CHANNEL 4 THE MORNING LINE LINK UP WITH DONCASTER NEWBURY AND AINTREE SATURDAY OCTOBER 22nd 7.55am to 8.55am EVERY SATURDAY

http://www.channel4.com/sport/microsites/H/horse_racing/ 

LIVE ON C4 HEARTS WILL BE RACING TODAY AT DONCASTER, NEWBURY AND FROM AINTREE THE 3.30 CHASE

THROUGH THE KEYHOLE THE CLUES ARE THERE, AN INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING PROGRAM GUIDE WITH PREVIEWS, REVIEWS, KEY CURRENT NEWS, UPDATES, ALL RELEVENT TO THIS AFTERNOONS LIVE ACTION FROM THESE THREE TURF TRACKS

NEWS RACING POST WEEK MONDAY 17th TO SUNDAY 23rd OCTOBER 2011

http://www.turfcall2-racingpost.blogspot.com/ 

http://turfcall2-racingpost.blogspot.com/2011/10/racing-post-monday-october-17th-2011.html

GRAHAM DENCH TODAY'S BIG TALKING POINT

HIT OR MYTH? QUANDARY FOR PUNTERS OVER TWO YEAR OLD COLT CAMELOT ....

BEWARE TAKING A SHORT PRICE ABOUT THE RACING POST TROPHY FAVOURITE

“IF THE BETTING is to be believed Aidan O’Brien’s CAMELOT is more or less past the post in the Racing Post Trophy – he is as short as evens for this afternoon’s contest the 3.00pm (RPT)  at Doncaster and no bigger than 12-1 clear favourite for next years Investec Derby. Yet it requires a huge leap of faith to go in at cramped odds now. Available at 5-2 on Tuesday, when the stable’s Royal Lodge winner DADDY LONG LEGS was still in the equation, he is a crazy price for a once-raced colt whose debut win in a five-runner maiden at Leopardstown has been let down not only by runner-up  ALL APPROVED, who was beaten for a sixth successive time at Bellewstown on his last start and boasts a Racing Post Rating of just 76, but also by third-placed FORT SAM HOUSTON, who has since been beaten at Killarney and Listowel.

“ CAMELOT could only beat what was put before him and there is no denying he won readily after coming from last to first, but he still has a great deal to prove. What is more, while many will take encouragement from O’Brien’s five wins in the last 13 runnings of today’s Group 1, it has not always been the Ballydoyle No 1 who has done best in the Racing Post Trophy.  Short  - priced favourites who have been included EAGLE MOUNTAIN,  fourth at 8-11 in 2006 ....

SEPTIMUS, third at 5-6 the year before that and the eminently forgettable CASTLE GANDOLFO, beaten by his brilliant stablemate HIGH CHAPARRAL when  8-13 in 2001. In fact, CAMELOT’S stablemate LEARN, although more exposed, clearly has better form and so for that matter do Listed winner FENCING, easy Newmarket maiden winner ENCKE, Somerville Tattersall third  ZIP TOP and Solario winner  TELWAR, who is the only Group winner in the field yet a complete rag in the betting.  Still fancy taking short odds?

“While the Racing Post Trophy pretty much represents the last knockings of the domestic turf season, the unexpected return of duel Queen Mother Champion Chase winner MASTER MINDED in Aintree’s Old Roan Chase will for many fans herald the start of the jumps season proper. Sadly MASTER MINDED appears to have frightened off most of the opposition in this limited handicap, run this year in celebration of the race’s three - time winner MONET’S GARDEN, but ALBERTA’S RUN, who chased MASTER MINDED home at a respectful nine lengths in the Melling Chase in April, will be no pushover in receipt of 10lb.

“Back on the Flat, many punters will be drawn to Newbury’s Totescoop6 HBLB Handicap, which has attracted just the sort of field the Levy Board were hoping for when they threw £30,000 at it.

