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Originally Posted by eajinabi
Deepest??? Best??? I am looking at AQU Jockey standings right now and he is just schooling the likes of David Cohen, Angel Serpa (Who?), Napravnik and Charles Lopez (Who?) Doesnt Aqueduct run 6 months out of the year? Again another example of a good jockey crushing a poor-mediocre group of jockeys,
You also forget that your top tier jockeys in NYRA are spent shuffling around Keeneland, Gulfstream, Churchill. And again they dont ride near as enough mounts as Dominguez to even contend jockey titles. What they do beat him in is definetely in Graded stakes win.
Also, you seem to empasize wins in Claiming, ALW as more important than anything else.
I am not going to argue that Dominguez is a good jockey or not but as far as being elite --Not yet my friend.
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Obviously he isn't beating the cream of the crop now. Most of the jocks flee NY when they move on to the inner. Then they start migrating back when they move back to the main track. But what about Saratoga and the titles for the 2 Belmont meets? Those count for nothing? Someone mentioned it before, I also think the fact that he doesn't ride first call for guys lke Pletcher, Kiran, Baffert etc..... hurts him in some of the bigger races. But I really think he is a guy who is on the cusp of exploding and trainers will be wanting him to fly in to ride their horses all over the country. He's on his way to that next level.