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Originally Posted by SentToStud
As for your awful rating of Stew Elliott, why don't you tell me how he's been the last year going long?
I'll save you time. 31% wins. Ave price $8.05
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Over the last 12 months, at all racetracks, Stewart Elliott has ridden in 465 route races - won 72 of them for a 15.5% win percentage - and his $2 ROI on those 465 mounts is $1.49
Basically, from a sample size of almost 500 rides - he wins about once per ever 6.5 mounts - and his mounts have lost 25.5% on the betting dollar, which is well above the win takeout.
Those are pretty mediocre stats - unless you compare him with fellow PG 1985 top ten national jockey Mario Pino.
Pino is 73-for-407 (18%) in routes - and his $2 ROI is $1.24. Which means that his mounts in route races lose a staggering 38% on the betting dollar. More than double the win takeout.
However, because guys like Elliott and Pino won big races on excellent horses like Smarty Jones and Hard Spun - people tend to overrate them.
Jockeys are a very overrated factor anyhow.