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EQUUS TURFCALL TAKING A CLOSER LOOK
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RACING POST 2014
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REVIEW OF YESTERDAY'S FEATURE RACES
FEATURE RACE DONCASTER
| 3:15 | Sky Bet Chase (A Handicap) (formerly The Great Yorkshire Chase) (Listed Race) Cl1 3m CH4 |
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FEATURE RACE CHELTENHAM
| 3:35 | CHL | galliardhomes.com Cleeve Hurdle (Grade 2) Cl1 3m CH4 |
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PAUSE FOR THOUGHT
David Ashforth:
(writer media zone)
(writer media zone)
Twice voted journalist of the year
PICTURE: Dan Abraham
KNOCKARA BEAU partner JAN FALTEJSEK
One of David's favourite horses won yesterday at Cheltenham at 66-1 did you notice? Did you pick up on the clues David has given us?
http://turfcallmorningline.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/h-ave-laugh-and-come-upwith-funny-title.html
FEATURE RACE CHELTENHAM SATURDAY JANUARY 25th 2014
WIN: KNOCKARA BEAU partner JAN FALTEJSEK 11 11-0 trainer GEORGE CHARLTON
Yes, yes, yes. Magic. Wow, wow, wow, and how.
GLOBAL HORSERACING
One of David's favourite horses won yesterday at Cheltenham at 66-1 did you notice? Did you pick up on the clues David has given us?
http://turfcallmorningline.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/h-ave-laugh-and-come-upwith-funny-title.html
FEATURE RACE CHELTENHAM SATURDAY JANUARY 25th 2014
| 3:35 | CHL | galliardhomes.com Cleeve Hurdle (Grade 2) Cl1 3m CH4 |
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WIN: KNOCKARA BEAU partner JAN FALTEJSEK 11 11-0 trainer GEORGE CHARLTON
Yes, yes, yes. Magic. Wow, wow, wow, and how.
GLOBAL HORSERACING
"Nine of those ten successes have been achieved with Czech jockey Jan Faltejsek in the saddle, Faltejsek who once worked for Charlton but is now based in France, recently won the Velka Pardubicka for the second year running on Orphee Des Blins. Today he is back to renew his partnership with Knockara Beau.
Orphee des Blins wins the Velka Pardubicka very easily | Dostihový ...
www.dostihovy-svet.cz/en/node/2822
13 Oct 2013 - Orphee des Blins wins the Velka Pardubicka very easily ... with a large crowd saying adieu, or was it only au revoir - on October 12th, 2014!
David Ashforth Racing Post Saturday January 25th 2014 Page 15.
MUSINGS FROM A RETIRED RACING ENTHUSIAST
"Controversial, yes, but unique Curley
adds colour to our sport. "
Pic: Barney Curley: latest exploit is
unlikely to be bad for racing - but one of him is probably enough.
"HE'S a one, that Barney Curley. You
wouldn't want too many Curley's and there's no danger of that because Curley is
a one and only. Some people get very cross with him and I understand why but,
Barney, if I had a hat I'd take it off to you.
"If you want to tut-tut at Curley's
latest brilliantly executed coup, you'll find plenty to tut-tut about. What chance do punters have
when horses boasting strings of ducks eggs and enormous layoffs are suddenly
converted into apparent certainties , having plummeted in the handicap?
"Paul Kealy, the Racing Post's
respected betting editor , went so far
as to claim that "If Wednesday's
coup didn't leave a sour taste in your
mouth your not a proper punter" .
Well, Curley' s coup hasn't has that effect on my mouth.
"On May 10, 2010 I was at Brighton when Agapanthus, trained by Curley , won a 0-70
handicap after being backed into
favouritism. Like Eye of the Tiger and
Low Key, two of this week's coup team. Agapanthus had raced in Germany
"For punters who were neither Curley
nor a close relative, backing Agapanthus
was a speculative venture. We didn't know what Curley's trusted team
knew, but regular followers of the sport did know that Agapanthus was trained
by Curley and that one day would probably be the day Curley's team got 11-2,
those who climbed on the bandwagon got less, I backed something else. It was
mildly irritating, partly because it would have been nice to have latched on to
the winner instead. After all, it was Curley.
