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Alistair Rawlinson
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The jockey in the old Hamlet cigar advert must be a strong contender?
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P J McDonald there, though horse took one hell of a drift too..
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For many years I'd put a line straight through any Tom Eaves mount because I grew so sick of him repeatedly blowing the start. He got a bit better towards the end.
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Is Eaves injured, doesn't appear to have ridden for a while?
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Moore in America Breeders Cup Meeting.
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Spencer, does it deliberately.
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Hamlet jockey wins then?
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I would put the blame for slow starters on:
1. The trainer and his staff, particularly young horses. 2. The horse. Some horses never get the hang of it. 3. The jockey. |
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Not sure how that works when the jock is the one directly responsible.
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After 50 + years of backing horses, I am sure that there has never been a worse time for slow away horses - especialy on the AW.
OK, on the AW most of the horses are poor and more inclined to make a hash of something in a race - like the start. But I cannot help but think that making a horse dwell at the gate has become a modern art form amongst jocks and trainers. Indeed, a track contact of mine showed me a couple of years ago how a jockey can lightly pull downwards at the mouth end of the reins just as the starter calls ready. This slightly forces a horse'shead down and causses it to leave the stalls slowly. Not unlike taking a horse off at a break neck and unsustainable pace so that it eventually falls into a heap and finishes well beaten. Much less open to inspection by the stewards than being easy on a horse in the rear of the contest. Both ways designed to facilitate a fall in the handicap mark. However, skullduggery has long been a part of horse racing and we learn to live with it... |
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Skullduggery or incompetence?
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