Review of Grand National Festival 2014 In Focus (4.15pm)
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CH4 RACING POST TURFCALL TAKING A CLOSER LOOK
The clues are here but can you spot them?
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* RACING REVIEW YESTERDAY'S EQUUS RESULTS *
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PREVIEW TODAY'S EQUUS CARDS
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EQUUS BIG RACE ENTRIES
EQUUS BIG RACE ENTRIES
Lee Mottershead breaking news
"Jockeys stage revolt over inquiry"
“THE
most extraordinary scenes linked to yesterday’s Crabbie’s Grand National took
place not on the racecourse but behind closed doors as 39 of the 40 riders
staged a mass revolt by collectively refusing to leave the weighing room to
hear the outcome of a stewards’ inquiry into farcical scenes at the start.
“All
riders with the exception of Brendan Powell, who’s mount Battle Group
“Professional
Jockeys Association chief executive Paul Struthers said : “The jockeys were
very unhappy with the conduct of the inquiry and they therefore refused to go
back in. It was a decision the jockeys collectively took. It only required one jockey to go back
in for the inquiry to be concluded, but as a collective not one of them was
willing to go back in. I also declined the invitation.
“It
is obviously a shame but I’m not sure it would be fair to put this solely at
the jockeys’ door. “
“The
case will now be referred to BHA headquarters where a panel will not only make
public the suspension s dished out to the 39 jockeys for their actions at the start but
additionally decide how to deal with their act of rebellion.
“Yesterday’s
inquiry has been called to determine why all but one rider attempted to form a
line before the Grand National’s official 4.15 start had been reached. Minutes later an official false start was
recorded after the tape was broken.
“The
inquiry concerned whether the riders had lined up before being invited to do so
and subsequently disobeyed the starters’
instruction’s, additionally putting the safety of assistant starter Simon
McNeill at risk when he was knocked down as the riders moved forwards towards
the start. “
Simon McNeill and the rest like him need to get out of horseracing before they get killed. Their bloodhorse illiterate mind-sets put them in the Danger Red Alert Zone. No one can expect to stand in front of 40 horses lined up to start in a Grand National thinking they alone can stop them. Bloodhorse Illiterate madness.
4.15pm Liverpool Aintree Grand National Saturday April 5 :
2014
Simon McNeill and the rest like him need to get out of horseracing before they get killed. Their bloodhorse illiterate mind-sets put them in the Danger Red Alert Zone. No one can expect to stand in front of 40 horses lined up to start in a Grand National thinking they alone can stop them. Bloodhorse Illiterate madness.
J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment
(Equus Zone) (Journalist)
(Equus Zone) (Journalist)
THE AINTREE GRAND NATIONAL 2014 REVIEW
Doctor? GP? Doctor Who ....? GP Who? Dr Richard Newland GP?
| 4:15 | Crabbie´s Grand National Chase (Handicap) (Grade 3) Cl1 4m3f110y CH4 |
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WIN:
Pineau De Re 11 10-6 partner Leighton Aspell minder Caroline White trainer Dr Richard Newland for J A Provan.
25-1.
http://www.newhallm
edicalpractice.com/staff/richard_newland.php
Dr
Richard Newland studied medicine at Cambridge
University , followed by medical
training at St Mary's Hospital Medical School ,
London
Doctor
Richard Newland GP stated to be a licensed British racehorse trainer. ('for fun' he say)
Who's fun? His own fun? His owners fun? His horses fun? Pineau De Re's fun? Ooctors Team (Richard) Newland fun?
http://www.newhallm
edicalpractice.com/staff/richard_newland.php
The question is: Should Richard Newland GP have been granted a license to train racehorses in the first place? Does Doctor Richard Newland GP belong in the Equus Zone? Or is this just another of the bloodhorse illiterate British political and horseracing government serious bloodhorse illiterate category of serious error issues?
The life and times of Doctor Richard Newland GP career path has been in General Medical Practice working as a Doctor very different from a career in handling riding and training racehorses.. Did he choose a medical career path for fun as well?.
