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De Bromhead fully deserves Envoi Allen and some more as well. He can handle them pretty good throughout many years..
Probably unfairly, but my first thought when thinking of HDB training is constantly running Sizing John over 2m.
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Mike Skelton is going to be the top man soon enough , anyone can see that , Henderson is 70 and won’t be around for ever , the point I’m making is surely the big owners are going to come to him sooner or later
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I notice a Godolphin runner 2nd in the 2.20 at Chantilly; business as usual then for the big names, no comments from ATR
befair although I agree with what you are saying
I think Ginge has already said the difference between the two casesGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
The Elliott case involves the mistreatment of horses(it doesn’t matter that they were dead) who take part in horse racing, therefore it is a racing matter.
The Sheikh Mo kidnapping has no connection to racing other than the fact he is a high profile owner.
I agree with what you are saying ie Godolphin
but my view on Elliott is I hope they throw the book at himGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
I believe Gordon is 43 today. Happy birthday and many happy returns.
I`ve never taken to him, believe he has mired racing very badly but I think he is being over vilified.
I wouldn’t dispute it’s very bad and he deserves a ban.
I suspect this stems from having an overly large string of horses and knowing losing a few isn’t going to check his momentum.No doubt some outrageous craic with the lads.Perhaps you just don’t care as much as you should when you ran an operation this big.I should think there are plenty of worse atrocities in racing.Whether he deserves any future in it is a moot point but a ban and removal of leading horses seems enough to me.
Agree with Patriot. No relation at all
Rather pathetic to see online (not here) loads of excuse making for him. Gone from Photoshopped blah blah sheik mohammed whatabout whatabout to donttheyunderstandpooroppressedirishcountrytypes with lashings of paranoia laced with “far worse happens everywhere else but no I don’t have any examples”
You sense its all about who it is and same people would be screaming if it had been Paul Nichols
Little sympathy for him, and his apology/non-apology made it worse. Not just an isolated incident, I suspect; more likely a pattern of behaviour, just that this one was caught on camera.
That being said, losing his livelihood is too heavy a price to payHDLG you had said that surely Skelton has earned the right to such horses and it was an opportunity missed. That is what I replied to. What he will get ‘soon enough’ or ‘sooner or later’ is another point which is fair enough.
The point I’m making is there was a chance to give him one now and it was missed , de bromhead is a fine trainer I’m not doubting that but Skelton could be a commanding figure for the next 30 years …he,s only 28
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Thought he was 36?
“Could be” is the view
Top horses are in ireland, youd be mad to bring them to britain.
Laughable suggesting them going to Seven Barrows like. Maybe they actually like their horses to run now and again outside of Cheltenham.
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Hmm, Clive, it wouldn’t be one particular nine-year-old Facebook page, would it? A hive of chippiness and whataboutery, mixed in with a dose of one-sided Irish nationalism, that one.
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