"That day, Agapanthus was the first runner in a four-horse coup. When three of the four won, five punters close to Curley won more than £4 million, although it took 21 months and legal action to Gibraltar to persuade some bookmakers, notably Betfred, to pay. The claimants weren't angels and didn't behave like the,, but they were entitled to be paid. Modern bookmakers operate sophisticated risk-management systems that make it extremely difficult to execute a successful coup. We don't know exactly how much was won on Wednesday, reputedly £2m, but doubt if many significant bets were laid at long odds.
"What Curley achieved
was remarkable and I prefer to acknowledge the skill involved rather than
complain. It took an enormous amount of time, patience, planning and money,
with no guarantee of success. Horses can be very well handicapped , but arranging for four of them to win on
the same day is not easy.
"In the 2010 coup,
Sommersturm, another impost from Germany
"Many punters will
suspect the coup horses were not run on their merits in the past in order to
get them on winning handicap marks. Racing's integrity team have had plenty of
races to study and have yet to declare anything amiss, not any rules broken.
They will be looking again.
"It is fundamentally
important that the BHA and it's stewards do everything possible to ensure every
runner is raced on its merits and jockeys always try to obtain the best possible
placing. The penalties for non- triers
need to be sever.
"When I started
betting, in the 1960's I dread to think how
many bets were doomed before a race started. There were numerous,
flagrant non-triers and a woefully inept stewarding system. Non-triers, like
the poor, are always with us but punters, and racing industry professionals,
are now incomparable better protected
than they were. Races and riders receive close scrutiny. I sometimes see what I
judge to be non-triers, but racing is better policed now than it has ever been
and punters have access to a hugely increased amount of information.
"Curley is a unique
character who has brought colour as well as controversy to the sport. He is
much better at orchestrating coups than engaging in racing politics. I don't
share the view that his latest exploit is bad for racing's reputation. It
probably won't make much difference but I think he adds interest.
"It's irrelevant to the
right and wrongs of the coup but Curley, despite advancing age and ill-health,
is committed to Direct Aid for Aftica, the charity he set up in 1996. That, I
suspect, is where some of the winnings will go. "
COVER STORIES
BEAU another good advert for KNOCKARA Stables team
A weekly round-up of the studs and breeders enjoying success
with their stock
"KNOCKARA
BEAU made his debut as a five-year- old in January 2008, allowing for his
annual summer break, he has raced almost every month since then. He has run 45
times for 11 wins and has finished in the first four 28 times. His earnings of
more than £225,000 are a fine return for owner Alastair Charlton on the £9,000
trainer son George paid for him at the Tattersalls Ireland November Foal Sale. Knockara Beau is just one of five foals bred
by the Durrheims out of Clairabell.
TUESDAY JANUARY 28th 2014
CLIVE BRITTAIN
The Smiling Pioneer
with
Robin Oakley
CHAPTER THREE
Pegasus Days
WHO WAS CLIVE BRITTAIN IN 1972?
"He didn't have any legacy to set him up. He's done it his way and done it from the
bottom. He didn't take anyone's blueprint - he made his own. He follows his instincts. " Willie Carson on Clive.
Clive was 39 years old by then, he was a brilliant kaleidoscope illuminator for yearlings
and two-year-olds, bred and prepared each and every one for
superstardom on the global, horseracing stage. That is if saved from being frightened
to death beforehand by the bloodhorse illiterate...
Clive's perspective on starting out as a trainer Clive Sketches' in his focus on a myriad of owners.
"It never sunk in until Lady Murless was talking about Sir Noel's retirement but then I thought for 23 years he had been a good gov'nor and I couldn't see myself having the same relationship with anybody else.
"We
talked about it. I made a few inquiries and found that Pegasus was coming on
the market. Jack Watts had moved to train in the north and it had been left
empty and deteriorating. I went to see Chris Bakewell, who had it in trust for
the family, and we agreed a three-year lease. When we went in, the lofts were
full of chickens, the paint was peeling:
the place had been let go.
Clive
recalls:
"Willie
Carson had moved into a new house at the end of the garden and he introduced me
to Mr Gulrajani, an Indian banker with a lot of horses. Willie got him to send
me a couple of horses and they were just platers. I started to train them.
