Eddie Aherne found guilty

what took them so long

we are up there with pakistani cricket or italian football at the moment

AT IT for donkeys...

I'm sure he is not the only one about

Ahern?....no way 

The Beatles have split up

doing nowt different to most jockeys

The games a bogey

what a shock!!eddie?id never have thought so..

Wonder if Kirsty thinks he was hard done by!!!!!!

Rachael Sands will be gone before the end of the year

He could have got away with it if he wasn't such a crap race fixer - soooo obvious!  Every time I backed one of his mounts I was questioning whether he was going to fix the race or not...can I have my money back on all his fixed rides?

horrible jockey but even a worse fixer hahaha

Soooo obvious he got away with it for eons...

Which should tell you an awful lot about who runs this game..

In a Scooby do type scenario Betfair Eddie says " I WOULD'VE HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT TO IF IT WASN'T FOR THEM PESKY MEDDLING KID"  :p

Kids*

Wonder what the mugs on CH4 and Racing Post make of it, upholders of the punters that they are...

its tricky for them.they have to interview jockeys etc and dont want to get into conflict with the profession?

what was the horse that eddie sent off at a crazy pace to get it beat/

judge the moment

ran it like a greyhound

justthemoment

Judgethemoment at lingfield. Chapple-hyam horse.

Ended up finishing last of 7 after being blazed in front from the start.

chaps trying to find race,will show on ATR

after sentence handed out

In floods hear

thanks

anywhere I can see that race?

I can't find race YouTube

is it under monmore racetrace

track

I reckon the majority of jockeys are as guilty as Ahern, Ive seen most of them give some awful rides through the years when you just knew they hadn't given the horse a winning chance. Not much the jockey can do if the trainer/owner tell them to be easy on the horse and save it for another day. You just know half these jockeys are told not to win on certain horses, so obvious its not even worthy of discussion.

http://www.attheraces.com/VideoConsole/?va=LIN_2011_01_21_02_1325

Led and soon spreadeagled field, came back from halfway, headed and weakened rapidly over 4f out (op 8-1)

on ATR now

Life ban would be good. Send a message to Kelly and the others.

P iss poor example. 12/1 shot in first time blinkers

the horse wasn't pulling to get there, rousted from the stalls and sent clear.

no excuses blatant

DID NOTHING WRONG THERE TO BE HONEST - HORSE NOT GOOD ENOUGH

i do that on my horse racing game starters orders to get a good mark in hcps

basilbrush has said it all. I doubt if there's a jockey in the country who has not given a horse an 'easy' ride. Half the runners every day are just there to get their handicap marks down. If a jockey didn't do as told he would soon find his rides drying up. No good trying to solve it.Just go with it and watch what trainers do. Plenty of winners to find when a horse gets down to a winnable mark. Its always been like it and will never change.

yeah to me the main thing is whether they are profiting from it, if they are should be chucked out the sport for good!

There is imo a difference between not beating up horses who cannot win anyway, and deliberately pulling horses who could win in order to make money (presumably by laying it).

ahern is probably one of the least guilty jockeys. if you are any way sophisticated or doing it regularly, you surely wouldnt have been so blatant:

"JUDGETHEMOMENT (USA) dwelt fractionally when the stalls opened, but within 100 yards had reached the front and was running against the inside rail, having been actively pushed into that position by Ahern."

to have "dwelt fractionally when the stalls opened" would have been more than sufficient to get at 12/1 shot beaten

over 2 miles?

"There is imo a difference between not beating up horses who cannot win anyway, and deliberately pulling horses who could win in order to make money (presumably by laying it)."

Agree totally!

ahern is probably one of the least guilty jockeys. if you are any way sophisticated or doing it regularly, you surely wouldnt have been so blatant:

Really?

There's a particular stable which gets a lot of comment on here who were using that tactic regularly during the winter.

if eddie was more experienced, he would have said the perennial frontrunner "sulked" when he missed the break, and that would have been the end of. (how many times have you heard that one?)

V m J

Durose knows

to have "dwelt fractionally when the stalls opened" would have been more than sufficient to get at 12/1 shot beaten





It was not a case of simply getting the horse beat, it was to getting the horse out of the places as well.

Was Eddie in Woolwich earlier?

