Chop Chop moves tack to SoCal

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Are you kidding me? Have you actually watched this guy ride? " Given so much excitement to NY horse racing "?????? He has given a plentitude of horrific rides. Sorry if I don't consider that exciting.

I must be the odd man out as I just don't get all the misplaced loyalty to riders....especially poor ones. You like Chavez.....good for you. I think he is flat out horrendous and his every leg up is a disservice to the betting public.

I haven't watched the guy ride a whole lot but from the little I saw, he doesn't look like a good rider at all. It is truly amazing that he did so well back there for a while. There is no way that guy could compete out here in California, yet he was the leading rider back there. The California jockey colony has always been much better than New York. It is finally starting to change. Now the two colonies are pretty comparable. I'd probably give the NY colony the edge right now especially with P Val on the sidelines.

At one time, we had an absolutely incredible jockey colony out here. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we had Stevens, Pincay, McCarron, Delahoussaye, Valenzuela, etc. That was a great jockey colony.