Jockey Angle with Paddy Flood: He's exceptionally talented. What I love is the length of that horse's stride to where his nose is Former professional rider, jockey coach and lead analyst Paddy Flood gives us a horse for our note books. This week he chose the Yeomanstown Stud bred son of Dark Angel, Sharadd. His dam, Silk Bow is a two-time winner, Listed placed and has already produced a blacktype horse with his full sister Wings Of A Dove. Silk Bow had a colt by the exciting Mill Stream this year. The William Haggas-trained Sharadd was ridden by Tom Marquand at Haydock on his racecourse debut when he went on to win impressively by six lengths. He showed exceptional speed, length of stride and temperament, according to Flood. Race replays are FREE to watch from all Irish tracks and a selection of premier British tracks sponsored by William Hill. Paddy Flood’s Analysis The horses in front are going a nice even gallop. They're doing 12 second furlongs, which is good. Tom Marquand’s body language is very much letting the horse sort of slide into the bridle. If you don't know what I mean by that I’ll explain, when you let them slide into the bridle, you're kind of pushing on the horse's neck to get your horse to stretch just an extra gear. This whole video clip is about gears, because all horses have gears. Some just have more power in the gearbox than others. Everybody around them is starting to go through their gears. So basically, they've gone from first to second to third. This fella is still in second. Have a look at this fella now when Tom actually gets a little bit of room. He's basically going into second gear now. Everything else is in fifth gear. This guy's only going into second. Little shake of the reins, little slap on the shoulder and watch this guy stretch to the line. This is third gear for this horse. So, he's an exceptionally talented animal. What I love is the length of that horse's stride to where his nose is. The amount of ground he's grabbing and covering. And he looks like a big horse. So, the fact he's able to get down and stretch his nose. Just watch those front legs grab the ground. He's really, really stretching. And as I said, he's in third gear there. It'll be nice to see what the next two gears are like when he gets up in competition, but he really is a standout horse and he's really one to keep an eye on.
