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Don’t think there’s any lack of fitness showing in Capricornus’ run; I think that’s as good as he is.
That ‘air cushion stick thing’ Davy Russell uses must pack some punch. The other two must have been waving peacock feathers at their mounts!
Mr Fisher, Davy broke the rules as they stand – however silly you or I (and I do) think they are – and so will rightfully serve his ban. It’s the same for everyone.
And I always thought that Down Royal was in Ireland?
Brandon Thomas and Pillar of Hercules were both second at Huntingdon today, and Charingworth was unlucky not to do better than third in the Listed Chase at Wetherby yesterday.
Unless you have seen the horse it’s all a bit meaningless. There are plenty I’ve looked at which have a leg or some other problem, and understandably sell for buttons
Just watch some dressage and you will see that the rider has total control of which leg the horse is on. They can ask them to change every stride to get a skipping effect.
Whilst jockeys don’t have the contact that a dressage rider does a good horseman will get his horse on the correct leg for the bends.
In fact horses that are repeatedly on the "wrong" leg round the bends are sometimes telling you they are uncomfortable in some way.
What happened to Inglis Drever ?
Last I heard, the Best Hurdler in the World, ever, was retired at owner Graham Wylie’s Chesters Stud at Humshaugh. Thankfully in careful and experienced hands.
I think you will find he was euthanised in 2009 as a result of colic.
The bottom tier could be called "regional racing" and as it is difficult to handicap these letter lights we could put the horses into handicap rating bands.
Oh, hang on a minute, haven’t we been here before?
Talking of Ascot did anyone notice the way Derrick Smith almost pushed Fitri Hay out of the way when she was leading in Fame and Glory? Aiden tried to reinstate her at the horse’s head, but Smith, ever the gent, was having none of it!
Is there anywhere on the internet where I can get a breakdown of what the courses receive from Turf TV/SIS from their picture rights (per race) ?
For publicly quoted companies this is in the public domain. Arena Leisure have just done a new deal which raises media rights income from about £10M a year to about £20M.
I understand that Arena host about 25% of all british racing. Arithmetic tends to suggest that there’s £80M or so coming into racing from a source that didn’t even exist a few years ago.
I think he refers mainly to the Betfair Forum which is a completely different sort of thing to the more considered forums, such as this place, Talking Horses and Neigh.
I find the Betfair Forum daft
I think there’s a bit of both. Training and schooling techniques have improved, this is also the reason humans run much faster now than only 50 years ago.
However, fences are much softer now, so will penalise a mistake without necessarily decking the horse.
So looking at the penalties it seems that so long as the trainer can afford the fines then they can just continue doing anything they want with medication?
