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Last week's Winner Graineyhill DRIFTS from 6/1 to 14.0
... and is always behind - then PULLED UP after 3 flights.
Meanwhile the stable's Boot Camp is backed the other way - and Davey (we want it today) Russell duly delivers.
... and is always behind - then PULLED UP after 3 flights.
Meanwhile the stable's Boot Camp is backed the other way - and Davey (we want it today) Russell duly delivers.
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Hopefully the news about some Irish racing being consigned to RUK online from 1/1/2018 means we will be spared watching the er, less than 100% straight, Irish racing in “ glorious HD”. God truly moves in mysterious ways...
So are we are promised the UNBLEMISHED British racing Paris, you couldn't make it up!...100% Unblemished British racing now there's line I never thought I'd see....
Unblemished...
Unblemished...
Once a gypo always a gypo, no different to the ones that come to cut your trees and want paying when job half done
No way to talk about your fellow Countrymen Different...I'm surprised at you mate, I always take people as they come, a few English gypos never done me any harm. Not saying I'd like to live beside them either..
read in a interview once that the trouble with irish racing is that too many people go racing with the results and not a form book
Of course it never happens in the UK, perfectly straight
From the Guardian a a couple of years ago
On the first of next month, it will be a year since the controversial success of Am I Blue at Hereford, yet there is not so much as a hint from the British Horseracing Authority that its inquiry might bear any kind of fruit. All we are told is that investigations are "ongoing", but the trainer involved claims to have learned something different.
Delyth Thomas, based at Bridgend, has a low profile but became much better known when Am I Blue, previously hopeless, hacked up by 19 lengths that day, having been backed down to 5-1 from 25-1. "I [recently] spoke to one of the [BHA] men who interviewed me; he's lovely, and he said it's nearing the end of it," she said on Wednesday.
"I phoned him up and said, it's been hanging over me. Jockeys have been saying things, people have been asking me, do you need a wheelbarrow for all your cash?" Thomas refuses to say if the BHA have given any indication as to whether they will offer charges against her but insists she has done nothing wrong and has no idea why her horse, which she also owns, was so well supported at Hereford.
"I've never been a gambler. I might have £5 each-way sometimes but that's it. It's a mug's game. I'm just in it for the prize money." Thomas says she is "absolutely fuming" about suggestions that Tim Vaughan, the mare's previous trainer, was still in charge of her preparation up to the day of the win. "I had her for three or four months before she won. She was rated 100 when she was with Tim and couldn't win a race. Now, she's rated 113 with me."
The trainer has also been "thoroughly annoyed" by the general surprise that she could work such improvement from a horse, pointing out that she has long enjoyed success in Arab racing.
But there is more than Thomas's reputation at stake. Punter confidence in the sport is at risk when well-backed horses produce sudden improvement, and the benefit of any subsequent inquiry is rather lost if it drags on until the original event has been all but forgotten. No one questions the need for the BHA to make thorough investigations, but future cases will have to move faster than this one.
From the Guardian a a couple of years ago
On the first of next month, it will be a year since the controversial success of Am I Blue at Hereford, yet there is not so much as a hint from the British Horseracing Authority that its inquiry might bear any kind of fruit. All we are told is that investigations are "ongoing", but the trainer involved claims to have learned something different.
Delyth Thomas, based at Bridgend, has a low profile but became much better known when Am I Blue, previously hopeless, hacked up by 19 lengths that day, having been backed down to 5-1 from 25-1. "I [recently] spoke to one of the [BHA] men who interviewed me; he's lovely, and he said it's nearing the end of it," she said on Wednesday.
"I phoned him up and said, it's been hanging over me. Jockeys have been saying things, people have been asking me, do you need a wheelbarrow for all your cash?" Thomas refuses to say if the BHA have given any indication as to whether they will offer charges against her but insists she has done nothing wrong and has no idea why her horse, which she also owns, was so well supported at Hereford.
"I've never been a gambler. I might have £5 each-way sometimes but that's it. It's a mug's game. I'm just in it for the prize money." Thomas says she is "absolutely fuming" about suggestions that Tim Vaughan, the mare's previous trainer, was still in charge of her preparation up to the day of the win. "I had her for three or four months before she won. She was rated 100 when she was with Tim and couldn't win a race. Now, she's rated 113 with me."
The trainer has also been "thoroughly annoyed" by the general surprise that she could work such improvement from a horse, pointing out that she has long enjoyed success in Arab racing.
But there is more than Thomas's reputation at stake. Punter confidence in the sport is at risk when well-backed horses produce sudden improvement, and the benefit of any subsequent inquiry is rather lost if it drags on until the original event has been all but forgotten. No one questions the need for the BHA to make thorough investigations, but future cases will have to move faster than this one.
I’ve not said U.K. racing is perfectly straight but Irish racing is top of my “not to be trusted” list.
Matter of degree.
Matter of degree.
you could get a story like that every couple of days in ireland
Hardly a good example jmdc.
Am I Blue left the T.Vaughan yard to join Delyth Thomas 10 miles away. On the day he won he was down to be ridden by a 7lb claimer but the rider became "unavailable" despite the fact he was spotted at the course, Richard Johnston took over.
Am I Blue left the T.Vaughan yard to join Delyth Thomas 10 miles away. On the day he won he was down to be ridden by a 7lb claimer but the rider became "unavailable" despite the fact he was spotted at the course, Richard Johnston took over.
Didn't A.P.do something similar on another one as well Kevo...?
^ Getmeoutofhere at Ascot October 2010 or one of Jim Best's at almost anywhere?
Think it was a Best horse from memory.....may have been off for some time ?
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