Luke Nolen: Black Caviar’s jockey haunted by riding error

by | 06.27.2012 | 5:12pm
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Black Caviar hangs on to win Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot Black Caviar hangs on to win Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot

Several days have passed since the brilliant Black Caviar won the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (Eng-I) at Royal Ascot to push her record to a perfect 22 for 22. Life, for all intents, still goes on.

For jockey Luke Nolen, however, time has, in a way, come almost to a halt. Before the Diamond Jubilee, Nolen was known as a top flight jockey and Black Caviar’s indispensable partner.

Since the well-publicized ‘brain fade’ near the finish line at Royal Ascot, however, he may forever be known as the jockey involved in the ‘Blunder from Down Under’.

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  • stillriledup

    If he’s haunted now, imagine how he would have felt had he lost.

    I appreciate that he’s feeling ‘sick’ about this ‘blunder’ because we all know of a well known HOF rider in America who constantly ‘stops riding’ and feels zero remorse and keeps doing it over and over, so to feel some remorse of this mistake is a breath of fresh air, we arent used to that in America.

  • ManuelB

    And who would that be? By not saying who this person is stillriledup you implicate all HOF jockeys riding currently.

  • Cher Villalobos

    People need to understand that most jockeys will beat themselves up more than anyone, so why can’t the press just leave him alone.  He has stated his case, announced his regret and would like to move on.  The mare won, even while being injured as we learned afterwards, so everyone needs to just appreciate the positive aspects of the story, not the negative blip of a near loss.

  • cepatton28

    The horse won everyone needs to move on.  He did the right thing easing off she wasn’t moving well no reason to beat her up.

  • Ida Lee

    Are you out of your mind?  She almost lost one of the most anticipated races of all time in front of millions.  Her brilliant career could have been tarnished, not because of anything she did, but because her jockey did the unthinkable. If she lost the race because she was SLOWER than her competition, OK, I would be hurt,  OK OK I would be devastated, but that I can accept. But if she had lost, after all she went through what with the travel, quarantine, injuries, well, to me that is unforgivable and he should feel bad and yes haunted about it.

  • LongTimeEconomist

    Luke, don’t feel so bad. You still won. 

    Think how Shoe felt for the rest of his life after he blew the Derby on Gallant Man. 

  • http://twitter.com/YYZGUY1 Wayne Neuten

    You Ida, are a blithering idiot. Go to the kitchen where you belong and stay away from the keyboard. Devastated? Hurt?? Unforgivable?? It’s a horse race.

  • cepatton28

    If he had beat her to the wire and she would have been permanently out of commission to never race again and won by 15 lengths would you have felt better than a win by a head with a cautious ride??

  • stillriledup

     Nope, its just one guy, not implicating everyone. If you are a jock who rides hard all the way, you dont have to worry about being implicated by me.

  • Waquoit

    Not really. I’m sure you and most people know who he is talking about. In fact, I’d bet the rent.

  • ManuelB

    I have no clue who he’s talking about.

  • Jsmits

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