10 years

its a pity its not 10 years hard labour he got, the scumbag

10 years?? you mean eddie has the brain capacity of a 10 yr old?? we knew that already

must be loads of laying systemes down the pan now

Took them long enough we've all know for years he was at it. He was called betfair Eddy for gods sake....

Theres a millon ways of getting any horse beat .. but theres only one way to getting a horse to WIN ....TRY TRY   and Try Harder ..take that on board BHB   . you muppits

It's all ok Mick Fitz says you couldn't meet a more likeable fella

i spotted him oneday walking towards lingfield train station on the phone, that's when i knew he was a real shady one.no surprise.

Another victim of reality is Eddie,when Coolmore and godolphin have pacemakers which will be run into the ground,the jockeys reveal as much on tv,what is the difference? I feel sympathy for Eddie and feel he should appeal is riding offence(what were his orders that day?) and with exchanges possibly revealing accounts there is a lesson for us all to remember!

10  years not enough. Has Kieran Fallon ever been convicted of some thing similar by the jockey club?

There are jockeys with repeated drug offences Rickbobby,they get 6months ffs! He is being fingered,too take away the stench from godolphin and frankie!

8year ban for a trainer sticking needles in a horse and Eddie gets this for what could be riding too orders? ffs

MJ.... the trainer made a statement completely opposite to what he told the enquiry

What about all the rides everyone's seen that he's had metro that you cannt give away on BF then get left at the start or never see daylight?
Mick fitzergarlds comments a disgrace , maybe he's got a guilty conscience as well.

plenty of jockeys ride too orders rickiboobby,they would not ride again for the trainers otherwise!

~I feel sure he would win appeal for his riding offense

You see, it depends on who you are. If you are wealthy and a big owner you have underlings to take the heat.

yep

If criminal charges could be brought against him then all the better 10 years in Jail for him sounds better. The number of rides
they've had to choose from with this guy must run into the hundreds ,he's been that obvious.
Hasta la Vista Betfair Eddie

10 years very harsh

what about the punters who backed French Art at Kempton that night on here???
I did!

Following comments taken from Racing Post website regarding the new surface at Lingfield today

The burning question today is 'how will the new surface ride'.
It was well received at the trials last week, but it looks and feels different - much lighter in colour and fluffier in texture - and clerk of the course Neil Mackenzie Ross expects it to ride slower to begin with.
The time for the opening race on the new surface was 1m 12.81s, which is 2.51s slower than standard.
There's a fresh wind behind them up the straight.
Luke Morris: "It rode a bit slow and where I was, sat out the back, there was quite a bit of kickback. It will be fine though."
William Buick: "It's typical of new all-weather surfaces, as it's very loose and there's a lot of kickback. It will take a bit of bedding in but it will be fine in time."
But one jockey thinks otherwise
Eddie Ahern: "I liked it. There was less kickback and a nice cushion. It rode like nice fast ground. Kempton was a little bit deeper when they resurfaced it."
Still trying to put punters away Eddie you fcukin clown

THe worst part of all this is that I ,and many others , are unsurprised and wonder what the BHA investigators have been doing for so long. The usual derision from within the racing community should be put aside when the weight of criticism is coming down so heavily in one direction and a closer look should be taken when teh forums are accusing people.It is obviously not the case all the time but heavy criticism warrants a closer look.

mans a nasty peace off work,,,can never forget some years ago , when he punch and kicked that horse

He will be appealing the verdict,lets see if the BHA hold their nerve..............................

Pilgrim - I hold no brief for the guy, nor would I seek to defend him, but he is by no stretch of the imagination a "nasty peace(sic)off(sic)work".  You obviously have never met him.

What a joke.  ten uckin years....youd get less for murder....a lot feckin less.  I think this cheating is a scandal. Never really liked Aherne for no great reason but punish the main perpetrators and sort the trainers out first and foremost.  What about all the gangster trainers.  they are the real problem.  Everyone knows who they are.  Handicappers a ucking joke.  If cheating trainers continue to pull their horses give them good weight until it becomes unsustainable for them to be training horses. Just dont understand it

Blackbarn - u are right never have meet him, and guess will never...But anyone too punch and kick a horse just cant be right..Poor animal cant even defend its self , but will agree 10 year ban does seem a little hard