Ryan Moore

[NoChanceToDance]

Rumours today that Michael Stoute will ask Ryan to be his stable jockey next season.

It was always likely to happen sometime.

Ryan is a very quiet man, and he doesn't like to be tied down. He wouldn't be certain to accept the job, but i hope he does.

He's the best flat jockey riding in England at the moment.

[my miss storm cat]

Hope he does too and agree..... the best lately.

[NoChanceToDance]

From RP.....

Stoute set to ask Moore to be stable jockey



by David Milnes and David Carr


SIR Michael Stoute is expected to end a three-year period without a stable jockey for his powerful Newmarket string when he meets up with Ryan Moore “for a chat” in Tokyo this weekend.

The nine-time champion trainer is set to arrive in Japan on Thursday, primarily to oversee the final preparations of his latest Japan Cup contender Papal Bull, to be ridden by Moore, but landing the jockey as a retained rider for 2008 is likely to top his agenda.

Ladbrokes make Moore a 1-2 chance to regain the title he lost to Seb Sanders and Jamie Spencer this year and expect those odds to shorten if discussions in Japan produce an accord.

However, Moore's father Gary reacted to the news by revealing last night that Moore may not chase the title in the way that pair did this season.

During 2007, Stoute has trained 113 winners in Britain, of which 47 were ridden by Moore, yet when asked about the high-profile position in the past he has often avoided questions.

He has been without a stable jockey since Kieren Fallon quit for a similar job with Aidan O'Brien in February, 2005. Since then he has used a combination of Moore, Kerrin McEvoy, Mick Kinane and a host of big players to land two trainers' titles and finish runner-up to O'Brien in the Flat championship just ended.

This year alone, Stoute's winners were split between 19 different riders, with Moore's haul including the high-profile victory on Notnowcato in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown in July.

Stoute said: “We haven't had a stable jockey since we had Kieren in the 2004 season, but Ryan and I will have a chat about it in Japan this weekend. Japan seems a good place to have a chat, I would think.”

Although he still gets plenty of backing from original mentor Richard Hannon (33 winners in 2007), Moore is likely to feel the knock-on effect at East Everleigh of Richard Hughes's decision to turn freelance from next year. Hughes has split withhis retaining owner Khalid Abdullah and will commit himself more to Hannon and to Brian Meehan.
Champion in 2006, Moore's follow-up bid ended before it had even started this year, when he sustained an upper-arm injury in a fall at Lingfield in March. After three months off, he finished third in the jockeys' table with 126 winners.

Father Gary was unaware an appointment may be imminent, but believes if it happens it would be recognition for what his son has been doing for a while. “It would be a dream job – there wouldn't be many better, would there?” he said.

“There's quantity and quality – you've got both there– and that's why it's such a good job. It wouldn't surprise me if anyone signed him. I don't know if he's had other offers; he doesn't say too much.”

The job with Stoute would be a good springboard from which to launch a bid to regain the jockeys' championship, but Moore does not believe winning a second title is a big motivation for his son.

“I don't know if he's got massive aspirations for the championship. I think he just wants to ride big winners, that's more the thing as I see it,” he said.

“He did say to me he certainly wouldn't do what Seb and Jamie did last season – it's hard work, and what for at the endof the day? The prestige of being champion jockey, I suppose, but Ryan actually won £1.5 million more than Seb in prize-money.”

Stoute is looking to add Papal Bull's name to the honours board for the £2.3 million Japan Cup on Sunday, having won the race twice before, with Singspiel in 1996 and Pilsudski a year later.

He said: “All the reports I've had so far have been favourable. I'll know more when I catch up with him at Tokyo racecourse on Thursday.”

[brockguy]

great news for Moore, he really does deserve it. He has come back a new man after his injury and is in the top echelon now..


And all this means that McEvoy will end up getting more rides from trainers other than Stoute. That means that he'll be on higher priced horses and that means higher expected returns for McEvoy followers..