Arlington newest moron jockey

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by jwkniska

Geroux was riding 1st call for Mott, which was making those horses not be anywhere near the board. They switched to Campbell/Douglas... and those same horses are now hitting the board with regularity (not all wins, but at least getting a check).

While I see where you're going with this line of reasoning, it's not like Mott has exactly been a livewire so far. Mott has been sending out, up to this point, a fair number of horses who were tosses not thanks to Geroux, but thanks to the fact that they weren't good enough in the spot they were in. Geroux didn't cause the vast majority of Mott's lack of success early in the meet, not by a longshot.

I'd be willing to wager that for as awful as he's being made to seem here, that you wouldn't need more than one hand to count his "bad" rides this meet, which is as many hands as you'd need for any run-of-the-mill Laviolette Saturday.