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Bridgwater to face action over Ludlow comments
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I haven't seen the O'Regan ride but it's got nothing to do with this situation. The jockey made a mistake and deserves a ban and trainers can't go round calling stewards "idiots". If one of Bridgy's jockeys or stable staff call him an idiot in the press do you think he'll laugh it off?
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Of course it has something to do with it TheFear. If the BHA want to give out bans for wrongdoing that is fair enough, but as Gonzo has stated when someone does not even try on one and gets 10 days how can another one who has made a mistake, corrected it and still tried get over double. There is something wrong with that.
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Am often intrigued by how this works one way but not the other. Could you imagine what Bridgewater would say if a steward said to a journalist...
" Can you believe that clown Bridgewater running that horse in that race when Stevie Wonder could tell it had no chance? Have you seen the way his horses jump - he has no idea! And as for using that Scudamore has a jockey! What is he on??" I suspect "Bridgey's" cheeky chappie demeanour may not survive that but of course, as in other sports, officials have no right of reply. The young lad made an honest mistake and has apologised. Bridgewater wading in like a recalcitrant teenager will help no-one |
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I haven't seen the O'Regan ride but it's got nothing to do with this situation.
Of course it does. An experienced jockey deemed to have deliberately failed to make all efforts to achieve the best possible placing gets a ban less than half that of a 16 year old kid making a genuine mistake on his fourth ride under rules. It demonstrates a significant issue with the rules the BHA have in place. And, no, of course a trainer can't freely go around calling stewards "idiots". Bridgewater will be punished for it. It's still funny though. |
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Stop speaking sense Doc, it does you no favours on here!
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Non-trying is very hard to prove one way or the other. I don't think O'Regan is actually being accused of stopping one is he? Stopping one is Eddie Ahern 10 years.
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hard to prove...
but more at than just Eddie ahern like you say hard to prove it too many questionable rides of late...............ill gotten gains by rogues of the game...... |
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people who watch a lot of racing
get to know the dodge pots.....trainers and jockeys...lets face it they have that much money ,they dont know what to do with it.......... buying horses there big thing....... |
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Betting horses that drift from 2/1 early prices out to 5/1 in a 7 horse race today and the horse in question breaks last and finishes in the rear should warrant an investigation but rarely does. That trainer is spot on,they are idiots in general.
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If you want to see how stewarding should be done and should be seen to be done,go to The Hong Kong Jockey Club website and click on 'Reports'.
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There are so many ways to get horses beaten that any jockey who makes it obvious is incompetent. The best way is to go too fast early on and there is no way to prove it. The next easy way is to go round the outside in a competitive handicap.
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If I were Bridgewater I would want it on record that I felt the actions of the Stewards were 'prejudicial to the good reputation of racing'.
Alternatively,that the reputation of racing is not good in the first place so how could it's reputation be damaged?! |
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"good reputation of racing"...
 running races over wrong distances for years and doing nothing about it, they mean that good reputation? |
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Bridgy's apology in the RP yesterday seems to me quite satisfactory and sufficiently fulsome to minimise any further sanctions for him.
I've not seen the incident yet,so obv. would not endorse any manoeuvres by the Apjok that constituted dangerous conduct, beyond that I hope the jock appeals it. |