Puts into context how small jockeys are. Crazy.
"It's funny, when I walked into the weighing room today I thought I was 16 again"
Dettori leaves Royal Ascot on a high
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David Johnson
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David Johnson
@davidjohnsonTF
Horseracing mainly, sometimes running. @Timeform Lead Analyst (Flat). Occasionally heard/seen on @SportingLife. My views, not my employers.
Leeds
Joined October 2010
- Jump jockeys are renowned for their bravery. Bryony Frost just might be the bravest of the lot.
- Crowning Jonbon as Jumps horse of the year as a Willie Mullins runner has just jogged past him on the bridle really couldn't be a more fitting microcosm for the state of British jumps racing right now.
- Lots saying that Galopin des Champs clearly didn't look happy, wasn't his usual self. Yet if Cromwell doesn't roll the big dice last week, he's a 12l winner and we're all hammering the 'all-time great' line. Funny game.
- Trump now joins Kauto Star as the only other previous winner to regain their crown in the big one.
- Jonbon is basically a Volvo. He'll keep going with ruthless efficiency for about 200k miles, but will never get the attention of his Lamborghini stablemate that has had to call out the AA a few times.
- Replying to @racingbloggerGot to be worth a try writing with your left hand and holding the camera with your right.
- Flight from Leeds to Dublin for DRF - £40 return. Train from Leeds to Cheltenham on Champion Hurdle day £200 return. No surprise I've chosen to Frodon-style campaign too.
- Sneezy has taken over the licence, but seems Dopey is still doing the PR.
- What are your strengths? 'I'm Aidan O'Brien's son, that's my main one'. Super quote from Donnacha O'Brien after winning the Oaks.
- When the wife is running you through the cost of childcare, and you point out we could have had a horse in training for a similar amount, it doesn't go down well...
- A nod to the warrior that is Copper Knight who was running at the Ebor meeting today for the ninth year in a row, the seventh time in the 5.4f handicap having also contested the 3yo 5f hcap and the Nunthorpe. Can't imagine there are many better 5,000 gns buys out there.
- 35,000 gns and bought by the trainer herself. What a great result, not just for connections, but for the sport itself.A head bob in the National Stakes! 💪 ZAVATERI gets him head down at just the right time to land the Group 1 for @johnsonhoughton! 🏆
- Shocking prices - must be betting to over 200% there.Seven declared for the Grade One Manifesto Novices' Chase at Aintree, including Millers Bank (@AlexHalesRacing), Pic D'orhy (@PFNicholls) and Gin On Lime (@HenrydeBromhead)...
