south island apprentice jockeys

[the galah]

i've been watching the south island gallops and i wonder whether sometimes the apprentice jockeys are just riding to instructions and that trainers are telling whatever you do, don't do this or that.

either that or some are as bad as i have ever seen.

race 1 at invercargill,friendofthedevil .i guess the apprentice was under instructions to not move until they turned for home. it went from the perfect 1/1 position and travelling great with 600m to gor,then  waited till halfway down the straight,some 10 lengths from the leader and finally being asked to go.

soemthing seems wrong when they get ridden so bad. I just not sure the reason for it?

Edited 3 hours ago by the galah

[mikeynz]

31 minutes ago, the galah said:

i've been watching the south island gallops and i wonder whether sometimes the apprentice jockeys are just riding to instructions and that trainers are telling whatever you do, don't do this or that.

either that or some are as bad as i have ever seen.

race 1 at invercargill,friendofthedevil .i guess the apprentice was under instructions to not move until they turned for home. it went from the perfect 1/1 position and travelling great with 600m to gor,then  waited till halfway down the straight,some 10 lengths from the leader and finally being asked to go.

soemthing seems wrong when they get ridden so bad. I just not sure the reason for it?

Maybe the trainers could ride them instead.

 

[curious]

1 hour ago, mikeynz said:

Maybe the trainers could ride them instead.

 

Not enough room in the sauna for many of them and quite a few already get a pension and wouldn't need the extra money.

[the galah]

I remmeber the days when the likes of lisa allpress would ride at invercargill and would start improving with 800m to go then really push them along from the 600m .She and one or two other north island jockeys used to win a lot of races that way.

for them it all was about forward momentum.

but you look at most of those races today,not one jockey is doing that. most of them just sit there,then with about 400m to go ask their horses to go but the track seems too wet to accelerate much and they miss the boat unless they are in the first 2 or 3.

i miss having those north island jockeys riding down there as at least you knew if you backed one that lost, it lost because it wasn't good enough.

those were the days.

[Chief Stipe]

 

[Chief Stipe]

Didn't look to be going good enough when it needed to improve.  

[Freda]

Didn't think so either. 

If you look he would have been 4-5 wide if he had elected to improve, he's young and inexperienced,  may have been scared to do that.

You can do that at Invercargill along Finlay Rd but likely no one has told him.