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Reading on the bha site about the enquiry into this ride and it finishes off by saying…."The Stewards noted his explanation"…
Does that mean it’s the end of the matter or could there still be the possibility of him recieving a ban?
I find it staggering that no further action will be taken (if that is the case)…..for me rides like that are every bit as bad (if not) worse than recent banning cases such as Brendan Powell jnr & Daryl Jacob with their 14 and 10 day respective bans….
Lane should have got double that IMO…..
Think you’re being a bit harsh here Zamorston, this apparently isn’t the first time this horse has found nothing off the bridle at the end of a race. I have never been a fan of Adrian Lane but on this occasion don’t think he could do much more.
The term "the Stewards noted his explanation" more than likely means nothing more will happen, though there could be a subsequent announcement of a ban for the horse and rider but in my opinion don’t think there will be anything further.
Funnily enough…..just a few minutes after I posted this i’ve just seen it again as I’m watching the replays on racing uk….
Sorry….I don’t think I am being harsh……Adrian Lane got caught napping….there is absolutely no question of that whatsoever in my mind…..he kind of knew he had the measure of the horse he was coming up the inside of….but he didn’t take into account the horse that came down the outside and eventually won…I think his body language when the camera went back onto him after the race had finished spoke volumes of a guilty man…..
I’ve looked back through the horses profile and it’s won enough races and hasn’t always idled or not done anything in front….I don’t see any difference in that and easing up when mistaking a winning line a la Daryl Jacob the other week….
Very poor decision for me.
I’ve looked back through the horses profile and it’s won enough races and hasn’t always idled or not done anything in front….
You don’t appear to have been looking very hard. Comments from his last 8 races over hurdles:
16.12.12 Carlisle – not run on and headed final 50 yards
9.11.12 Musselburgh – hung right (subsequently unseated rider)
29.11.11 Doncaster – hung badly left 3 out
19.11.11 Huntingdon – not run on u.p
5.11.11 Stratford – never remotely involved
2.4.11 Uttoxeter – raced awkwardly
8.3.11 Exeter – fell
12.2.11 Warwick – raced with awkward head carriage flatA decent burst from another horse close home is always likely to best him.
The above suggests that he has been a pig of a ride over hurdles, although it should be added he has apparently better behaved on the flat.
Rob
I know the horse is a bit of a dodgepot…..and just for the record I didn’t have a bet in the race.
Donald McCain also openly said before the race that instructions were to hold up and deliver the horse as late as possible….
I still don’t think all that hides the fact that Lane misjudged what was going on in the race and how bad it looked. The horse was hanging left but still travelling well on the bridle and always looked to have enough to readily see off the horse on it’s outside (which it did)…..Lane got caught napping though when the other came down the outside.
I don’t see how those you’ve just highlighted covers up the fact he made a mistake? What relevance have races where the horse has fallen or been tailed off have in relevance to the way he rode this horse at the finish? Also, in none of the races you have highlighted was the horse wearing blinkers……are blinkers not applied in an attempt to make horses concentrate a bit more and put a bit more in at the business end of the race…..for horses like this who have not always put it in?
If you take the eventual winner out of the race…..despite hanging, and despite being a renowned monkey he would most certainly have found enough and won…..in fact once the race was virtually over and he’d reacted to the other horse going past, he got down and the horse ran straight and true as far as I could see….
As I previously said….I don’t see how what Daryl Jacob did the other week was any worse…..they were both errors of judgement from the jockey which potentially lost the horse any chance of winning the race….
It’s irrelevant what sort of horse it is, it was a clear case of the jockey caught napping, it even says so in the Racing Post.
What should be the punishment for a jockey caught napping? I’m not sure, is it an injudicious ride like one given too much to do? It probably is and deserves some sort of punishment.
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