RUBY WALSH

Considering the horse failed to come up twice for him when on a perfect stride. he done well to get it home.

That's he's top jockey

* because !?

ALL THE PUNDITS banging on about mistake to out but it cost him nowt as the 2nd made an equaly bad jump at the same fence

Quiet conceivably , he would have won on any of the first 5 home.
Absolutely different class to any National Hunt jockey that ever rode , not to mind the fellas that rode in this race.

nonsense jockey praise talk here............he would have won on any of the 1st 5 home my backside..........how u work that out?
non horseracing people talk raise their eyes to heaven listening to this garbage from gamblers. UDS was the best horse..........end of.

Maybe non horseracing people don't realise how far ahead of others he actually is.
Maybe they think the way some idiots do, that jockeys don't make much difference at all.

jockeys make a slight diff.........the odd time that does make the diff between winning and losing but not very often..........

Jockeys make a difference about 10 times a day, that's quite often in my book

Walsh is a good jockey but no Francome or Dunwoody. However, I do like the way he just sits on the horse and allows it to carry him over the fences until 2 or 3 fences out and only pushes prior if he needs to. Apart from the last 2 fences UDS jumped really well and much more fluent than last season when one would have one's hands in one's mouth for every fence. Also, despite the sight mistake over the last two fences I think UDS, having run over 20f/24f abroad, had the reserve to go on again up the hill when headed after jumping the last.

A very good race to watch and a good run from every runner. But I do not think UDS can win the Champion Chase unless it is soft and/or Douvan is absent.

He is better than both francome and dunwoody, admittedly they were top class jockeys, but this guy is a step removed from any of the rest.
On top of that, the jockeys who he is competing with are much better than the ones who were battling with dunwoody and francome.
Jonjo O Neill wouldn't ride 20 winners a season if he was around nowadays, and he was champion around Francomes time

He was on the best horse, no?

Have to agree with mincer. Sports nowadays is at a higher level.

a jockey is only as good as the horses he is riding.........annie power, faugheen, douvan, UDS, vautour, hurricane fly etc...........i mean seriously any of 50 jockeys riding over past 30 years would have cleaned up on that lot

But very few of the 50 would deliver year after year.

Noland
Dun Doire
Desert Quest
Final Approach
Champagne Fever
Briar hill

How many would have won on all of them ?
Nobody else is the answer

I'd disagree, mincer - Francome is my favourite National Hunt jockey. But i do agree a jockey makes a helluva difference in a horse racing eg Dettori at Ascot; I'd not back Copper on any of the favourite for Gigginstown.

Walsh is good against the current crop, much better than McCoy too, and I'm not a fan of Jonjo either; Bradley was ok if he was riding to win. With Walsh I like the way he would just perch on a horse like a mouse - a bit like Piggot - and allow the horse to do the rest; he's won several good races on Gigginstown's horses which are not favourite with Cooper riding.

He doesn't just perch on a horse. It is well known that he squeezes with his legs more than other riders.

He trusts the horses he is riding so now well versed in switching them off, how many rogues does he ride? not many.

give it a rest lads. horseracing is about horses.........trainers have a much greater influence than jockeys..........

^^^knobhead^^^

Ruby was fantastic today -in an incredibly exciting race he was the difference between victory and defeat.

didnt ruby get beat a couple of times at chelt when ch fever,s been 1.01 in running

No.

yes he does make a difference-getting a horse to settle etc

alex Bird always maintained jockeys made a difference-thats gd enough for me.

Champagne Fever only been beaten once at Cheltenham,nutted on the line in The Arkle.Ruby's rode him twice there, once to victory and once to defeat by the narrowest of margins.The exceptional jockey of his generation.

mincer has never ridden anything apart from obese women.

Champagne fever under an inspired Walsh beat the following years ist and 2nd in the champion hurdle, when he won the supreme novices.
A vintage front running ride on the third best horse in the race.

Roida, I don't have to be able to ride horses to recognise a great jockey.
I've never met you thankfully but I don't have to , to realise you are a fantasist.

a fantasist re what exactly?

A fantasist re this imaginary betting in running Shiite.
It's crystal clear you are a spoofer

your forensic profiling skills are abysmal mincer...no wonder you get ridiculed.

Post a picture of these boxes please

http://i.imgur.com/sF4Wc3d.jpg

how come the greatest jockey did not win on vroom vroom today

Perhaps because he sat out the back in a slowly run race on a horse who would have been better off near the front. In short it was a tactically inept ride.

Couldn't see why he got so many plaudits yesterday. Yes, the horse was game in battling his way back but I couldn't see what Walsh did that was so spectacular. In fact had he not got back up people would have been questioning the mistakes at the last two fences.

I'd have expected the Apple's Jade and Vroum Vroum Mag to be ridden the opposite to what they did today ie Apple's Jade held up and Vroum Vroum Mag dictating from the front.

Maybe could have been a tad nearer the pace on VVM but who knows as the winner is a now triple Grade 1 winner and battled bravely back,on the who's best question I know AP fans will never be swayed to say any other NH jockey is or was better than he was but in my personal opinion Ruby is a better all round rider,his ride in the Tingle Creek was sublime.