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Oisin Murphy

I would be amazed if this turned out to be anything more than a hobby -riding over hurdles is incompatible with being an international class flat jockey.I'd say a ride in the festival bumper will be as far as it goes.
 
It sounds like he's merely scratching an itch, a bit like the period when Johnny Murtagh took rides over hurdles out of boredom. I doubt he's going to go at it seriously.

Johnny was robbed of the World Hurdle in 2006 when riding the pint-sized Golden Cross, after Choc Thornton on My Way De Solzen made a good attempt to put his flat rival over the stands rail after the last. When the result stood, Johnny said that he had never been so disappointed in a long time about losing a race, but he did have the consolation of flying out the next day to Dubai.
 
Scratching an itch was exactly the phrase I was thinking of.Seamie Heffernan rode over hurdles one Christmas.
 
Grey said:
It sounds like he's merely scratching an itch, a bit like the period when Johnny Murtagh took rides over hurdles out of boredom. I doubt he's going to go at it seriously.

Johnny was robbed of the World Hurdle in 2006 when riding the pint-sized Golden Cross, after Choc Thornton on My Way De Solzen made a good attempt to put his flat rival over the stands rail after the last. When the result stood, Johnny said that he had never been so disappointed in a long time about losing a race, but he did have the consolation of flying out the next day to Dubai.
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Arthur, it's established fact that the only problem with Choc's ride on MWDS, is that he didn't put Murtagh over the stands rail.
 
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Apart from the show jumping, he’s done plenty of hunting recently over some pretty serious obstacles so maybe it will turn into more?
 
If he we to keep riding on the flat and over jumps he'd be humping a lot of lead round if riding decent NH horses

He's at least 10lbs lighter than the likes of james Bowen at his lowest weight......that's a bit much for trainers to take him seriously
 
Tanlic said:
If he we to keep riding on the flat and over jumps he'd be humping a lot of lead round if riding decent NH horses

He's at least 10lbs lighter than the likes of james Bowen at his lowest weight......that's a bit much for trainers to take him seriously
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Don't really understand your thinking there.
Do you think dead weight is more of a hindrance?
 
Noel O' Brien, nephew of Vincent farming at Churchtown told me he remembered Oisin riding work on the farm as a teenager; Keeping a tired horse dead straight on heavy ground at the end of a gallop.
It was one of the most impressive riding he ever saw from a youngster.
Jack Moylan , Pat Eddery's grandfather rode Fly Mask to finish second and third in Grand Nationals when his body weight was 7-12.
Graham Lee's biggest problem riding NH was keeping his weight as heavy as he could !
Wishing all well.
 
Don't know I would want to be backing him today. He's gone up 11lbs since Sligo and looked like he never got the trip last time. Good luck to him all the same
 
Apparently he is the jockey involved in the serious crash on Saturday evening on his way back from Leicester. It sounds like the female passenger has fairly serious injuries too and Oisin was arrested
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Jockey arrested following car crash which has left passenger in hospital

A jockey is at the centre of a police investigation after a car accident on Sunday morning left his female passenger in hospital. The jockey was... Read More
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I was hoping he had conquered his demons
 
He only missed one day's rides so at least he couldn't have been badly injured. Presumably he'd have had to provide a sample, as a matter of routine, before riding on the Monday.

Hopefully the injured person makes a full recovery.

And let due process take its course.
 
Desert Orchid said:
He only missed one day's rides so at least he couldn't have been badly injured. Presumably he'd have had to provide a sample, as a matter of routine, before riding on the Monday.

Hopefully the injured person makes a full recovery.

And let due process take its course.
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Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
 
substack.com

Point Blank: Oisín Murphy Is the Most Covered-Up Addict in Sport

A grey Mercedes A-Class crashes into a tree outside Hungerford just after midnight.
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Written, or signed at any rate, by a former forumite.

If the facts are as stated, and we had hoped they weren’t, he shouldn’t be allowed to ride at present.

You might say innocent until found guilty, but that principle didn’t apply when they banned Kieren Fallon long before his conspiracy trial came to court - a charge for which, it turned out, the evidence was pathetically nonexistent.

They banned Fallon because, they said, allowing him to continue would drag racing into disrepute. It seemed unjust to me in that case but not in this one.

There is a young woman in a hospital bed and a leading jockey pretending nothing has happened. We can’t all be conscripted into maintaining this lie.
 
Grey said:
You might say innocent until found guilty,
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I may and I do but if he is found guilty I hope he is banned for a very long time.

The Fallon episode was a generation ago and shouldn't be a reference point. The people in charge then are long retired or dead. Governance is evolving as are interpretations of the rules, some for the better, some not.

Maybe I should lay my cards on the table and declare that I was glad Fallon was banned. Too often I had watched him finish well down the field on horses who should have won or been at the very least competitive. I have no idea if connections were complicit in this perceived [on my part] cheating but it got to the stage where I would not bet anything he was riding even in the top races.

I can honestly say that in all the years since he was riding I have not had that feeling about any other rider, and they aren't all saints either.

As a jockey booking, I will say that I do see Murphy as a positive but it is not with much enthusiasm that I back them.
 
Grey said:
substack.com

Point Blank: Oisín Murphy Is the Most Covered-Up Addict in Sport

A grey Mercedes A-Class crashes into a tree outside Hungerford just after midnight.
substack.com substack.com

Written, or signed at any rate, by a former forumite.

If the facts are as stated, and we had hoped they weren’t, he shouldn’t be allowed to ride at present.

You might say innocent until found guilty, but that principle didn’t apply when they banned Kieren Fallon long before his conspiracy trial came to court - a charge for which, it turned out, the evidence was pathetically nonexistent.

They banned Fallon because, they said, allowing him to continue would drag racing into disrepute. It seemed unjust to me in that case but not in this one.

There is a young woman in a hospital bed and a leading jockey pretending nothing has happened. We can’t all be conscripted into maintaining this lie.
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Hard to argue with that post, very true comment about Chapman too
Yesterday on ITV Ed Chamberlin mentioned the incident but without saying who the jockey was and how unsettling the whole episode is
 
Very well written and brave article and one that should be out there. The racing industry has long "protected" people for the wrong reasons. The TV teams suck up to the all the time - no-one mentions Sheikh Mohammed do they? Surely he shouldn't still be an owner bearing in mind what he's been up to but it's never, ever spoken about. The sycophants within racing are legendary. They daren't criticise those at the top just in case their jobs are endangered.
 
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