The life and times of Doctor Richard Newland GP career path has been in General Medical Practice working as a Doctor very different from a career in handling riding and training racehorses.. Did he choose a medical career path for fun as well?.
Looks like Doctor Newland has been granted a training license in error.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PINEAU DE RE
Equus Zone: Pineau De Re (FR) foaled in 2003.
Mainly this horse has spent much of his lifetime in training with Philip Fenton in Ireland
MONDAY APRIL 7th
Jon Lees reports : ( rp yesterday) “Newland’s full-
time job is running a private practice in Birmingham, as well as four other
businesses, but the part-time pursuit he calls his hobby delivered the ultimate
health and wealth boost when his first starter in the race Pineau De Re, gave him the victory his
professional rivals have been striving to achieve for years. (Racing Post Sunday April 6.)
PINEAU DE RE
WIN: Uster Grand
National run at Downpatrick on April 3rd
2013 trained by Philip Fenton partnered by Danny Mullins 15 ran. 13-2
After which the horse was bought
privately for long-term owner John Provan last May after he had won the Uster
National for Team (Philip) Fenton.
Leighton Aspell a truly great
horseman. Just goes to show how badly top horsemen are treated by the
bloodhorse illiterate political and horseracing government how Aspell’s life and his career have been messed up, and
blighted by such as these. As have the life and times of Irish trainer Philip
Fenton.
Bloodhorse Illiteracy in practice is a Cruel and Criminal Act.
It is Team ( Philip) Fenton (equus
zone) who has done all the homework with Pineau De Re ongoing from the outset
of this horse’ s racing career. A
massive mighty compliment to Philip
Fenton and his team. Dr Richard Newman (
gp medical zone) needs to be careful he doesn’t get carried away by Saturday’s
success, or kid himself it is all his own input that has achieved greatness
through Pineaur De Re.
Training racehorses is a full time
job and some, Newman does not belong in the Equus Zone. Newman’s career life journey has been formed
and built in medical practice applicable to the two legged variety.
TUESDAY APRIL 8th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineau_de_Re
He won on his debut over obstacles at Limerick on 17 November 2010. ... On his final appearance before the Grand National, Pineau de Re ran for the first time ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leighton_Aspell
After a false start, Aspell and Pineau de Re won the race by five lengths at odds of 25/1, ... "Leighton Aspell wins Grand National on Pineau De Re at Aintree".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Grand_National
Full replay of the 2014 Grand National Racing UK, YouTube ... Pineau de Re, a 25/1 shot ridden by Leighton Aspell, won the race for trainer Richard Newland ...
David Ashforth
Twice voted British
horseracing journalist
of the year.
(Media Zone) (Horseracing Journalist)
horseracing journalist
of the year.
(Media Zone) (Horseracing Journalist)
·
David Ashforth: gives you his idea of the
Grand National winner
PICTURE:
Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)
Final attempt at grand tipping - again
By David
Ashforth 10:47AM 5 APR 2014
"IF AT first you don't
succeed, you're supposed to try again. So this is my final column. I'm retiring
- again. At the risk of repeating myself (an increasing risk), it's more than
20 years since I started writing a weekly column, first for The Sporting Life
and then for the Racing Post.
It's a privilege to have the
writing freedom a column, and supportive editors, provide, but it gets hard to
think of fresh ideas and, when that happens it's time to stop before things go
badly downhill.
It's been great working with
a lot of people I like in a sport that has more than its fair share of likeable
people. That's been one of the best parts of it. So thank you to everyone in
racing who has helped give me a wonderful working life, and to workmates in and
out of the office, where they have dealt with mountains of words with good
humour, and to readers, if any.
People tend to assume my
retirements are due to having prostate cancer but they're not, except that it
makes you more aware that time is limited. Countless people live with cancer,
and worse. Although they haven't been able to cure mine and it will eventually
kill me (unless too many photo-finishes get to me first), it's going to take a
while, a bit like a lot of the horses I've backed. I'm 65 and something or
other is always going to come along and get you.
