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Originally Posted by SentToStud
ok, i'll nibble on the bait.
1. You're wrong about their abilities. Their abilities are relative to the competition. Take any of those riders and put them on a lesser circuit, they rise to the top. Fact. Smith, Martin, Lopez, etc... You tell me different.
4. You say jockeys as a group are overpaid. Really? The median earnings for a jockey in 2004 were:
a. $500,000
b. $150,000
c. $15,000
hint, it's not a or b.
5. You refer to jockeys as gnomes. I assume you know what a gnome is. It's distasteful.
6. You refer to the jockeys' efforts at bargaining for coverage as extortion. Whether I support increased coverage for jockeys is less relevant than you referring to those efforts as extortion. How is it extortion?
7. Stop blaming jockeys, ok, stop blaming Mike Smith for losses. If you know anything you certainly know that you've won as many races as result of a bad ride as you've lost. It evens out.
Good luck.
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. Your points 1-7 above are completely offbase and without merit of any kind. The Fact is, they ARE responsible for their own insurance, and 99% of them, if they were 2 inches taller would be selling french fries for a living. And by the way, GNOME is right on point.