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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

What happened with Lerodesanimaux is not uncommon. That type of thing happens all the time. A trainer may put a lesser jock on a great horse before the horse becomes a star. The lesser jock has success on the horse and he keeps the mount. Other times a top jock may have a commitment and may not be able to travel to ride a horse. A lesser jock is willing to travel and he rides the horse to victory and keeps the mount. There are all kinds of scenarios as to how a mediocre jock can end up with the mount on a great horse from a top trainer who is not even a huge fan of that particular jock.

Anyway, I'm getting tired of this debate. It's a one-way debate. I answer all of your questions but you don't answer mine. You still haven't answered the simplest and most obvious question: Why would Desormeaux have a reputation of being lazy and not willing to ride cheap horses if he was out there every morning working his butt off and telling trainers that he is happy to ride cheap horses? That doesn't make any sense.

I don't remember whether Desormeaux ever was riding first-call for Mandella. I'll have to look into that. Even if he was, different trainers have different tastes in jockeys. Solis has ridden first-call for Mandella. I don't care. Solis was not and never will be in the league of Stevens, Bailey, McCarron, P Val, Pincay, Delahoussaye, Espinoza, etc.

By the way, I hardly think Mel Stute is a good trainer. If you think so then we have obviously have completely different tastes in trainers. I hardly consider Craig Lewis a good trainer. Bob Hess and Ted West are respectable. Drysdale is obviously a good trainer.

By the way, are you suggesting that Desormeaux was so lazy that he wouldn't even work horses for Drysdale in the morning? Are you suggesting that Desormeax was rude to Drysdale or gave him an attitude? I don't know for a fact that this didn't happen, but I highly doubt it. I highly doubt Desormeaux was giving an attitude to the top trainers, the trainers that he wanted to ride for.

Hey Rupert-

Check out the article printed above and what is your response to the bolded, underlined text?

Checkmate pal.