Originally Posted by brundlebud:
“I wasn't meaning to be overly-critical. I thought she gave the horse a decent ride and I'm sure it was to orders, but even on first watching I felt she left it too late - Pasha was the last horse still on the bridle and was finishing quickest. For a jockey still in her first year of riding it was a super achievement, but if I'd had money on her I would have been a little annoyed.”
“I wasn't meaning to be overly-critical. I thought she gave the horse a decent ride and I'm sure it was to orders, but even on first watching I felt she left it too late - Pasha was the last horse still on the bridle and was finishing quickest. For a jockey still in her first year of riding it was a super achievement, but if I'd had money on her I would have been a little annoyed.”
I wouldn't, in these kind of races you are backing the jockey much more than the horse. Victoria could have been riding Don Cossack and would still have ridden the same race, you factor the jockey into the price you take.
Victoria in a match against Nina Carberry and gold cup winning jockey Sam Waley Cohen, the odds should be very long indeed.