“Luca Cumani has the first two in the betting in KIRTHILL and NAQSHABBAN, but they bet 11-2 the 16- runner field and this is truly a race in which a good case can be made for a dozen or more. It is one of two new £50,000 handicaps at Newbury – the other is a hurdle on New Year’s Eve – and there will hopefully be more such initiatives in 2012 on Saturdays that are thought likely to benefit particularly from a high value and higher quality handicap." END

C4 RACES TO BE SHOWN LIVE THIS AFTERNOON ARE:

DONCASTER Flat Turf

LIVE C4

2.00 Join racingpost.com Members' Club Handicap (Class 2) for 3yo+ over 5f

winner £12,450

 WIN:  STEPS (IRE) 3 8-10 partner NEIL CALLAN handler presenter? trainer Roger Varian for Michael Hill 25-1 from FACE THE PROBLEM

LIVE C4

2.30 Bet Through The Racing Post App Stakes (Registered As The Doncaster Stakes (Listed Race) (Class 1) for 2yo's over 6f winner £12,728

WIN:  GUSTO 2 9-1 partner DANE O'NEILL handler presenter? trainer Richard Hannon for Highclere Thoroughbred Racing-Rock Sand 8-1 from CHUNKY DIAMON

LIVE C4 Feature Race

3.00 Racing Post Trophy (Group 1) (Entire Colts and Fillies) for 2yo's over 1m
winner £131,567.20

WIN:  CAMELOT 2 9-0 partner J P O'BRIEN handler presenter RANJU  GAIKWAD trainer A P O'Brien (IRE) for D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor. 10-11f  from ZIP TOP 8-1

WHAT a race, what a colt, what a performance, brilliant, unforgettable, a joy to watch, bringing  hope amid the troubled times over Whip tactic confusion, brought about by failed British regulation ongoing over decades of neglect, letting the young ones down big time. 

NEWBURY Flat Turf
LIVE C4
2.15 Worthington's Highfield Social Club Stakes (Registered As Horris Hill) (Group 3) (Colts and Geldings) (Class 1) for 2yo's over 7f winner £19,261.40
WIN:  TELL DAD 2 8-12 partner EDDIE AHERN handler presenter? trainer Richard Hannon for Andrew Tinkler  7-1 from SAIGON 15-8f . 4l+

LIVE C4
2.45 Worthington's Champion Shield Stakes (Registered As The St Simon
Stakes) (Group 3) (Class 1) for 3yo+ over 1m 4f+ winner £28,355
WIN: BEATEN UP 3 8-10 partner J MURTAGH handler presenter? trainer William Haggas for B Haggas 7-2 from AL KAZEEM 5-2f

LIVE C4
3.15 totepool Stakes (Registered As The Radley Stakes) (Listed Race) (Fillies) (Class 1) for 2yo fillies over 7f winner £12,192.65
WIN: PIMPERNEL (IRE) 2 8-12 partner FRANKIE DETTORI handler presenter? trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni  Evens f from SEMAYYEL 40-1

 LIVE C4
3.45 totescoop6 HBLB Handicap (Class 2) for 3yo's + over 1m2f
 winner £31,125
WIN: KIRTHILL 3 8-8 (IRE) partner KIEREN FALLON handler presenter? trainer Luca Cumani  for Leonidas Marinopoulos 11-2f from PIVOTMAN 20-1


AINTREE Jumps Turf Feature Race
LIVE C4
3.30 Betfred Monet's Garden Old Roan Chase (Limited Handicap) (Grade 2) (Class 1) for 4yo's + over 2m4f Mildmay.  winner £28,475
WIN ALBERTAS RUN 10 11-0 partner A P McCOY handler presenter KATE HANSON  trainer Jonjo O'Neill for Trevor Hemmings 5-2 from PURE FAITH 20-1 from MASTER MINDED 2-5f

Tote Scoop6 Betting and Results

ToteScoop6 races for today Saturday October 22nd 2011 

 http://www.totesport.com/portal?action=GoClass&ev_class_id=2&Sports-Betting-Horse-Racing 

Leg 1. 2.00 Doncaster BONUS RACE 

Leg 2. 2.15 Newbury 

Leg 3. 2.30 Doncaster

Leg 4. 2.45 Newbury 

Leg 5. 3.15 Newbury 

Leg 6. 3.45 Newbury

There were 9 winners of the Scoop6 last Saturday who won £54,599 each. They will be playing for the Bonus fund of £556,699 this Saturday. They will need to pick the winner of race 1, the 2.00 at Doncaster. If they fail, any winners of this week’s Scoop6 will play for an even larger bonus fund next week.

