Hi everyone. It's the trainer, not the jockey that counts. If the trainer's got the horse "ready" and the nominated jockey can't make it, rest assured the trainer will find ANOTHER "right" one. When Ari Banu won at 150s on 17/7/04 (BR5, see the jock's name in yellow) it had some jockey or other in the program but when it won, the racecaller was saying "that was a lucky pick-up for Galloway". Next day I read in the Sunday Mail that the trainer had had to beg Scott Galloway to ride it, saying "it's most definitely a better chance than the odds would have you believe. I've got $200 on it myself"!!!! Can't get much more "random" than that,eh??? Cheers.