Was Neal doughty a good jockey?

Cumbersome tbh

The word Journeyman springs to mind.

Francome -Ruby Wash- Jack Kennedy-Harry Cobden-Paul Townend the best Jockeys in my Lifetime the rest are just Journeyman.

At a push i might stick Dunwoody in my list.

Graham Bradley , a shocking omission..

Paul Carberry and Stormin Norman up there with the best,

Yes and to this day I associate him with Jinxy Jack, Randolph Place, Clever Folly, Hallo Dandy

Phil Tuck, Chris Grant, Ben De Haan, Simon Sherwood, Tom Morgan

Few forumites will not remember how prolific the combination of Nigel Tinkler and Graham McCourt were in northern novice hurdles with other peoples cast offs.

Brave men and women tbf……lot of broken limbs….I wouldn’t have the bottle to enter a stable….tbh

New year resolution to try and lay off slagging too much…..apart from the smelly…

Ridley Lamb

David 'gypsy' Goulding.

No mention of Jonjo or AP about sums up the collective knowledge of the Forum tbh. lol

Tom Morgan and Pearlyman was poetry in motion. Tom had weight issues.

Mark Dwyer on all those Jimmy Fitz horses......what a combination.

More a horseman than a jockey but that won races over fences when they were stiffer, and the likes of the old Haydock jumps track with its drop fences and need to be attritional sometimes.

A.P was brilliant.

AP a bit too agricultural for me..  Give me Timmy and Paul any day.......

Timmy Murphy was by far the coolest Jockey i have ever seen.....Sat plum last in these 20 plus runner Races i used to think look at that idiot Murphy he has got no chance from there and just about every time he got up to Win.

Timmy Murphy probably had more talent then any of them

Mark Dwyer had no clue how to ride Jodami. It could well have been the trainer giving the wrong orders but he lost a Hennessy and a Gold Cup by sitting off a slow pace. When Rushing Wild went like a bat out of hell in the Gold Cup, Jodami went with him, burnt off the rest a mile out and was one of the easiest winners ever. In his early days, the stable conditional rode Jodami and set off in front every time and won by huge margins. Whose idea it was to hold him up I have no idea but if was plain daft. Neal Doughty was OK as far as I remember. Gordon Richards was a top trainer and would not have kept a poor jockey around.

CagliariG 31 Dec 24 16:02 
No mention of Jonjo or AP about sums up the collective knowledge of the Forum tbh. lol

Both were overated tbh….

Stan Mellor for me and of course John Francome.

Adrian McGuire

ROFL Quixall, even after decades you have learned nothing!! Sage Dwyer did nothing wrong on Jodami in the Hennessey,I had £400 @ 9/2 on him and no fault of his at all, can be found on here btw, my old mates horse just found more than expected, named after places  where he loved and I shook his hand in defeat not too far from the Abbey!!!

Dwyer was naughty imo……

tobymugs been posting 20 quid bets for mths..now claiming he was betting in 400 quids 30 yr ago?

pmsl #WAC

We all have opinions.  Jodami could not win a handicap off 10.0 when held up but was Never beaten when making the running. He went a searching gallop but had no acceleration at all. Water under the bridge now.

To this day, i stil cannot believe how Strands of Gold didnt win the Sun Alliance in the mid 80s...i had a very nice bet....Jimmy Fitz and Dwyer...Cross Master beat it in a photo finish at a big price...

infact i think Strands of Gold won.....Luke Harvey old bint must have been doing the photo finish..

https://youtu.be/OAOQKLVNMvk?si=KFs2LZEpb6aWfFfx

Reg Crank on Cross Master looks like one of those hunter chase jockeys....No idea how Cross Master got that...I remember thinking it was a dead heat at worst for Strands of Gold, awaiting the outcome.

CagliariG 31 Dec 24 18:30 
Have you seen a £20 bet posted Shafter?  That apart you seem to still be stalking and trolling as your envy is still eating your insides out!!

Does your brain extend to guilty feelings of the women you assaulted and children you abused?

Apologies tbh, might have got the Shafter character confused with a bona fide poster.

Nasty Cag…..not nice tbh…

Advocating disguising truth Quixall? Not in my world or here despite the character and Sociopathic trolling over years, did so for too long imvho!!?

Gone quiet Quixall, are you reflecting on how close you are to the mythical character known as Shafter or running away from any connection?

Bill Smith was good

Richard Johnson soon forgotten ffs.

Graham Thorner and Richard Rowe were fair, Ron Barry and plenty of others achieved more than most of the muppets on here who mostly are failures which is why they are on here being critics!!!

getting back nearer the original post , some of us oldies will never forget noddy's ryde v bobsline in the arkle  , forgive n forget swinging away under mark dwyer, brad on wayward lad ( francome too ), paul carberry in his pomp   ...lots to recall . just like footie didn't start with the premier league.. good , brave and/ or stylish  jump jockeys were there before mccoy and walsh .

Someone mentioned Bill Smith...On the old videos ive seen on youtube, he wouldnt look out of place today....

Smith was a bit to smooth for my liking.

Any dirt on him?

Take care all and a happy and prosperous New Year.

I've got a Welsh work colleague,lives near Bridgend, goes racing with Neale Doughty, tells me he's a really good lad

I can remember the Moroni brothers, Michael Scudamore Bill Rees, Jeff King, John Haine, Pat Taafe, Derek Ancil, Just a few from my younger days. I knew John Haine as a child. He was a couple of years older than me and our parents were good friends from their school days!

Molony of course. I hate predictive text.

Morning Sage, yes, the Moronic brothers doesn't sound great!
Let's hope Cheltenham goes ahead, should find out soon

Have a good year with many winners

And you Reg. Stay warm and dry today. Looks better tomorrow. Best wishes to you and Mrs Reg.

Sage, the Boultbee Brooks have one today, in the last at Exeter, the bumper
Fell at the last when clear in it's only previous start, a ptp in Ireland
Currently 11/2, was briefly double figures, could be an ew bet to nothing

Also, in the first at Fakenham, they've gambled one into favouritism, ridden by very good claimer Tommie O Brien
Plus Venetia got 3, she's gone a bit quiet but Gemirande at Cheltenham looks to have the right conditions again

Gl all

I will look at that. Could be a load of nrs by 3.55 though if this rain persists all day. I am looking at Hobbs at Exeter today. A few chances and I See the Sea has already shortened a full point. Keable also looks solid. Kap Vert has a good one to beat.

Hope a few of you got on that easy first winner at Fakenham that I highlighted
Double figures early, I got a bit of 5s, returned 2/1 fav
Nice new year present for connections