Lets thank the jocks!

[brianwspencer]

Ok, in the spirit the MMSC started this, I'll say Inez Karlsson.

This year has been amazing for her. Last year, she was a nearly automatic toss when she was up, because she was timid and had little to no sense of timing.

Now she's kinda rock-solid, and easily my favorite rider on the circuit. I love her new found sense of timing and can't count the number of times I've seen her nurse a horse along on the front end and basically get the horse to wire just as it's about to quit. This summer, tons of her wins came that way, where she got passed on the gallop out by several horses in just a few jumps, but she had managed to measure her mount just perfectly to get to the wire.

She's going to keep doing great things...and she was nice the time I got drunk and talked to her after hitting a pick-4, and I hear from the guys upstairs that she's kind of a hardass....so I can't wait to see what she can do with better business next summer.