Richard Fourie

UNHAPPY Wrote:

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> western explorer no problem with your point of
> view but you have a limited life span in the
> saddle and if you want to retire a pauper start
> and end your career racing in S A every top man in
> horseracing has spread their wings,the sooner the
> better you can always return????

Just remember its not my point of view...it's his! once he matures he will return overseas......great asset to have back at The Snaiths.....

Fourie Snaith combo won't last long.Take my word for that.Will be too much for this young man.That stable must get hot when u fup so I say Highveld for the lad at the end of next season.
The lad seems a quiet one but something tells me he is a redhotchillepepper.Same with Justin I would hazard a guess.

hibernia Wrote:

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> Mavourneen Wrote:
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> > From Sunday's South China Morning Post:
> >
> > "The promise of a "guaranteed" South African
> > premiership has lured Richard Fourie back to
> his
> > homeland, but he has vowed to return in the
> future
> > - adding that his one-season stint has
> sharpened
> > his riding skills.
> >
> > Fourie will depart at season's end, returning
> to
> > Cape Town to be leading handler Richard
> Snaith's
> > number one rider - an opportunity the
> 27-year-old
> > described as too good to pass up."
> >
> > There's more to the article if anyone wants to
> > look. But it looks like he may well ride for
> > Snaith in the July.
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>
> Justin Snaith wrote on abc that he would ride Jet
> Explorer,but i think that might have changed now..


After winning yesterday they said the Delpech had become available.

Ben-Hur Wrote:

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> Fourie Snaith combo won't last long.Take my word
> for that.Will be too much for this young man.That
> stable must get hot when u fup so I say Highveld
> for the lad at the end of next season.
> The lad seems a quiet one but something tells me
> he is a redhotchillepepper.Same with Justin I
> would hazard a guess.

Some interesting statements you make.....

Pierre Strydom's mounts have earned R16 million this season. Richard Fourie's have won R42 million. He is coming home ! Got me stumped.

Harris Wrote:

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> Pierre Strydom's mounts have earned R16 million
> this season. Richard Fourie's have won R42
> million. He is coming home ! Got me stumped.


U never been homesick especially when u were a youngster?()

western explorer, we get it that you support/love/speak for/rate richard

BUT people on here are not questioning his ability, they questioning his desire. The fact that so many people say he could make it abroad shows the high regard he is held as a jockey. Many love to come on here and slate, here is a thread where people are simply saying he is daft to come "home" at this point in his career. I wish i could talk to Richard, i would tell him about time and how it waits for no man. I would tell him about opportunities and talent and how they need to be harnessed and worked on. I would then tell him about regret......

I bet you if YOU opened a thread asking which jockeys people want to leave our (sa) shores it would be massive.....

The world is the future, racing abroad is the future, ALL the greats do it, to be a great you need to do it.

he wont be here for the July only gets back the 15th

easy Wrote:

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> western explorer, we get it that you
> support/love/speak for/rate richard
>
> BUT people on here are not questioning his
> ability, they questioning his desire. The fact
> that so many people say he could make it abroad
> shows the high regard he is held as a jockey. Many
> love to come on here and slate, here is a thread
> where people are simply saying he is daft to come
> "home" at this point in his career. I wish i could
> talk to Richard, i would tell him about time and
> how it waits for no man. I would tell him about
> opportunities and talent and how they need to be
> harnessed and worked on. I would then tell him
> about regret......
>
> I bet you if YOU opened a thread asking which
> jockeys people want to leave our (sa) shores it
> would be massive.....
>
> The world is the future, racing abroad is the
> future, ALL the greats do it, to be a great you
> need to do it.

I understand fully what you are saying.....what I am saying is that he is still a youngster and plenty of time to do what u are saying....he went there and tried and decided that right now in his life it wasn't for him....just like he did in Mauritius.Would you rather him there and start riding poorly because his mind is not on the job and his heart not in it or rather he comes home where he wants to be ,matures for a year or two or five and then tries the big bad world again....different strokes for different blokes.....right now in his life money is not everything.....as I said previously his time will come but he doesn't want to do what Dougie Whyte has done and ultimately the choice is his ,is it not?And I don't speak for RF ....but I do support him and rate his extremely highly on the list of jocks in SA......

I'd agree with Western Explorer. Different people have different priorities. Fourie has made his choice in accordance with the things that matter to him. Someone else will approach the same choice, but take the opposite course because their priorities are different.

Sometimes we just have to accept that someone else doesn't care about the same things we do, though. It's not that they are being foolish or reckless or turning down a challenge (necessarily) but that they don't care that much about what we think's important.

And both staying there and coming home will cost something of course - that's why choosing shows up what we really care for, because we have to pay, often heavily, to get it.