Arlington newest moron jockey
 

While I have been estatic that Mr. Laviolette is no longer with us at Arlington Park, Ladies and gentleman, let me introduce to you, Florent Geroux.

All you have to do is watch the replay from Race 7 on Saturday, you will know what horse he is on.

a quick note, the horse that he is on, I have followed for some time, and doesn't act like a jerkoff on the course. I couldn't believe my eyes when I watched this race today.

He shouldn't be allowed on the grounds.

That ride was one for the ages.... the Chicago jockey colony is nothing special, but this guy stands out. I think the only race he has won this meet, he got taken down.

He did win aboard Even Money, in a halfway decent looking maiden race, but has been pretty godawful since.

Got to agree with that Scavs, the was aweful.

Spyder

he thought he was on Big Brown?

maybe the horse has really bad ankles

I saw the title, I saw the author, and I just assumed Scav had dropped a few and donned silks.










Someone had to say it.

Thats all?:rolleyes:

Get off the guys back, maybe he thought the whole inside of the track was dead and the 9 path was moving like a conveyor belt. :rolleyes:

jesse is still the best :mad: :rolleyes:

As Hawk Harrelson would say..

"He Gone"

You can add Sir David Lee Bourque to this list also. I was smiling all the way to the bank when these clowns were betting him down to 8/5 in the 2nd race yesterday.

LOL.....awesome

And it's funny because I've tended to have middle of the road feelings about Geroux, I don't think he's a really terrible, bad rider by any stretch of the imagination. And in his defense, it's not like he's losing all his races with the same level of pathetic riding that hurt Tom AD yesterday, he doesn't get that many good horses. Still, I've been more than a bit surprised that he hasn't had a bit more success this meet.

Then again, Inez Karlsson doesn't end up any many good ones, but she seems to be doing just fine.

Geroux was riding 1st call for Mott, which was making those horses not be anywhere near the board. They switched to Campbell/Douglas... and those same horses are now hitting the board with regularity (not all wins, but at least getting a check).

He might be the worst jockey I have ever seen in my young life. Danush Sukie is BETTER. and might I say, and this is going to take alot to type.

SHANE LAVIOLETTE might be better. MIGHT

and I'd probably have to agree with the Lav comment. I also liked that Borque horse bet down... as I was on the winner of that race and was pleased with the higher payout than what it should have been.

The 4th race cost me about 10k yesterday as I would have hit the first 6 races with P3's, all in the range of $6 and $12 tickets, multiple multiple times. I had that 8 singled in that race, and Graham just closed very very strong....

money to be made in the 9th today (if stays on turf).... Geroux on 3-1 favorite (and since ML fav, will have alot of dumb $$ on it).
I'll take the 5.

I started out on fire over there yesterday (cleaned up the first 5 races)... then blew that longshot, overlooked the PP's that showed the horse had a poly speed number 20 higher a few races (think 3) back than anything in the field. cost me the $400 exacta and $818 double, as I hit Douglas on OBGYN the race before and had the Asmussen horse that came in 2nd. Dumb mistake that's unexcusable for a handicapper like me.

Exactly...I already tossed the pig.....I like the 3 a little bit in that race

I'll tell you this, if the 7th is off the turf, which my guess it is, Iosilver will not lose today. he is the lock of locks

I totally agree. He would have won the turf race that was entered yesterday too... if it would have been off.

They have to be off today, it rained pretty good this morning.....

not off yet. All the rain last night missed AP and me. line of storms split and went north/south of me. The rain today (at least by me) is all soaked in the ground and in places, can't even tell it rained earlier. If it doesn't rain anymore before those turf races, I'd think it'll be yielding and keep them on.

While I see where you're going with this line of reasoning, it's not like Mott has exactly been a livewire so far. Mott has been sending out, up to this point, a fair number of horses who were tosses not thanks to Geroux, but thanks to the fact that they weren't good enough in the spot they were in. Geroux didn't cause the vast majority of Mott's lack of success early in the meet, not by a longshot.

I'd be willing to wager that for as awful as he's being made to seem here, that you wouldn't need more than one hand to count his "bad" rides this meet, which is as many hands as you'd need for any run-of-the-mill Laviolette Saturday.

Speaking of which, what has happened to Tony Farina, now that the only trainer who would put him up on decent horses is off the track? His pictures of Biancone with an owner's wife (the only reason I can think of for him being the go-to jock for a major stable) don't have the value they used to.

watch his ride in the 9th. He was dead last going into the first turn, with only one horse within about 3-4 lengths of him.... and had to pull up??? That's horrible. If they're 3-4 wide in front of you and you get caught and have to pull up, that's one thing... but with only 1 horse even within range, having to pull up is awful.

That ride WOULD make Shane look good, which is not easy to do.

I wasn't even there, but I heard it was one for the ages in terms of rides.

I got invited to be a fill in for 12" softball, nothing like baseball. Although I held my own, not sure if I really feel these 24 to 20 games....

geroux will be riding for catalano and slomkowski and become a 50% rider just like the 94 yo earlie fires has