C4 HISTORY IN THE MAKING THE NEW LIVE MORNING LINE

HORSERACING TEAM TODAY ARE:

NICK (Lord Snooty) LUCK Host, presenter broadcaster
THE WHIP ISSUE discussed throughout the first half of today’s Morning Line.  The concern this has, and is causing, and rightly so,  needs now to be sorted out properly, not just seen to be rectified by the poor standards of the BHA regulation people.
Bloodhorse Illiterate
http://twitter.com/#!/nickluck/status/72761794954924032
http://www.racehorseowners.net/en/news/horseracing-tweets.cfm

GUEST STAR KEVIN DARLEY BLOODHORSE LITERATE
KEVIN has spent his lifetime gifting his talents to horseracing at the highest level attempting at present to get some squeak of response from the bloodhorse illiterate regulators. (BHA) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Darley
http://www.jockeysroom.com/itm00155.htm
http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=racing/07/11/10/RACING_Darley.html

GUEST STAR FELIX FRANCIS

Please see info to close herewith. 

TANYA (Tipbits) STEVENSON brings us her  BETTING BULLETIN’S and introduces

us to PAUL KEALLY Betting Editor for the Racing Post 

Form Specialist Broadcaster up to the minute on line betting stats, market movers. Bloodhorse Illiterate. Email Tanya: racing@channel4.com

MIKE (Cat) CATTERMOLE Presenter broadcaster
Bloodhorse Illiterate
http://twitter.com/#!/nickluck/status/72761794954924032
http://www.racehorseowners.net/en/news/horseracing-tweets.cfm

New website at: www.MikeCattermole.com
Call his agent, Nick Higgins on +44 (0) 7796 99 68 99 or

http://www.jockeysroom.com/MikeCattermole.

SIMON HOLT CALLING THE HORSES

Commentator broadcaster presenter Bloodhorse illiterate

SIMON has continued to cover many important events including the Cheltenham Festival, 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas, St Leger, King George VI Chase and, from 2007, Glorious Goodwood. He also called the Irish Derby once (in 2000 when Sinndar triumphed as RTE used the BBC's Jim McGrath to call the race in the absence of Tony O'Hehir), as well as the 2001 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe when the TV rights briefly transferred from the BBC to Channel 4. Bloodhorse illiterate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Holt_(commentator)

PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

J MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL
HORSERACING REGULATION

CLOSE  on a year ago now the British Horseracing Authority (BHA Regulation) made the decision that a whip review was needed. Following which we are led to believe that the Australian Jamie Stier and veterinary Tim Morris were chosen to lead this review.
 

One would have thought the very first thing that this BHA whip team needed to do was to set out a document with the title ‘WHIP TACTICS’ 

1.       ACCEPTABLE BLOODHORSE LITERATE WHIP TACTICS

            

2.      UNACCEPTIBLE  BLOODHORSE ILLITERATE WHIP TACTICS

TODAY after all this time and a 78 page BHA Whip Review Document published just weeks ago, coming into effect on Monday October 10^th  and without any trial period, has proved a shocking and drastic disaster on all fronts, even contaminating the French rider Christophe Soumillon with horrendous punishment. This whole BHA regulation issue handled by a team of unqualified Bloodhorse Illiterate BHA  team workers. 

GUEST STAR FELIX FRANCIS SHOWS US HIS NEW BOOK - GAMBLE

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GAMBLE STRAIGHT INTO TOP TEN           GAMBLE by Felix Francis has gone straight into the Top Ten UK Hardback Bestseller chart at reaching No. 7, three days into its UK release. Read some of the fantastic UK and US reviews here: “Nonpareil jockey/suspense writer Dick Francis's son Felix, who coauthored his late father's last four novels (Crossfire, 2010, etc.), turns in a solo performance fully worthy of the family name.” Kirkus “Those who prefer something less gory will enjoy Felix Francis’s Gamble, in which an American financial adviser is shot dead seconds before the start of the Grand National. Dick, Felix’s late father, would have approved.” Telegraph “Francis, having coauthored four horse-racing thrillers (Crossfire, etc.) with dad Dick Francis (1920–2010), proves himself more than capable of carrying on the family legacy alone. Francis shares his father's gift for brisk storytelling--and for creating a sympathetic, wounded, but determined hero.” Publishers Weekly “Felix Francis continues his father's New York Times- bestselling legacy with another edge-of-your-seat read that's classic Francis.” FictionDB “It appears that Felix Francis can write on his own. A family tradition can continue. If he continues to turn out stories of this quality, Felix Francis’ name doubtless will reach the top of the book one day. “Gamble” has all the things that loyal readers have anticipated in their annual Francis fix: a taut intelligent story full of suspense, danger and mystery in spare and fast-moving prose that keeps the readers’ attention.” The Washington Times Read an interview with Felix Francis in the Telegraph. Buy your copy here or at Amazon!

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