I was going to follow up my trainer blog tomorrow, or even Saturday morning, but as I will be chauffering a punting mate from Queensland this weekend and time may be an issue I thought I would have a look at the jockey figures as well this morning. He must be a good mate because he will have me rising about 4am Saturday morning to drive to Cranbourne and for an early Sunday drive to Caulfield not to mention pick up and dropping off at Tullamarine. Guess who is shoutimg me dinner on Saturday nigh
I was going to follow up my trainer blog tomorrow, or even Saturday morning, but as I will be chauffering a punting mate from Queensland this weekend and time may be an issue I thought I would have a look at the jockey figures as well this morning. He must be a good mate because he will have me rising about 4am Saturday morning to drive to Cranbourne and for an early Sunday drive to Caulfield not to mention pick up and dropping off at Tullamarine. Guess who is shoutimg me dinner on Saturday night, plus drinks!!
Once you compare the trainer figures with the jockey figures you could easily come to the conclusion following jockeys is a better overall proposition as even though two jockeys stand out across Australia, figures wise, the gap between several of the other jockeys is not as wide as the trainers, the way I look at the stats. If we start from the top we find Australia's best jockey, based on The Sportsman's figures, is Paul Harvey from WA (54.5 wins - 220 runners - 24.77%). Close behind is Nash Rawiller (79 wins - 353 runners - 22.37%) and the next closest is Brent Evans (Vic: 27 wins - 145 runners - 18.62%). There are several jockeys just behind Brent Evans and they include J Parr, M Rodd, J Bowman and C Lever.
What surprises, as with the trainers, are the poorer figures for a few of the higher profile jockeys. In Sydney G Schofield (11.55%), Blake Shinn (10.94%) surprise a fraction while in Melbourne D Dunn (9.48%), D Nikolic (8.52%) C Symons (8.50%) have poor figures but the most surprising is C Newitt (7.63%).
I need to say, however, that the figures, for trainers and jockeys, presented cover all price ranges and some will have better percentages if we use figures closer to the favourites end of prices.
Just the same Rule 1: Jockeys must be "follow Paul Harvey" and Rule 2: Jockeys must be "follow N Rawiller".
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