Fredi Tylicki

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Quite possible the best apprentice around at present? Worth every lb of his claim IMO.

Vital Stats	Runs	1st	2nd	3rd	Win %	To £1 Level Stake
Last 14 Days (UK)	8	3	3	0	37.5%	£17.00
Current Season (UK)	51	14	12	7	27.45%	£50.96

9/12 2/11 1/7 3/15 6/15 1/14 2/10 1/9 7/9 1/8 2/9 2/12 4/12 1/8 2/13 13/14 3/16 3/9 2/10 8/12 10/16 14/16

Date	Position	Ride	SP	Course	Dist	Going	Class	Trainer
Benitez Bond	66/1	Red	8f	Gd, Gd/Frm pl	6	G R Oldroyd
Desert Forest (IRE)	8/1	Red	6f	Gd, Gd/Frm pl	6	J Howard Johnson
Dream Lodge (IRE)	5/2	Red	8f	Gd, Gd/Frm pl	3	R A Fahey
Dean Iarracht (IRE)	4/1	Red	7f	Gd/Frm	5	M Dods
King Of Swords (IRE)	16/1	Pont	5f	Gd	5	N Tinkler
Swinbrook (USA)	10/1	Pont	6f	Gd	5	R A Fahey
Mr Crystal (FR)	13/2	Pont	17f	Gd	4	Micky Hammond
Realism (FR)	5/1	Sou	12f	Std	5	M W Easterby
All In The Red (IRE)	9/2	Newc	10f	Gd, Gd/Sft pl	5	A Crook
She's A Character	7/1	Don	6f	Gd/Sft, Sft pl	4	R A Fahey
Deadly Secret (USA)	8/1	Don	8f	Gd/Sft, Sft pl	2	R A Fahey
Fishforcompliments	6/1	Don	7f	Gd/Sft, Sft pl	3	R A Fahey
Puy d'Arnac (FR)	3/1	Hayd	14f	Sft	4	G A Swinbank
Swinbrook (USA)	5/6	Ling	6f	Gd (Gd/Fm pl) (A/W - Std)	6	R A Fahey
Kildare Sun (IRE)	9/4	Nott	8f	Gd	6	J Mackie
Danish Art (IRE)	50/1	Sou	7f	Std	5	M W Easterby
Yeadon	15/2	Rip	6f	Gd/Sft	5	R A Fahey
Steelcut	7/2	Thi	5f	Gd, Gd/Sft pl	4	R A Fahey
Twosheetstothewind	3/1	Newc	5f	Gd/Frm	5	M Dods
Madamlily (IRE)	15/2	York	12f	Sft	4	J J Quinn
Cosmic Sun	16/1	York	10f	Gd/Frm	4	R A Fahey
Rosbay (IRE)	13/2	York	12f	Gd/Frm	4	T D Easterby

I've been a fan for some time, and when researching his background found this which I thought was quite interesting.

