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My maths isn’t as sharp as it should be, so can anyone tell me how much the Couch has riding on to the second leg of his double please?
1.125 multiplied by zero multplied by whatever he had on the place part.
His entire reputation would be rolling up on the win part if it wasn’t for that pesky two pound minimum stipulation on each bet.
If cheats don’t deserve a second chance in any sport then, as I suggested earlier, Racing’s cast list would be decimated at the drop of a hat.
Not to mention the profits of the sections of the bookmaking community who benefit from inside information.
I would not trust a bank robber working in a bank, a pedophile with children, a trainer who had drugged horses, or a jockey mixing with bookies, drug barons etc. etc. etc.
Most would surely agree a second chance should be given, depending on the severity of the transgression, but surely not within the arena where the original offence took place.Here is a much better alternative.
I don’t believe he is going to Beijing as a clean athlete.
Drugs are taken to help you train harder, not to actually win on the day. Just because he’s not taking drugs now, his condition and fitness is from the back of a drug taking training programme.
This nasty situation wouldn’t have happened if the bans they get were long enough. 4 or 6 six years would do the trick. 2 years is a joke.
Rich,
For the benefit of TRF could you change what you said to "I have great difficulty believing".
As to whether I agree with you.
You might think I do Rich, I couldn’t possibly comment.
Mark
I should have written my point more clearly.
I am absolutely positive sure that he has no drugs in his body now, and has not taken drugs since he got caught.
That’s fine and the tests prove that.
My point is that does not make him clean. He has trained on drugs, that is a fact because he was caught doing so. He still has that fitness from his training, and he will be taking that training to Beijing. Hence he isn’t "clean" in the true sense of the word. He might be legal, but if I were a fellow athlete I would be disgusted to line up against him.
4 more points down the swanny today, including 2 odds on shots, and one of at 4/6 each-way. Surely this guy cannot be making money. He really has no concept at all of what prices his horses will be trading at.
I wondered what he would come up with for an encore after keeping a twos on poke out of the prize money, let alone the frame the other week. But he pulls another rabit out of the hat – an odds on poke finishing last….by 32 ‘wickets’ in a sprint………and he tipped it each-way.
This guy must know where the bodies are buried.
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