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Nice story Moe
Geoff Banks on the ML said he should not be allowed to run. I wonder if he had said that if there had been 7 or 9 runners
At least his presence yesterday ensured an eight runner field snd each way backers of Olofi in third were paid out.
I remember McCririck always going on about 16 runners handicaps turning into 15 runner handicaps and the fourth place missing from each way punters purposes. From a personal point of view it is annoying that 4th place doesn’t count (except when betting on Betfair) but that’s the knocks you get anyway, and let’s face it, it’s the winner you’re trying to back even in each way betting. Plus you’ve had the chance for the horse to finish in the frame. Backers of horses like Mad Moose ,yesterday, don’t even get a chance. You could save you’re money and back something else, but in my personal experience that’s when he usually behaves himself, lines up and wins
There’s a photo of him posted on twitter leaping a fence like a good ‘un, and he’s wearing a hood/blinker combination that Biggles wouldn’t be ashamed to wear. You wonder why they don’t try that again. Or didn’t……rather
Ridiculous that he was allowed back. It created some light entertainment but pretty daft decision really.
Unless the censure under Rules that is bound to follow now is recognised in the Pointing sphere (I’m not convinced it is), a venture between the flags may still be an option for Mad Moose. Indeed, Middleham Park Racing were going to send him down that route this winter, in tandem with Junior, before a late change of heart led to Saturday’s fleeting return to Rules action.
Not that the change of discipline comes with any guarantee of better behaviour, as anyone who saw Chaninbar refuse to race twice in the same day at Paxford last Easter – his first and only British Pointing starts – will attest to.
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