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Nailed in the last! Arggggggggghhh! Never mind – well done Young Mick and to Carraciola – ( I was agonisingly close in the first race).
Thanks for running this – its been lots of fun (and plenty of sweating too!) and its probably the best finishing position I’ve had for a while.
2.30 Emperor Claudius (Beethoven)
3.05 Doctor Freemantle (Bronze Cannon)
3.45 Ialysos (JJ The Jet Plane)
4.25 High Standing (Genki)
5.00 Ghimaar (Hatton Flight)
5.35 Amerigo (Halla San)2.35 Aegean (Lillie Langtry)
3.05 Black Bear Island (Native Ruler)
3.45 Ghanaati (Elusive Wave)
4.20 Khateeb (Stone of Scone)
4.55 Dhushan (Mastery)
5.30 Silver Guest (Musaalem)2.30 Monsieur Chevalier (Yogaroo)
3.05 Take the Hint (Lecorno)
3.45 Yeats (Patkai)
4.20 Mirrored (Uniquely Poised)
4.55 Freemantle (Four Winds)
5.30 Quai D’Orsay (Highland Glen)2.30 Infiraad (Loch Linnhe)
3.05 Lush Lashes (Heaven Sent)
3.45 Tartan Bearer (Vision d’Etat)
4.20 Mia’s Boy (Roaring Forte)
4.55 Jealous Again (Grand Zafeen)
5.30 Moonlife (Say No Now)I’ll give it a go!
2.30 Gladiatorus (Paco Boy)
3.05 Amour Propre (Fleeting Spirit)
3.45 Delegator (Evasive)
4.20 Canford Cliffs (Red Jazz)
4.55 Kayf Aramis (Woolfall Treasure)
5.30 Strike the Tiger (Angel’s Pursuit)Excellent answer by Ken!
Seriously, Happy, I would imagine the best thing is for the trainer to shut his yard down and just keep them ticking over rather than doing any sort of work that will put them under pressure. There are loads of different viruses around which will linger as each horse succumbs to it. Quite often it isn’t spotted if the trainer doesn’t blood test regularly until tlhe secondary bacterial infection sets in which appears as snotty nose, coughing etc. Young racehorses are like school children in that they pick up every bug going until their immunity gets stronger. You really are better letting these things run their course. Some trainers imo go overboard and dose their horses up with antibiotics when they arrive as yearlings thinking it will give them protection long term – total codswallop and a waste of money!
There is an outside chance that the water may be affected by nitrates (what I suffered from for 4 years!) but its unlikely in Lambourn. However, if you go down to the yard get a sample from the yard tap and test it using a nitrate kit you get for fish. If its dark orange/red – you know theres a problem. Often water supplies get switched from one to another and with alot of arable farming around, nitrates can leak into the water supply as in Blewbury. Nitrates stop the oxygen being taken by haemogloblin in the red blood cells to the muscles so when push comes to shove in a race, your horse finds nothing even though it looks well and nothing shows up in blood tests.
He may have felt she was fighting the noseband on the way to the start though and would have been happier without it.
Think Wiggy will just get a standard fine – probably no more than £150. Don’t think that the HRA don’t keep an eye on repeat offenders though – often these trainers are targeted for spot checks in their yards to check all is above board. They do however have to act within their rules and if the individual hasn’t breached them, then there is not alot they can do.
The Disciplinary Ctte are pretty tough and will watch races very very thoroughly noting those trainers who have been found guilty of being easy on their horses in the past.
I would imagine the scenario went something like this:
Horse is led into stabling area which is covered by CCTV. Careless groom accompanying horse administers what is most likely a substance along the lines of a "calmer" – a mild usually herbal based product designed to help the horse cope with its nerves (Incidentally one 1,000 Guineas winner of recent times was quite openly trained and raced on one of these products with much success). CCTV picks up groom administering substance and veterinary officer is sent to investigate. On ordering groom to turn out their pockets (in this case empty all bags containing horse stuff in stables), empty syringe of substance is found. It is highly probable it is an opaque syringe with the manufacturers label on it.
HOWEVER! HRA rules state that a horse must consume nothing but hay, water & feed on the day of a race and no other substances although should they be given in the horsebox on the way to the races, they will not test positive to any banned substance.
Hope this helps!
As you are not the athlete in question (the horse is) I don’t think you have any right to "appearance money." Horses themselves do get appearance money for particular races and all Sunday racing – this money however does not go back to the individual horse in the form of carrots/polos but goes into the pocket of the owner (small percentage to trainer) so I think you are adequately provided for?
Hugely unlucky there, Guys! Listening to commentary so not easy to make out what was happening but I gather winner lost her stirrups but still pipped you?
Still great run and I hope some of you were on e/w – fingers crossed next time – sounds like a win is overdue!
Well ordinarily I would have said welcome to the forum, Richard, but I find your first post somewhat rude. I don’t know what photograph you are referring to – perhaps you could enlighten us?
1. Paddock watch – the clues are there – if a horse looks well in its skin, it should run well.
2. Big feet – soft ground
3. Small feet – firm ground(Rainbow View has I noticed today – pretty big feet!)
I’m not one to publically slag trainers knowing how hard a job it is but I have to say running your filly here was IMO pretty ridiculous. I appreciate you have been waiting a long time to get her on the track and the guaranteed prize money of £279.60 hugely appealing but I can’t see that the filly will have got anything out of this experience except the feeling of utter dejection being beaten a total of 42 lengths. And yes before anyone asks horses do get demoralised being left behind that far. I just can’t see why you would run a horse first time out in a conditions race against 86plus rated horses with experience when you could go for a bog standard Median Auction race at an equally flat track. For me horses need that first run to be a good experience which they enjoy not finishing in the next county. She will have learnt precious little from it except that shes not very fast.
Just been informed Eoghan has decided to relocate to France to continue training. He has purchased a yard & the vast majority of his owners are sticking with him so I hope all goes well for him out there.
Having had first hand experience of both owners and training, I guess I should comment!
Firstly, I would just like to say Network Racing were an excellent bunch of owners to deal with!
I do appreciate that many owners do get frustrated by their trainers not running when they want to or in the wrong races but I would hope that I had a good enough relationship with that owner to work with them to decide what is best for both owner and horse. I was very concientious to discover which track suited each horse best and also the right jockey. For instance – I latterly used Adam Kirby for Kahlua Bear who was a bit idle but quite a big horse who needed someone to get stuck into him. When Adam was unable to ride one day, I stuck on Adrian McCarthy who got on really well with Taj (she was small as was he!) and when KBear came into straight, Adrian said he gave him a slap and he thought the horse didn’t like it – but the horse was a great one for taking the p*ss and Adam got him right first time. SO I would hope to be able to pick the right jockey although obviously if an owner didn’t like a particular jockey then I wouldn’t use them on their horse out of respect.
I don’t feel that owners should enter the horse as they are not there in charge of the training seeing the horses welbeing and when he is ready to run. Sure I have no problem in arranging for horses to run at particular tracks/meeting – injuries/fitness/ground depending but if I was "told" by an owner that the horse was running in such and such a race next week then I would have a problem with it. If as an owner you feel you are better at doing the entries than the trainer, then perhaps you should go off, spend £2100 on the training modules and set yourself up. I wouldn’t dictate to a trained plumber/car mechanic/accountant etc how to do their job and I wouldn’t expect an owner to do the same. It can be very hard finding the right race for the horse at the right time despite going through the Programme book/online months in advance.
It should be a case of good honest communication between trainer and owner and left at that.
