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Is Linda out of the racing game at the moment?
I was shocked at her sudden departure from Belstane Stables after such a short time in charge.
Perhaps I misunderstood or incorrectly remember the situation, but as far as I can think, she was working with another trainer (Pitt or Semple perhaps, cant remember) who I think had lost his license or had it suspended or something like that (some sort of reason why they couldnt field horses), and so it appeared that they were carrying on training under the Linda Perratt name, but I think as soon as everything returned to normal, then she was an unnecessary part of the chain.
My recollection of it is so vague, that I may be way off. Perhaops someone can remember exact details.
Where is her new base – not back at Cree Lodge?
Is anyone training at Cree Lodge at the moment?
Linda Perratt’s new base is a family owned place at Northallerton Farm, near East Kilbride with space for between 15 and 20 horses.
She’s on Page 3 today, and the same article was published yesterday
http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-ra … 77/latest/
I’m really pleased we’ve got another sprinter/miler h’capper trainer on board – my bread and butter.
edit: Actually, I made the Page 3 bit up. I can’t find the story in the RP (today, Sunday or Saturday), which is a bit weird, as when I saw it I thought "Oh, its the same picture as on the website".
Flat stables are not exactly in abundance in Scotland so it’s good to see the return of one of the established trainers up here.
Great, this gives Linda a chance to show those who terminated her contrat they they were wrong.
Thirty-two winners from the type of horse she had in her stable last season was good going.
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She was working with Ian Semple with her holding the liecnec and getting the business and him doing the training which was the bit he was good at. Don’t know what happened to that partnership. Pretty girl very ordinary trainer"ordinary" trainers and jockeys are what make the game go on. Without them we have no sport. That doesn’t mean to say they haven’t got skills to provide a service to owners.
Overall I’m ordinary at most things, and so I would suggest are most on here, but I’m good enough at enough things to be valued.
Linda Perratt was plenty good enough to send out numbers off winners in double figures for many seasons until her number of runners reduced from 2005. That doesn’t suggest to me a trainer who lacks ability. Her strike rate has been less than 10% but she has been working for small owners who can’t spend huge sums on horses.
Rob
32 winners not bad for a Scottish trainer.
iILinda would have been priased rather than asked to move on.
With the credit crunch Linda could not be starting up her new stable at a worse time.
If memory serves me correctly, there was a time when she regularly had long-priced winners at the Northern racecourses. I tend to think this level of success requires more ability than perhaps those trainers who have an abundance of talent at their disposal.
Who could ever forget Little John who regularly managed to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory and never managed that elusive win despite many placed efforts over the years.
"ordinary" trainers and jockeys are what make the game go on. Without them we have no sport. That doesn’t mean to say they haven’t got skills to provide a service to owners.
Where on earth would the sport’s attempts, in the UK, to reduce itself to a lowest common denominator be without such stalwarts? They’re the very life blood of the meaningless class 5 and 6 races that, from time to time, provide us with such entertaining results.
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