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Dropped to 6 days for careless riding on appeal when the HRA realised there was no compelling evidence for the original charge.
Gareth,
I’m not trying to get us anyway. I used the Derby as an example, for which you have since made strong and valid points to suggest that I was wrong and I acknowledge that.
You’ve put your hand on your heart and said you don’t think the AOB team have deliberately put a horse in a race to spoil the chances of another horse. That’s just your opinion, one that I disagree with because I think they have. I’ve got no concrete proof, no-one has, that’s why it’s just an opinion.
Mike
Didn’t know that so I’ll hold my hands up there
I suppose I don’t like to see any team tactics (other than pacemaking) play a part in the outcome of a race. David McCabe would have closed the door to the rail on any other horse on Tuesday, not looked around to make sure they had enough room! Haradasun wouldn’t have won without getting the rail and therefore those team tactics decided the outcome of that race.
Pity Grandera isn’t still about, he have bagged the rail following biting McCabes arm off.
Didn’t know that so I’ll hold my hands up there
I suppose I don’t like to see any team tactics (other than pacemaking) play a part in the outcome of a race. David McCabe would have closed the door to the rail on any other horse on Tuesday, not looked around to make sure they had enough room! Haradasun wouldn’t have won without getting the rail and therefore those team tactics decided the outcome of that race.
VERY VERY HARD TO LEGISLATE ABOUT WHAT WHAT A JOCKEY SHOULD DO, INTERMS OF CLOSING THE DOOR ON OTHER HORSES OR NOT. WHAT IS MUCH EASIER TO LEGISLATE IS WHAT THEY SHOULDN’T DO. ANY HORSE, EVEN A PACEMAKER SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DEVIATE OFF A STRAIGHT COURSE TO ALLOW A HORSE BEHIND THROUGH. THAT SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN STONE.
SHL
Apart from the shouting SHL, thats a good point
Its all very well for some to scream for hard evidence of "team tactics" when it is pretty obvious that clearly no one is going to admit to it and there will always be a ready made excuse. The way to deal with it is to look at the rules
Apart from the shouting SHL, thats a good point
Its all very well for some to scream for hard evidence of "team tactics" when it is pretty obvious that clearly no one is going to admit to it and there will always be a ready made excuse. The way to deal with it is to look at the rules
CAN YOU SHOUT ON THE NET???
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Quite topically – the eye has some carrots ‘just now’ on the boil.
Leaving aside harry the navigator and concentrating on the more interesting and pictorially cute point of horses running as sacrificial lambs – well I thought they all were, however Murtagh said Yeats was a lion with big lungs.
It has been known for a man with youthful choirboy looks and eyebrows invisibly tied to the upper lip to have a thing or two up his sleeve and I will take an old passage of Grimes quoted as biblical precedent…
The young man was not known in the village but chatted with the elders just like an old goat. He shook his head from side to side making a few points as his teeth chewed through the stewed oxen and all the while his eyebrows remained impeccably still, even when the long awaited truffle, soaked in languedoc wine and sat in tarts, was about to be wheeled in. " No tarts someone shouted. – some knave has had them ".
Two small pieces of matted hair lay on the ground where the stranger had been sitting – he was no longer amongst them.
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