When apprentice jockeys win big handicaps at the top festivals such as Royal Ascot and Newmarket, it is wise to sit up and take notice. So, punters around the country have been making notes of the former camel rider Ahmed Ajtebi and the young Welshman David Probert as up-and-comers to keep an eye on, and yesterday another young talent rode into the headlines with his biggest win yet. The German Frederik Tylicki took the mare Flying Clarets to the front from the start of the John Smith's Cup and the pair were never headed. As all three riders have expressed an ambition to be champion apprentice, the race for that title next year should be worth following. It was a good decision by Tylicki to follow his friend Jamie Moriarty to join Richard Fahey, Flying Clarets' trainer, in North Yorkshire at the beginning of the year. If Fahey rates a youngster he will give him the chance to shine and Tylicki, like Moriarty before him, was making an impression even before yesterday's success at York, and starting to gain rides for outside stables. He rode a second for George Baker at Yarmouth and the trainer liked what he found. 'This guy is going places. His whole demeanour was very impressive, his pre- and post-race analysis excellent - and we will use him again.' Fahey has a growing stable and needs a good team of jockeys. One former champion apprentice, Paul Hanagan, is first jockey to the yard and another, Robert Winston, like Moriarty and Tylicki arrived at Fahey's from Ireland, though he has since moved on. Those are tough acts to follow, yet Tylicki clearly has what it takes in Fahey's eyes. He says: 'Horses run for Freddie. I don't know what he does that's different, but they go for him.' Tylicki, who had to cope with a family tragedy when his father committed suicide, thanked Hanagan and another of his colleagues, Tony Hamilton, for helping him out with advice, and said: 'I always watch the big boys and try to copy them. There is no point in going mad three furlongs from home. You need to save a bit.' He rates Johnny Murtagh as the best. 'He has so much power and is always in the right place. The ultimate jockey.' He is the son of three-times German champion jockey, the Poland-born Andrzej Tylicki, and has clearly inherited some of his father's talent. Yet it was not until he was 13 that Frederik became interested in his current career and started riding out with his father. When his parents split, his mother took him to Ireland in 2001 and now he speaks with a brogue that betrays only a hint of his German background. Ireland is by no means a bad place for an aspiring jockey, but the family had to cope with difficult times when Andrzej, who had alcohol problems after retiring from the saddle, committed suicide in 2003. Finding his feet after that cannot have been easy, but Tylicki is not lacking in confidence, coming through apprenticeships in the powerful stables of Dermot Weld and Jim Bolger. A week ago, Tylicki made a triumphant return to Germany, riding Saraab to victory on the supporting card at the German Derby meeting at Hamburg. He has some way to go to live up to the riding achievements of his father, who rode Acatenango (1985) and Lando (1993) to win the German Derby - but that win, and Flying Clarets' victory yesterday, is a good start. In January his apprenticeship finished with Bolger, who has an academy with an even higher reputation than that of Fahey, with Aidan O'Brien and Tony McCoy having served their time there, and he switched to Yorkshire. England is even further from the land of his birth for Ajtebi than it is for Tylicki. And even though he is four years older at 26, he has fewer miles on the clock riding horses. He has far more experience in race riding, though, because from the age of seven in his native Dubai, he was a camel jockey, taking part in thousands of races in the desert and riding, he thinks, about 200 winners. 'Nobody kept records and we might ride in 10 races a day, so just write down a big number,' says Ajtebi, who retired from the sport at 15, still never having sat on a horse. Nowadays children under the age of 14 are not permitted to ride in camel races in the United Arab Emirates because of welfare concerns. Remarkably, those young jockeys have been replaced by robots, controlled electronically by remote. The personable Ajtebi may not have been born with a plastic spoon in his mouth - his uncle, Saeed Manana, is a leading owner with Newmarket trainer Clive Brittain - but he has proved a natural since taking the advice of Sheikh Mohammed and switching to horses five years ago. He has already ridden winners in eight countries, including during spells in South Africa and Australia, as well as proving able to cope with the ups and downs and twists and turns of Britain's tracks. 'Ted Durcan is my mentor,' he says of last year's Oaks-winning jockey, 'He was champion jockey in Dubai several times and he has given me advice all the way along. He encourages me to walk the course before racing and think about tactics. I am learning from him every day.' Royston Ffrench is another weighing room colleague to have helped Ajtebi, encouraging him to go to Yorkshire for a spell with trainer Brian Smart last year. Having rides on the northern circuit led to Ajtebi getting the leg-up on Regal Parade for Dandy Nicholls in the Buckingham Palace Handicap at Ascot and a half-length win meant he kept the ride for an excellent third in Newmarket's Bunbury Cup on Friday. He has ridden 15 winners from 87 rides in this country, showing a profit for his backers, and intends to have a real crack at the apprentice championship - he has already been champion in Dubai - next season after wintering back home. Probert's route to his apprenticeship with Andrew Balding, at Kingclere, is more conventional. As the son of a saddler and point-to-point rider, he grew up in Bargoed, South Wales, riding from an early age and winning pony races. The Balding stable has a long tradition of producing good jockeys, among them the Derby winner Martin Dwyer. Like another of the Kingsclere apprentices William Buick, Probert is tiny enough to want to put on weight. Also like Buick, his first ride was aboard the stable schoolmaster Tiny Tim. Now Probert, 19, is racing up the ladder. He made a difficult ride, Jedediah, look reasonably straightforward when landing a big handicap at Newmarket on Thursday. Probert's initial lack of strength was one of the reasons he took nearly 50 rides to break his duck, on Mountain Pass for fellow Welshman Bernard Llewellyn, but the balance and timing were always there and as he matures his strength increases. This year he has won 16 of his 130 races and is being given plenty of chances by other trainers. Flying Clarets was Tylicki's fourth winner from 35 rides this season, including two on old sprinters Bo McGinty and King's College Boy that oozed class. Neither of those wily old horses is the easiest and they usually have to be pushed and shoved into contention. Under Tylicki, however, they both travelled more sweetly than usual, giving the impression that the jockey has the gift. Similar comments apply to Probert and Ajtebi - Brittain echoes Fahey with the 'horses run for him' statement regarding the Dubaian - and all three should be booting home plenty of winners in the coming years. As Tylicki said after dismounting from Flying Clarets: 'She wants to win and so do I.'

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Re: Fredi Tylicki WELL worth his claim for sure - I definitely rate him. I like Gloucester and Birkside today so hope his form continues