can daivd casey claim to be the worst jockey of all time?

Happy St Patricks to you too...............I suppose you have all the stats at your finger tips.

far far from being that......not a very nice thing to say model pupil

David Casey isn't so bad at all.....in fairness to him he wouldn't have been expecting to have been riding briar hill or on his own on gold cup day.....he was after all third in line.....so how could he really......hes no ruby walsh obviously.....nobody is but hes fairly decent and unlike some knows his limitations.....he rides with a brain and doesn't showboat....he is brave and tactically aware.......when the opportunity presents itself he can get the job done.....

agree with paulie,
    casey is a decent jockey and the fall on briar hill was not down to him..i thought he gave on his own a cracker..today you could give some criticism ..on his ride but he was unlucky and imo the horse was just not good enough..

Decent Jockey imo....agree with Paulie regarding riding with his brain although not sure about the 'brave' part of his post......tends to mind himself these days......only one bad fall from retirement tbf.

if i was backing one for a good wedge and david riding it,it wouldnt put me off in any way.

kavvie......it would maybe on a shortish priced horse like briar hill at the Cheltenham festival all the same.....he simply isn't in the ruby category......and when he replaced walsh.....everybody would see that as a negative.....the horse drifted half a point when it was known who was aboard in all fairness.....im not saying the fall was his fault.....but maybe it was who knows......these so called accidents always seem to happen to the same kind of jockeys......I would say that half a dozen races were lost today by incompetence of jockeys ......one of the offenders should have been dragged off the horse......
All in all Casey is a goodish rider.....but I think most people would acknowledge......he could be a liability at the top level.....

maiden/handicap hurdle in killarney or kilbeggan no prob watsoever

would not put me off a bet if Casey was riding on I fancied

It would def put me off.  He was a decent jock 10 years ago but is woeful now.Bottle gone.  Id say Mullins was sick putting him up on Briar Hill!  He would have put up Katie instead if he could!  Rides with no confidence as was seen on Briar Hill.  Neither did one thing nor another.

Oh buts its 2009 since the chosen one won over fences at the festival, everything looks good when Quevega and Big Bucks are carrying the flag that most jockeys with half a brain cell would've waved.

David Casey is a fine rider.

You get the impression that Silvergreaser enjoyed this Cheltenham plenty of jockeys getting broke up,he is probably hoping some misfortune befalls poor Joseph OBrien.

Nasty wildman nasty, when ruby fell on friday I closed my eyes and cringed as I knew instantly that he was most likely hurt.

My post is a defense of Casey, if Ruby was riding it it would've won etc?, maybe if Ruby was riding On His Own in the Gold Cup the horse might have fell we will never know, the fact is Ruby hasn't won over the larger obstacles at the Festival since 2009, my point been that its horses that win races and only on a rare occasion will a jockey make a difference.

If you want to pick a fight with someone wildman try somebody else.

You have been carrying on a one man campaign against jockeys for ages on here.

I don't want a fight but you have blind spots,jockeys being your biggest when you move away from your agendas your posts are prescient and informative.

Well you could've made that point wildman without the Joseph O'Brien bit.

Its not an agenda at all its my observation from backing horses for years, I think the jockeys role is often overstated.

Where do you see me slagging off jockeys like many on here?, Mullins, Casey, Mark Walsh you name it get slagged off relentlessly on here by the usual suspects, if they get beat narrowly or fall its the jockeys fault if Ruby or Barry the untouchable ones get beat narrowly or fall it was most likely the horses fault not the jockeys?.

Have you ever put up a post on here paulie without insults and expletives?.
Paulie I'm always 100% right and everybody else need not have an opinion unless of course it coincides with the opinion of the expert on all things racing.

I've done pretty ok down the years thank you by not allowing jockey and trainers to influence my betting, as far as I'm concerned you don't become a professional jockey if you can't ride and most trainers will only be as good as the ability of their next good horse anyway.

Here is a list of the winning riders from Exeter and Wetherby yesterday.

Thomas Cheesman
Paul O'Brien
Aidan Coleman
Tommy Phelan
Tom Cannon
Jack Doyle
Richard Johnson

Andrew Tinkler
Alistair Findley
Henry Brooke
Samantha Drake
Brian Hughes
Ryan Mania
Andrew Tinkler

Pretty much conclusive proof that if the horse is good enough the horse will invariably win regardless of who is riding it don't you think?

While we are at it here is a list of jockeys who won at Limerick and Navan on Sunday.

Patrick Mangan
AP Heskin
Jody McGarvey
Davy Condon
Davy Russell 1/1 fav (I suppose only a top jockey like Davy could've got domination home?)
Sean Flanagan
WP Mullins 4/7 fav

MP Fogarty
Kevin Sexton
Barry Geraghty 2/5 fav (I suppose only a top jockey like Barry could've got that one home?)
MR JJ King
Robbie "the much maligned" Power
Ger Fox
SA Shortall

Nice spread of different jockeys riding winners at both meetings there don't you think Paulie?.

Great to see WP Mullins came out of retirement to ride the bumper winner in Limerick

milseán - sweet as candy for PW.

PW Mullins then.

now silvergreaser.....theres an old saying about you cant argue with a fool....and you are proof of that......
I notice that you didn't give us a sample from Mondays racing when at wexford bolger threw away the first noonan the second.....ferris shamed himself on o maonlai in the third.....and Enright threw the 4th up in the air....on top of that o leary rode the ears of Richie kiely in the last......and in down royal.....the worst ride of the year would go to Willie Thompson on James......how he managed to lose on that.....nobody will ever know.....
So that's half a dozen examples in one day.....where jockeyship makes a difference......

The usual obligatory insult before the rant.

I wonder Paulie did you hear David Pipe been interviewed after one of his festival winners, the interviewer says something like "isnt Tom Riding superbly?, and David answers "yeah he's riding well but he's still only as good as the horses as is the trainer".

Nice to see a prominent trainer pouring cold water on the interviewers hyperbole and given him and his viewers a reality check.

Noonans horse fell Paulie, has that never happened to Ruby, Barry and Davy before?.

Ruby has ridden Rupert Lamb six times and fell on him 3 times, if Danny Mullins had done that the forum would be in uproar, but once its Ruby, we tiptoe quietly over to the nearest rug, lift it gently, slowly sweep it under and gently put back down the rug, out of sight out of mind, we can't have stats like that messing up Rubys supposed infallibility and god like status.

Davy does seem to acquire more than his fair share of fallers/unseated.

Even Matt Knows

Chapman is a ****, the horse was given every chance simply not good enough.