Prize Money – Allen/Weaver interview

[guskennedy]

He went on to say he had an owner who won 6 races with a horse in one season. Yet still the owner showed a net loss of £5k after fees. The owner asked how many horses are likely to win 6 in a season – Allen told him you are lucky if you win one race. The owner immediately instructed Allen to sell his horses and got out of racing.

Hmm. Sounds apocryphal to me. A man wealthy enough to own more than one horse but he only troubles to acquaint himself with the economics of the game at the end of the season? Not very likely, is it?

[apracing]

MP,

Try reading what I’ve written. Quote ‘dishonest people in all walks of life’. That’s a clue, OK.

Your Conrad Allen story is easily disproved by a little simple research in the form book. The only horse he has ever trained to win six races in a year was called Prince Aaron, owned by Black Star Racing.

In a period of less than two years, the horse ran 15 times in their colours and won a fraction under £112,000 in prize money. So the basis on which you started this thread is total b*****ks.

Define cheating and I’ll give you an answer. Do you mean owners laying horses on the exchanges? Or do you mean owners conniving with trainer and jockey to ensure horses are stopped?

Overall, you give the impression that you want there to be corruption on a large scale, although I’m bemused as to your reason.

And since you seem so keen on us answering your questions, how about returning the privilege and answering a few yourself for a change.

AP

[Cav]

Irish owners compete for the highest prizemoney per race in Europe. Despite the prizemoney it doesnt make the racing any straighter or less questionable at times than its UK counterpart. Generally speaking UK racing is straighter then it is over here imo.

The trouble is corrupt people are corrupt, they exist in every part of society and they will still want the lot regardless of whether they get 20K for winning a claimer at Wolves or not.

So the integrity question is probably more of an exchange issue than a prizemoney issue.

[MCFC Stan]

You don’t own a horse in order to make money and maybe trainers should look at their fees if prize money doesn’t exceed costs.

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