He is a very fortunate man, not that this is anything to hold against him.
He got provided the best job in Ireland, possibly Europe, in stable jockey at Ballydoyle, a post that it would have been inconceivable for anyone to be given with the small amount of experience he had, a post which must have made him an incredibly wealthy man in a very short time. He will now most likely find himself in his first season training being sent a quality of horse that many very established trainers could only dream of.
I hope he proves himself in the training ranks as in my opinion he never did within the riding ranks. Don't get me wrong Joseph was a decent enough jockey and there were a lot worse getting rides, but I never saw anything that made me feel he would have got the job were it not family, I never saw anything that would suggest to me that were he a freelance jockey based in Newmarket that Ballydoyle would have come knocking for him. Ballydoyle had always attempted to use the best, M. Kinane, K.Fallon, J.Murtagh and R. Moore and Joseph was not in that elite grouping, but he still got the job and kept it. Less said about the Spencer period the better by the way.
On the up side as a person he always came across respectful and decent so the very best of luck to him in his new pursuit.
So you should be, that's the last ****ing article I do (and yes, I promise). Must have been too occupied listening to too many political crackpots of late?
, didn't mean to poke fun. I first heard the rumour on these pages a year or two ago but it took a long time to actually come to fruition.
