Which young jock would you have..

The Bid · #1 01-28-2007, 07:07 PM

Pillow

Please dont count out Urial Lopez

#2 01-28-2007, 07:23 PM

Since Julien has lost his bug things have changed some. Prior to this I would have never even asked my trainer to get him up on my horses knowing that he would not ride for a small timer like me. But it does go to show you how things change when he was at my barn last week trying to hustle mounts for my horses.

I will say that Julien is very good after the race in talking with you about your horse. I appreciate it alot and I think he has good instincts.

I have not had Mena up so I do cannot compare him with Julien in that regards.

For what its worth right now I like Dean Butler up on my horses at TP.

thanks

The Bid · #3 01-28-2007, 07:29 PM

Dean Butler has the finish of 99 cent woodstain.

POINTGIVEN1985 · #4 01-28-2007, 08:01 PM

i am saying that eventually he could be the best.... he is very talented i saw him in person the whole saratoga meet and he is very impressiveand i cought a big score on w/ him on a horse named saddlers trick... it was first time turf i forget the odds but i had 80wps and him on top in tri and exacta, it was my biggest score of the meet.

eajinabi · #5 01-28-2007, 11:56 PM

No one picked Fernando Jara????

How many G1 wins he had last year
5 I think. He rides very cool under pressure for young jock

Habersham000 · #6 01-29-2007, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by eajinabi

No one picked Fernando Jara????

How many G1 wins he had last year
5 I think. He rides very cool under pressure for young jock

I like Jara alot too, caught a lot of nice priced horses with him, I remember one of my first big days when he won on a horse called Cupid's Arrow at Belmont about 3 years ago...I think the horse was trained by Linda Lewis...hit everything in that race, Win/Place, tri, and exacta. I think the horse was 9-1 or 10-1. Jara must have been about 16 in that race. Although Jara gives you some rides lately and your left think what the hell was he doing?

Habersham000 · #7 01-29-2007, 12:51 PM

Mena is a very good young jock.....he might not be at the same level of Leparoux but Leparoux rides for much better stables which has something to do with his win percentage.

I think Mena is thinking about riding Kentucky year round but those plans could have change...before he went down to Kentucky from Arlington he was going to winter at Auqueduct.

I like Mena a lot because he gets all he can out of his horse and rides it hard to the wire which picks up a lot of 3rd and 4th place checks for the horse's owner, rather then the horse finishing 5th or 6th.

JJP · #8 01-29-2007, 01:02 PM

Probably Leparoux but the gap between the two isn't as big as some may believe. Mena always has had talent; he just is getting better mounts and a chance to showcase it. When he left Chicago to go to Ellis I thought he would be leading rider down there and I cashed on him quite a bit.

#9 01-29-2007, 01:07 PM

If the race was on turf then I would go with Leparoux. However, both are very good on dirt. Leparoux seems to have a little something extra when he rides on the grass. Also, Leparoux is totally awesome when it comes to giving feedback on your horse. He prob the best in the business when it comes to that. We have some very good jocks out there that are under the age of 30.

JJP · #10 01-29-2007, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by eurobounce

If the race was on turf then I would go with Leparoux. However, both are very good on dirt. Leparoux seems to have a little something extra when he rides on the grass. Also, Leparoux is totally awesome when it comes to giving feedback on your horse. He prob the best in the business when it comes to that. We have some very good jocks out there that are under the age of 30.

Now if one can only understand what he's saying.

I hear Bridgmohan isn't doing well over the Inner dirt now but the guy was very, very good in 2005. Good enough to ride Asmussen's best horses, wherever they were. I think Shaun is best on closers, and the inner dirt really isn't suited to that style.

slotdirt · #11 01-29-2007, 01:27 PM

All this talk of great young jocks and we hear about Mena and Leparoux? No Rosie?

#12 01-29-2007, 01:40 PM

I will say that Bridgmohan might be better than Lep or Mena.

The Bid · #13 01-29-2007, 01:41 PM

Shes a better rider than Mena.

Both Bridgmohans combined arent better than Lepraroux.

SentToStud · #14 01-29-2007, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by The Bid

Shes a better rider than Mena.

Both Bridgmohans combined arent better than Lepraroux.

I agree on the Bridgmohans. I don't think very much of Shaun and I probably saw 1/2 of Jermaine's Calder rides live last year and I don't think he'll be more than the 2006 version of the 2005 Jeffrey Sanchez, who could be the poster child of the "Anti-Weight Doesn't Matter" campaign.

I actually hope Napravnik does well as it has never been easy for a woman to hit the big time as a jockey. I don't follow Maryland much but I just feel that with few exceptions it's a reach to say an apprentice will be a good journeyman, though both Castro and Leparoux both showed a lot more than most high percentage apprentices.

Hell, Rosmary Homeister, Jr. won an Eclipse Award as leaading Apprentice.