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Originally Posted by stonegossard
Bogey my friend.....he is far from one of the best in the country....he spots himself in the right places...Del....Lrl/Pim...The inner dirt meet at AQU......and he gets the mounts because the better jockeys aren't around....this guy burns a ton of money....if Eddie MArtin was riding for Contessa/Dutrows he would have just as many wins in NY....watch him when the real jocks come back up north...he goes back and hides at Delaware...where he belongs....
I have never seen a jock like Ramon who seems to not try that much out there...its like when he wins a race he wants to win by a neck...no matter how much horse he has
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Agree and disagree here. Can't agree that he doesn't try that much. Ramon is a little on the taller side and just looks awkward on a horse especially in the stretch where his sweeping whipping kind of takes away from a vigorous hand movement of say Gomez. I do think he likes not to over use a horse and you see him sometimes not ride as hard for a 3rd or 4th as he would if he were in contention to conserve the horse and that does bug me about him. I get to see him on an almost daily basis and agree that he does but on some bad rides including that one last week god lord i dont even wanna talk about it but if he is hot and riding well he times his rides really nicely like today on cavallo pazzo. I think his Saratoga meet 2 years back wasn't too bad at all where he won 20 wins and had a nice little ROI on those if I'm not mistaken. I can't fault you for thinking like you are but I just don't have the same view on the way he rides. Plus I cashed on at least 10 of those 20 at Saratoga 2 years back with him on board which always helps
