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In fairness to Nichols, at least he runs his horses regularly throughout the season.
It’s baffling that the early season UK grade 1 races have such poor fields, when they are UK trainers best chances of winning.
Looking at the list of UK grade 1 winners prior to Cheltenham, any who have raced this week have been stuffed.
Blackbow (Shan Blue)
Mrs Milner and The Bosses Oscar (Milliner)
Melon nap (Min)
Beacon Edge (Flooring Porter)
Caribean Boy (Mr Whitaker)
Hook Up (Royal Kahala)
Deise Aba (plan of attack)Bravemansgame (bob olinger)
Monkfish (dickie diver)
Grand roi and birchdale (janika)
Chacun pour soi (rouge vif)
Easysland (Le breuil)
Ar jaune de semoza (entoucas)
Sir gerhard nap (kilcruit)There is no other way to describe it…ITV were a disgrace today.
That Covid segment was horrendous. People tune in to watch the racing and the horses, not to listen to the broadcasting equivalent of a suicide note.
They wasted time doing a whole feature on it.
Racing fans would much rather see a feature on a small stable or a jockey getting a rare grade one or fancies Cheltenham ride. Chris Honour or Brian Carver, Harriet Graham, Paul Webber, Rex Dingle…there were any amount of lesser known racing people that they could have used that time to give us a bit of insight into, any amount of owners pouring money into the sport, but no, we were assaulted with the Covid feature. Dreadful stuff.
The social stable is an effort at keeping non racing folk happy…totally unnecessary to be wasting time on that rubbish.
Harvey who is normally ok, said Epatante is LITERALLY half the size of the others. At a similar point he referred to the ‘earlier handicaps’ when at that point there had been only 1 earlier handicap. Small things, but it’s not unreasonable to expect better.
Cumani hasn’t a notion, going on about group 1’s, painful to listen to. I think just a token effort at a gender balance.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better effort, but not a good start at all.
Blue lord (ballyadam)
Franco de port (shishkin)
Milan Native (ok corral)
Sharjah nap (epatante)
Concertista (roksana)
Riviere detel and coltor (busselton)
Escaria ten (lord royal)The IHRB looking into who took the photo is a smoke screen.
The person who took the photo wasn’t doing anything wrong, the person sitting on a dead horse having a laugh and joke was the person who did wrong.
A scandalous decision by the IHRB to give the same sentence to both Elliott and James.
Many posters have already highlighted that james doesn’t have the luxury of continuing to operate whole hiding behind someone else’s name on a racecard.
The other thing is that the IHRB have held an amateur (James) to the same standard as a professional (Elliott). This isn’t right.
I think he got away quite lightly:
– no mention in the verdict of the bogus statement he released earlier in the week
– 12 months with 6 suspended is a cop out just to make the sentence seem harsher
– Practical implications means he’ll only miss 2 months of the proper national hunt season.
In typically Irish fashion one of the people on the IHRB hearings Committee is Judge Leonie Reynolds, a sister of Phillip Reynolds the owner of Presenting Percy.
The fact that Elliot was running a fully operational illegal bar in his premises seems to have gone totally under the radar too.
I don’t think it matters remotely who took the photo.
The main issue is the photo displays an attitude…Elliot’s attitude towards a horse who just died on his watch. Even for a trainer with hundreds of horses and possibly accustomed to such unfortunate occurances, surely there should have been an ounce of sadness at the event.
The photograph displays an emotional disconnect between the trainer and his horse. And this disconnect certainly wasn’t the horses fault.
Horse racing relies on a public perception that the horse is treated with dignity and respect, and with great love.
This photograph seriously damages that perception.
It on fact creates an impression that this horse was viewed by his trainer as little more than the equivalent of a battery chicken.
Can someone answer this…what business is this of the BHA?
They’d be far better off concerning themselves with one of the leading UK owners keeping his daughter hostage, while they continue to accept his money in race sponsorship.
In relation to Elliott… always struck me as a bit of a Del Boy type.
Either way, I wouldn’t be surprised if this photograph somehow came to prominence as an act of revenge. As the saying goes, hell has no fury…
“Your one of these ‘take-out merchants’, take out all you can”… that famous B Curley quote is applicable to Mr C.
The Juvenile Handicap hurdle should be the first to be scrapped.
It weakens the triumph and very few of the horses who usually run in the race have enough form in the book to be able to give an accurate handicap mark to.
The best juveniles should be in the triumph and anything else should be left at home. The need for 2 races designed specifically for horses of the same age is beyond me.Id say no prominent trainers have come out to criticise because a pointing finger means 3 pointing back. There are a lot of big trainers all over the world who are not whiter than white when it comes to drugging horses.
Specifically in relation to Charles Byrnes, yes i think he does some pretty questionable things, and there is plenty of evidence to suggest that his horses arent always trying their best, but this case at Tramore seems far to amateurish for an experienced trainer like Byrnes.
He would have known that giving the horse so much sedative, that it would fall foul of the testing limits. There are numerous ways to stop a horse winning without having to inject dangerous amounts of sedative into it.
For that reason i do think it is actually believable that the horse was injected by a 3rd party, who then sought to make money on the exchanges.
If it was purely Byrnes, I think he would have come up with a far more subtle plan to make sure the horse didnt win. Bring the horse in a state of unfitness, ask the jockey to sit and wait, run wide, get caught in traffic, make a few jumping errors etc
It is hard to believe that a clever man, just decided to inject massive amounts of sedative.
A very good jockey.
Rule the World is what everyone remembers but two other rides that stick out for me is Kemboys win at leopardstown and Faugheens win in the 3 mile hurdle at Punchestown.
I cant recall him ever really making a big mistake on a fancied horse.
I had my previous message posted before the race started. An awful jumper and I doubt will ever be seen over fences again.
I think a few posters here are over-rating Asterion forlonge.
I wasn’t impressed with his jumping on debut, and he seemed to be jumping a bit better in Limerick early on, but he fell.
Id be interested in hearing what peoples thoughts are on this:
Is it easier to win a race off level weights by 12 lengths or to win by 1 length giving 11 pounds? In theory they should be the same, but I think its easier to carry the extra weight and win by a short distance.
