James Goodman on cancelation of meetings 🤔

Found this informative and interesting 🤔 

James Goodman...

Goodman TN 🤣 well spotted 
can't beat corrective text 

......good one James.....you do something like this when you were training and you would have only a work rider to ride anything for you.....and it must have been rare to have Marty Schoeman trek out to the Vaal in his souped up yellow Beetle....when he hardly could get out of bed on any overcast Saturday....never ever saw him ride any work on a gloomy  day either......🤔

I very never had random jockeys riding work. Used my workriders and stable riders,started with William Polley then Bradford Smith then Donovan Habibb and finally Gary Waterson.
None were fashionable but all reliable and rode work so knew the horses. Most of the riders today couldn't polish their boots. I always enjoyed team work.

Funnily enough Marty just started riding work for me before his sad demise. He was talented but a prima Donna. Just as we have today?

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I very never had random jockeys riding work. Used my workriders and stable riders,started with William Polley then Bradford Smith then Donovan Habibb and finally Gary Waterson.
None were fashionable but all reliable and rode work so knew the horses. Most of the riders today couldn't polish their boots. I always enjoyed team work.
.....Knew William Polley as he also rode a bit of work at Newmarket while my Dad was deputizing for his Dad.....was quite matey with Chard Smith before Newmarket days as I befriended him at an ice rink in Benoni....Chard the twin brother was a very good skater and a fair jock.....was warned off for life for grabbing at the saddle cloth of a mate/rival mount that were not even in contention to even place in a race.....
 

Chard was Bradford's twin and apprenticed to JF Coetzee. Earl Buckham was riding the horse whose saddle cloth he held. The Jockey Club warned him off. If they saw the sculldugery happening today, God knows what would happen!!!

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Chard was Bradford's twin and apprenticed to JF Coetzee. Earl Buckham was riding the horse whose saddle cloth he held. The Jockey Club warned him off. If they saw the sculldugery happening today, God knows what would happen!!!

.......my sources at the time told me it was nothing to do with so called sculldugery but a sportsmans bet that other jocks had that youngster Chard could not beat "the old man" home as Earl was then the most senior jock on the Highveldt at the time....the banning was to set an example as some more senior jocks were guilty of worse and more dangerous antics in "blindspots" not covered by cameras.....
 

Did anyone watch Gold Coast racing this morning in Australia? If you did, please relay the message to Goodman that they cancelled after 4 races due to wet unsafe conditions….so much for his “nowhere on the world stage” story…

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Did anyone watch Gold Coast racing this morning in Australia? If you did, please relay the message to Goodman that they cancelled after 4 races due to wet unsafe conditions….so much for his “nowhere on the world stage” story…

.....was watching there and it looked sunny and fine.....but totally flummoxed that it was abandoned.....
 

Absolutely brilliant clip summing up the status quo that exists in local racing today to the tee......hence my punting on local racing has significantly dropped where i will take a PA for 5 bucks just for fun and play the free punters competition daily. 

I was left absolutely bewildered last week when runners went to the start, came back to the saddling enclosure because a certain senior jock who i admired for many years as he was a local boy in my neck of the woods and rode the other jocks to sleep before moving to the Highveld, felt the going was unsafe/inconsistent in the pull up area. An inspection was subsequently done, and it was decided that racing should go ahead. Well, that senior jockey then indisposed himself and was replaced on all his rides. Racing continued and the whole card completed without incident. 

Now, as James alluded to in his clip, you watch the conditions British jocks race in at times and you can't help but think what is wrong here? The argument can be made that those tracks are better maintained etc....and i get that, but sometimes there'll be a 10-minute light rain and next thing you hear is course inspection followed by racing has been abandoned. Happens more times than i can remember.

I have to add that i totally appreciate and respect that horse racing is a very dangerous sport, and these jocks put their lives on the line every time they get on a horse, but ultimately, they chose this profession and knew the risks involved.

I just get a funny vibe whenever i see them out on the course doing an inspection and you will see the same 2 or 3 "senior jocks" in the mix. I immediately switch my laptop off and carry on with other things knowing what the outcome will be. Suffice to say something drastic needs to change, soon!!!