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As far as leading money rider in 2010? Well....getting a pick up ride at the last second in some cheap claiming race at HP just so he could beat Leparoux while Leparoux was out of the country was very weak on his and Ron Anderson's part. Pretty sad in fact. But it didn't matter as the Eclipse voters saw past their bs and gave the award to Leparoux who deserved it. |
Congrats to Martin. The more I read / hear about him, the more respect I have for him.
Seems like a really decent type... good for him. |
Hold on did someone dis Calvin and praise Martin? Are you serious? Martin has many more years of horrible rides. The Preakness is the Shemp of the triple crown. Lets not go overboard with praise just yet.
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Martin has only been riding for 5 yrs and he has already a pretty decent resume. He is probably not the best jock out there but he did deliver today and praise is well desereved for his ride today. |
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Borel clearly can't ride outside of Churchill. He is lost at every other track. Too bad the jocks that ride down at CD aren't more like Cordero (you know....a jock who wouldn't let him get away with his rail riding).....if they were he wouldn't win nearly as many races. It's insane how a guy can win so much at one track and then not do a thing anywhere else. |
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Baffert goes through a lot of jockeys first call. I wouldnt get too comfortable if I were Martin. |
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LAL. Velasquez is first call for Pletcher and has ridden for Baffert east side on few occasions |
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I think JV could have had the mount on Aikenite if he had wanted it. I don't think the decision was too bad either way. Somewhere out there Aikenite may still be running. |
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As for Rosario I do wish him well. He's the competition now though and to that end I root for Tyler to beat him every time. I'm sure it's a bit sweeter when Joe Torre beats the Yankees or Girardi the Marlins. |
You're lucky SCUDS likes you.
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The main question is, will Garcia get preferential treatment by the stewards like Gomez does?:rolleyes:
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I would say this was a Stu Elliott type of ride rather than an Eddie Arcaro type of ride. Ramon Dominguez's ride yesterday was closer to Arcaro.
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You can see the example of this cheating brilliance on the replay for :
HOLLYWOOD PARK Fri, Jul 11th, 2008 - Race 4 You can see the oncoming horse has to shift towards you on the pan shot. Before he had to do that, Vic ("It's gunna be close...Now it's gunna be really close") thought the horse was gunna go right on by. After the race, you can hear Vic say he "wouldn't let him by." That is not true. Gomez hits hard right-handed until he realizes he won't win this way. He then plays his only card to play, and that's the same one he used about 10 months later to hold the place spot in the Derby. The horse's path is quickly taken, he must shift out, and loses momentum. No lights flashed. No mention of an inquiry. Just paid the Sadler chalk. I like Vic, but he does have conflicts of interest when he comes on here. Two of those are his friendships with O'NEIL n' Sadler. That's in full effect each time he supports this no call. |
It's going to take more than a Jockey change to help out Drosselmeyer, but like Lucky, Winstar wants to "try something different."
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