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Nico DB - Time for the owners to step in.
Nico DB - Time for the owners to step in.
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First Street never put in the race but was favourite in running! Odd performance by Teddy Blue.
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other one jumps off
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CARDINAL SCOTT..... Please tell me you're being sarcastic? He has just won a £4k novice hurdle where the 11/8 favourite fell.
Of-course he is going to win a few races having the pick of Henderson's best horses but it doesn't change that he is way out of his depth in terms of talent. |
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Great ride by Nico. Betfair curse wins again.
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and once again the cystern displays why it is the one and only undisputed greatest known to man beast child woman ond alen lifeform ! ......simply the best ! the gift that keeps on giving !
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Oh no, not another for the "posh boy."
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alien lifeform ^^^
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Tanglefoot, what do you mean he tried to get it beat ? Utter rubbish ..
The point being in winning the first at kempton is he was in the right place at the right time throughout the race. Winning is not just about the ability to deliver a power packed finish. It's about putting the horse into a winning spot towards the end of a race having kept it simple by not using all the gas up. Sure some can drive harder in a finish and look more stylish at it, but what he does do is he's in the right place at the right time in a race and that is worth more than what might be judged as lesser elsewhere . |
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Newmarket you are exactly right in all your points. I would go further - I think the Irish lads bully him for want of a better word. DeB knows they don't rate him and he goes out to ride fearful and afraid. His head is scrambled. If everything goes right then of course it all looks good but he gets so many of the little things wrong - the fine margins - that this often conspires to get good horses beat. Point - the start was important to Jonbon, so when there was a standing start and the horse was fractionally slowly away, why just accept it and sit fifth? Why didn't he roust the horse up to take a more prominent position? Okay he would have used up a little petrol doing so but as we have seen Jonbon is a different horse when ridden close to the pace. DeB does not have the race nous of the other jocks who were either born into racing families or grew up on the pony scene.
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Think if Mr David Maxwell rode Nico’s mounts at Cheltenham there would have been not much difference.
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I think the start for Jonbon is a red herring and I don't know why Nico played on it, why didn't he just say they were going to quick, perhaps it's something not easily faced.....IMO both Jonbon and GDC suffered the same fate, they both were having to go a stride quicker than they wanted to and were visibly just on the edge through-out.
With Jonbon it manifested itself through one desperate jump too many which I don't blame the jockey for as he would have felt it was the only way to keep him in the fight and with GDC it caused the well to run from having to tap into the reserves too early. |
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run dry
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Personally i think NDB rode brilliantly last week .........his ride in the Arkle was sublime and achieved the best position he could on JonBon .....many would have panicked after his mistake and rushed the horse ,he allowed the horse to fill up again, and nab tiring rivals on the run in......thus ensuring a valuable 2nd place......he is a top class horseman...imo
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Agree with you totally skip.
His ride on Djamgo wasn't too bad either ! Delivered beautifully in the last 50 yards. And before anyone says fluke, he didn't scrub it to try and lay up when the others were going a stride too quick for him. Django is a 2,1/2 miler so was always going to be staying on nicely at the business end. A well judged ride, perfectly ridden. The knockers vision appears only 'skin deep' in putting style over substance. |
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I do not dislike de Boinville as a jockey. I think he's well capable of delivering; unfortunate and untimely sequence of events at Cheltenham last week were not his making. What happened with Jonbon could have happened to any jockey. Even though Jonbon and Lulamba did not win I do not blame him. He did the best for the horses to finish 2nd.
I can trust de Boinville and I'm more than happy to back his mounts (fav or not) in the future. I know he can silence his doubters at Aintree and Punchestown on Jonbon and Constitution Hill respectively. And, Sir Gino and Lulamba next season. |
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AP McCoy was a top jockey,I have not got the same opinion of Nico who is riding for one of the top stables in England and so has a pick of the best horses to ride,my report card,can do better.
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Nico is proof imo , that most jockeys would win, most of the time on top class horses. He looks like he should be riding in hunter chases from the 1980s to me..But im no expert..
He wouldnt be my choice as a stable jockey but Nicky seems to have full faith in him, as do the owners. |
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Personally, I'd have de boinville over McCoy. I understand McCoy had won many big races however, he did ride the best horse in almost every race, best supported too.
Nico de Boinville did not have a good Cheltenham but, that does not mean he's not up to the task at Seven Barrows. I'll back and have him ride the stable number 1 any time over another jockey. |
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impossible 123 if you think stonehands ,is within one stone of AP,I must take it as the best joke as of this century FFS
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unbearable excelling himself
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Reminded me of Mr Munroe-Wilson riding there on the hotpot Go To War tailed off.
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