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I think the fact that today’s card at Musselburgh has been abandoned due to frost is a perfect illustration of the problems facing owners sending horses a long way when the meeting could be off.
The track at Musselburgh doesn’t bear much resemblance to Cheltenham, does it. They couldn’t be more different. To call it a Cheltenham Trials day is an inaccurate description. It is however, a very good card in it’s own right.
To send a horse to Musselburgh from the Lambourn area will cost well into 4 figures. The owner gets that bill even if the horse doesn’t get a run due to a weather cancellation, and the weather recently would leave me worried about that possibility.
Stewards already change results if a rider does something like swerve in front of his rival on the run in. They have to decide if the horse would have won without the interference.
This sort of decisions made in Stewards Enquiries fairly often, and in the main the positions remain unchanged.
The same logic should apply to whip misuse.
If the horse has won 10 lengths going away then the rider gets a ban, if the horse has only won because of whip abuse then reverse the result.
For many trainers travel is a profit centre, many charge about £1 a mile for each horse. Send a 4 stall with 4 on board to a pace 250 miles away, and you’ve billed the owners £2000.
We run lorries and a 7.5t wagon would do that trip for more like £500
Ferdy is a great trainer, and all this talk of pulling horses is garbage. Anyone who actually knows the man will know he passionately wants winners, as many as he can get, and is not going to miss one he could win for anything.
There is no finer horseman in English racing, his horses have longevity and are treated well.
I speak from personal knowledge and I am not a betting man. Could it be that some of those who criticise are embittered punters looking to blame someone else for the bets that didn’t come in?
He looked like he’d been galloped till his head was about to explode. Down the back he was so fired up he was almost out of control. He can’t stay at that level until the spring, one to avoid later in the season for me.
Is there any evidence as to whether the "Easyfix" hurdles used in Ireland are better or worse than the hurdles used in France? They are certainly different.
Is there any evidence as to whether the "Easyfix" hurdles used in Ireland are better or worse than the hurdles used in France? They are certainly different.
Been a bit lazy since I got Equidia and need to make the most of it. Having a look a some of the backend 2yo races would seem a fair place to start. Are there any maidens in particular thar have proved to be consistently influential?
Do you have Equidia in the UK? If so how do you get it?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Chapman is the second most annoying racing presenter currently working, after "Big Mac" of course. All the fake banter and his inept attempts to highlight what he thinks are riding mistakes or bad rides are irritating in the extreme. I will not say any more for fear of accusations of getting jiggy. Yeehaa.
Berk.
CB
The other point that nobody has commented on is what about Northern’s obligations under the lease.
The Council appear to have handed over the fixtures but I am sure the tenant will have covenanted to pay the rent for the duration of the term. Are Northern going to pay rent for the next 17 years for a course they aren’t using?
In a traditional lease arrangement the lessee might try to dispose of the lease by way of assignment; clearly that’s a non-starter unless the fixtures go with it.
And unless he’s ridden a winner or two that I’ve missed the magic 40 winners could put her level at the top of the conditional standings with Henry Brooke.
Wins as an amateur do not count so she will not catch Henry Brooke.
I’ve nothing personal against the people running THG, it is their blundering, foolish boycotting strategy I thoroughly dislike and their way doing business.
Then why start a thread asking if it’s legal, when anyone can see it is?
As you say, the racehorse owners sometimes ignore the position of the Horsemen’s Group. so how can the law have anything to do with something that you believe to be empty rhetoric and most reasonable people perceive as advice?
I think this is very unlikely indeed.
As brilliantly as Lucy Alexander has done as a claimer, I doubt one as shrewd as Ferdy Murphy would trust an inexperienced rider as his stable jockey. Keith Mercer must be among the favourites, along with Denis O’Regan and Paddy Brennan.
Alternatively, perhaps Murphy will decide that his stable doesn’t really require a retained rider and just use the best available on the big days.
Keith Mercer is injured and has been out of action for much of the last year or more. I have not seen any reports of an imminent comeback. PB seems to be southern based, don’t know about DO’R
This is just another round of Anti Horsemen’s Group stuff from Joe; it seems clear he doesn’t like them, and that is his right. We don’t all have to like the same things.
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I believe this declared strategy of THG to deprive racecourses of a product unless the course meets the price fixed by THG, is legally questionable.
is nonsense.
Why only the other day I went in a shop and wanted a chocolate bar, and they deprived me of that product, unless I was prepared to meet their unilaterally imposed price of 75p
It seems to be a simple problem; they don’t have the ammunition. It doesn’t matter how good you are, if you don’t have the horses you cannot win the races.
Mr and Mrs Davidson have gone down from about 25 horses to less than half that over the last 5 years.
Apart from Henderson and Nichols, this is a problem hitting many jumps trainers, the reality of the situation is that owners are not replacing so many horses when their career ends, trainers have ever decreasing numbers and the age profile of the strings is increasing. Racing is not in a good place.
I for one will be delighted to see the end that annoying bloke James Sherwood who comments on the fashion at Ascot.
Channel 4 irritate me with the fact the screen is almost always obscured by betting information, I don’t want to know the odds I want to see the horses.
If I were a serious gambler I would have the computer on with an exchange up on the screen.
