20 July 2011, 8:48 am
Well I find both Millie Ball and Zoe Cadman as not so good handicappers. Although they use to be jockeys and know first hand about riding but lack a handicapper's point a view. Fanny Salmon only comes on for big european races but doesn't handicap them though just reports on them. But her english isn't that good but sometimes you could understand her. Let's review them: Millie Ball: This girl used to be a jockey back in Europe and has always had a passion for horse racing. She used to be an exercise rider for various Southern California trainers. She was once the girlfriend of the hall of fame trainer Bobby Frankel but she married Tim Yakteen and made babies. Her knowledge of handicapping isn’t that good. She decided to start taking broadcast classes and start a career in broadcasting and started working on camera for HRTV. She really isn’t that good of handicapper really and reason why she’s on is because she knows a lot of racing connections and has a racing background and is good for European racing when it comes to its big races in Europe. Zoe Cadman: She was a pretty good jockey in the Chicago circuit and was the first woman to be leading jockey up at Hawthorne. She retired after a 4 year career as a rider and became Mrs. Larry Sterling Jr. for a bit but the marriage didn’t last. She serves as an exercise rider for Mike Mackowsky in California and was an exercise rider for several trainers up in Chicago. She decided to start off her television career serving as it’s horse-back riding reporter/handicapper for Arlington Park’s simulcast show back in 06 and had the job their for 2 seasons and one winter served as an in-studio analyst for TVG for one winter until Arlington came back to action. She moved to California to work for HRTV and serves as a reporter on it’s weekend morning show First Call a handicapping show. She really is awful as a handicapper and really all she does is just laugh and giggle and certainly belongs on TVG rather than being on this network because the clown network is TVG not HRTV. Fanny Salmon: She’s not really an American that covers racing in America daily but covers America’s big racing events for European channels and particularly known as European’s Paddock Presenter for 16 years. She’s HRTV European correspondent that is really needed during the Breeders Cup prep seasons up in Europe to try to figure out which one will go and which one will not. Don’t really know about her handicapping knowledge because she doesn’t handicap the races or is she a handicapper in general she’s just a reporter but would be nice though to find out how her handicapping is like but can’t really understand her English too well.... Read More »
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