Rosie!

[Shammy Davis]

You have got to give it to Larry Jones. He makes all the right decisions. He skips the derby because Mark Valeski wasn't 100 percent and then puts him in the Peter Pan which was a race suited for the horse. The other smart move was staying with Rosie. She a cute gal that's smart and rides like a man. No offense to you ladies intended about riding "like a man." I think she's another Julie Krone or better without the squeaky voice.

Like Zenyatta, Rosie is going to be good for racing and she is going to get alot of attention racing in the Big Apple.

Hope we see both Rosie and MV in the Belmont and then Saratoga.

[LoveTheGreys]

You have got to give it to Larry Jones. He makes all the right decisions. He skips the derby because Mark Valeski wasn't 100 percent and then puts him in the Peter Pan which was a race suited for the horse. The other smart move was staying with Rosie. She a cute gal that's smart and rides like a man. No offense to you ladies intended about riding "like a man." I think she's another Julie Krone or better without the squeaky voice.

Like Zenyatta, Rosie is going to be good for racing and she is going to get alot of attention racing in the Big Apple.

Hope we see both Rosie and MV in the Belmont and then Saratoga.

I agree. Rosie is amazing. She seems to have an affinity for the horses. I love to watch her race.

[Shammy Davis]

I wonder if she has a ride in either the Black-eyed Susan or the Preakness? She started out in the mid-Atlantic. Things happen so fast around TC time, it's hard to keep up.

[second_glance]

I wonder if she has a ride in either the Black-eyed Susan or the Preakness? She started out in the mid-Atlantic. Things happen so fast around TC time, it's hard to keep up.

I just posted the stakes card for Black Eyed Susan Day. She has rides in 5 of the 8, including the BES and the Pimlico Special. (Also noticed no jockey is listed for Motion's entry in one of the other stakes, so who knows.)

[Shammy Davis]

Motion could not have a better rider. I guess we'll see how smart he is.

[Prairie Bayou]

She's great!

[pat]

I agree Rosie is the best female jockey in the business. Comparing her to male jockeys shouldn't be an insult since most of them ride like a girl. Just when did all this riding with your *** sticking up in the air, become the vogue. Remember when jocks used to get down low on a horse and ride? They need aerodynamic silks then stand up like a mast on a schooner.

[Laurierace]

I watched her from the very start and always thought she had an incredible combination of skill and courage combined with smarts. I couldn't be happier for her!

[Shammy Davis]

I guess she won't have a mount in the Preakness though. Shame on the mid-Atlantic circuit. For some reason, I'm thinking she also rode chasers on national steeplechase circuit on the Atlantic coast before moving to flat. Just my imagination? My memory isn't great.

I know one thing for sure. She rides smarter than 95% of the top winning jockeys in the nation. Jockeys like Willie Martinez (Trinniberg in KD) are good journeymen jockeys but they don't deserve TC horses over a rider like Rosie. Willie has ridden the derby on a number of occasions and never finish in the top tier. Rosie could have gotten another 1/16 out T-berg I'm sure.

[wooley85]

I agree re Napravnik.

Outfinished Dom in a race the other day. Best woman jock since Krone.

[gravano]

I agree Rosie is the best female jockey in the business. Comparing her to male jockeys shouldn't be an insult since most of them ride like a girl. Just when did all this riding with your *** sticking up in the air, become the vogue. Remember when jocks used to get down low on a horse and ride? They need aerodynamic silks then stand up like a mast on a schooner.

I figured the arses were up in a tail wind and down in a head.

[pat]

I figured the arses were up in a tail wind and down in a head.

I figured it was lazyness and copying the style that Piggot started:


When animals carry loads, there is a proportionate increase in metabolic cost, and in humans this increase in cost is reduced when the load is elastically coupled to the load bearer. Major horse race times and records improved by 5 to 7% around 1900 when jockeys adopted a crouched posture. We show that jockeys move to isolate themselves from the movement of their mount. This would be difficult or impossible with a seated or upright, straight-legged posture. This isolation means that the horse supports the jockey’s body weight but does not have to move the jockey through each cyclical stride path. This posture requires substantial work by jockeys, who have near-maximum heart rates during racing.

[Somnambulist]

I figured it was lazyness and copying the style that Piggot started:


When animals carry loads, there is a proportionate increase in metabolic cost, and in humans this increase in cost is reduced when the load is elastically coupled to the load bearer. Major horse race times and records improved by 5 to 7% around 1900 when jockeys adopted a crouched posture. We show that jockeys move to isolate themselves from the movement of their mount. This would be difficult or impossible with a seated or upright, straight-legged posture. This isolation means that the horse supports the jockey’s body weight but does not have to move the jockey through each cyclical stride path. This posture requires substantial work by jockeys, who have near-maximum heart rates during racing.

I found this fascinating.

[pat]

I found this fascinating.

One of the reasons I like Rosie's style. If you will watch her her ride you will see that she rides in as low or lower position than the male jocks. A feat that is more difficult for a female. A female normally has a higher center of gravity, being higher waisted than men so that position is even harder for her. I think that women actually sit a horse better than men because they are more forked to use an old term for a natural rider. Women should have an advantage in most riding events (all things being equal). As a jockey they are at a disadvantage in that the longer legs and higher waist is being carried from the knees down, having to work even harder to accomplish the same thing (physiologically speaking).

[affirmed79]

Rosie is a great up and coming jockey. I think she;s one of the best. The way MV ran in the Peter Pan, i think he could have run and won the derby, too. The Preakness, too. LJ takes too much time and worries too much. Rosie would have won that derby. I bet she;s disappointed that no one put her on a Preakness horse. But Rosie is the best around. I;ve seen her ride a lot and she knows how to win, not just physically but mentally as well.

[Shammy Davis]

I figured it was lazyness and copying the style that Piggot started:


When animals carry loads, there is a proportionate increase in metabolic cost, and in humans this increase in cost is reduced when the load is elastically coupled to the load bearer. Major horse race times and records improved by 5 to 7% around 1900 when jockeys adopted a crouched posture. We show that jockeys move to isolate themselves from the movement of their mount. This would be difficult or impossible with a seated or upright, straight-legged posture. This isolation means that the horse supports the jockey’s body weight but does not have to move the jockey through each cyclical stride path. This posture requires substantial work by jockeys, who have near-maximum heart rates during racing.

Whoa! This is "think tank" stuff. I'll never be able to think of you as another Okie cowboy again. You've been reading more than just the "Headless Horsemen." I impressed. I certainly had no idea.

[Miss Woodford]

I guess she won't have a mount in the Preakness though. Shame on the mid-Atlantic circuit. For some reason, I'm thinking she also rode chasers on national steeplechase circuit on the Atlantic coast before moving to flat. Just my imagination? My memory isn't great.

No, but she rode in pony races at point-to-points, and got her start in the business as an exercise rider for Jonathan Sheppard. She comes from a very horsey family; her father is a farrier, her mother trains and rides eventers, and her sister Jazz is a steeplechase trainer.

Rosemary Homeister is another one who rode in the Sheppard stable, and Danielle Hodson has been his go-to jumps jockey for several years now. He even gave Dani a few of his homebreds to start off her career as a trainer. And of course fellow Hall of Fame trainer Janet Elliot first worked for Sheppard.

[Shammy Davis]

Thank you. I was thinking of Rosemary.

[Miss Woodford]

Thank you. I was thinking of Rosemary.

Er, Rosemary didn't ride in actual jumps races, just on the flat for Sheppard.

[Shammy Davis]

Close enough. I attend a great many events in the Charlottesville area, so I knew it was Rosie or Rosemary or something like that.