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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
In that article, you have Desormeaux telling you that the reason he wasn't getting the mounts was because he built the wrong character. What would you expect him to say? Did you think he would say that he wasn't getting the mounts because he's not as good Victor, Garret, P Val, etc.?
The whole thing is ridiculous. The other article you showed me was from 1995. It said that he was working his butt off going to the track every morning. That was back in 1995. Now we're in 2006 and he claims he has a reputation for not working hard enough and not wanting to ride cheap horses. If he's been going out in the mornings for the last 10 years and telling guys that he's happy to ride cheap horses, he's not going to have a reputation for not wanting to ride cheap horses. That's absurd. If you were a trainer and Desormeaux was coming to your barn every morning for years and telling you that he's happy to ride cheap horses would you refuse to put him on cheap horses and think he doesn't want to ride cheap horses? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. That's not the reason he wasn't getting mounts.
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Everyone that has any knowledge of the jock situation in So Cal knows all about Kent's problems with trainers. I forgot about the weight issue as well but that ties in with his reputation for being lazy. Everyone knows that his rep in So Cal was that he doesnt ride cheap horses. I have to seriously question how in touch with things you really are out there Rupert.
Kent is a hall of fame rider. I dont think i have to go over his resume. The trainers never questioned his ability to ride horses, they just grew tired of wondering if he was going to make weight, show up in the mornings or ride out to the wire. The trainers wouldnt have given him the amount of chances that they did without him being exceptional.
Calling a rider with that resume "average" and implying that he would get outridden by the likes of Juan Ochoa is just dumb.