Is there a worst Jockey at getting a horse out of the stalls than

The jockey in the old Hamlet cigar advert must be a strong contender?

P J McDonald there, though horse took one hell of a drift too..

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.

Is Eaves injured, doesn't appear to have ridden for a while?

Moore in America Breeders Cup Meeting.

Spencer, does it deliberately.

Hamlet jockey wins then?

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.

Not sure how that works when the jock is the one directly responsible.

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...

Skullduggery or incompetence?