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Yesterday One Gulp was pulled up at Ascot – she looked very lame – she does have a severe injury but thankfully being a mare it’s not the end. Her trainer Paul Webber maintains a great website and took the time and trouble to write a full account of yesterday’s happening – much appreciated by true racing fans who value the equines, win or loose. Thank you.
Here’s a link:
http://www.paulwebberracing.com/news.phpPaul is a very likeable chap, it was decent of him to let the racing public know that One Gulp will be ok despite her racing career being finished!
The trainer must feel someone “looking down“ doesn`t much care for him, he`s been desperately unlucky down the years, DE SOTO just getting run out of the champion bumper followed by lameness, a desperate virus that left him very short of winners last time round, just as things where looking up this happens, sods law i guess!
I think Dominic Elsworth is worth a mention, his decisive action probably saved the fillies life,a genuine horseman if their ever was one!
Didn’t he also train Land Afar?
That horse was absolutely cruising in two Champion Hurdles before falling.
Glad to know One Gulp will be OK.
I saw her suddenly pull up and had a horrid feeling something was wrong, glad she has made it back home safe.
Sandy Duff was another with little luck whom Paul trained back in the day.
Paul was the first trainer i worked for… he let me go down in my school holidays and at weekends and help out when i was 15. A really top bloke, and he has a wonderful team there. They used to stick me up on an old timer called Nether Whallop, and i used to bomb up the gallops on him in no control whatsoever. Sandy Duff was there then, and was always one of my favourites, along with Jungli and Flying Instructor.
Paul was the first trainer i worked for… he let me go down in my school holidays and at weekends and help out when i was 15. A really top bloke, and he has a wonderful team there. They used to stick me up on an old timer called Nether Whallop, and i used to bomb up the gallops on him in no control whatsoever. Sandy Duff was there then, and was always one of my favourites, along with Jungli and Flying Instructor.
Can I be the first to say “Crikey!”. I really liked Nether Wallop but that was a million years ago. He was racing in the mid eighties. How old are you Zome, or more importantly, how long did the old boy keep going for??
Thanks for the link Ten Plus. It may not be the best possible out come but it is good to know they have saved her. Some very good thinking and handling from Dominick Elsworth as well.
Paul was the first trainer i worked for… he let me go down in my school holidays and at weekends and help out when i was 15. A really top bloke, and he has a wonderful team there.
Was George Baker already there as his assistant trainer at the time? Think he’s done really well so far, especially at placing the formerly infirm or irresolute to win claimers and sellers.
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I think Dominic Elsworth is worth a mention, his decisive action probably saved the fillies life,a genuine horseman if their ever was one!
Hear, hear.
Well done Dominic.
I’m sure those years spent with Sue and Harvey Smith will have impressed upon him the virtues of horsemanship, and fine tuned what natural talents in that regard already existed.
Some of you will also remember his “Le Mans”-style rolling mount of a flighty, troublesome competitor in a Huntingdon novices’ hurdle in October, one of whom he ultimately managed to win the race. That was a bit special. See also https://theracingforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=74716&highlight=dominic+elsworth
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The career of Paul Webber has always puzzled me – when he took over from the dad he quickly showed himself to be a young trainer with immense potential who could one day be challenge for a place at the top table. But that never happened.
Is it a case of him simply not wanting to expand or have the been other problems behind the scenes? I know he was involved in the Oliver Sherwood "underbidding" situation, and from memory he was the bloodstock agent in that loop. So is it simply a case his bloodstock activities have prevented him from devoting enough time to training to make it a serious operation?
Many condemned him for the Oliver Sherwood “underbidding“ situation and without going into detail he probably deserved it!, still,let bygones be bygones and judge the man on his openess and pleasant character!
however,what`s amazing is “`Firefox“ as put my innerer thoughts forward, Webber should either be a trainer or a Bloodstock agent, it doesn`t look serious when you try to do both !
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