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Just the flat – turf only for me.
Got little or no interest in NH racing. And that is convenient because I’m a hardcore PL team supporter. There isn’t enough w/e time to do both football and racing.
Petrol station murder was one death only, other victim reported as surviving.
And Enoch was not right. But that does not invalidate the view that Harrow would be a better place if at least half of its Somali population was deported tomorrow. I am yet to hear of any positives that they bring to the area and many are illegals who HMG refuses to deport. As it stands at the moment, any Somali who arrives the UK will not be deported. Might explain why Harrow and, I’m sure, some other places, is swarming with them.
Ken. I’m pleased to help you out.
LM. I do indeed speak from experience. Been living in my current gaff in the less expensive part of the Hill for 25 years and in a scummier bit of Harrow for a few years before.
I’d recommend the Hill as a place to live. Some decent boozers and restaurants in a close to zero crime area. Generally civilised folk, pleasing buildings and goodish communications by car and rail. And most of it is in a rather strict conservation zone that acts to deter some of the trashier types.
Not handy for any decent racetracks tho’. Sandown and Ascot about an hour away by car. Kempton somewhat less but I’m a Flat person with no interest in AW so that is no use to me. Newbury and Newmarket are closer to two hours. And, a point I should have made in my earlier post, much of the area’s decline is attributable to the closure of Northolt Park racetrack some 60 years ago.
Ken is referring to Harrow on the Hill when he mentions Harrow School etc. That area remains very civilised.
Thing is, the Hill area is just a small refuge standing above the rest of Harrow. Most if not all of the latter is vile.
Readers not familiar with the area need to be aware that the Hill area is quite different to the rest of Harrow. There are various reasons why. The influence of Harrow School is generally positive. It may also be relevant that "ethnic minorities" make up less than 5% of the population if my powers of observation are anywhere near accurate. And real estate prices are rather high but that may be effect rather than cause.
Your example of coke contaminated bank notes is apposite. If, for example, you handled a good few having landed a decent bet at Ascot and a minute amounts of coke got into you, you would feel thoroughly upset if you failed a work related drug test the next day and got fired as a consequence. I’m sure that the same is happening to racehorses and that is unfair.
As to the unknown substances, I guess the horse dopers are normally ahead of the testers if an analogy with human athletes is correct.
My view is that some of the levels are far too low. As I implied upthread, the idea that consuming a tea spoon of normally brewed tea has some stimulative effect on a horse is plainly nonsense. But, in their defence, the BHA would point out that there is little or no research available that determines the level at which banned substances have an effect. Thus the disqualification threshold is set at a trace. I sympathise with that attitude but it does give some silly results.
Methinks that Alex James’ knowledge of narcotics comes more from consuming vast quantities of them whilst the Britpoppers were very successful rather than from researching a telly programme.
And I do rather doubt his new found farming credentials. Does he ever do the mucky jobs (arm up a ewe’s fanny. for example). I’m not entirely confident that he does.
But the bloke does make cheese and that is a noble profession indeed.
Not guilty m’lud of being a washed up bass player.
My nom de bandwidth is that of the finest player to ever pull on an Arsenal shirt. But I bear no resemblance to the greatest ever inside left either.
If it is indeed a feed contamination point, the amount of morphine would be minute – a tiny fraction of what would be required to have a discernible effect.
To prove the theory try getting stoned on the poppy seeds you can buy for human food use. It really will not work. Even a kilo would not get you there and that amount would not really be possible to consume at one sitting (probably half a cubic foot or thereabouts of seed).
Probably unwise to make much of the morphine thing.
Doping rules are a bit silly at times – an egcup full of most of this boards’ users pee would, when added to a winners sample, cause the animal to be disqualified. Caffeine would be detected albeit in the most minute quantities. Daft seeing as it could not affect performance.
Morphine raps are normally due to feed contamination. If just a few, possibly just one, poppy seeds got into the animal via carelessness at a foodmill, there would be enough morphine there to blow a test. Tis unlikely to be connections injecting the animal with heroin.
