crowley fighting

I think he was in the role of punchbag tbh.

Trying to get the next gig with Tyson fury.

he will beat fury

still feeling that bang on the head by the looks of it ...

always on the ropes

He’s got to be one of the worst jockeys around lol

Disgusting ride

Funny he can criticise someone else’s riding after that

if raul was annoyed with crowley yesterday, a lot of punters will be more upset today

Crowley remained Tight Lipped after the incident.

That was even more rancid

the worse i have EVER seen.

not watching Saturday then?

now saying he was hit with lead :0

looks like crowley has had ALL the stuffing knocked out of him

jim looks beaten up

shd have a couple of days off

Perhaps RDS was singing 'Champion jockey you're having a laugh'

ill be laying jim till he has a winner
he do not look well

he;s been beaten on 9/4, 9/4, 4/5, 2/1, 3/1 and 4/5 last six rides i think

Send him back over the jumps.

told you he is not up to it
laying his mount in 3.00

another good lay
he can not keep it straight
its a knock blow

Leaden ride

does he even want to win, prob doesn't want to be interviewed :o

aye, the lead's gone out of his pencil

He thought he was knocked over the head with a piece of lead

muraadef the lay in 3.30
I will lay his mounts till he has a winner

Not interested

leaden footed there

needs an easy LEAD on one

tangle if not interested why reply

Crowleys a better fighter than a jockey.Hes not a very good fighter.....

Is he still staying Tight Lipped? 

maybe his doctor has examined him and told him to take it easy for a few days. . and hes taken it a bit too literally

he has got to keep an tight lip
he can not open it

u lot have me in stitches

we will so you up later

wtf was that on cacophonus

Lost his Mojo

‘I did not use any lead’ – Raul da Silva
Jockey issues statement after fracas with Jim Crowley at Goodwood
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Tuesday 12 June 2018News
Jockey Raul da Silva has denied using a piece of lead with which to strike Jim Crowley in the face at Goodwood on Sunday.

Crowley has claimed he was “the victim of an unprovoked attack from behind” in a changing-room altercation that led to Da Silva receiving a 21-day suspension for violent conduct.

The 2016 champion Flat jockey alleged that he was struck from behind “with what felt like a piece of lead” after a “number of jockeys” questioned Da Silva’s riding technique after the first race of the day.

Da Silva admitted to hitting Crowley, but claimed he did not instigate what happened at Goodwood between the two jockeys.

He told Press Association Sport: “I did not use any lead. I had nothing in my hand.

“If I had, he wouldn’t have carried on riding because lead is heavy. If I had something in my hand he would have lost some teeth.

“If I’d hit him with lead, why not get the police involved? Everyone took his side and I was there with nobody.

“I will swear on my son’s life that Jim started the fight.

“I like to be friends with everybody, I don’t want to start trouble. It’s difficult for me now. I’m not allowed to go racing for a long time, it’s not fair.”

Crowley, who required medical treatment in hospital for facial injuries, said that allegations from Da Silva that he instigated the altercation at Goodwood were “categorically untrue”.

He said in a statement on Monday: “There was a minor disagreement over a race-riding incident with a number of jockeys not happy with Raul’s riding.

“After this, I was the victim of an unprovoked attack from behind with what felt like a piece of lead, and it is disappointing that I have then been accused of being the aggressor.

“This is categorically untrue and it is notable that after a lengthy inquiry that heard from many witnesses, only one of us was suspended.”

Da Silva and Crowley rode in the opening seven-furlong handicap at Goodwood, in which the former finished last aboard Medieval. Crowley came home fifth of the nine runners on Charles Molson.

Twenty-one days is the British Horseracing Authority’s maximum recommended suspension for violent conduct, but racing’s rulers said on Monday that it has “the ability to reopen such cases, if it is felt necessary”.

Raul sounds heavy handed maybe a career as a boxer in the pipeline

What's the game coming to ...?

