for the past 2 workouts on one of my horses the jockey keeps saying that my horse hates his equipment but the horse isnt wearing any equipment does that mean i should put equipment on him
yes, means your horse doesn’t like running in nothing so just test different things out on him
Different jockey comment … “Your horse could carry more weight in races.” I have a wild guess this may mean the jock thinks he should be a steeplechaser. Those jockeys weigh slightly more. Is this right?
How reliable is what the jockey is saying? I have the same rider on the same horses all the time, yet sometimes he says, “I know this horse well” and other times he says, “I don’t know this horse well at all.” Did he hit his head and get amnesia between rides? j/k
I have one perverse horse that keeps attacking the rider and pulling off his pants. I would geld him, but he’s already had the snip.
Mary MMM
I believe that there’s a margin of error in almost all of the jockey comments, to account for either dishonesty (some jocks will tell you little white lies) or just mistaken judgment (they think they know more about the horse than they do, or they just totally misinterpret something from the ride). If they’re saying that they know the horse really well after only a couple of rides, I’d take it with a grain of salt; the comment about not knowing the horse well/at all is probably more true in that case.
I think the only comments that do not have a margin of error are ones that reflect the horse’s natural energy (comments about the horse being raring to go, or not very interested in racing).
And, I think the manic pants-ripping comment just means the horse has a lot of energy. I’ve had that happen to horses just coming back from rest at the farm.
No idea what the weight thing means, though!
The weight thing means that - if correct - the horse can carry more weight than the jockey weighs in races. This is usually only an issue for stakes races, since the rest of the races have pretty light weights. (Unless your horse is a weakling and can only carry 80lbs or something.)
Oh, and the pants tearing line means that natural energy is super low.
(For a while a ton of horses had -900 natural energy, but that seems to have been fixed now.)