Jockey Analysis: 'This is the difference between Ryan Moore and Billy Loughnane at the minute'

Lead race analyst Paddy Flood draws on his previous experience as a rider and now as a jockey coach to give fascinating analysis each week on our brand new show 'The Jockey Angle'.

The race which threw up an 'unlucky in running' horse was in the 3.00 at Newmarket on Friday,10 July and that was Beylerbeyi in the 1m6f handicap for trainer Ian Williams. The eventual winner of the race was Godolphin's Valedictary.

Flood explains why he believes Billy Loughnane should have finished closer to the more experienced jockeys William Buick and Colin Keane who finished 1-2 in the race.

Paddy Flood's 'unlucky in running' analysis

Billy Loughnane is on board. Billy's absolutely flying at the minute. He's a superb jockey, but this one didn't look great. He finishes fourth in the end.

For me, watching this, this is the difference between Ryan Moore and Billy Loughnane at the minute. Billy is still a young man. We have to remember he's young and still cutting his teeth. He's nowhere near the finished article yet, but I think this is where Ryan Moore makes things happen.

Billy was just waiting a little too long for things to happen.

Colin Keane is on his outside, with William Buick in front of him. Billy is riding a horse that won over two miles, two furlongs last year, so he's on a stayer. This is a mile-and-six race.

With a stayer, once you hit top gear, you want to keep rolling. At this stage of the race, I'm thinking, "Billy, you need to get out now," because you have two champion jockeys in front of you: William Buick and Colin Keane.

There's plenty of room on the left-hand side for him to pull his horse out. As I said, this is a stayer, and once they get into top gear, you want to keep them rolling.

Billy rolls the dice and stays where he is. Even at this stage, you're thinking, "Billy, get out. Billy, get out." But he doesn't.

Billy then decides he's not going to win and just finishes the race on the bridle. It didn't look great. He had plenty of the straight to get that horse out. As I said, the horse stays over two miles and this is only a mile and six, so you want to get him rocking and rolling as soon as you can.

Instead, Billy was waiting for the gaps to open rather than taking the initiative, pulling out around Colin Keane, and getting his horse running forward.

Billy is going to be a superstar in time. There's no doubt about that. But these are the rides I hope he goes home and looks at. You learn a bit from the winning rides, but you learn so much more from the rides where you get beaten and should have finished a bit closer.

I'm not saying the horse would have won, but he definitely would have finished closer. Billy will have good people around him. They'll sit down, go through the ride, analyse it, and hopefully it won't happen again.

You learn more from the ones you get beaten in than the ones you win.

The next day, Billy came out and won a Group 1 for Donnacha O'Brien. He's a great character. I love his enthusiasm, I think he's great on camera, and he's great for the sport. But this is definitely one he'll want to look back on.

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