Nick Luck Show..Ralph Becket Talking Points.

Would deliberately not run a Horse if Harry Bentley was going to ride for one of his retained owners Sheik somebody or other....Then employs Bentley farther down the line as stable Jockey ffs.

Beckets face was a picture after he said it.....As if to say fack me i wish i never said that.

Beckets one of those types of x x x x x

supposition on your part. you dont know. ralfs face is rarely a picture. hes very measured

get rid of him and we will have a parade of platidudinous tripe about how great evryone is

much as i hate look, hes very good

Nick works his arse off he must have more money than the Prime Minister ffs.

Sadly, Beckett went the same way over an owner retaining a jockey (as opposed to a trainer) that 99% of trainers would have gone.

In my close-up experience of a number of stables, trainers are the worst of the racing professionals for thinking they know it all.

That affliction sits with most racing professionals but trainers are generally the worst. Racing professionals really do seem to think they know the game better than any pesky 'outsiders' like owners, journalists and, god forbid, most of all punters.

I firmly believe it is something handed down from the class system days when even jockeys were thought of rather rough and common people. Until UK racing completely rids itself of this kind of nonsense and takes on board the knowledge and ideas that 'outsiders' can bring, it will continue its downward spiral.

I can back this view up with a first-hand observation of the way Terry Ramsden was treated by the racing 'elite' way back in 1987 after he sponsored the Solario Stakes at Sandown. They didn't mind taking his prize money but in the winner's enclosure they blanked him completely! OK, we have moved on a bit since then when a super-rich (soon not to be) but 'coommon lad' was treated like sh*t.

That day has stuck with me all these years and I see far too many similar, if not quite as obvious, examples many times a year still. Becket's superior attitude (does he ever agree with anything, BTW) came over far too clearly yesterday.

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Fack me Lucky is doing better than i thought.

Agree 100% with TheKnight...