Ruby Walsh 2000 winners

It'll probably get missed because his winners are divided between Ireland and the UK. He passed 100 career Grade 1 winners earlier in the season and it barely got a mention.
 
What is his wins to rides ratio compared to his expected win ratio implied by the Betfair SP? Now that would be really worth talking about.



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He hit 2000 in UK & Ireland at the weekend on Balding Banker. Quevega was his 2000th career win ( he has three in france). Not a peek about it in mainstream racing press.

Big Bucks in Long Walk was his 100th Grade 1 winner.
 
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Seen Ruby described as the Pele of horse racing last night.

Polarising figure with his attitude and manner but in terms of talent, the best of his era?
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Have to say he is Granger.
Leopardstown yesterday we witnessed three race wins that no other jockey could claim to have any hope of winning; that after being unseated off the fav in the first.
Cometh the hour, cometh the man..
APMcCoy, Richard Johnson may ride more winners day in day out, B Geraghty may be a more stylish chase jockey and P Carberry is a Star trekker" that bravely goes where no man goes before" but Ruby is almost robotic in minimising mistakes with greatest regularity.
 
McCoy would have been at least as good at getting both those horses up.

The media is much too obsessed with close finishes driving a horse home in terms of praising a jockey. Much better for me is what Carberry did on Monksland, sitting up for 50m, stopping riding, giving his horse a breather and it went and won.

Walsh is up there though.
 
McCoy would have been at least as good at getting both those horses up.

The media is much too obsessed with close finishes driving a horse home in terms of praising a jockey. Much better for me is what Carberry did on Monksland, sitting up for 50m, stopping riding, giving his horse a breather and it went and won.
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In the case of Tidal Bay, I disagree. The whole business of getting the horse to win the race started a long time before the driving finish and involved a lot more than that one particular facet of a jockey's trade. It was about the kidding the horse along, about minimising the impact of his dodgy jumping, about getting him interested (scrimmaging around on the inner round the final bend) and, last but not least, sticking him through that gap that made him want to get through it as quickly as he could.

With Supreme Carolina, too, the true skill was in saving the horse for the end of the race, not in the finish itself.

There are stronger jockeys out there and there are better horsemen but I don't think anyone applies the leetle grey cells (with apologies to Poirot!) to the business of racing better.
 
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The Roy Keane of the saddle. A lot of talent without being the most naturally talented. A go-to man on the big day. And on a social level, an ignorant ar*ehole at the best of times. If I owned a horse at the highest level he'd be first on my wanted list.
 
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