Racing Chat-Monday 21st August.

[kensland]

Lingfield. 

Double 

5.10. Alshadhian        10/3   3rd 

6.50. Invincible Molly    10/1    unpl

stk 6.00   rtn 91.00

Good luck all 

Edited August 22, 2023 by kensland

[Zilzalian]

Always best to give it time to reflect when angry and I have touched on this before... so here's a reflection on racing. Lots has been said on here this week about cheating, non triers etc call it what you will but here is a bigger problem for me and the 5:45 at Sandown Sunday is a perfect example of what I am saying.

You can have all the systems in the world to aid your selecting, you can have all the ratings in the world to aid them but they all go out the window when you can't rate jockey stupidity which seems to be prevalent in this country more than others eg France and Ireland. Very few of our jockeys have a plan B let alone a plan C, oh they all look very good when getting it right but you watch that race from yesterday and you will see what I mean bear in mind not much was coming from the back at Sandown so they must have known by race five that the place not to be was in rear. From the off Kingscote amongst others but Kingscote in particular came from the stalls all the way over to the rail to sit in last place, from there he went nowhere never even thought about it when even an amateur would have noted the slow pace, even after two three furlongs he never did anything meaning the horse had no chance from that position there were others did the same in the race what did they think? That the front lot would just open up and go backwards? Read the write ups, waiting for room, waiting for room, waiting for room, the odd jockey tried to come round but by the time they made their minds up the winner was trundling along and just ran over the line to win. So all the ratings and or systems and even form take a backseat to the stupidity of jockeys.

 

One thing I would like to add here one jockey that rarely made a mistake was/is Tom Quealy Henry Cecil knew as much about jockeys and racing than anyone in the world and would never employ an idiot to ride his horses but seemingly most trainers would rather use “B” jockeys than Quealy.

 

Yes I backed Ocotango (Kingscote) in the race in question so declare if I had of written this last night I would have been accused rightly so of talking through my pocket. If you backed Orbaan, Metal Merchant, or Ocatango and to a lesser extent a few others you was robbed.