You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success.
Eddie Arcaro
Contributed by: Zaady
When a jockey retires, he becomes just another little man.
There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.