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I cannot ever remember anything remotely approaching the extent of the fraud that was perpetrated on the betting public today in this race. Good luck to the winner, but why oh why was he allowed to go clear and win unchallenged, how many brown paper bags full of cash are being accepted at motorway service stations at this very moment?
This was the worst example I have ever seen of a horse being allowed to win without any of the trailing jockeys attempting to put their mount into contention! Were they all promised a chunky brown envelope?
Please Forumites, replay the 4.30 Hexham race again and marvel at how blatant was the non-trying contingent!
Then pack the game in (Racing media excepted of course, they're all celebrating and remaining silent!)
This was the worst example I have ever seen of a horse being allowed to win without any of the trailing jockeys attempting to put their mount into contention! Were they all promised a chunky brown envelope?
Please Forumites, replay the 4.30 Hexham race again and marvel at how blatant was the non-trying contingent!
Then pack the game in (Racing media excepted of course, they're all celebrating and remaining silent!)
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Bollix. Jockey poached a lead and there was nothing good enough to peg him back. Winner ran them off their feet. Nothing to see here...
was strange becos i was in the in running room at Hexham today...2 mins before last race my mate got a fone call of his mate who told him sandy thomson really fancied her runner in the last...
so..im not sure the race was a stitch up but after the fone call i suppose anything was possible.
so..im not sure the race was a stitch up but after the fone call i suppose anything was possible.
the winner could have given them a 30L start and would still have won with its head in its chest, so little surprise the stable fancied it. time will tell but looks a nice horse and by far the best horse in the field, regardless of the poor rides the rest got.
i said at halfway 'does emma todd thinks shes on frankel'
Likes been said elsewhere nobody knows what the outcome would have been if the winner hadn't been given a soft lead but you can certainly make the case that it would have won anyway. WTF were the jockeys on the front two in the betting doing though when the tape went up. They were 10+ lengths behind then the winner kicked on. Absolutely cluless to give such a soft lead in that ground to your only other serious rival. It was as though they were totally unware of where it was and were more concerned with keeping tabs on each other.
Clueless jockeys........yes. Stitch up, don't think so.
Clueless jockeys........yes. Stitch up, don't think so.
i know emma todd and yes you cant argue it wasnt her finest hour but 100% it wasnt bent.
in their defence the going was desperate and they were struggling to get home all day, yes they should have been closer and maybe they thought he had gone off to fast. no excuse for letting it go 40 plus lengths clear though.
I do blame these "new" starts a bit mind as it seems to happen a lot more although not as bad as today.
the thing is about horse racing is very few runners go off at a decent clip and go 30L clear and win by 30L
very few.
very few.
you were there so i believe what you say, visually from the tv pictures it looked a struggle
winner was well bet ..all the locals knew ....however time will tell that the winner is a very nice prospect 
might be at sedgefield on the 7th, if the horse runs, will pop in and see how its done WS 
tbh the jock on winner cudnt believe his eyes wen he looked round 2 out.
Hope oor Sandy is not easily upset by internet rumours 
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Very pleased with Baracalu's nice win today @HexhamRaces and well ridden by @ryannichol1
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Very pleased with Baracalu's nice win today @HexhamRaces and well ridden by @ryannichol1
I, like many others, will have enormous sympathy for this slightly bitter and vaguely twisted loser. It is sometimes hard to take when you get it into your mind that you have been seriously hard done-by. Let us all hope that he soon gets over it.
Just had a look at this and find myself agreeing with the opening poster,this was a shambles,if I'd had a bet in this I would be livid.At Navan recently a similar race was run and this forum went into meltdown,today's winning rider was a 7lb claimer as was the rider of the unplaced fav.In behind were some very experienced jockeys,anyone not questioning the rides these jockeys gave their mounts need to have a good look at themselves imo.
yeah right!
Willie Shafter. 28 Mar 17 20:13
was strange becos i was in the in running room at Hexham today...2 mins before last race my mate got a fone call of his mate who told him sandy thomson really fancied her runner in the last...
Willie Shafter. 28 Mar 17 20:13
was strange becos i was in the in running room at Hexham today...2 mins before last race my mate got a fone call of his mate who told him sandy thomson really fancied her runner in the last...
Looked like incompetence to me. The race was a bit of a farce and they gave the winner (who I think would have won without the headstart) too much rope. One good ride and a few bad ones.
B.B. when the same thing happened at Navan the uproar on here was huge,but people are strangely quiet when it happens in England.
time suggests it was no fluke......nice prospect........and I backed the 2nd
well...if you believe the report in todays rp that Sandy Thompson reported that it worked with seeyouatmidnight and that horse couldnt get to it...
if thats accurate how wasnt it odds on..
if thats accurate how wasnt it odds on..
Maybe seeyouatmidnight isn't a good work horse? Or maybe he carried more weight. Who knows?
saw him interviewed Stevie by Bob the "nice" nob pre race and he did hint it was a nice prospect - as always you read btwn the lines wiv those interviews - recent examples
Ellison interviewed today everything at Sedgy today wud be well involved oh and he fancies the Spring Double
Meanwhile Ruth Carr the other day told everyone that wud listen that Bognog was ready to win and it duly did - at 12s
Ellison interviewed today everything at Sedgy today wud be well involved oh and he fancies the Spring Double
Meanwhile Ruth Carr the other day told everyone that wud listen that Bognog was ready to win and it duly did - at 12s
Whats happened to zodie - missed a few days when I was in hospital but seems he has disappeared 
Too many pork pies perhaps .....
Too many pork pies perhaps .....
Tony probably had enuff and chopped him up and fed him to the pigs after the adverse publicity
Meanwhile Ruth Carr the other day told everyone that wud listen that Bognog was ready to win and it duly did - at 12s
was this just before the race or earlier in day smirnoff2 ?
did is shorten after that ?
was this just before the race or earlier in day smirnoff2 ?
did is shorten after that ?
just b4 race - well gud 10 mins b4 but she was confident it wud go close...... you know the rest
hardly moved in market neither but she aint "a sexy trainer " is she
no denying she was confident of big run though pre race
no denying she was confident of big run though pre race
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