Richard Fourie’s stalwart agent Ken Nicol confirmed the record-chasing jockey would be out of action until Friday’s Fairview meeting and revealed he will be enjoying himself over the next few days partaking of his favourite hobby, fishing.
Ken said, “He’s slightly ahead of the curve and he needed to take a few days off before we make a big push again, because he’s been working helluva hard. There’s nothing wrong with him, he’s just gone fishing for a few days.”
The curve he was talking about was the projected number of wins Richard has for the season compared to the record for a season of 334 he is chasing.
His projected number today (Tuesday) stands at 351 and by the end of Thursday will be down to 348.
So he is comfortably ahead of the curve at present.
He has had 1041 rides this season and 229 wins.
At start of play on Friday there will be 135 days left in the season and he will need 106 more wins to reach a new record mark of 335.
His number-of-rides-per-calendar-day-rate at the beginning of Friday will stand at 4,32.
If he keeps up his rides-per-calendar day rate he will have 540 more rides this season.
If he keeps up his current strike rate of exactly 22% for those 540 rides he will have 119 more wins and that will take him to 348 wins for the season.
Ken concluded, “Obviously if he stays injury free we’ve got a chance.”
