug has to say now?

Well done Victoria!!

The joke is on Nicholls and his now mickey mouse stable. Polder would've bolted in with any male jockey riding him. Even if they only had 1 arm and leg. It was embarrassing watching her celebrate like she'd won, or even done a good job

WD lass

^ Yeah, she should have been in the Gold Cup.

She did a superb job Prosniper. Nobody thought the horse would stay but she switched it off so effectively that she was the reason the horse came up the hill with a wet sail. Another jockey would have ridden a race earlier and folded two out.

Big Respect to her,it takes some bottle to do wjat she has done....And she has got plenty of that.

Think she'd have got Don Poli a bit closer in the GC tbh

Eeternaloptimist, that is rubbish. It was nothing to do with her riding patiently to "switch the horse off". She was riding the horse simply not to fall off. The other jockey's prolly warned her to ride out the back and stay out their way as they didn't want a joke, gimmicky rider like her messing up their chances.

Stop seething Pro and give the girl some credit ffs.

Loved Francome on C4 and much missed these days given how dry and dull it has become but him & Smith-Eccles reacted like a couple of misogynists which they were back in the day, thinking a woman's place was in the bedroom being ridden by them.

Wesdag, give her credit for what exactly? For getting round without falling off? Oh yes let's get the brass bands out for such an amazing feat! If the idea was just to "get round" then it should have been stated so in no uncertain terms. Imagine someone was betting for the first time and they placed a bet on ponder to win? They'd have been wondering why the hell the horse was travelling so smoothly and yet the pilot was happy just to cruise past beaten horses

Let the buyer beware - wasn't a big secret she was riding.

There's always plenty of tyre kickers on the forum - you're no exception.

How likely is it someone betting for the first time would realise the jockey was traveling with a double-handful?

And the other jockey's would more likely warn her to ride out the back so she wouldn't get trampled to death if she fell off rather than she'd be getting in their way.

Mental if she had ridden the horse more aggressively it would have been out of the picture,she did better than 90% of jockeys and credit where it's due imo.

Correct MadVlad.

Some were even doubting the horse would get the trip.

Even if she'd won, you'd still have the usual miserable s0ds knocking the ride.

Indeed

Picked up £936.

Some are there to try and win and others are racing for the place money.

Great publicity for racing, nice to have a good news story getting into mainstream news.

The plan was clearly to get around safely and that was all. Barry Orr said as much on Racing UK - do not back PdP he warned.....could not have been more explicit in his warning. Not sure what I make of that, but the warning proved to be a very valid one in the race itself.

what was good about it?

Predicting misfortune for the poor lass so that he can then be a smart arse in hindsight.
He should take up cleaning saddles for a living like his mate cos his opinions aren't worth much.

Nice for racing to get some headlines for once.. That's a good thing and makes a nice change imo.

I don't know any non-racing people talking about it

I don't see how it does anything for racing except to cheapen the role of the jockey.

If that was ANY other rider they would have been totally caned by the racing press. The cries of 'fix' would have been heard at Ayr.

Francome is the one of a long line of supposed great british eccentrics who are lauded because they 'say what they think'
ie they spout utter nonsense, criticise people and have no real answers themselves
The day he left c4 was a great day for the sport
McGrath finally got a word in and cunningham who might not lack for self confidence is a far better pundit on all things to do with the
sport
All francome ever brought to the party was his 'show me your medals' type attitude the kind of bs hansen used to bring to motd
Fluck him the bigoted misogynist pr1ck
No doubt he supports the brexit like all the numbskulls in this beknighted land

Francome's opinions were rarely worth listening to. Remember, this is the man who once said that he wouldn't bother going to the races unless he was being paid to go.

Had she been a little Closer on 2nd Circuit and Kept Nina as a Target ,she would have ridden the Perfect race

Thought she done well must have been a bag of Nerves

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