Happy Birthday to Michael
Roberts 60 to-day. May all your dreams
come true.
Global Flat Turf Rider Champion jockey in South Africa
and in Britain .
Read about some of Michael’s
dreams that have already come true in Clive Brittain's book.
Read in Clive’s book Chapter
12 Page 145 “Working Marvels With
Mystiko”
“Clive says “You
don’t win races with wooden horses. They must have fire and passion and it’s
our job to control it” .
Michael rode
Mystiko out himself nearly every day at Clive’s in Newmarket.
Page 145
Clive says: “Mystiko wouldn’t
have won a Classic with just an ordinary jockey. He was a tearaway. There were
only so many gallops in him. Michael Roberts got on well with the colt.
“As for his
rider, Clive said of Roberts at the
time: “He wins a lot of races before the finish with his tactical skills during
the race. As a man he has great character. He always gives you 100 per cent. Nothing
is too much trouble. If there is a problem with a horse, say with his
temperament, he makes light of the difficulty He is a tremendous horseman And if you listen he is always there with
something worthwhile to say “
“South Aftica’s
Sunday Tribunal greeting Mystiko’s victory in the 2,000 Guineas
of 1991 with the headline ‘Our champion!’ saying that the victory of jockey
Michael (Muis) Roberts ‘took South African racing to the top of the world’ .
The South African racing champion, who had ridden the winners of 16 Classics in
his home country, was described as
having ridden the race of his life after driving Mystiko to rally over the last
50 yards of the race and deny Steve Cauthen on the French raider Lycius by a
head in a photo finish. The pair were six lengths clear of another French
runner, Ganges , in third place.
“Although
Mystiko had gone clear of his field with 220 yards to go the American ace had
come hurtling out of the pack to give chase and had headed Mystiko late on. But Roberts had kept
just enough in reserve to galvanise one further effort out of his grey mount to
ensure an exciting victory" .
Roberts has had a
successful career, winning many English and South African
races multiple times. He was British flat racing Champion
Jockey in 1992.
In June 1926 the South African Jockey
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Roberts, the 11 time Champion jockey of South
Africa and 1992 Champion
jockey of Britain ,
is now a racehorse trainer in the Karkloof ...
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first two inductees to the ... Roberts, nicknamed
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