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HoratioNelson
07 Dec 25 09:37
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"If you're a good rider and you can ride, and you look like you ride like a boy, you'll be fine. But there is a disadvantage being a girl"

Surely we are a thousand miles past this topic now.

She should realise it is all about being good and nothing to do with gender. That is just a cop out and an excuse.
You have chosen this profession so be good at it. If you are you will no doubt do well, if not then maybe not so well.

Should an average footballer play in the best football team because of these supposed protected characteristics?

She needs to either get better or do something else.

The journalist should have asked her "who do you think you are better than that is getting more rides than you?"....

That would have been end of chat pretty quickly in my opinion.
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Report CROPSICK December 7, 2025 9:49 AM GMT
Yep didnt stop Blackmore although she could actually ride a race instead of popping out and trying to make all the running as most of the female jockeys seem to do.
Report HoratioNelson December 7, 2025 9:54 AM GMT
Frost was more than decent on occasions and sat on plenty of good horses before that all went south.
Blackmore is the perfect shout CROP.....be as good as her Lily and you'll do ok.

Everything has an excuse today....I am sick of it.
Report tanglefoot December 7, 2025 10:10 AM GMT
I like to blame Mulrennan when my selected horse doesn’t win,amen Laugh
Report G Hall December 7, 2025 10:17 AM GMT
LaughLaugh

Tangle
Report verbotene liebe December 7, 2025 11:44 AM GMT
Amazing how things have moved on - when Jayne Thompson lost her life John Francome was quoted as saying that ladies should not be allowed to ride in the jumping sphere, his reasoning he claimed that when men fall they naturally form a ball shape to protect their crotch area while the females flop around like rag dolls, making them more prone to injury both from the actual fall and from oncoming horses.
Report aberdonia December 7, 2025 12:03 PM GMT
the prize money on the card in France today is eye watering.........Bryony only has one ride, but if she can get on more horses there, its the place to be.
Report barstool December 7, 2025 12:38 PM GMT
Disadvantaged by being female in our country?

She should be thankful she was born here.
Report Jumping-cuckoo-monk December 7, 2025 12:40 PM GMT
Women get 1.5kg-2kg allowance in France over jumps. Lily should give that a go maybe.
Report Hushwing. December 7, 2025 12:53 PM GMT
So yes , , balanced, tidy and strong in a finish then. As opposed to checking makeup and hair ?Crazy

Indeed its a ridiculous comment and hopefully she's pulled up on it in the weighing room
Report stu December 7, 2025 12:56 PM GMT
See RP showing some valuable use of their article 'spaces' as per...write about something that actually matters in racing for once would be nice...

Saw a sycophantic piece about James Bowen (really) in their recently too - bog paper materials in these articles.
Report stu December 7, 2025 12:57 PM GMT
hopefully she's pulled up on it in the weighing room

Maybe Robbie Dunne can have a word Laugh
Report The Sawyer December 7, 2025 3:05 PM GMT
Cropsick - watch Lily Pinchin's ride on Follow The Swallow 25/9/2020
Report stu December 7, 2025 3:12 PM GMT
Love the fact that the article includes the phrase at the start:

'bare a hole'

Laugh
Report paulybad December 7, 2025 3:21 PM GMT
Silly comment from a decent girl jockey, Charlotte Jones is decent, Isabelle Williams can sit and is a decent judge of pace, but nothing of Blackmore standard yet, more rides for the girls and maybe one will shine.
Report HoratioNelson December 13, 2025 9:33 AM GMT
Pinchin been given the platform on the Opening Show this morning....lets see if she repeats her above quote..
Report HoratioNelson December 13, 2025 9:42 AM GMT
Not a peep.....no surprise there then
Report LoyalHoncho December 14, 2025 11:04 PM GMT
It doesn’t matter how or why we skirt around it but males will always be more consistently successful as jockeys, a physically demanding job like few others, which absolutely demands consistency of effort. There can not be many of us males who have not witnessed the quite devastating, debilitating effect that periods can and do have on some females.  They can’t take time off in this job so it follows they must have to ride occasionally, even regularly, when they are less than 100% physically o.k.
Men talking about women suffering from period pains and debility caused by same is not misogyny, is not deliberate putting down of women, is not a hate crime.  It is a recognition of a biological fact of life that men don’t suffer from this physical condition, and for short spells in a month women do.
I suspect this is the “disadvantage” she referred to but doesn’t wish to elucidate on.
Report HoratioNelson December 14, 2025 11:08 PM GMT
LH...Just common sense is all we need in life

May good fortune come your way Wink
Report uptheirons December 14, 2025 11:11 PM GMT
"This is Radio PMT,Don't touch that Dial"
Report LoyalHoncho December 14, 2025 11:40 PM GMT
Laugh
Report Nebs December 15, 2025 10:28 AM GMT
In France, Japan, South Africa, and Italy they give female jockeys a weight allowance. Perhaps we should do the same.
Report HoratioNelson December 15, 2025 10:35 AM GMT
Why Nebs? Blackmore didn't require any weight....she was just good at her job, albeit possibly on some flippin good horses, but she got on those horses by being good, not by having long hair and a smack of eye liner.
Report HoratioNelson December 15, 2025 10:36 AM GMT
Has Frost done any better in France than she did in the UK?
Report paulybad December 15, 2025 2:07 PM GMT
Not getting many rides averaging 1 a day, but plenty of winners and places, and earning more than over here, 28.6% strike rate last fortnight, won 3 x 30k races in a week.
Report wondersobright December 15, 2025 2:15 PM GMT
w/o a claim not even a par jockey on the figs she be best served keeping her trap shut imo got a lot to work on
Report HoratioNelson December 21, 2025 2:15 PM GMT
Show us what you've got against the lasses Lily
Report HoratioNelson December 21, 2025 2:24 PM GMT
"The Defence rests your honour"
Report STEO December 21, 2025 2:24 PM GMT
Heidi Palin useless there on Frere Darmes.
Report Ramruma December 21, 2025 2:25 PM GMT
I am not sure Lily does herself any favours riding against amateurs in these girlie races.

And I started typing that when she was in front.
Report Daryl Revok December 21, 2025 2:25 PM GMT
LaughLaughLaughLaughLaugh
Report Busyfool December 21, 2025 2:28 PM GMT
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"The Defence rests your honour"



Prosecution rests its case. If you are the defence, shes in trouble
Report HoratioNelson December 21, 2025 2:30 PM GMT
Very true Busy...My bad
Report LoyalHoncho December 21, 2025 4:30 PM GMT
Laugh.  You get away with nothing on here Horatio!
Report HoratioNelson December 21, 2025 5:09 PM GMT
Tell me!!!! LaughLaugh
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