THE RACING POST SUNDAY OCTOBER 16th 2011
RACING POST WEEK MONDAY OCTOBER 10th - SUNDAY OCTOBER 16th 2011
BHA WHIP REVIEW TEAM 78 PAGE DOCUMENT ONLY JUST PUBLISHED
CALLED INTO QUESTION
SERIOUS CLASH CONFLICT OF INTERESTS BOILED OVER ON THE VERY FIRST
QIPCO CHAMPIONS DAY BHA TIMING CALLED INTO QUESTION.
WAS THIS BHA DELIBERATE MANIPULATION?
PROFESSIONAL SENIOR HORSEMEN - V - BRITISH HORSERACING REGULATION AUTHORITY (BHA)
J MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL
RICHARD HUGHES MAKES A LONE STAND BY HANDING IN
HIS PROFESSIONAL RIDING LICENCE
None of this set out here is RICHARD HUGHES fault therefore how is it that HUGHES is seen as the one who needs to appologise himself at Ascot on the very first Qipco Champions Day for taking a stand over how the BHA'S bloodhorse illiteracy is attempting to manipulate the rules of this sport to suit only the bloodhorse illiterate.
1. It is not RICHARD HUGHES fault that The British Horseracing Authority have taken close on one year to produce their bloodhorse illiterate 78 page whip review document. What has this cost financially? Who has paid for this?
2. It is not RICHARD HUGHES fault the timing of publishing this document
3. It is not RICHARD HUGHES fault that the BHA set the date Monday 10th October for the new whip rules to come into force, just five days before the first Qipco Champions Day.
4. It is not RICHARD HUGHES fault that the BHA planned their own publishing and enforcement steps to clash with the New Qipco Champions Day.
IRRESPONSIBLE BLOODHORSE ILLITERATE BRITISH REGULATION
On taking a first look at this document it is noted as follows:
FORWARD ANDREW MERRIAM CHAIR OF THE WHIP REVIEW GROUP (Bloodhorse Illiterate) P2
CONTENTS P3
PAUL ROY CHAIRMAN OF THE BRITISH HORSERACING AUTHORITY.
CHAIRMAN S PREFACE (Bloodhorse Illiterate) P4
CHAIRMAN S PREFACE (Bloodhorse Illiterate) P4
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OVERVIEW P5 - P7 to include Chapters One to Chapter Seven
INTRODUCTION P8 and P9
CONTEXT: Horseracing in Britain P9
KEY STATISTICS 2010. 9 points
ECONOMIC IMPACT 9 points as listed
How do these BHA regulators expect four hundred and thirty three professional licensed riders to drop everything and translate a document as this in 5 days? What would have become of Qipco Champions Day if they had done this ......
All professional senior true horsemen should be given time to assess this document properly
In the mean time the BHA'S ruling on the use of the whip needs to be put on hold, with just one exception any jockey who breaks the whip rules to win, whilst the second horse's rider does not break the rules be eliminated and placed last.
THAT’S WHY THEY CALL HIM THE FREAK
"Breathtaking FRANKEL provides a wondrous centrepiece to a brilliant Champions Day at Ascot. Plus ALASTAIR DOWN See Pages 2-7"
J MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL
FRANKEL IS NOT A FREAK
"Breathtaking FRANKEL provides a wondrous centrepiece to a brilliant Champions Day at Ascot. Plus ALASTAIR DOWN See Pages 2-7
Qipco Champions Day.
RICHARD HUGHES “I am deeply embarrassed at having played a part in removing the spotlight, from Qipco Champions Day’ .
“ The top jockey’s exclusive column on why the whip rules have forced him to stop riding, pages 12 and 13. PLUS jockeys’ strike averted page 8.
GRAHAM DENCH REPORTS
“SOUMILLON whip ban fury after Champions Stakes thriller CIRRUS DES AIGLES 5 9-3 strikes at 12-1…. handler presenter ZOE GARGOULAUD trainer Corine Barande-Barbe for Jean-Claude-Alain Dupouy breeder Y Lelimouzin, B Deschamps.
PETER SCARGILL Classic bid a possibility for SO YOU THINK. It was a case of close but not close enough for the second time at Ascot for SO YOU THINK, after the Ballydoyle star could not hold off the late thrust of CIRRUS DES AIGLES to once again finish runner up.”
“SOUMILLON FURY OVER WHIP BAN.