Firstly, we have had the sickening after racing punch-ups at Goodwood & Ascot that got National News coverage, saying it was fueled by drink and drugs.

Now we have the jockeys having a punch-up at Goodwood, with allegations of pieces of lead being used.

This follows on from a set-to between trainers Johnny Farrelly and Alan Jones, after a stand-up row in the weighing room earlier this year, with both being called before the stewards to explain.

I still remember the well-documented altercation between trainers David Elsworth & Bill Turner a few years ago that led to blows being exchanged, the acrimony still exists between the two.

There was also a post-race scuffle between owners and trainers a couple of years ago (I think at Lingfield) involving Aussie trainer Brett Johnson in the winner's enclosure.

All we need now is a mass brawl between the bookies at Royal Ascot over pitch allocations ...

Anyone else have any stories of violence at the races? ... makes interesting reading, seeing who is up for a fight, or just "handbags".

Keep seeing the clips of Barney Curley, Luke Harvey (the under achiever) & John McCririck having a row at Folkestone (?) races, although that never came to blows, just insults.

It brings racing into disrepute, gives out damaging publicity just when they are trying to attract families and a bigger audience to attend race meetings.

Royal Ascot riot on the cards?

Horse Racing could come up with their own cluedo game.

RDS with the Lead Piping in the Jockeys Room for starters.

Eddie Ahern with a mouse on Betfair in the toilets

Hayley Turner with an OBE on Matchbook

there was a punch up in the car park after racing at last meeting at Hexham
between to bus loads from Carlisle

The Barney altercation was great viewing and lifted the lid on his bailing out John Mc.

going to watch jim today
hope he is getting better but has not rode a winner since the big FIGHT

Mass brawl at Newbury not that long ago...seem to recall the Taffs were involved

Taffs at newbury involved in trouble.... That has been going on for years!

Morning magic, funny you say that, me and

A couple of mates went to Newbury about

30yrs ago and there was loads of Welsh

There then, singing rugby songs on a

Racetrack.!

Morning GC - yeah I used to go a fair bit about 15-20 years ago. One afternoon must have been about 60 of them doing the same in one of the bars. A few English then took a bit of offence (alcohol fuelled), and one of the Welsh blokes ripped his shirt off and picked up a chair above his head and got nicked straight away. Nothing really happened at all but it frightened a few of the racegoers who left promptly, and at one point it did look like it could turn into a mass brawl, you really only needed one to start and it would have went up.

That statement from Crowley (or was it written by someone who works for Shadwell?) was clearly carefully worded, crafted to exonerate Crowley of any blame whilst at the same time not only blaming RDS, but also one may argue designed to destroy his reputation and damage his riding career by suggesting he had attacked Crowley with a heavy object and also from behind, imo.

Why suggest he had lead in his hand when Crowley is unable to be sure about this as he claimed: 'what felt like....'.

It's not hard imo to have sympathy with RDS in this situation

"...Everyone took his side and I was there with nobody."

" I will swear on my son’s life that Jim started the fight."

surprised PR man Struthers let it get to this. Is he away?

That's the other thing Fear, the statement from Crowley was apparently released through the PJA, is not RDS not a member also?

not sure george, agree that was very strange

Anyone remember the big Irish guy (middle aged) who was a regular on the train from Paddington to Newbury.

Very loud and vociferous, at the end of the day he would have his shirt off (tied around his waist) and be well oiled ... always got home and was out next day at somewhere like Lingfield or Sandown.

Also there were characters who you would see at every Southern meeting, they looked well down at heel with tatty raincoats and shoes with newspaper in to soak up water coming through the holes in the soles. How they afforded it was a mystery.

We named one old boy "Tote Ticket Billy" ... he would scour the floor of the stands looking for winning tickets that had been discarded by the newbie punters and women who hadn't a clue. One day at Epsom he struck lucky after a horse was disqualified and he found more than one winning ticket, the gatemen all knew him and some regulars would buy him a cup of tea ... but in reality, he was probably very wealthy.

