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Charlie Brooks sounds off on Kempton AW and Newbury
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.j … xhors.html
<br>Headline of the week goes to the Times and Alan Lee
Jockeys rescue Kempton card from rocky horror show
<br>He informs us: "The new turf season, however, had already been devalued by launching on Lingfield’s Polytrack before an attendance officially put at 671"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, … 57,00.html
The AWful future of British Horseracing ! If I had a decent string of animals for training, I’d pack them off to Normandy.
Z
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Has Sue Montgomery been on the sauce or is she just oh so droll ?
"And if the gulls who are suspected of causing the delay to the launch by transferring the pebbles from the infield to the track return, it may be a case of the management leaving no tern unstoned."
http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/ … 354084.ece
<br>Now ATR madness is over, can racing heal the wounds?
Greg Wood
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing … 32,00.html<br>Tuesday March 28, 2006<br>The Guardian
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Something in Paris Turf ( En Bref) today about Wolverhampton running races every 22minutes and if my translation is correct Kempton hosting 14 races for their inaugural nocturne.
<br>Looks like the above are  just race times after the hour, on reflection – Doh !
British Horseracing is definitely going to the dogs :(
<br>After all the build-up, the Sportsman is disappointing
Chris Cook<br>Thursday March 30, 2006<br>The Guardian
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing … 76,00.html
(Edited by zilzal at 6:06 pm on Mar. 31, 2006)
Comprehensive preview of the Masaka in today’s Independent. BTW Ms Montgomery, I won’t be getting used to sand :cool:
Racing: Rajeem can usher in new era by staking Classic claim on sand By Sue Montgomery <br>Published: 01 April 2006
‘If I win the National, I will tell the Jockey Club to stick the licence straight up their backsides.’
Some great quotes here in Clare Balding’s Observer interview with a man as idiosyncratic as the Grand National:
Chris McGrath on the Carberry siblings:
http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/ … 355765.ece
Jim McGrath on J P McManus, racehorse owner/gambler
Some good reading in today’s pages
Brian Viner has an indepth, engaging and even revealing  interview with Tony McCoy in the Independent
http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/ … 355982.ece
Marcus Armytage interviews Dick Francis in the Telegraph<br>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2006/04/06/sharmy06.xml&sSheet=/sport/2006/04/06/ixhors.html
More Grand National Memorabilia about Bob Champion/Aldaniti and Spartan Missile in today’s Daily Telegraph:
A welter of articles and columns on Grand National day as  you would expect.
Among them Richard Johnson gives one jockey’s perspective in the Times:
Only ten have genuine claims, and my mount is one of them
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, … 44,00.html
The Guardian offers brief synopses of each runner’s chance in their  guide:
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing … 93,00.html
<br>Marcus Armytage delivers a history lesson in his diary:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.j … xhors.html<br>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2006/04/08/shdiar08.xml&sSheet=/sport/2006/04/08/ixhors.html
There’s an article ijn the Independent On Sunday about the c. 180 horses that die every year as a result of racecourse accidents.
The journalist, one Cole Morton, seems to be claiming a bit of an exclusive on this, although the figures seem to tally with fatality counts that racing forums keep anyway (even if the RP doesn’t).
The link is<br> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_b … 356660.ece
The RP has not carried this story, really funny they have Mac as their Race Riding expert
Four jumps past masters aged 13 and 14 were entered for the National, none with any chance of winning. Chris Cook wants to know why they were risked
Tuesday April 11, 2006<br>The Guardian
<br>http://sport.guardian.co.uk/horseracing/story/0,,1751097,00.html
<br>The major’s funeral and the fairytale victory of a National hero he bred
By Sue Montgomery <br>Published: 11 April 2006
Four jumps past masters aged 13 and 14 were entered for the National, none with any chance of winning. Chris Cook wants to know why they were risked
It was interesting.
As I said on a different thread before the race, I had no arguments with Amberleigh running.
However, First Gold’s appearance should have earned JP a slap.
And what led connections to believe that Native Upmanship was suddenly going to find an extra 16 furlongs is a mystery.
Steve
What led the starter to let them go when Native Upmanship was clearly behind the others and had his back to the tape is also a mystery.
Agree that none of them should have run though
"At 58, he is a resolute bachelor who, while at home in his 300-year-old yard, appears to exist on a diet of cigars and cold baked beans."
I do hope Alan Lee is not suggesting any correlation above:biggrin:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, … 67,00.html
"What exasperates Dettori is not the conservatism of the British racing authorities. He suspects that the most significant resistance instead comes from within the jockeys’ own ranks – from a vocal minority of specialist lightweight riders, who can have three square meals a day and still take any mount."
<br>http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article357229.ece
<br>What’s the problem with jockeys  from countries whose inhabitants have smaller stature coming here to ride ?<br>Are our thoroughbreds to carry more and more with each new generation because we are getting bigger?
Z
Abstinence wins today  so some may like to listen to Mick Channon’s dulcet tones in Marcus Armytage’s visit to West Ilsley:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.j … xhors.html
<br>The anoraks may be interested in Chris McGrath’s Flat Horses to follow:
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