Soary Stars
At the Start
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I agree with Aragorn again.
Doesn't a horse hang when under pressure?
So, if they couldn't they wouldn't is what you're saying.
bollocks.
They hang for various reasons Soary - tiredness, pressure, slight injury, favouring one leg over the other, they see the entrance to the parade ring, something catches their eye, camber of the track and some just hang because they want to.
To say horses just hang because they are under pressure is too simplistic.
Ruby Walsh in Today's Examiner
"what worries me is that I will have to accept defeat when I could be doing something about it. As a competitive sportsman that saddens me.It goes against my whole ethos as a jockey that such is going to be the case. All my competitive instincts tell me this is wrong. When I am riding I use my legs and my body and only go for the whip as a last resort. It is inevitable that these rules will be broken, not intentionally but they will be broken. I know they are under pressure in England and probably something has to be done but I don't think this is the answer.
The stipendary stewards in both Britain and Ireland are first class and well capable of legislating on use of the whip which is over the top and unacceptable. I certainly hope the Irish authorities do not follow suit."
At last a jockey with the balls to call it as is.
Thanks for the decent reply, OTB.
Would you need to use the whip to correct all these?
Would it depend on the vigour of the hanging, so to speak?
I'd expect discretion to be used where a horse is hanging dangerously - duty of the jockey to correct that & not count the strokes either.
This should be obvious to the stewards, who should be crying blue murder if the jockey didn't take corrective action.
That is all true, and he is 100% right, but then he and other jockeys abuse the rules to make every effort to win big races (that knacker on Ballabriggs was a disgrace).. Different rules are needed, whereby if a steward feels you have broken the whip rules (shouldn't necessarily be a number imho), you are disqualified.
Do people on here think Rewilding was abused in the Prince of Wales? I don't. I do think Cheltenham tight finishes are particularly bad though.
NH finishes seem worse as the horses look like they are in slow motion.. I agree on the FD ride - one of the best this year - I thought the JM ride was a very strong ride maybe borderline - but again it looked worse that it actually was in reality due to the slow motion effect / hot day etc... This is exacerbated in Cheltenham due to the hill and the championship pace (huge generalisation).
Yes it is Grey. Why else would a jockey change hands? DMCain is on twitter again today pointing out how many winning horses in the past week would have been effected by the new rule. Some great rides since Friday, that will be punished now.
Why change hands? Because use of the whip in the wrong hand will cause a hanging horse to hang even more.
If a horse is hanging to the right, towards other horses, the whip should not be used in the left hand. Switching it to the right hand should help it to stop going right. Either it will straighten, if the jockey is lucky, or start hanging in the other direction.
But a horse is less likely to hang in the first place if no whip is used.
Wait till you do your dough on a yoke that could have won with a little stronger handling.