"Pandit
Gulrajani was the owner of the first winner Clive trained, VEDVYAS at Doncaster just ten days into the new season. There was a
field of 25 for the Tuxford Maiden Stakes on April 1st 1972.
"It
was a new adventure going to the races with the first horse I thought had a
chance. VEDVYAS had been running in sellers the previous year. An apprentice,
ROBERT YOUNG, had been riding him at exercise and the horse worked better for
him than for other jockeys who rode out for me at the time. I thought VEDVYAS would win. I told the kid to ride him like he rode him work and not to pressure him much, not to go for the stick. Afterwards Frankie Durr (who finished third in the race on RIO D'OR) told me what a good race the kid had ridden. He asked if I had told him to sit quiet and when I told him I had, he said: If he had moved he would have been beaten.
" VEDVYAS, carrying 8st 7lb, just got up on the line under his apprentice rider ROBERT YOUNG beating MERCHANT OF VENICE, ridden by DUNCAN KIETH. Punters knew very little about C.E. Brittain, Newmarket
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29th 2014
CLIVE BRITTAIN
CLIVE BRITTAIN
The Smiling Pioneer
CHAPTER FOUR
Enter Marcos Lemos
"They were dreadful bullies - horrible horrible people. People look back now through rose-tinted glasses and say what great horsemen they were? Well were they? Sir Mark Prescott on Newmarket in 1972.
SIR MARK PRESCOTT HAS THIS TO SAY:
"Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket
"Everywhere was run-down. The
owners could no longer afford to keep up the big studs as they had done and
until the Arabs came on the scene and re did them they were pretty tired. I was
unbelievably lucky to be given the chance to train here but it was all falling
down.
Whether it was the war, whether that had
something psychologically to do with it of whether it was entirely financial I don't know but it had a
run-down feel about it. Newmarket
"The lads' accommodation was
appalling. They were paid a pittance. Single lads serving a seven year apprenticed
then. There were
some great horsemen but there was an underclass of those men who were
absolutely no good and they were allowed to get away with murder. It took a
crisis to change that culture, the stable lads' strike of of 1975.
"The strike was very cathartic. In
retrospect it was a ghastly, ghastly time. But it was very good because the
owners realised they'd got to pay a proper rate for having horses trained.
"One of the problems was the lack
of graduated wage structure in British
racing. In many yards a man with 20
years' experience was getting no more than a 16-year-old starter, so the job
tended to attract gamblers and drifters.
That was the Newmarket
JMC: LONG OUTDATED POLITICAL SYSTEM THAT
SERVES NO ONE
BRITISH POLITICAL AND HORSERACING GOVERNMENT IMPOSTORS AT LARGE
CLIVE BRITTAIN IN 1972
Clive had a major task to bring Pegasus
House and Stables back to life before it
was ready to house horses in training at work.
The British impostors political and horseracing
government's wooden horses.
BHA do not
take the horses into consideration at all, whilst pretending to regulate British horseracing The methods they use to run this sport are all aimed to support
hefty financial government gain. No
matter at whose expense, in secret. Secret laws popped in to cover the tracks
of evil past politicians and lawyers.
These
governments show this to be the case both in Britain
and in India (Richard
Hughes) and (Martin Dwyer) both caught up unjustly when riding, competing in India
These government parties focus on horses, cattle, sheep and chicken all reared and slaughterhouse
bound. End of story. What sufferance
inflicted upon them whilst they are alive, matters not one jot to any of
them. A financial means to launder huge
amounts of other people's money at the animal's expense.
And we are fool enough to allow this long
outdated evil political practice to continue on.
British
governments are using monies they have stolen and are stealing from the British
Equus Zone of horseracing every day,
left on going over decades.
,
FRIDAY JANUARY 31st 2014
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Check out what runners TEAM (Willie) MULLINS (IRE) is challenging with both on Saturday and Sunday.
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Tomorrow's Racecards
Saturday February 1st 2014
RACES SHOWN ON TERRESTRIAL TV
SANDOWN RUK
GOING: HEAVY (Soft in back straight) on Chase course) (GoingStick 5.0) (Hurdle races abandoned; All-Chase card activated) (INSPECTION 7:45am Saturday). (Showers/wind)
FAIRYHOUSE (IRE) ATR |
GOING: HEAVY (Soft to heavy in places). (Showers/windy)
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