Also, the regular workmen fellah's that set up the joints, supplied the tissue, crib cards and chalk ... it was only 6 days a week then.

Crowley going to employ former apprentice jockey champion boxer Franny Norton (very useful with his fists) as a minder !!

Having just watched the replay of the race again it beggars belief that one jockey never mind several can have any reason to find fault with  Da Silva's riding in the Goodwood race, something stinks that's for sure but it is  not Da Silva's riding in that race

wasnt fisticuffs but a trainer bid for a horse in a seller or claimer, eventually losing out to original connections. These connections werent impressed that they had been forced to go higher than they wanted to (something to do with the % the racetrack takes i think). Anyway the next day a big black dude turns up at the yard demanding they pay the difference

original connections trainer had a winner today ;)

A certain celebrity on-course bookmaker who likes the limelight was a bit slow coughing up £110k for my notorious friend ...
so he had a visit from Jason driving the Bentley ...
BK wasted no time in shelling out the readies ...
Jason is currently serving life for murder ... ...
Needs must ... can't have these bookie fellows taking liberties can we?

crowley was crying tears were running down his cheeks.

There was a video knocking around of NQ squaring up to a jockey who was working for him. NQ holding a fork threateningly. Think the jock was the one who's father was doing life??

Jones ...

Jones ...

well he has still not rode a winner since fight
ill  lay him out till he does

Just keep Lumping On Battaash….Good Thing.

16 losers on bounce since fight
all his rides look beaten up as well
ill keep laying them till he has a winner

Shocking if the PJA have adopted a biased stance on this matter and exonerated Crowley without holding an open inquiry into the whole affair. Watching some of Crowley's rides since the incident it beggars belief he was champion jockey.

well 4 mounts today starting in 1.20 nby
ill lay  daafr in the 1st and see how i go

well thats 17
now watreeqa in 2.20
lay of the day
im going to come from behind to beat st ANDREW

Coming a cropper 3.30 Family Fortunes

Maybe he should stick to boxing as he's been turned over on the last 10 fav's he sat on

family fortunes has be be lay layed  till he has a winneer

Oh no,I have backed it, come on Crowley get over that headache

no kissing with FAT lip

Jamie Spencer, Seb Sanders, Jim Crowley, should've been a jockey. Provoked that poor Brazilian kid and then had the sh!t slapped out of him. A real piece of sh!t.

Crowley looks lost

If you ask me he’s like this 24/7, 365 days a year.....shocking jockey.

Some fanstastic jockeys that are excellent sports people like Moore, Silvestre, Davy, James Doyle and then there are the others that you'd wish would just get out of the sport, because the sport would be better off without them.

Can add Tudhope to that list, just awful.

well thats it for today
4 more losers = 20
jim provoked the fight and got the boy banned
do not think other jockeys like him
be laying jim mounts on friday
catching up with andrew from cornwell

Was James Doyle asleep in the 4 oclock. Some one should try to wake him up. Perhaps he fell asleep waiting for the race to start. Delays at Newbury ridiculous and inexcusable.

Great ride by Kirby there, perfectly placed throughout.

there are good jockeys and then there are
the rest
you only need to sort them out

hes not been the same since that little fella hit him

He's probably mortified it happened. Having watched the race again, I'm not sure what aspect of the Brazilian's riding he was criticising

well 9 rides today for beaten up jim
he can not go to 29 losers in a row
im not laying the  1st one at sandown
too big a price  16/1
just watch the race

Is Jim employing a bodyguard at Sandown today?

Raul's riding one for The Fairy Story Partnership in the 4.20.

I wonder if Jim has ever told any fairy stories in his time?

raul hit him from behind like lead
how did jim get fato lipo
does not make scents to me

a winner at last for jim
end of thread

At long last

Perhaps Raul will slap him on the back to congratulate him.

with a large piece of LEAD