“THE increasingly inflammatory new whip rules snared their first international victim yesterday, when CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON lost his share of British racing’s richest ever prize – working out at £52,390 according to the BHA rulebook – and was stood down for five days for what in any other sport would be regarded as a minor offence.
“ SOUMILLON partnering the gallant CIRRUS DES AIGLES to victory in the £1.3 million Qipco Champion Stakes (4.10) over favourite SO YOU THINK, in which he hit the winner six times in the final furlong, one over the limit.
“The draconian punishment, which had an incensed SOUMILLON vowing to ‘take a good lawyer and try to see what we can do’ marred a thrilling race and overshadowed a superb effort from the globetrotting winner, who was gaining a first Group 1 win at the seventh attempt and provided Chantilly trainer Corine Barande-Barbe with her career highlight after 20 years with a license. Sadly it was also a huge embarrassment to British racing , as an eloquent SOUMILLON underlined, and yet another own goal in a turbulent week.
“SOUMILLON, who is recognised throughout the racing world as one of the sport’s most stylish and effective practitioners and was taking over from the winner’s regular rider FRANCK BLONDEL because of his greater international experience, could not believe the scale of his punishment, which he believes “shames British racing,.
“In a big race like that you try to win, I can except the five-day suspension , but for just one over the limit in the final furlong they have taken all my prize –money. Have you seen that happen to any other sportsman?
“I have some money, and that’s not the problem, but many other jockey’s with families and kids don’t have enough money. All jockeys in England are scared now - that is the problem.’
“SOUMILLON, who said he would still pay his agent and his valet but would not be able to treat his wife now, had counted to six and thought he was all right because he was within the new limit of seven for an entire Flat race.
“He said he did not realise they had all been within the final furlong and pointed to the Qipco branding - blue like the furlong markers – all the way down the straight as one of the distractions from judging where the last furlong pole is.
“He said: ‘How can I see the board (the furlong marker)? SO YOU THINK was so close to me, he’s a very big horse and there is so much to think about. …..
I tried to count and counted six and thought that was alright. They (BHA regulation) changed the rules five days before this big meeting. Do you think in France we would change the rules five days before the Arc?”
“He continued: because of a mistake of just 20 meters I loose all the prize – money and get five days suspension. In no other sport in the world – whether football, Formula 1, tennis or whatever – can you be banned for such a little mistake. I did nothing wrong, They (BHA regulation) have made rules to catch people and I’m very upset.”
“SOUMILLON’S five-day suspension will also hurt him and he continued: “I’m fighting for the championship in France which is very important for my career. I have never seen a fine like this in sport, its unbelievable. I can’t accept it the rules should be the same internationally - every jurisdiction has different rules. In other sports the rules are the same worldwide. We are civilised people. It’s 2011, not 1800.”
“Prior to the storm that engulfed SOUMILLON , Barbe was in raptures about her “friend “CIRRUS DES AIGLES, who was racing for the tenth time in 2011 and has barely had a breather in a 16 - month campaign that took him unsuccessfully, to Japan and Hong Kong last winter.
“Barbe, who’s biggest previous win came with CARLING in the 1995 Prix de Diane, said : to win the Prix de Diane in France is enormous, too win this is enormous too. I can’t say one was better than the other but winning a
Group 1 in Britain is fantastic. This means a lot to me, I have not many horses, I have very few clients but I have a Champion. I saw before hand the horse was happy and I knew that he could do it. I wasn’t nervous. I trusted him and he’s from another world. Every race he has run he has progressed and I know that he is a gelding, but for me this is about racing. Breeding is important but commercialism is my priority and I know a thousand times I’d prefer a gelding like him who enjoys racing. A return to Hong Kong is on the cards, but CIRRUS DES AIGLES is unlikely to take in the Japan Cup first this time.”
THE MIGHTY FRANKEL is not a freak. FRANKEL showed the world on Saturday just how great horseracing can be – just how great Sir Henry Cecil and his Team at Warren Place are, as FRANKEL’ S calm and confident performance enthrals a crowd of over twenty six thousand, there to share the very first Qipco Champions Day.
RICHARD HUGHES “I am deeply embarrassed at having played a part in removing the spotlight, from Qipco Champions Day’ .
“ The top jockey’s exclusive column on why the whip rules have forced him to stop riding, pages 12 and 13. PLUS jockeys’ strike averted page 8.
