Congrats to Bejarano

[whodey17]

On winning the Santa Anita riding title.

[ArlJim78]

does he read derbytrail?

[CSC]

I'm not as big a fan of his than most here, but he gave two of my bets yesterday spot on rides. He's riding well after his injury.

Just an add in comment, winning the So Cal riding title is not as prestigious as it used to be. Really he's competing against journeyman riders out there without any real up and comers.

[ELA]

What kind of meet did Joe Talamo have? Tyler Baze?

With missed time and all, Bejarano did an excellent job.

Just kiddding, LOL.

Eric

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by ELA

What kind of meet did Joe Talamo have? Tyler Baze?

With missed time and all, Bejarano did an excellent job.

Just kiddding, LOL.

Eric

Talamo made the top ten. T. Baze was a close third. Anytime you beat Gomez over a meet, it's well earned.

[LARHAGE]

Originally Posted by SentToStud

Talamo made the top ten. T. Baze was a close third. Anytime you beat Gomez over a meet, it's well earned.

It wasn't hard to beat Gomez when he was out of town so much, Bejarano had 45 more mounts and only beat him by 4 on the last day, with Gomez out of the picture who is there to challenge him? Solis better retire now if he wants to make the HOF, the ride on Brother Derek was awful and those kinds of rides are occuring with alarming frequency.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by ELA

What kind of meet did Joe Talamo have? Tyler Baze?

With missed time and all, Bejarano did an excellent job.

Just kiddding, LOL.

Eric

Talamo made the crucial mistake of firing his agent, he needs to get out of California and maybe go back at a later date, think he pissed some people off with that move.

Tyler didn't have that bad of a meet, he rode his ass off as far as total mounts wise. It is good for him.

The up and comer of California is Joel Rosario, as Vic Stauffer said about a year ago, the kid can ride, and he finishes like the old Solis used to. Not to mention about 5-6 tickets recently that he knocked me out of.

[CSC]

Alex Solis is really a shadow of his former self, sorry to see that as I always thought he was one of the best riders in NA.

It's a long way down from the days of Mccarron, Eddie D, Antley, Stevens, Pincay, Kent D, Solis, Flores, Nakatani were all on the track at the same time.

[ELA]

Originally Posted by Scav

Talamo made the crucial mistake of firing his agent, he needs to get out of California and maybe go back at a later date, think he pissed some people off with that move.

Tyler didn't have that bad of a meet, he rode his ass off as far as total mounts wise. It is good for him.

The up and comer of California is Joel Rosario, as Vic Stauffer said about a year ago, the kid can ride, and he finishes like the old Solis used to. Not to mention about 5-6 tickets recently that he knocked me out of.

Yes. Again, I didn't want to open a Pandora's box or instigate anything, so like I said, I was just kidding. All I remember is the overwhelming great majority of people saying that EB was the one who made a mistake, Joe Talamo made an intelligent business decision, EB was wrong, Joe was right, how could EB not stick with Joe, Joe is a superstar, and so on. I certainly don't want to oversimplify it, however -- this was not reall a case of Joe pissing people off; as much as it was more people realizing (ex post facto) that Joe was getting himself into the spots he was, and it was EB who got him into those spots. There's an entirely different dynamic there.

Anyway, as I said, there is a lot more to that side of the game than meets the eye. There was a drastic shift in Joe's "spots" from before and after. Tyler was the beneficiary of that as well. EB got Tyler riding more than before, and while that was by design, Tyler ended up riding big price horses. You were dead spot on -- Tyler rode almost 20% more than any other top 10 jock. If you very closely followed CA racing, there was money to be made here.


From DRF --

Gomez G K 274 63 38 49 22.99 54.74
Bejarano R 292 61 59 38 20.89 54.11
Baze T 372 51 55 53 13.71 42.74
Rosario J 314 45 40 44 14.33 41.08
Flores D R 311 44 42 35 14.15 38.91
Solis A O 246 41 22 35 16.67 39.84
Baze M C 319 37 49 23 11.60 34.17
Espinoza V 255 34 24 33 13.33 35.69
Garcia M 308 34 33 33 11.04 32.47
Talamo J 316 33 26 37 10.44 30.38


Eric