best stalls handlers in the world

I think the line was used after they must have won something circa 1966 and resurrected thereafter, even tho no chance of winning owt again ..

Horse is a total b@stard, Goes bolt upright every morning leaving the yard, Surprised it was so well behaved tbh.

wasnt watching gut'

what horse was it?

Given the time of post I assumed Nibras Galaxy of Ismail's.

BTW haven't forgotten about Gile's, Not seen him around at all but am keeping a beady eye open for him.

tar

The starters have to take plenty of responsibility as well.  They let the horses mill about way too far back from the stalls. take an age to load them, one at a time, and if one plays up there are plenty that have stood there for a lot long time waiting.  What is it with loading one at a time?  WTF cant 2 or 3 be loaded together?  These little people have one job - load a dozen or so horse once every half hour 7 or 8 times a day!  Physically demanding, but not the proverbial rocket science!  You don't see the stupidity in Oz or HK or SA or France or the US what we see here and Ireland several times a day.

i watch an awful lot of racing around the world and the british stalls handlers are by far the worst , yet we are constantly given this drivel by commentators that they are the best . absolute cobblers

best in the business our boyz

I put much of the blame on the trainers - many animals look as if they have never seen the stalls before .....

didnt ARC cut their numbers / bring in their own less qualified teams :/

Indeed TheFear.

think they went down a couple of places after taking 8 hours to catch that one at wolverhampton the other night ...

That was the best telly racing event ever! Hilarious. Thought Dascombe came out of it quite well.

Agree with Crepello. No way the lack of stalls training would be tolerated in other countries. US stalls handlers have it easy as each horse has to have a stalls certificate. If one does play up in the US, handlers don't have much of a clue. But we do love to hate our own don't we?

Agree with crepello. I've watched an awful lot of US racing. They load the runners two at a time . eg: stalls 1 &5 then stalls 2 & 6 and so on.

I cannot remember a single occasion in 40 years of a horse having a blindfold applied or a Monty Roberts blanket being put on. Typically they

load in less than a minute. Of course there is the occasional problem but here it seems just about every race it takes an eternity to load.

It must follow,therefore,that our trainers are the problem. Apart from Hannon (who walks his young horses through an open set of stalls on their

way back to the barn after their morning work), and a few others, stalls training appears to be non-existant or an afterthought.

In the past some people on this forum say that our stalls being more claustrophobic than the US stalls is the reason.
I would agree with Crepello though that it's probably a lack of training by some of the yards.

Think Jack Berry did the same as Hannon Rog. Seem to remember there were very few problems with Berry's horses in the stalls.

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Agree with the original post.

A nonsense of a start. Much too much time given to Awesometank and the efforts they made to get her in looked pretty feeble. Totally wrecked the race as a betting medium, two horses taken out and Juliet Foxtrot ran well below market expectations.

Pish most of the horses in America,are trained on track and do stalls tests on track they are ponied down and have someone holding the horses head ,in UK they are trained in stalls at home one set of stalls I saw was made from pallets ,they travel miles to track and go down themselves, more races in UK go off on time compared to anywhere , people who think different are farkin clueless barstewards.

if more races go off on time here than elsewhere it's because people like myself emailed the BHA relentlessly to avoid raceclashes ,,, and eventually they woke up

ours no better or worse than any others in my opinion but the whole gravy train "best in the world" is a joke

So there we have it.......the most efficiently run courses in the world.

ze frogs are not 5ft midgets..zay are real men and lift our four legged friends into ze stalls.

The start was a disgrace. Should give a horse three chances to go forward and then that's it. Be fuming if I owned the favourite.

25 mins to load a field of old timers

Are there now female stalls handlers ? Noticed at Wolves today that from the back that one had long hair and another a long pigtail

who cares male or female just get em in its embarrassing now

something else takes ages to load and Tropics loses all chance