Pegasus 9

Question: And James McDonald? Clearly a huge talent. Was his ban for having an interest in a bet simply a poor mistake from a young kid?
CW: It’s not fair for me to say what I think of James' mistake. I shouldn’t comment on it because people could get offended by what I say. I will say this - James is an absolute gentleman and he is an absolute perfectionist. He is a very good sportsman that has the same respect that Hugh Bowman has for a horse. James is as good as they get and the history books, if they haven’t already told us that, will tell us that in no time. He is the real deal and he is a role model for a lot of people to follow. There is a lot of people with so much respect for James. He is a star. 

Question: And James McDonald? Clearly a huge talent. Was his ban for having an interest in a bet simply a poor mistake from a young kid?
CW: It’s not fair for me to say what I think of James' mistake. I shouldn’t comment on it because people could get offended by what I say. I will say this - James is an absolute gentleman and he is an absolute perfectionist. He is a very good sportsman that has the same respect that Hugh Bowman has for a horse. James is as good as they get and the history books, if they haven’t already told us that, will tell us that in no time. He is the real deal and he is a role model for a lot of people to follow. There is a lot of people with so much respect for James. He is a star. 

Question: And James McDonald? Clearly a huge talent. Was his ban for having an interest in a bet simply a poor mistake from a young kid?
CW: It’s not fair for me to say what I think of James' mistake. I shouldn’t comment on it because people could get offended by what I say. I will say this - James is an absolute gentleman and he is an absolute perfectionist. He is a very good sportsman that has the same respect that Hugh Bowman has for a horse. James is as good as they get and the history books, if they haven’t already told us that, will tell us that in no time. He is the real deal and he is a role model for a lot of people to follow. There is a lot of people with so much respect for James. He is a star. 

Question: And James McDonald? Clearly a huge talent. Was his ban for having an interest in a bet simply a poor mistake from a young kid?
CW: It’s not fair for me to say what I think of James' mistake. I shouldn’t comment on it because people could get offended by what I say. I will say this - James is an absolute gentleman and he is an absolute perfectionist. He is a very good sportsman that has the same respect that Hugh Bowman has for a horse. James is as good as they get and the history books, if they haven’t already told us that, will tell us that in no time. He is the real deal and he is a role model for a lot of people to follow. There is a lot of people with so much respect for James. He is a star. 

Well done to Mr Zim and a huge thanks to Ohokaman for the updates....another great comp thanks scoobs......looking forward to the next one ....

Well done Ohokaman great scoring and updates really well done... Congrats to mrzim it was a good win as plenty of good winners tipped by many today. Lecthin and Memphis2 also had a great day.... thanks again for all the support and entries good to see many new people joining in too.
 

Great result for James.  So pleased for him.  Onwards and upwards from now.

Just goes to prove class is permanent... we all make mistakes along the way...great to see him killing it.

I see he is down to ride Stoute's Elector for Betty Windsor on Friday in the King Edward VII Stakes.
For a New Zealander to win for her, in this week of the birth of the royal child in Auckland, would be incredible.
Good luck James, and Clarke Gayford, while I am at it.

Expert Eye gave James McDonald his first Royal winner and put the jockey back on the world stage when running out a comfortable winner of the last race of the day at Ascot, the Group III Jersey Stakes over the straight seven furlongs.
McDonald settled the headstrong Expert Eye (8/1) towards the rear and was able to come through with an uninterrupted run two furlongs out, splitting horses to reach the lead inside the final furlong and come away to defeat Society Power (8/1) by 4-1/2 lengths with Could It Be Love (11/2) a neck away third after striking the front two furlongs out.
"He felt like a rocket ship out there," McDonald said at the post-race media conference. "He settled a bit further back than I'd have liked but we passed the three furlong marker and he felt oh so good.
Great patient ride on a horse who has had its fair share of  issues. 77th Royal Ascot winner for Sir Michael  Stoute, outstanding achievement

This is a first for me, Scooby. I'm not really a good enough tipster to be able to notch more than one comp win. I guess if we stick at it we all have our day. 
 

Yes, yes Tim, he is no doubt a lovely young hard working boy, apple of his family's eye, wonderfully generous of soul, destined for a brilliant career, asset to the industry, etc, etc, etc..........
 
But that does not alter the fact that I missed out on a FARKING nice collect because young Prick of a Pimply faced Matt, FARKING dragged my sole selection back off the gate .....to FARKING LAST, of all FARKING places, when the racing pattern of the day was to be on the FARKING pace, for Christ FARKING SAKE, and sat there like a FARKING stuffed muffin, and then picked the fattest FARKING mule in the race to follow while it made the shortest burst in equine history to improve, before steering right to FARKING outside fence of the FARKING track, so wide was he in fact, I noticed he grabbed a packet of  FARKING TALLEYS frozen peas from the production line down the back straight.......the FARKING IDJIT...................and still those lazy FARKING stripes, didn't bother to ask what the FARK was going on in that brilliant young mind of the hard working young pilot.....MATT the PRAT.
 
