I love how the “announcer” only announces the STARS of the show! I like hearing races called!
The PaulickReport found the hulu.com replay of the Monday (9-28) interview segment
http://www.hulu.com/watch/98806/the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien-jockey-joe-talamo
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The last episode with Stardom Bound - and her lackluster victory - I think showed one of the last times Bobby Frankel was seen at the track.
Worth citing that tonight (Monday 9-28) jockey Joe Talamo is on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. He was supposed to be on the Friday episode but as noted he was injured in a stunt gone arye with actress Terri Hatcher.[/QUOTE]
I really wish they had shown him standing next to Conan, Conan is REALLY tall!
He seemed sort of nervous (to be expected) and totally dumbed down I Want Revenge’s injury for the non-horsey late night crowd.
I wish Conan would have asked him about his credit card getting declined for that suit… SO embarrassing
I finally saw that last episode and I thought it was a great one to end the show. I felt really bad for Joe but I know he’ll have a another shot and I wish him the best.
Chantal… well she was like “I would’ve won the Derby” after MTB won with Calvin.
I think that she wouldn’t have won since Calvin is a smoking awesome jockey who knew how to get the best out of MTB. He also has experience with the KY Derby while Chantal doesn’t and it’s kinda sad that she thought she would’ve won if she had the ride.
I’m ready for next season!
I thought the finale was fitting-- and actually one of the better episodes of the whole season.
Although I have no doubt that Chantal is a great jockey in Canada-- I just don’t know what makes her think she could have won the Derby just because MTB won it-- Calvin made a gutsy and brave move through a miniscule hole on the fence at the beginning of the run that I am sure Chantal doesn’t have the cajones to make.
Furthermore, if she was all that-- truly-- she would have been more successful in SoCal-- and if she couldn’t make it there, what the heck makes her think she had a shot at the biggest race in the country, if not the world??? I want some of the Kool-Aid she has been drinking!!
BTW-- my favorite part of the show was the last sentence that flashed across the screen–“Mike and Chantal are no longer dating” ----GEE, YA THINK??? When she left, I saw the handwriting on the wall.
I thought the finale was fitting-- and actually one of the better episodes of the whole season.
Although I have no doubt that Chantal is a great jockey in Canada-- I just don’t know what makes her think she could have won the Derby just because MTB won it-- Calvin made a gutsy and brave move through a hole on the fence that I am sure Chantal doesn’t have the cajones to make.
Furthermore, if she was all that-- truly-- she would have been more successful in SoCal-- and if she couldn’t make it there, what the heck makes her think she had a shot at the biggest race in the country, if not the world??? I want some of the Kool-Aid she has been drinking!!
BTW-- my favorite part of the show was the last sentence that flashed across the screen–“Mike and Chantal are no longer dating” ----GEE, YA THINK??? When she left, I saw the handwriting on the wall.
Are they going to continue this show? It seemed like the program “ended” on the last show.
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I believe it was this season’s finale episode. With the success it seems to have found on Animal Planet, I would hope that it would continue into the third season!
I don’t think Calvin is that much more awesome than Chantal (especially lately–let’s face it, I could probably win at anything up to 1 1/8 on Rachel Alexandra without crash dieting) but that more than most top jockeys including the top guys he will take VERY gutsy chances on a rail ride. To use the obvious example, Mike Smith didn’t take a chance on the rail in the Preakness and it might have cost him. MTB would not have won the Derby if he’d had to go wide, and I don’t think any of the MALE jocks profiled would have picked the trip Calvin did, either.
You can’t really blame Chantal for thinking it, though. She’d done really well on that horse, so who knows what might have happened. She’ll have another shot, and so will Joe (whom I wanted to hug. Poor kid!)
The wrapup feeling makes me wonder if they’re going to find a new group of jockeys to focus on, maybe even a new track.
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BTW-- my favorite part of the show was the last sentence that flashed across the screen–“Mike and Chantal are no longer dating” ----GEE, YA THINK??? When she left, I saw the handwriting on the wall.[/QUOTE]
awww… that part made me sad!
I wish Chantal would stop putting her hair in pig tails… it’s really hard to believe someone saying “I would have won the derby” with pig tails! :lol:
my thoughts about the season ending
I agree about her hair in the pony tails, I hate it. Makes her look about twelve. And I am convinced they shot the video of Chantel watching the Derby was a tape. I think there would be more than two jockeys watching. All the stuff about MTB was probably filmed after too. I still think it is better, still veryt flawed, but better this season than last. At least when they show a race at a track other than SA, they let the REAL race caller do the deed. VERY LAME to have Trevor recall another race! Joe Talamo came across as a good kid. But I was more interested in Alex Solis and Aaron Gryder. I also realize they are probably aiming at an audience of non horsey people. I STILL HATE that they show so many break downs, but I guess excrement still happens… Like Mi Suano…They did improve this season, but then, they would have to, wouldn’t they?
