THE RACING POST WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31 2011

THE RACING POST WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31st  2011

RACING POST WEEK MONDAY AUGUST 29 TO SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 4th 2011

RODNEY MASTER FAREWELL TO ANGEL OF LAMBOURN

“Funeral of Doreen Rackham old and young pay respects to an Angel.

“MORE than 750 people from across the generations said farewell to their Angel in Lambourn yesterday ….

PART TWO LEGENDARY GAMBLERS ALEX BIRD 

JULIAN  MUSCAT “On fearless punter Alex Bird “The man who specialised in photo-finishes and had 500 winning bets in a row ....

DAVID MILNES WANTED: JOCKEY FOR SPRINT CUP FAVOURITE

“The number of high-class meetings clashing on Saturday has left James Fanshawe with the unusual headache of trying to find a jockey for anti-post favourite DEACON BLUES in the Group 1 Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock. With Kempton and Ascot holding valuable fixtures in addition to Leopardstown’s Champion Stakes meeting on Saturday, Fanshawe has a dwindling band of top jockey’s still in the hat for the coveted- ride ….

J MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL

IN TOMORROW’S RACING POST

PART THREE LEGENDARY GAMBLER PHIL BULL DON'T MISS IT
PHIL BULL'S TIMEFORM the gentleman who founded Timeform building it up to what we enjoy today a key aid for all those who follow the horses. From the late 1940's early 1950's when Timeform's little Black Book first became available it provided an exciting revelation  to many many people interested in horseracing, it took the world of horseracing forward to a higher level practically over night.

 C4's JIM (Jimbo) McGRATH worked with Phil Bull for many years, as did Racing Post journalist HOWARD WRIGHT, who is the auther of PHIL BULL'S Biography.
BULL the biography. "I ask you to portray me as a person, whole and round, interested in life, the whole panorama of life (With views and observations that are worth hearing), who has made racing his profession, and brought to bear on it an inteligence that has made some impact on the racing scene - not merely as a successful punter graduating from ragged pants to morning dress regalia at Epsom! I have contempt for that!'

TIMEFORM BETFAIR
http://www.timeform.com/timeformbetfairracingclub/benefits.asp 

Phil Bull (1910–1989) was a professional gambler, racehorse owner and publisher, who founded Portway Press Ltd, publishers of Timeform racehorse rating guides, one of the most well-known form guides for British horse racing.^[1

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bull 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HORSE-RACING-PHIL-BULL-TIMEFORM-HOWARD-WRIGHT-1-1-UK-/310222441994 

IN MEMORY, as the beneficiaries of PHIL BULL'S achievements, we all now need to
 'JOIN UP' as MONTY ROBERT'S  describes it,  http://www.turfcall.co.uk/montypage.htm  to bring the horseracing world forward again now to address what Turfcall perceives to be, and
 terms: 'THE VOID' the whole area relating to the regulation of British horseracing the missing links between bloodhorse literate standards and bloodhorse illiterate lack of standards. The present Rules of Racing as translated by bloodhorse illiterate people who take no care, have no understanding of the welfare, needs and rights of the racehorses, as neither do they understand what the term Bloodhorse Literacy Achiever's means. BHA Regulation's shocking ongoing daily misunderstandings, an embarrasment, and in far to many cases grossly unjust, and out of perspective, completely out of touch with the true reality. You do not teach the young anything by punishing them all the time.

TURFCALL attempts to point out by calling the present dilemma 'THE VOID' .
THIS VOID is trashing British horseracing. There is nothing there for the young. The young need and deserve an engine room with everything there that is needed to learn the practical skills that their career's need to absorb.

BHA Regulation Bloodhorse Illiteracy is manifesting itself everyday in many different ways 

people and racehorses are getting badly hurt, loosing their lives, far too often, horses are dropping dead in races. When managing through unfair pressure to reach the winning line, are unable to walk  back into the the winners enclosure as they are totally and utterly flogged to exhaustion. These regulators do not want to know, couldn't care less, force young jockey's to ride the finish they expect to be necessary to adhere to rules that are not being interpreted properly at all. 

THIS VOID needs to be filled by a system that is capable of teaching and uphold the highest standards of true horsemanship, not to condemn out of context. But to encourage, inform and inspire the young to learn one of the most facinating and most wonderful arts that exist.

 JAMES PYMAN crunches the stats and predicts the winner of this season’s jockey’s championship

YESTERDAY AT THE RACES TALK OF THE TRACKS

LEE MOTTERSHEAD joins a modest but enthusiastic crowd on the Downs for Epsom’s first free raceday.

“Snapshop not to Bill’s liking but racegoers provide a happier picture. Some people will do anything for a freeby, Actor Bill Nighy, famous for his roles  Love Actually and Pirates of the Caribbean, not to mention for voicing Dylan the rabbit in the Magic Roundabout , must have banked a few quid. And yet here he is at Epsom, seemingly lured to the Downs by the chance of something for nothing on the track’s first completely free raceday …...”

TODAY’S RACECARDS: Folkestone, Bath, Hereford, Kempton and Carlisle.

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