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From: "Graeme Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [racebase] Jocks
>
> Is this the same Gil Dymock who once proclaimed...."jockeys don't come in
> to
> my calculations"..."the best horse on the day usually wins regardless of
> who's on their back"
> I guess you were just provoking the 'schnappers' like myself?
> Graeme
>
#### Same one, Graeme. Jockeys don't come into my calculations. But it's
hard to ignore who does the riding. And once you've sorted out a likely
conveyance a glance at the riding engagement to find H Tinsley or L Innes or
M Coleman or L Cropp or (two of my favourites as they've been on animals
which have put money in my pocket recently) L Hofmann or V Johnston (a2)
raises the confidence in pretty much the same way as a double whisky as
you're waiting for the field to load does.
I can't say there's a jockey whose engagement would cause me to cancel a bet
but there are one or two, one northern apprentice especially, who make me
purse my lips and squint one eye.
And there are exceptions to every rule, of course. One riding engagement in
bygone days which did provoke an automatic bet was C Thornton on a horse
ridden at its previous start by K Browne. But that was more than a decade
ago and lasted for about five years, tops. It was also a case, I believe, of
Browne riding them into form and Thornton getting on for the expected win.
When B McDonald took over from Thornton there didn't seem to be quite the
same startling success rate, although it was still a useful exercise, and I
gave up looking when McDonald gave riding away.
Gil
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