Agreed that the pig tails on Chantal just seem a mix of creepy and silly. Short of an adult woman trying to emulate Britney Spears in a catholic school girl outfit I say drop it.
That said at least none of the drama seems to be hurting Chantal - or any rider featured for that matter - as she is going to ride in Hong Kong in the International Jockeys Championship this December. Currently the 2nd leading rider at Woodbine for the meet she was given the invitation:
The annual event will take place at Happy Valley Race Course on Dec. 9, and Sutherland will stay on for the major International Day card at Sha Tin Race Course on Dec. 13.
“I’m so excited,” said Sutherland, who will leave after closing day here Dec. 6. “I want to go so badly.”
Sutherland will be representing Canada in an international competition for the first time. Locally based Emma-Jayne Wilson competed in the 2007 event at Hong Kong and stayed to ride there over the winter.
Sutherland also is featured in a seven-page spread in the current edition of Hello! Canada, a weekly entertainment and lifestyle magazine.
A series of photos, all taken at Woodbine, feature Sutherland in some very unracetrack-like attire that in several cases is supplemented by combinations of her riding helmet, vest, goggles, and whip.
Others doing well include Jon Court. He took a dominating win in the Indian Maid Stakes ( $113,100) the co-feature rate with the Hawthorne Gold Cup on Saturday. That was aboard a Darley runner, Abby’s Angel, which was taken off the grass. Then he was aboard the runner-up, Nite Light, in that $500,000 Grade 2 Hawthorne Gold Cup.
A far better day then he had at Kentucky Downs Sep 21st when:
Jon Court was unseated in the post parade, with War Axe running off and ultimately being scratched — and Court nearly being run over by a pony as he stood on the track.
Ouch!
If PVal gets his CA license will he be on the show next year? That could be entertaining!
I really enjoy this show. Honestly- even though some of it is very staged- we are learning more about the personalities of these jockeys and for me it’s adding another element to racing.
Re: the breakdowns/bad spills. It’s the same clips over and over and while it’s bad enough that racing has such breakdowns- for the purposes of the show- they are showing the same clips to accentuate the danger of the sport. I guess it bothered me at first but not much now.
Chantel… oh Chantel… I really admire this jockey. It takes a boat load of guts for a woman to even become a jockey let alone be good at it. Sometimes they make her come across as sweet and innocent- even school girl immature. I bet she’s a little bit tougher than that- or I hope so at least.
I’d love to see them latch on to some new jockeys too.
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I like it.
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BTW-- my favorite part of the show was the last sentence that flashed across the screen–“Mike and Chantal are no longer dating” ----GEE, YA THINK??? When she left, I saw the handwriting on the wall.
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awww… that part made me sad!
I wish Chantal would stop putting her hair in pig tails… it’s really hard to believe someone saying “I would have won the derby” with pig tails! :lol:[/QUOTE]
It really made you sad? I’m happy for her that they broke up. I hope he’s a nicer guy than he’s portrayed in the show, because IMO…most of the time he seems like an arrogant ass. I was sad that she went back to Canada because I’d really like to see her kick his ass on the track. 
I thought the same thing about the pig tails. How old is she? 36? She’s cute and all…but about two decades too old for that style.
I just watched the last episode- I thought it was far and away the best of the season, and of the show thus far.
I really thought there would be some mention somewhere of RA, if even only to state that Calvin had one the Oaks the day before. I hope if the show comes back for another season, they will attempt to focus more on the sport as a whole, less on the love lives of the jocks… but then I guess they are giving the viewers what they want, and the majority of the viewers are probably not race crazed heathens such as myself.
Chantal,
Choose either heavy makeup OR pigtails… one or the other.
You can’t rock both at the same time dah-ling.
And no more Corey at the track - neither the tv show Jockey’s or otherwise - for an undetermined duration. DRF Monday Oct 19, 2009:
Jockey Corey Nakatani said on Sunday that he is taking a break from riding for personal reasons, which he declined to specify. Nakatani has not ridden since Thursday and is not named to ride through this Friday, the farthest into the future that entries have been drawn.
“It’s a personal problem I’ve got to take care of, nothing serious,” he said by phone. “I’d like to do it privately.”
Asked when he might return to riding, he said, “I’ll play it by ear. It’s nothing to do with racing.”
Nakatani, who turns 39 on Wednesday, contacted track stewards on Friday and said he was battling a neck injury and would not ride, steward Kim Sawyer said.
Nakatani is winless with 21 starters at the current Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting. His last stakes win was aboard Global Hunter in the Grade 1 Eddie Read Handicap at Del Mar in late July.
As spied by Equidaily …
Alex Solis is in ESPN The Magazine’s “The Body” issue - see image 12 pulling a Chantal with just the jockey underwear.
(As an aside with image 14 - per the comment box - averages 3,000 sit-ups per day - insane!)