GRAHAM DENCH REPORTS
“SOUMILLON whip ban fury after Champions Stakes thriller CIRRUS DES AIGLES 5 9-3 strikes at 12-1…. handler presenter ZOE GARGOULAUD trainer Corine Barande-Barbe for Jean-Claude-Alain Dupouy breeder Y Lelimouzin, B Deschamps.
PETER SCARGILL "Classic bid a possibility for SO YOU THINK. It was a case of close but not close enough for the second time at Ascot for SO YOU THINK, after the Ballydoyle star could not hold off the late thrust of CIRRUS DES AIGLES to once again finish runner up.”
“SOUMILLON FURY OVER WHIP BAN.
“THE increasingly inflammatory new whip rules snared their first international victim yesterday, when CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON lost his share of British racing’s richest ever prize – working out at £52,390 according to the BHA rulebook – and was stood down for five days for what in any other sport would be regarded as a minor offence.
“ SOUMILLON partnering the gallant CIRRUS DES AIGLES to victory in the £1.3 million Qipco Champion Stakes (4.10) over favourite SO YOU THINK, in which he hit the winner six times in the final furlong, one over the limit.
“The draconian punishment, which had an incensed SOUMILLON vowing to ‘take a good lawyer and try to see what we can do’ marred a thrilling race and overshadowed a superb effort from the globetrotting winner, who was gaining a first Group 1 win at the seventh attempt and provided Chantilly trainer Corine Barande-Barbe with her career highlight after 20 years with a license. Sadly it was also a huge embarrassment to British racing , as an eloquent SOUMILLON underlined, and yet another own goal in a turbulent week.
“SOUMILLON, who is recognised throughout the racing world as one of the sport’s most stylish and effective practitioners and was taking over from the winner’s regular rider FRANCK BLONDEL because of his greater international experience, could not believe the scale of his punishment, which he believes “shames British racing,.
“In a big race like that you try to win, I can except the five-day suspension , but for just one over the limit in the final furlong they have taken all my prize –money. Have you seen that happen to any other sportsman?
“I have some money, and that’s not the problem, but many other jockey’s with families and kids don’t have enough money. All jockeys in England are scared now - that is the problem.’
“SOUMILLON, who said he would still pay his agent and his valet but would not be able to treat his wife now, had counted to six and thought he was all right because he was within the new limit of seven for an entire Flat race.
“He said he did not realise they had all been within the final furlong and pointed to the Qipco branding - blue like the furlong markers – all the way down the straight as one of the distractions from judging where the last furlong pole is.
“He said: ‘How can I see the board (the furlong marker)? SO YOU THINK was so close to me, he’s a very big horse and there is so much to think about. …..
I tried to count and counted six and thought that was alright. They (BHA regulation) changed the rules five days before this big meeting. Do you think in France we would change the rules five days before the Arc?”
“He continued: because of a mistake of just 20 meters I loose all the prize – money and get five days suspension. In no other sport in the world – whether football, Formula 1, tennis or whatever – can you be banned for such a little mistake. I did nothing wrong, They (BHA regulation) have made rules to catch people and I’m very upset.”
“SOUMILLON’S five-day suspension will also hurt him and he continued: “I’m fighting for the championship in France which is very important for my career. I have never seen a fine like this in sport, its unbelievable. I can’t accept it the rules should be the same internationally - every jurisdiction has different rules. In other sports the rules are the same worldwide. We are civilised people. It’s 2011, not 1800.”
“Prior to the storm that engulfed SOUMILLON , Barbe was in raptures about her “friend “CIRRUS DES AIGLES, who was racing for the tenth time in 2011 and has barely had a breather in a 16 - month campaign that took him unsuccessfully, to Japan and Hong Kong last winter.
“Barbe, who’s biggest previous win came with CARLING in the 1995 Prix de Diane, said : to win the Prix de Diane in France is enormous, too win this is enormous too. I can’t say one was better than the other but winning a Group 1 in Britain is fantastic. This means
a lot to me, I have not many horses, I have very few clients but I have a Champion. I saw before hand the horse was happy and I knew that he could do it. I wasn’t nervous. I trusted him and he’s from another world. Every race he has run he has progressed and I know that he is a gelding, but for me this is about racing. Breeding is important but commercialism is my priority and I know a thousand times I’d prefer a gelding like him who enjoys racing. A return to Hong Kong is on the cards, but CIRRUS DES AIGLES is unlikely to take in the Japan Cup first this time.”
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