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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horser … otive.html
Bigoted and prejudicial. Vile even by Daily Telegraph standards.
On the subject of coniving anyone know when he and his wife are next due in court ? Perverting the course of justice isn’t it ?
"Why? Because the sport in France has become the poor relation of Britain "
Surely one of the most ignorant trainers in the UK and that is now achieving a new low.
Earlier post from The Vintner:
30 Apr 2011 01:36
Not only is the prize money twice that of GB racing (€21.8k as opposed to €11.7k per race),but in 2008 the French also gave out €53.8m in breeders premiums, €33.6m in owners premiums and €10m in travelling allowances (whatever the hell that is?… I guess the help you pay for the petrol it takes to get to the racecourse?). So on top of the €383million in prizemoney they gave out that year, the total they gave back to racing came to €485m.
In the same year GB returned €113m, of which €111 was in prizemoney and €1.7m in breeders premiums.
In that year, the French bet a total of approx €9.5billion on a total of 17,838 races (the majority, over 60%, of all races in France are Trotting races). That works out to an average of about €530k per race.
The Brits bet a little over €11billion on almost half as many races, 9628 between jumps and flat. That’s an average of €1.14m bet per race.So the French bet less than half as much, yet their races are worth twice as much (plus tens of millions in owners and breeders premiums thrown in for good measure).
Trial last announced as September 2013.
Ahh but we musn’t let the truth get in the way of a good bit of racial stereotyping.
I’m also pretty sure that the French have said it is ok for him to ride over here and it is the BHA that won’t let him. I read that they just want him to see the medical committe before he rides over there.
In that year, the French bet a total of approx €9.5billion on a total of 17,838 races (the majority, over 60%, of all races in France are Trotting races). That works out to an average of about €530k per race.
The Brits bet a little over €11billion on almost half as many races, 9628 between jumps and flat. That’s an average of €1.14m bet per race.An irrelevance. What matters is what percentage of the profit from betting goes back to racing. French racing has a monopoly over betting; they take all the profit. The UK does not. So how much each authority can return to the sport as prize money bears no relation to the amount gambled. There are lies, damned lies and statist… well, you get my point.
Brooks’ article makes a relevant point – but to start it off with the perfidious French, Iraq invasion/meat embargo bullsh!t detracts from his argument. He’d have been better getting straight to the point.
It doesn’t help his credibility (if he has any in the first place) when he cannot even get basic facts like Nick Lees role at Leicester correct – he’s Chairman not Clerk Of The Course.
From RP online today
FRANKIE DETTORI’S return to the saddle has stalled after it emerged that France Galop is awaiting the results of a B sample taken from the world-famous jockey.
Irregularities in a recent test have led to a request from Dettori for the B sample to be tested. Each drug sample taken by a racing authority is split into equal parts with the first, the A sample, sent for testing and the B sample retained for use if required.
The outcome of the second test will determine when Dettori can return to action.
He had been due to return at Leicester on Monday after a six-month ban following a positive test for cocaine last September.
However, the comeback was delayed when the BHA said it was awaiting results of the three tests from France Galop.
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