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Aye poor old Kieren. ONE mistake and he’s hounded out of racing. Remind me please how many drugs tests he’s failed.
Why do you want to know?
How many breath tests have racehorse owners and trainers failed over the years?
I see no benefit in raking up the past when some quite unrelated event has occurred.
How would you feel if you owned the horse? Oh you’d be so upset. He has cost a lot of people a lot of money. Jockeys at his level shouldn’t make that sort of mistake…. but saying that mistakes do happen so you can’t hang the poor lad. He was obviously gutted. I’m just grateful i hadn’t put my money on it.
Jockeys should ride on designated jump courses not those of their own choice.Or be warned off.Of course we could arrange for the French to give them a drug test and say I told you so.
" Jockeys at his level shouldn’t make that sort of mistake…. "
I’m just guessing that it’s me you are asking about the incident, Kauto, but, for what it’s worth, I would imagine that everyone concerned is pretty upset.
I cannot think of any reason why they wouldn’t be, but then, I didn’t see the race at all. The only reason i came on here is because I saw Kieren’s name had been brought into something that, to the best of my knowledge, has nothing at all to do with him.
How would you feel if you owned the horse? Oh you’d be so upset.
The part owner of Oumeyade is actually none other than Jim Lewis, famous for owning Best Mate and bursting into song ad hoc. I wonder if he cracked out a rendition of “Let’s Go Round Again” by The Average White Band after Sam pulled his horse up today?
No Friggo i heard Jim Lewis is a big fan of Van Halen and burst into one of there greatest hits ”Jump”
I’m a little surprised Thomas wasn’t done for reckless riding rather than careless; his move across the path of the following horses towards the winning post was pretty ugly.
On a horse pulling double on a LH circuit you’d have thought he’d choose to position it on the inside of the field on the ‘home’ straight.
A moment’s brainstorm and panic on approaching the peripherally-viewed winning post rather than a longer-held belief he was riding the final circuit, I suspect.
A bizarre spectacle, whatever.
I was summoned to the stewards room myself at Fakenham today, and I saw Sam. It was actually really sad. Two months ago, he was everybodys darling after his ride on Denman in the Gold Cup. Today, he looked really crestfallen. I looked at him, he looked at me, and basically, the mood that both of us were in, I think silence was the best option!!
Yes, he made a mistake, and a bad one at that. But seeing what jockeys put themselves through today really made me sit up and realise what a dangerous job they have.
Darren – AngloGerman
Now that I have been informed that Jim Lewis was the part-owner of Oumeyade I suddenly feel much more forgiving towards Sam Thomas. Even if I’d backed the bloody thing I’d still be having a little celebratory drink and a chuckle….
Bollards.
As already said by others, the solution is surely a mobile rail, tape or bollards to put across the course on the final circuit. In the Grand National and other races on that course, a rail is put across the course before â€
Value Is EverythingSam – what an arse! If the win is too easy to be true – it probably is !
These boy will not be happy !
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A bell is a non starter, what if it’s rung a circuit early or they’re some nutters with bells in the crowd, a partially deaf jockey could be at a serious disadvantage. A few traffic cones should suffice and the penalty isn’t severe enough, should be a minimum of 1 month.
How would you feel if you owned the horse? Oh you’d be so upset.
The part owner of Oumeyade is actually none other than Jim Lewis, famous for owning Best Mate and bursting into song ad hoc. I wonder if he cracked out a rendition of “Let’s Go Round Again” by The Average White Band after Sam pulled his horse up today?
I do apologise using the China and Burma incidents into this but i only did it with the vain hope of hoping that an over the top reaction to what Sam Thomas did at Fakenham would not occur.
It was a simple mistake in the same way that a footballer does when missign an open goal or an athlete finishing a race one lap too soon,
quote]I have not once seen this happen? they have a bell in place to let the athlete know there is only one lap left?
I wonder if he cracked out a rendition of "Let’s Go Round Again" by The Average White Band after Sam pulled his horse up today?
I believe he favoured the Teenage Fanclub hit, "I Need Direction".
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
A bell is a non starter, what if it’s rung a circuit early or they’re some nutters with bells in the crowd, a partially deaf jockey could be at a serious disadvantage.
Absolutely – a bell system is too open to abuse.
I’d suggest that on certain racedays it would not be just a partially deaf jockey at a disadvantage. Whilst the bell may be perfectly audible at a workaday, 200-crowd midweek meeting, the crowd at Fakenham yesterday was both huge and in good voice.
Even before Derek Thompson’s stentorian delivery were taken into account, just how many of the jockeys would have heard a bell set against that lot?
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
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