New Posts For Thread: Ruby Walsh/Frankie Dettori arehttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-arerunning businesses, theirs!both are thoroughly fed up with the pathetic whip issue, neither needs to bow to pressure as a result of the ineptitide being shown by our BHA, and neither would any serious-minded, sensible person.unless you know them persdettori gets everything he can before he has to pick up his stick....what do you get as a punter after that....Eastenders, that's what you get.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-are?post_id=511611993#511611993dettori gets everything he can before he has to pick up his stick....what do you get as a punter after that....Eastenders, that's what you get.Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:59:33 -0500I have studied analogies for 50 years duncan. Your opinion on those is not worth a sausage imo.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-are?post_id=511611905#511611905I have studied analogies for 50 years duncan. Your opinion on those is not worth a sausage imo.Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:56:26 -0500I have watched racing for 30 yrs, yank (mainly on a daily basis)....my view is what i trust most.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-are?post_id=511609931#511609931I have watched racing for 30 yrs, yank (mainly on a daily basis)....my view is what i trust most.Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:53:55 -0500With all due respect, duncan, your view about how much the 9th, tenth, etc. hit with the whip matters is not worth as much as Ruby Walsh or Jamie Spencer's. If you are a carpenter, I will respect your view about how to handle certain woods more thanhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-are?post_id=511609655#511609655With all due respect, duncan, your view about how much the 9th, tenth, etc. hit with the whip matters is not worth as much as Ruby Walsh or Jamie Spencer's. If you are a carpenter, I will respect your view about how to handle certain woods more thanMon, 24 Oct 2011 07:44:47 -0500Perfectly apt analogy.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-are?post_id=511608821#511608821Perfectly apt analogy.Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:14:03 -0500Burglary has been an offence for centuries and by and large sentences have diminished. Hardly an apt analogy.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-are?post_id=511608763#511608763Burglary has been an offence for centuries and by and large sentences have diminished. Hardly an apt analogy.Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:11:44 -0500So many contradictions in this whip debate.Whilst we are told the whip doesn't hurt we then hear trainers etc talk about cases of misuse of the whip. If the whip doesn't hurt then why have a limit on it's use? Let the horse be whipped as many times ahttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-are?post_id=511608375#511608375So many contradictions in this whip debate.Whilst we are told the whip doesn't hurt we then hear trainers etc talk about cases of misuse of the whip. If the whip doesn't hurt then why have a limit on it's use? Let the horse be whipped as many times aMon, 24 Oct 2011 06:58:43 -0500Correct, yank, because that's the rules...the horse beaten by a nose might have won if you had stuck a firework in its ear 50 yds from line but that's not allowed either....besides, i happen to believe that the eighth, ninth, tenth strike with whip mhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-are?post_id=511608325#511608325Correct, yank, because that's the rules...the horse beaten by a nose might have won if you had stuck a firework in its ear 50 yds from line but that's not allowed either....besides, i happen to believe that the eighth, ninth, tenth strike with whip mMon, 24 Oct 2011 06:57:07 -0500So, when the horse you back is the one who loses by a nose because his jockey had already used up his seven or eight, you wont complain because you, like the jockies, march to the BHA drum?Tell me another one.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-are?post_id=511607989#511607989So, when the horse you back is the one who loses by a nose because his jockey had already used up his seven or eight, you wont complain because you, like the jockies, march to the BHA drum?Tell me another one.Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:42:38 -0500Agreed Duncan. No excuses now. Ruby broke the rules and then spat the dummy. With the final furlong changes it should be simple for all jockeys to follow from now on.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/28616543/ruby-walshfrankie-dettori-are?post_id=511607881#511607881Agreed Duncan. No excuses now. Ruby broke the rules and then spat the dummy. With the final furlong changes it should be simple for all jockeys to follow from now on.Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:39:07 -0500