Plonkers or jockeys?

Plonkers, they just never cease to amaze me.

Give them enough rope and they will hang the others.

The carnage Listen has caused this season with his doggy pacemakers missing the break

THICK AS FCK, AND IT MUST BE CONTAGIOUS AS MOORE SEEMS TO HAVE CAUGHT IT.

10 length lead going very slow

Flat racing in a nutshell. Generally awful with jockeys feted as 'World class' when in any previous era they would be average and moderate. Literally every flat race you watch now you see at least half the jockeys not being able to settle their mount and pulling the head off them, then baffled as to why they didn't finish off their race.

Sean Levey " He set good fractions, I thought they went a good gallop"
Does this prove they don't have a clue about pace when riding and just ride to position

7 ran

Time:
    1m 37.92s (slow by 1.12s)

Its like they were all riding to place not win

Jul 30, 2025 -- 3:15PM, in hell wrote:

Sean Levey " He set good fractions, I thought they went a good gallop"Does this prove they don't have a clue about pace when riding and just ride to position

And yet he seems to be the only jockey who's come in and held his hands up to his trainer, unlike the others who seem to be using the collective 'ran flat' excuse.

Crawled for the first 2 furlongs and only started from the 5f pole

A Group one race spoiled. It is disappointing when you just want to see which is the best horse in the race.

More likely than not we will see it again.

Must be a good day if you backed the winner.

Its bad for the sport. You have to blame the jockeys

where does the winner go in future ?
might as well retire it

why?  you dont really think its gona go up 10lb do you?

winner likes mud, fog don't according to gosden, no reason not to bung it in qe2

Having watched the race again, no wonder Sean Levey looked as sick as a parrot afterwards. He was always going well , just didn't ask for the effort until too late.

if handicapper doesnt put it up we,ll have sussex stakes winner running in handicaps of a 100

Can the horses sue the jockey for "sleeping" on the job? The punters could bring a case against them, and ask for a month's ban as compensation.

I wouldn't have thought it has all of a sudden improved 20lbs for winning that race.

Last time it won


13. QIRAT (4)
9/4 Fav
3 8-10
92
mid-division, headway 2f out, led inside final furlong, stayed on well
Hector Crouch
R M Beckett

3. WITNESS STAND (14)
8/1
3 9-9 p
105
prominent, led after 1f, edged right over 1f out, headed inside final furlong, stayed on
D Tudhope
Tom Clover

12. BLUE PRINCE (IRE) (7)
15/2
3 8-11
93
mid-division, headway and switched left over 1f out, went 3rd inside final furlong, unable to challenge, stayed on
Rossa Ryan
P D Evans

Blue Prince in the next ?

won this race last yr

Trainers and owners of the big operations are guilty of overthinking things when it comes to tactics and the use of pacemakers.

Clearly the jockeys and trainers concerned weren't in sync with what the actual plan was. That's assuming there actually was one to begin with.

The Coolmore pacemaker actually gave a lead into the race for the eventual winner!!

The stewards did not even hold an enquiry into the runnig of the race. Recently at Lingfield there was an apprentice race where the Laura Mongan horse was allowed a huge lead and won. The other jockeys all got a ban. As usual the stewards pick on easy targets and ignore the senior jockeys today

Amateurs the bunch of them. Marquand has come out and apologised he's got it wrong. Anything from Buick or Moore?

To be fair I don't think Buick did anything wrong because the horse wasn't up to it for whatever reason. Sean Levey should have won the race imo and his face told that story, Tom M admitted they cocked it up.

Tonights racing has just shown that plenty of jockeys just haven't got a clue...no idea of biases at all

No studying of previous races...just jump aboard and away we go

More jockeys will lose races by chasing down pacemakers too early than too late. The winner has obviously got the run of the race but I'd say he's also improved for the tactics.

Kingscote - good; others very bad.

The Sporting Life did not criticise the jockeys behind Qirat and Kingscote. They merely reported "prominent behind clear leaders or towards rear/in rear.