RACING POST FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18th 2011 ON THE BREADLINE KIEREN FOX

RACING POST FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18th 2011

RACING POST WEEK MONDAY 14th TO SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20th 2011

TODAY'S CARDS Ascot, Haydock, Kempton Park, Wolverhampton and Dundalk. Ten years of Pollytrack page 6-7

"ON THE BREADLINE Jockey KIEREN FOX on how the new whip rules have compounded his downward spiral. JULIAN MUSCAT finds how the first victim of the BHA's new whip regulations has hit rock-bottom, and wonders if the jockey will be able to rebuild his career."

J.MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL

BRITISH HORSERACING needs to move on, it has responsibilities on a world scale

with many other countries around the world now involved in horseracing themselves.

We can’t go on waffling along in a haze of bloodhorse illiterate bewilderment and confusion.

The very first thing that needs to happen is that all bloodhorse literate achievers

have to be accepted and recognised worldwide, all those who are now at present

working at the very top of their professions with proven skills at the highest level

KIEREN FALLON, CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON, JOSEPH O’BRIEN and KEVEN DARLEY. SAME APPLICABLE TO TRAINER TEAM DEVELOPMENT

 PERSPECTIVE CONTEXT

The Rules of Racing worldwide need to be

Bloodhorse Literate Rules.

HORSES ARE GIVEN RATINGS, HORSEMEN SHOULD BE GIVEN RATINGS THE SAME 

STEP ONE

All those working within the British Horseracing Authority every single one need a rating bloodhorse illiterate, or bloodhorse literate.

'BLOODHORSE LITERATE CAREER STRUCTURE

Handler Riders, Conditional, Apprentice riders all need to have a rating as in career

progression steps. These steps need to be clearly defined, with financial reward for skills achieved.

TRAINERS need to make up their teams at home where all the prep work is done or should be done to prepare owners thoroughbreds for the racetrack. Trainers need to employ top horsemen as in handler riders to do this job otherwise the horses won’t be properly prepared at all, and will perform badly in a race, and make a jockey’s job far more difficult, far more dangerous to ride when asked to perform in a race.