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Pru , consider this , if Coward and Roy spent less time making attacks on the bookies , thus antagonising all and sundry at every waking moment , maybe they would have a small chance of doing business …just maybe
As it stands they are looking at the prospect of spending time with their families , unless the rest of those spineless trough waders have no guts at all …
Personally if I was on the bookies side I would have offered 30 million , and told them to take a hike , after all who is going to force them to pay more …..
Wonder what their severance package is like !!!!
Ricky
We agree with Lord Howard’s comments that urgent Government action is required to close the loophole so that offshore bookmakers should be licensed and be required to pay Levy, as we have been saying for some time. The areas where the Levy is failing are well known to this Coalition Government, and we are confident of their resolve to repair the damage the sport has suffered for years.
Rightly, I doubt the government could give a flying fk about horseracing at present
That aside, they want shot of the Tote don’t they Mr Roy?
That slumbering wannabe cuddabe giant is yours and ours
If you want it
We do
All it takes is a little original, lateral thought and a bit of novel, brave action
Time for a gale of change, not a zephyr of tinkering
Call the bookmakers bluff; they’re yesterday’s men…
…or cuddabe shuddabe
First race at Ayr run at exactly the same time as the first at Fakenham, you couldn’t make it up, give that man responsible a bonus.
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Hear what your saying Eddie but i thought it was a fair decison to let them go…there was no real need to delay the start and upset the whole day.. They were still ruuning at Fakenham after they had finsihed at Ayr and I heard both commentries
Punter’s resposibility to know it was tight and get their bet on you hardy blame the BHA
Not sure there could possibly be enough distance Corm’ and open and shut case of conflict in most eyes, I would guess.
It says a fair bit about leadership, conceit, self interest and regard for the customer that the man has acted in this way already.
He should resign immediately.The guy should resign or preferably be sacked, there’s a good letter in the Racing Post today on the subject from Dave Yates.
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How can it be anything but a conflict of interest? David Dein was forced to resign as Chief Executve of Arsenal owing to his position at the FA and I see no reason why Paul Roy shouldn’t be ‘encouraged’ to follow suit.
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It is worrying that Roy does not see a conflict. Should resign from BHA.
I wonder will Mr Struthers give his opinion or stay silent?It is worrying that Roy does not see a conflict. Should resign from BHA.
I wonder will Mr Struthers give his opinion or stay silent?If BHA has anything to say then I will of course post something on here.
It is worrying that Roy does not see a conflict. Should resign from BHA.
I wonder will Mr Struthers give his opinion or stay silent?If BHA has anything to say then I will of course post something on here.
That’s the sort of service we’ve come to expect from you Paul. We await developments with interest.
Sorry to bother you again – you have mail on an unrelated matter.
Sorry to bother you again – you have mail on an unrelated matter.
Will get back to you tomorrow – not sure if it’ll be possible but if it is, no probs.
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Aside from the (probable) conflict of interest, the brass-necked hypocrisy of the man is simply breathtaking.
I’m reminded of an slithy tove in Bunyan’s
Pilgrim’s Progress
: Mr Facing-Both-Ways is evidently alive and kicking, in the shape of Mr Roy.
Unless he is despatched swiftly and slickly, the BHA is in danger of losing a few more shreds of credibility.
Am I the only one that is bewildered how he has managed to get away with his antics betting on Noseeda horses and how they are run. In my eyes it makes Harry look harmless.
Pinza, how is it "probable" conflict of interest?
Only two weeks ago, in an interview in the Racing Post, he said, and I’m paraphrasing this from memory, that betting exchanges (primarily Betfair) have damaged the funding of British horse racing and if the authorities in 2000 had possessed a crystal ball, they would have put up more of a fight, like the Californians. That’s just one of his public observations.
Then he goes and buys masses of shares in the same company he believes has damaged the sport he is supposed to steward, protect and grow.
Drone wrote a nice post on the original "Mr Potter" thread about the quite breathtaking chutzpah of this.
He has to go and he has to go today, sir. There are no shades of grey here, imo.
He has to go and he has to go today, sir. There are no shades of grey here, imo.
If you look on the BHA website Nic Coward’s blog entry is about two years old! neither of them is bothered and they won’t go until they are pushed. I believe that they they are simply milking the whole scenario for as much as they can get cash wise.
Paul Roy is a banker which is a polite word for asset stripper. That’s all they are doing. I do think that his interventions in support of the boomakers and Betfair and his firm’s trading activities needs to be further investigated. Does his firm hold shares in Ladbrokes or any other of the boomakers he is supporting from his BHA seat?
Maybe Bruce Millington has got racing industry expert Howard Wright investigating Paul Roy and he is going to bring him down!
Of course, if Paul Roy’s bean counters purchased 51% of the shares on offer, (approximately £800m at current prices), then that would still be a conflict of interest but one which could work in favour of the sport. I’d shut up then.
Surely, for a company worth ten minutes ago in excess of £1.6billion, there’s an extra sack of oats or two for the ‘osses, guv,nor. Maybe we’ve misread Mr Roy’s strategy and he’s a hero after all…
…but I doubt it.
Anyway, off to Southwell for their richly endowed card – (a lip smacking thirteen hundred sovs and a crate of Bramley apples to the winner of the last two races)
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