O Regan Sacked

krustydoyle

Reports that Dennis O Regan has been sacked from his Stable Jockeys job at Howard Johnsons yard... More later....

Colonel Sanders

Talk about it on the Betfair forum but nothing on the racingpost site yet

Whyno

There must be something seriously up with working for this yard. They cant seem to keep a stable jockey and for me O'Regan is definitly one of the top jockeys at the moment.Cant figure out what he done wrong if anything.

Morgans

Yeah. I think there is one common denominator there.

Loads of investment, no big wins = jockey's fault. Something not adding up.

The one good thing to come of it is that O'Regan has a far higher profile now than when he started. He has also improved a lot over the past two years IMO. Getting the boot from Johnson's yard didnt stop Lee or Brennan from carving out a good career. Whoever gets the job, knows whats coming a year or two down the line.

Colonel Sanders

It's official

kildareman09

seen this comin a while ago when denis wasnt gettin the leg up an he should av said e couldnt do the weight at cheltnam and then he probably would av been kept as 1st jock

convert

Can we please try to avoid text speak as much as possible? Thanks.

Fromvert

I'd say Brian Hughes will become number one for Johnson now. He's a better jockey then O' Reagan IMO.

westlife2010

Think O'Regan is a good jock. The problem is the trainer. Flat trainers have been rubbing their hands over the past few years because of this man's ridiculous over paying of animals. If it was not for Ingris it would be a disaster. The owner would want to cop on and smell the roses......

krustydoyle

westlife2010 wrote: »

Think O'Regan is a good jock. The problem is the trainer. Flat trainers have been rubbing their hands over the past few years because of this man's ridiculous over paying of animals. If it was not for Ingris it would be a disaster. The owner would want to cop on and smell the roses......

Ok right so we all know there was serious pressure in the yard but to solely put the blame on the jockey is a joke. O Regan's next move could be very interesting because theres not too many stable jockey jobs going.. i also agree that Brian Hughes will get the job because hes been riding more than o regan has for the yard lately and hes a decent prospect.

deewhy

Could not have happened soon enough - O'Regan will go on to much better things. The ride he gave BA in the National was top class - not many jockeys have the ability to pace a horse over such a distance.

Johnson is a nut-job IMO and I cannot understand why Whyllie keeps throwing good money after bad. He has bought some decent animals and if placed in other yards then no doubt his success rate would be significantly higher.

David Johnson is a good example of an owner who started to move his horses around the yards with winners off at least two different trainers at Cheltenham. JP of course is an even better example.

O'Regan must be delighted - he can now replicate Brennan and Lee and rebuild his career. I am sure there are plenty of trainers over here who would love to have him as their number 1.

sting60

o Reagan should never have taken the job Johnson is a clown and always has been.I wonder about the Pipe job as they are in serious need of a jockey.

UrbanSea

Doesn't Pipe have 4 stable jockeys who get a decent amount of rides for him. The 3 conditionals all had a Cheltenham winner,can't see much room at that yard.

Whyno

convert wrote: »

Can we please try to avoid text speak as much as possible? Thanks.

Sry bout dis as i'm hooked on txt speak Convert.

Morgans

deewhy wrote: »

Could not have happened soon enough - O'Regan will go on to much better things. The ride he gave BA in the National was top class - not many jockeys have the ability to pace a horse over such a distance.

Johnson is a nut-job IMO and I cannot understand why Whyllie keeps throwing good money after bad. He has bought some decent animals and if placed in other yards then no doubt his success rate would be significantly higher.

David Johnson is a good example of an owner who started to move his horses around the yards with winners off at least two different trainers at Cheltenham. JP of course is an even better example.

O'Regan must be delighted - he can now replicate Brennan and Lee and rebuild his career. I am sure there are plenty of trainers over here who would love to have him as their number 1.

JP is just about the worst example of an clever owner that you could pick. If JP was worried about ROI, heads would have rolled long ago.

David Johnson is very much winding down his ownership operation, and its no coincedence that he has more trainers now that Martin Pipe retired. That he has any cheltenham winners any more is just coincidence and not becuase of careful strategic planning on his part.

Whyno

westlife2010 wrote: »

Think O'Regan is a good jock. The problem is the trainer. Flat trainers have been rubbing their hands over the past few years because of this man's ridiculous over paying of animals. If it was not for Ingris it would be a disaster. The owner would want to cop on and smell the roses......

Its not only the flat horses he has purchased. He has handed over some massive prices for animals from the P2P fields over here and has yet to reap any sort of reward from it. A fool and his money are easily exploited and with how corrupt our P2P racing is its fairly easy to fix a race to make it look like Arkle has just been reincarnated by beating a field of previous winners by 3 fences winning so easily the horse looks around. Wylie would be better off trying to hire a decent racing manager.

Whyno

David Johnson lost nearly all his fortune in the market collapse last year or the year before. Thus this is why he has not been involed in making some high profile purchases. Still very much a part of the NH game but the purse strings are well and truly tightened.

Morgans

Yep. That is true too, but he does have more trainers running his horses. Has taken more to Nicholls when previously it was Pipe and the occasional one with Montieth.

Whyno

Morgans wrote: »

Yep. That is true too, but he does have more trainers running his horses. Has taken more to Nicholls when previously it was Pipe and the occasional one with Montieth.

Its could also be the case that he has more shares in horses. Ghizao in Nicholls yard springs to mind.

bealaha

seriously whyno that must be the most ill-informed statement i have ever read regarding what you said about p2p's, from working in the game i know that it would be fairly impossible to "fix" a p2p, considering the unprofessional nature of the sport i.e amateur jockeys and many horse being owner-ridden.