Lawyer Ron Goes to Pletcher..

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Originally Posted by oracle80

Honu,
First of all congrats on another job well done. Perhaps if people realized that its the work of exercise riders like yourself, who follow instructions from the trainer in regards to the morning programs, that they would know that a jockey can't just make a rank horse relax.
Jockeys weigh about 115 pounds, horses weigh at least 1000 pounds. Doesn't matter what the jocks skill level is if the horse is rank, the horse is always gonna win.
Its the trainer and his crew whose work in the mornings give you the product in the afternoons. I just can't blame McKee.
It was indeed time for a change. And I still don't think this was anything personal.

I don't know how the selection of exercise riders works but it seems to me if I'm not an elite jockey and have a top horse that is having some issues that I might show up in the morning to try and work things out before I lose that mount. Call me crazy for having common sense but it doesn't seem reasonable to me to give McKee a pass for the horse's issues if he was too lazy to show up in the morning to work with him.