Two owners, five jockeys and six others with serious

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Richard
And just how many jockeys have been warned-off for actually "throwing a race" – 2?…3? – a very small minority at worst, and nothing like the number who have had their careers curtailed for passing on information. And where does that information arise from, if not from the very few jockeys who’d deliberately stop a horse independently?
Regardless of who passes the information on (and there’s a great many more than just jockeys doing it) the stable has to be complicit in some way in furnishing these losers (there cannot realistically be any other conclusion), and though you seem to be ignoring the point completely – again, in the vast majority of cases – the trainer has to be involved for these horses that are about to lose to be known in the first place.
It’s the nature of the beast that no one can put an accurate figure on either scenario, but for every instance you can name of a jockey stopping a horse against the trainer’s wishes, I could probably point to hundreds where horses were deliberately sent out not to win, and that is racing’s real problem – the one that both you and the BHA blithely choose to ignore whilst setting your caps against those with a minor role in this dishonesty; most of whom are riding to instruction anyway.

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Reet Hard,
You miss the point big time. The reason it is a few years ago is a) never again had a runner in such a lowly rated flat race and b) being older and wiser I now know (in conjunction with trainers) which jocks not to put on an odds on favourite.

Having said that, it is my experience and understanding that the number of flat jocks that will take money to throw a race (or communicate info for profit that a horse is not going to win on that day) is a small minority of those riding and because of the HRA actions that number is smaller than it was a few years ago. But there are some still riding and it would be better for horseracing if they were not – assumimg a due and proper investigation and hearing. Get rid of the jocks that are prepared to do these things and the criminals who would have bribed them are out of business.

richard

Whether you choose to believe or not, I know, but have no admissable evidence, of young jockeys corrupted by trainers. Whether the owners were complicit I do not know.

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