But compared with the
horrendous, life-limiting injuries some jockeys have suffered, including the
extraordinarily brave Sharron Murgatroyd, who died a week ago, my problems are
trivial. I have great respect and admiration for jump jockeys. If I had half
the guts and spirit they have, I'd be pleased with myself, and it will be on
display again today, as it is every day, at Aintree.
So, it's time for a final
stab at tipping the Crabbie's Grand National winner. The great thing about
tipping (especially when no-one takes any notice of your tips), is that failure
is soon forgotten (especially by the tipster) and hopefully forgiven.
It's a year (obviously)
since my last National tip - Rare Bob, advised at 25-1, who finished a
creditable fifth at 16-1; one of my better efforts. I was going through a spell
of retirement during the two previous Nationals but in 2010 I actually tipped
the winner, Don't Push It, at 25-1 (SP 10-1). That means, to a level stake,
followers can back more than 20 losers in a row before they're entitled to
complain.
It's surely not necessary to go back further than 2010 but, if we must, my selections were Parsons Legacy (2009, fell), Turko and Madison Du Berlais (2008, both fell) and Billyvoddan (2007, pulled up). No wonder I'm retiring.
It's surely not necessary to go back further than 2010 but, if we must, my selections were Parsons Legacy (2009, fell), Turko and Madison Du Berlais (2008, both fell) and Billyvoddan (2007, pulled up). No wonder I'm retiring.
It would be nice if this
year's selection had the decency to at least complete the course. I'm not
convinced Long Run will, despite the fact he's never fallen. If he returns to
somewhere near his best, Long Run could eat most of his opponents today for
breakfast but he does tend to put in a sloppy jump now and then, possibly while
wondering what's for dinner. The National course isn't a good place for
daydreaming.
I hope I'm proved wrong
because Sam Waley-Cohen adds something to the sport and is certainly good
enough. On Thursday he enhanced an already outstanding record over the National
fences on Warne in the Fox Hunters' Chase, a race he also won in 2005 and 2006
on Katarino, and in which he had finished runner-up twice. He won the 2006
Topham Chase on Liberthine, then finished fifth on the same horse in the 2007
National. Then, on Oscar Time, he finished second in the National in 2011 and
fourth in 2013. You don't have to worry about the rider, only the horse.
Most tipsters simply try to
give the winner, which I think shows a feeble lack of ambition. The first
three, in the correct order, will be: Rocky Creek (18-1), Teaforthree (8-1) and
The Package (25-1).
I could provide reasons, and jolly good ones, but reasons aren't what you need; results, that's what you need, and it's results that I intend to provide.
I could provide reasons, and jolly good ones, but reasons aren't what you need; results, that's what you need, and it's results that I intend to provide.
My final tip is this. If
you're a man aged 50 or over, do ask your doctor about having an annual PSA
test. It could save your life. Now, I'm off racing, because that's what I still
love.
Comments
Many thanks for all your entertaining columns over the years - especially the nap hand of every racecourse in the British Isles and trying to win (and sometimes succeeding) £1,000 before Christmas. You will be remembered.
jeremym,
United Kingdom
Please unretire again - My most treasured book and favourite read over and over is your
" A Punting Life " - the stories of Morley and Hyde are hilariously respectful as are all
your writings. Thanks for the fun - All The Best
Andrena,
Canada
all the best the column will be sorely missed may you have many more gn tips to come via twitter maybe ?? enjoy the day
ashburnham,
United Kingdom
Many thanks Sir David (post race) for yrs of witty entertaining &self deprecating writing turning the ordinary into the extraordinary &for your academic dissection of the racing & betting industry-The greatest writer of racing short stories since Bukowski
joeking,
United Kingdom
Well done Sir and all the best for the future. It''s been a pleasure.
and2pacalypse,
United Kingdom
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