Try number 22. Myška found a horse that finally helped him win the Great Pardubice – Sport.cz

Myška was second two years ago, twice finished third. Only that first place kept slipping through his fingers. By the way, Jardo, when are you finally going to win the Big One, he was getting allergic…

“It wasn’t in my head that I had to win at all costs, which would have been unnecessarily binding. I don’t know about it yet. If I don’t succeed again, I certainly wouldn’t get hung up on it. At my age, I already take horse racing as a routine. Exactly the same every race. I want to win it. On the other hand, one person was seeing it. So it’s good for my career that I did it once and I consider it a great achievement. But then again, it’s true that every year there was such an expectation that I wouldn’t win,” Jaroslav Myška laughed.

After his victory in the main, he started in style. From the first meters he led the starting field of sixteen horses. “I didn’t want to wait for anything. I’m already known for liking to set the pace of the race, that is, when I have a suitable horse for it.” After ditching Taxis, however, he disappeared from the limelight for a while. It turned out that Sexy Lord was riding his first Velka, so he had to cross the painful barrier for the first time.

“It was terrible. You can’t see it, it’s black there. He refused to jump me. It broke, so we jumped from the place. I don’t want to blackmail him somehow. There is a group of experts, so let them decide,” Myška refers to the fact that there is no rebound barrier that the horse could jump.

It was important to his team that Sexy Lord managed the flight without a kick. Even if it hits the edge.

Logically, he fell to third place. However, the director quickly returned to that.

“Sexy Lord was well prepared by trainer Martina Růžičková, I have to thank her for that. I didn’t care if he didn’t make it.’

Somewhere in the last third of the race however, Dulcair De Sivola started. A French horse with a rider from the same country entered the finish line at the head of a pack of twelve at that time. Didn’t Thomas Beaurain scare his fellow mouse?

“Yes, he had a good start. But I think that killed him. He was in too much of a hurry, he could be relaxed for a while. I ran my own pace. Besides, I couldn’t push Sexy Lord anywhere. He had a small emergency and needed to rest. I let him exhale until around Havlák. He almost got the better of me at the last hurdle. There he began to dwell again. Then I just waited to see who would come to us from behind,” said the jockey from the stable in Kolesy.

And the favorite came to run the entire race. Godfrey with Jan Faltejsk. Nobody expected that the most impressive finish in the history of Velká Pardubice would be born.

“I was literally pushing Sexy Lord to the finish line. To be honest at first I thought Godfrey won. At least that’s how it looked from my point of view from the saddle. Honza ran to me very quickly. So I knew I had to get his head in there quickly.”

And then waiting and waiting. I had no idea that finding out the winner would be so exciting,” Myška admitted. “They should change the committee because it was a nice harakiri,” laughed the newly minted co-winner.

He did not know what was behind the delay. The organizers were unable to take a final photo because the camera broke. After seven minutes, they announced Sexy Lord as the winner.

“It’s a huge success for me, which I’ve been waiting for a long time, that’s clear. I have to thank the trainer and the owner, because the horse was well prepared. I was worried that if there was a fight he wouldn’t lack speed. This was finally confirmed. But we fought it together,” Myška said happily.

The only thing he lamented was that he could not win on a horse from his wife Štěpánka’s stable.

“It’s weird. I have some mixed feelings. On the one hand, my wish was to win the Velka Pardubická, but instead I wanted to achieve it on a horse from our stable that we train with Štěpánka. But unfortunately it didn’t work out for us,” he regretted.

“Our horse was injured and it was a pivotal moment for Martina and her team. Because I know she was very nervous too. She wanted me to sit on that horse. But of course I prefer to return to ours. It is our job and our job to have the horses, but unfortunately they are not healthy. And so I’m really happy that another one was found in the form of Sexy Lord,” said Myška.

Yes, Martina Růžičková made full use of Myska’s riding experience. She trusted the horse of the owner Jiří Trávníček, and the seasoned jockey created a perfect pair with the first Sexy Lord.

“We are in such a small shock. No, on the contrary. We are in serious shock. I am very grateful to Jard for accommodating me in this way, because both of them are not riders and horses. They are one of them. Such a centaur. At the same time, Yahweh is not a completely simple horse. He is very much his own. Jarda is also his own, so he knows exactly what is going through the horse’s head,” said Růžičková.

Jaroslav Myška was famous for winning the less important races almost every time on the Great Pardubice day. However, on Sunday, October 13, it seems that he will die.

“During the week, we had to cancel Dalibor, so only Un Reve Dautomme started from our stable. I didn’t do well with him in Cena Labe. Then I only drove Averise in Cena Vltava and ended up the same way. So only Velká Pardubická was left. But I was already very sore. But I was able to convert because I knew it was possible to win with Sexy Lord. So because it started badly, it ended well,” said Jaroslav Myška.