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My thoughts are,that if trainers find it useful to know the weight of their horses it might, just might, be of use to the punter.
Yet surprisingly few trainers do weigh their horses. Of the yards that I have been involved with over the years I have only encountered only one that had a weighing machine. The horses there were weighed regularly, meticulous records kept, and the trainer would only race them when he considered their weight to be "correct". His results, though, have been nothing to write home about over the last few seasons and I doubt very much whether his approach confers any advantage over the trainers who judge fitness by eye.
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Had the horse been weighed and this information made public it is likely the horse would have been a market drifter rather than a moderately punted 4/1 third fav (touched 5/1).
But for this information to be any use to punters, they would need to know the horse’s weight when it last raced in 2006! Does Philip Hobbs weigh his horses? I don’t know.
Regardless of how the animal looked, or who the trainer was, it would surely be a huge risk to back any horse first-time back after a 3-year layoff.
David Hunter, the Fakenham C-o-C, might be described as a trifle eccentric, albeit very competent. This flowery going report has DH written all over it.
Don’t quite understand the point that the OP is making. This loudspeaker system has been in use for the last couple of seasons at Cheltenham and Aintree and has now been introduced at all NH courses. It’s for the benefit of the jockeys only; not the TV viewers, or anyone else.
Tom’s Toybox was subsequently taken away in the horse ambulance, and RUK reported that he’d suffered a fractured fetlock. Hopefully the vets have been able to save him, but in any event his racing days must be over.
Four, possibly five, fatalities; a grim day indeed for Wetherby.
The jockey on No. 23 wouldn’t be the Pavel Slozil that I remember as a somewhat rotund, moustacheoed journeyman tennis player of the 1980s would he?
Of course not, but it’s an amusing thought.
Clouds the issue???
Isn’t it wholly predictable that the Sunday Torygraph would somehow fail to mention that the UK’s budgeted contribution towards the EU in 2010-11 has a shortfall of £2.4bn because — and ONLY because — of an unfavourable movement in the £/€ exchange rate?
All the other bluster about what Blair did or didn’t do at the European Council in 2005 is irrelevant (and I detest the man just as much as you do).
The only reason for this large increase is the collapse of the Pound w.r.t. the Euro, and just another consequence of the Blair government’s lily-livered refusal to take the UK into the Eurozone during their first term.
England in deep dooh-dah at 20-2 at tea. Can’t see them getting out of this one. Australia have been so superior in every aspect of the game, this just looks a cruel mismatch.
Larry Stefanki hit the nail on the head when he said that Murray’s passive style means he is unlikely to progress beyond the semis at Wimbledon. That’s not to say that he can’t win a Slam on a hard court. He can and probably will. Great "defensive" players like Borg and Nadal modified their games when they played on grass and Murray will need to do the same.
Another 5th-set thriller in the Men’s final, just like last year…..9-9 at present. Win or lose, Andy Roddick is playing the best tennis of his life.
Drone and others have quoted the first part of Paragraph 21. That part is damning enough. However the paragraph goes on:
Henderson’s explanation for the omission of any record of TA administration on 19 February to MOONLIT PATH and for the omission of any record of the previous ocassions when it was given to other horses was this. He assumed that the omission was deliberate and was decided upon by one of his assistants (probably Tom Symonds in the case of MOONLIT PATH). He thinks they must have done this because they were aware of the Instruction C9 ban on race day treatments, (of which he himself was partially ignorant because he thought it was only a ban on giving anything other than food or water when on the racecourse).
It seems from this that he has tried to drop young Tom Symonds well and truly in it — it’s little surprise that Henderson’s barrister would not agree to Tom being called as a witness — and has attempted to wriggle out by presenting some preposterous, unbelievable story about being ignorant of the rule. Not, imo, the actions of an honourable man.
I imagine as people on horseracing forums, and in the media, read and digest the full enquiry judgement published on the BHA website, they will be less and less inclined to leap to Henderson’s defence.
Perth, which today endured similar temperatures and humidity levels to Worcester, showed that jump racing under these conditions can be staged safely provided some (obvious) precautions are taken.
It does however require a certain degree of foresight, common sense and planning ability on the part of the racecourse management, qualities that
are seemingly in short supply at Worcester.Despite the CoC’s valiant attempts to stick to the official party line, the fact remains that if there had been an adequate supply of water, racing would have gone ahead.
Leaking pipes, hoses that don’t fit, inadequate number of bowsers, etc. etc., on what was forecast to be the hottest day of the year, all point to managerial incompetence and indifference. Worcester seems to have a death-wish, and if today’s events serve to hasten the closure of the decrepit dump, I for one won’t be sorry.
gc, I’ve just discovered that Ski’s owner/breeder is Charlie Longsdon’s new landlord. Not much encouragement from last night’s performance I wouldn’t have thought.
The place was absolutely heaving judging by the ATR transmission. I wouldn’t like to have been stuck in the queue getting out.
At least with an orchestra of 50 or so players in attendance, they’ll be guaranteed to double their normal gate.
Those of you lucky enough to be there will be able to witness another step in the remarkable career of an 8-y-o mare called
Ski
, who runs in the opening Novices Hurdle and whose form figures in points read: PPPPPFPBR/RPPPP4. She seems to have turned over a new leaf under Rules however, as letters have yet to appear in the form figures for her runs in that sphere (4-7).
While I admire the optimism of the owner/breeder in persevering with this beast, I wonder what on earth persuaded Charlie Longsdon to take over her training?
