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From: "Graeme Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [racebase] Jocks
>
> So if a horse is stepping up in distance and has had a previous tendency
> to
> over-race....you wouldn't throw in to your calculations that Hayden
> Tinsley
> may suit better than an inexperienced apprentice?
> Or if a horse is drawn wide with one particular Matamata jock on (plus a
> few
> others who, apart from group races, are happy to sit wide out of trouble)
> that perhaps it will remain 3+ wide for the majority of the race?
> Or..................
>
> Graeme
#### No. I don't go into those aspects of analysing form. My study starts
and finishes with the horse (is it a better class of animal than the
opposition, can it handle the distance, is it weighted to win, are there
reasons to suppose it will improve on its latest run and so on and so on).
If I get satisfactory answers to all those then I've found something worthy
of a bet. To my mind, the jockey just steers it around and I trust that he
does a competent job. I'd prefer that jockey to be Tinsley, Innes, Coleman,
Hofmann or someone of their capabilities . . . but if it's not there's
nothing I can do about it.
If you reckon you've spotted a way of knowing BEFOREHAND whether a horse
will be well ridden or not, then good on you. But that line of study is not
for me.
Gil
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