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Originally Posted by ninetoone
"Trainer Bill Kaplan had planned to work Imawildandcrazyguy when the track opened at 5:30 a.m. But the exercise rider he has been using in New York overslept so Kaplan got jockey Javier Castellano to work the gelding."
The article went on to say, "While Kaplan’s exercise rider was sleeping, jockey Mike Smith was just arriving in New York after taking a red-eye flight from Southern California. Smith made the cross-country trek to work Tiago, the Santa Anita Derby winner and seventh-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby."
Pretty funny, I thought. Has a jock ever lost a mount like this? What kind of hours do the jocks put in on an average day?
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Diffirent jocks put in diffirent hours, hungry jocks usually show up everyday bright an early trying to get on as many horses as possible ,hoping it reflects at the entry box. The big time guys dont usually have to get on as many.
Myself when I was riding I very rarely ever took a day off and when I was riding close to a full card in the afternoons I would get on between 8 and 10 horses in the mornings starting at 6 until about 9 30 , then I would go to the jocks room and rest for an hour or so and get up and study the form , take a shower , and get something to eat if I could. When I rode 8 or 9 in the afternoon it meant I was getting on between 15 and 20 horses a day mornings included. So you could say I put in about 9 to 10 hours a day of just riding alone that doesnt include talking with owners and trainers before and after the races.