Now Tim, it's just as well I don't hold a punting grudge for longer than 48 hours, because if this FARKING excuse of an equine animal just happens to run a FARKING drum tomorrow, I may not drive to the airport, board a flight to FARKING Tasmanman country, hire a car and navigate my way to the track, and locate young MATT the Prat.
I would cover his lovely young head in Vaseline, and then proceed to insert it right up the FARKING ARSE OF THAT FARKING DIRTY FARKING EXCUSE OF AN FARKING EQUINE.........no hard FARKING feelings intended of course.
 
 
 
 
Take a deep breath ........remember the Punters Mantra.......
 
"And in my hour of loosing darkness, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom
 
Let it be
 
Let it be, let it be
Let it be, let it be you loser
Let it be
 
There will be an answer, there is another FARKING Raceday tomorrow 
 
LET IT FARKING BE"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nurse, more medication please.........NURSE, where the FARK ARE YOU?

Thanks for the comments... yes I did make a mistake in adding Petes and a few others scores I only gave them double points not triple. I will be the first to admit I had a bad day... but its all sorted out in the end... and i hope everyone appreciates the time and effort put in to running these comps for your enjoyment... so if there are the occasional mistakes made just send me a PM and we will get it sorted.Thanks everyone for the support... all the experts elsewhere will no doubt have their say... but thats life and we will all Iive to fight another day...and we still have the best comps with the best prizes...Cheers.
 

R3    Assimilate  #2
R4    Naval Warfare  #9
R5    Champagne Cuddles  #16
R6    Zouzain  #2
R7    Live and Free  #7
R8    Invincibella  #11  BB
Cheers.

Well done Sir Castleton and thanks for the opportunity Scooby  - look forward to the next one. 

Hi everyone I know this is the Thoroughbred forum but we are going to do something different this coming weekend. We are going to have a Crown Jewels comp here next weekend on Harness racings biggest day of the year.I hope everyone gets behind it for a bit of fun, there will be big prizes up for grabs also. 
To make it easy to score --- you pick one horse per race which has a fictitious $1 to win on it at tote odds, not F/O
To add some spice you will need to pick the Quinella in Race 4 on top of your single race selection, so select a 2nd horse and the Trifecta in Race 9 on top of you single race selection so select two further horses. Trifecta can be in any order as long as you have the three correct numbers.
In Race 4 and Race 9 the quinella and trifecta races your first number written down will be your win bet selection.
Should keep it interesting right up to the final race.....and give even the back markers a chance of pulling of a win.
Entries submitted like this
R 1  No 3
R 2  No 7 
R 4 No,1,2 Quinella
Race 9  No 3,4,5, trifecta
Enjoy the fun lets show the harness forum we can tip winners in their neck of the woods as well. I will try to get the fields posted here so everyone can view them to ...so we can all do some studying up on the form.
$400.00 prize thanks to $250.00 from Yir Tiz who is off the scene at the moment recovering from surgery and $150.00 from me.
First prize $250.00 2nd prize $150.00 3rd prize $50.00 
Entries Close 10AM Saturday 2nd June.
Scratchings go on to Favorite.
 
 
Cheers Scooby.

Great to see him riding today.  Welcome back J Mac.  2 wins, 1 second, 1 third.  

James is back and watched his rides today and without doubt the best rider in this part of the world.Not knocking Hugh Bowman who is a great jockey but someone,Dont know who rated him the worlds best.I doubt he would have that accolade without Winks whom even I could win on.Chris Waller who is probably one of the best trainers in the world hasn't wasted time in getting James on and that paid divis today.My interest in Sydney racing is back
 
 
 

Great to see him riding today.  Welcome back J Mac.  2 wins, 1 second, 1 third.  

Monasterio and JMac @ $15/1 you little beauty. 

Has a full book of 9 rides at Rosehill on Saturday... 4 for Waller and 1 each for Snowden, Ryan and a "lesser known" trainer of Matthew Dunn.
But also riding 1 each for Gavenlock and Pepper.... who.???
Not something he could have probably done when riding for Goldolphin but I bet those 2 trainers are absolutely over the moon to get James's services and win, loose or draw then get great feedback on the horse.
Well done James and his agent...
 

Apologies as I cannot find the site I was on. Will keep looking. Sorry for that.