Irish Jump Jockeys title 2014-15

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Paddy Power Bet

Irish Jump Jockeys Title 4-6 @Ruby_Walsh ,2 @92bryan92 ,5 MarkWalsh,8 @PTownend ,33bar

Current Standings

M P Walsh 51- 268 19 33- 79 42 28 30 19 500867.50 153162.50 5.94 -30.70
P Townend 50- 215 23 29- 54 54 31 23 18 562285.00 117132.50 -19.43 -2.73
D N Russell 34- 259 13 26- 84 31 39 32 29 351127.50 203447.50 -75.17 -59.40
J J Burke 33- 326 10 27- 60 45 47 37 33 339052.50 208765.00 -133.82 -126.10
R M Power 33- 181 18 24- 53 45 20 13 25 277630.00 115220.00 10.63 67.60
B J Geraghty 33- 158 21 21- 38 55 28 17 14 346610.00 114095.00 -48.96 -59.10
A P Heskin 30- 257 12 22- 84 26 18 28 23 255517.50 93612.50 -30.91 33.50
R Walsh 29- 92 32 22- 50 44 12 13 5 364035.00 106455.00 -9.94 -19.30
Mr P W Mullins 29- 82 35 20- 45 44 13 11 6 194005.00 28460.00 -21.36 -23.60
P Carberry 28- 209 13 22- 63 35 32 29 28 340402.50 183962.50 -81.29 -92.45
A E Lynch 27- 297 9 21- 102 21 36 31 44 219025.00 183047.50 -94.51 -104.10
B J Cooper 24- 84 29 16- 40 40 15 7 9 334470.00 67700.00 -17.40 -17.00

Ruby came back 5/10/2014 and has had 24 wins since.

Bryan Cooper came back on 15/10/2014 and has had 24 in the same period.

Since the start of October Mark Walsh has had 21 wins.

Since the start of October Paul Townend has had 13 wins.

Ruby is 22 wins behind Mark Walsh and has outscored him by 1.5 wins per month since. If he continued to outscore him at the same That would see him winning c 8 more wins than Mark by the end of the season. But would still leave him 14 behind.

Mark Walsh is value at 5s.

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Ruby needs to ride 1 winner a week more than Mark a Walsh between now and a punchestown. That is very do ablle but probably limits Saturday's in UK. Bryan Cooper could get close.

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mark walsh holding his own. Townend on right one of Willies a couple of times this weekend too.

M P Walsh 61- 311 20 40- 84 48 32 34 21 607632.50 165777.50 0.76 -34.20
P Townend 55- 239 23 32- 57 56 34 27 18 658165.00 200782.50 -3.43 13.67
R Walsh 39- 127 31 30- 60 50 19 14 9 487342.50 145785.00 -21.04 -28.10
J J Burke 38- 362 10 28- 62 45 49 40 35 438302.50 221435.00 -108.57 -122.50
D N Russell 37- 288 13 28- 90 31 45 37 30 378037.50 245342.50 -94.42 -76.60
R M Power 35- 205 17 25- 56 45 22 15 27 292465.00 135695.00 2.38 61.30
Mr P W Mullins 34- 92 37 23- 50 46 14 13 8 232680.00 32850.00 -23.63 -25.70
B J Geraghty 34- 165 21 21- 41 51 29 17 15 370985.00 116935.00 -51.96 -63.30
A P Heskin 32- 282 11 24- 86 28 25 31 23 287367.50 168397.50 -23.91 45.60
B J Cooper 30- 111 27 17- 44 39 18 11 12 591650.00 101247.50 -17.40 -17.10
A E Lynch 30- 336 9 24- 106 23 38 32 47 241105.00 192207.50 -81.51 -69.30
P Carberry 28- 238 12 22- 66 33 35 35 29 340402.50 219327.50 -110.29 -121.45
M A Enright 23- 187 12 11- 57 19 18 14 17 186740.00 82385.00 -27.89 -39.50
K C Sexton 23- 242 10 19- 53 36 23 21 20 269225.00 124637.50 -80.45 -74.00
B T O'Connell 22- 301 7 14- 73 19 22 32 23 240775.00 101675.00 -157.49 -156.30
P T Enright 21- 207 10 15- 77 19 10 21 10 227800.00 45655.00 -81.39 -62.40
D J Casey 21- 204 10 17- 56 30 26 23 19 227855.00 152645.00 -59.60 -63.10

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Ruby on a right charge lately ...

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Ruby Walsh is reckoned a long odds-on favourite to secure a tenth jockeys title when the season winds up at Punchestown in early May.

A tenth championship will put Walsh equal with Frank Berry, although Berry shared three of his awards between 1975 and 1987.

Walsh is currently level with Charlie Swan on nine titles and goes into the remaining seven weeks of the season tied for second with Paul Townend on 63 winners.

Both men are five behind the leader Mark Walsh who is on the injury sidelines with a broken arm and won’t know for another three weeks if he will be able to return in time for the Punchestown festival.

Although Townend, champion himself in 2011, is still right in contention, the RaceBets firm reckon he faces a colossal task to beat Walsh who will have the pick of Willie Mullins’s hugely powerful string at both the Fairyhouse and Punchestown festivals.
Next best
RaceBets make Walsh a 1-7 favourite to win out, with Townend a 6-1 next best and Walsh, despite still holding a lead he has had for most of the season, the outsider at 12-1.

“From my calculations there are 20 race meetings left, excluding the hunter chase and bumper card at Cork on Easter Monday, and a maximum of 115 races which are open to them from now on,” explained spokesman, Joseph Burke.

“I think you could easily see Ruby win 20 or 25 of them, given the strength of the Willie Mullins stable. And that’s a lot for the other to cope with.”

The potential pitfalls for jump jockeys were emphasised last weekend however with Barry Geraghty breaking his shin in a fall at Downpatrick on Sunday, just a day after Davy Russell broke an arm at Gowran Park.

Both former champion jockeys hope to return in time for Punchestown which runs from April 28th to May 2nd and brings the curtain down on the Irish National Hunt season.