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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
You could say the same thing about any rider who is not doing nearly as well as they used to. You could say, "Oh, it must be their attitude. They didn't forget how to ride."
I'm not saying that Kent is a bad rider. He's a decent rider but he's not as good as the top riders. He came out here and got hot for a while but after the trainers got a chance to watch to him for a long period of time, they didn't think he was that good. The same thing happened to Aaron Gryder in New York. He did very well for a while but after trainers got a chance to watch him ride for several years in New York, they decided that they thought a lot of the other jockeys were better.
By the way, I never said that Ochoa is better than Desormeaux. If Desormeaux was at Del Mar right now, I think he would be well ahead of Ochoa in the standings. I think he would be well ahead of Arias too.
Like I said, I will ask Ellis and Mandella. I'm pretty sure I know what their answer will be. By the way, just because a trainer puts a jockey on a really good horse, it does not mean that the trainer thinks that the jockey is a great jockey. Bobby Frankel had Jon Court riding his best horse last year. Court was riding Leroidisanimaux. That doesn't mean that Frankel thinks that Court is as good as Jerry Bailey. By the way, it was Court's decision to take off the horse. He had the mount but there was a weekend where the horse was running in New York but Court had some good mounts here that weekend. He decided to stay here so he lost the mount.
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Why are you making ridiculous statements and killing any credibility you might have had. This is worse than your LITF arguments that were just plain ridiculous.
Kent came to So Cal in 89. Did it take trainers 17 years and 10000 rides to figure out that he wasnt "that good"? LOL
There sure must be some dumb trainers out west if it took that long.
Bobby Frankel must be an idiot because he has ridden Kent first call for long stretches over the years.
Neil drysdale is another fool. He only rode Kent First call for about 10 years off and on. I think it was the 5000th ride for Drysdale where he figured out that Kent "wasnt that good". That was only after Kent rode his only derrby winner and had ridden a majority of his stake winners overr the last ten years. The fool!
Cassidy is even dumber! He rode his last year after all of the other trainers figured out that he wasnt that good.
All of the trainers in the east have to watch him a few more times. They dont have tvs in new york so they wouldnt know how "not that good" he really is.