I agree in principle crash, but we are getting a little off the beam... What the objective is is to find a way to rate the jockeys one against another so we can include it in our race assesments and say, "if I rate these two runners equal, which has the better jockey", (and therefore the greater chance of winning)..

I like the principle of including prizemoney as it would help seperate the good provincial jockeys from the metropolitan jockeys who also ride in the provincial areas.

We also need a way to show "current status" against other jockeys as you will have noticed that some jockeys have bad runs and others have good ones... You can rate a jockey poorly because of some past performance but you need to detect those that are "on a roll", where they have periods that nothing can go wrong and they could win on a rocking horse... Like all of us they have family pressures and other things influencing their lives... "Off" days (or periods) and "On days" or periods.

If there are any past jockeys or current jockeys listening in we'd love to hear your comments, and let me say that if you are monitoring these conversations, please don't take anything said personnally... We all have great respect for the difficult job you do, it takes guts to jump on top of a 500kg+ horse doing 60kph and try to steer it in a race... Me personnally, I would be scared sh??less...In a 72 second 1200 meter race my eyes would be closed tight for 100% of the time.

As a youger buck I used to help work trotters and having just two running side by side is scarry enough believe me...

Kind Regards
OzPunter