RACING POST FRIDAY MAY 25th 2012
WEEK MONDAY MAY 21st to SUNDAY MAY 27th 2012
REVIEW YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
PREVIEW TODAY'S CARDS
SIR HENRY CECIL has outlined his preference to keep the
world's best horse FRANKEL at a mile for his next run at Royal Ascot.
RELATED LINKS
The
superstar colt took his unbeaten record to ten with an imperious display in the
JLT Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on Saturday.
http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/royal-ascot-ascot-sir-henry-cecil-cecil-reiterates-queen-anne-preference-for-frankel/1037452/royalascot/#newsArchiveTabs=last7DaysNews
YESTERDAY'S RACING POST REPORTS AS FOLLOWS
GRAHAM GREEN "FITZSIMONS GIVES UP PURSUIT OF
LEGAL COSTS .....
"PAUL FITZSIMONS, who last December
emerged from the biggest corruption investigation in the history of British
racing without a stain on his character, has been forced to admit defeat in his
bid to recover a proportion of the legal costs of close to £90,000 he incurred
in clearing his name.
The BHA slammed the door to any further
discussion of the issue when informing the jockey-turned-trainer he will not
receive a penny after the disciplinary panel decided he was not unfairly
treated. There is no appeal against the ruling.
"Fitzsimons, who was acquitted of
being part of a conspiracy, of supplying inside information and of deliberately
riding to lose on IT'S A MANS WORLD at Lingfield at Lingfield in February 2009,
exhausted his life savings to fight the case and is angry at being refused ant
recompense from the governing body that brought the charges against him.
"KIRSTY MILCZAREK, who was involved
in the same inquiry and had her two- year ban overturned last month, is also
understood to be planning to seek
compensation for her legal expenses, but is likely to channel her claim
through the BHA's appeal board, which can sanction payments up to £20,000, a route
denied Fitzsimons, as he was found not guilty on all counts.
"His plight not only highlights an
apparent contradiction in how racing's disciplinary process operates, but also
looks certain to produce renewed calls for the creation of a central fund to
help meet defence costs in the most serious cases heard by the BHA, a move
advocated by the Professional Jockeys Association.
" Fitzsimons, who retired from the
saddle to concentrate on training at Saxton Gate Stables in Lambourn following
the death of his partner Julia Tooth in December 2010, has been advised by his
legal team that pursuing a case through the civil courts would offer little
prospect of success and that he could be ordered to pay the BHA's costs if unsuccessful.
"I've no money left so there is
nothing I can do but accept it, although I'm very unhappy," said Fitzsimons,
"I would have been hung, drawn and quartered had I not fought the charges
and my legal team were brilliant, so in that respect the money was well spent,
but I believe I am entitled to at least some of it back as I hadn't done
anything wrong."
"Fitzsimons, who had to
remortgage his home, has been forced to
stop work on the new boxes being built in his yard as he was anticipating a cheque from the BHA to finish the project.
"He added: I'm delighted Kirsty won
her appeal and good luck to her if she gets compensation, but I don't even get
a sniff at the door and that can't be right. I would bite the BHA's hand off if
they offered me £20,000, but from the email I got from them I won't be getting
anything."
"In a statement, the BHA said:
"The disciplinary panel received an application for costs from Paul
Fitzsimons . In his own application Mr
Fitzsimons does not contend that there
is any provision in the rules which empowers the panel to make any award of
costs against the BHA.
"However, it is also true that Mr
Fitzsimons was not treated unfairly in being proceeded against by the BHA, and
if the panel did have the power to award costs to people treated unfairly, it
would not exercise it in this case."
"The statement added: Fitzsimons relies essentially on the fact that
he always gave a clear and consistent account of his ride of' IT'S A MANS WORLD
and that the evidence against him did not change from the outset of the
investigation. But it falls way short of
establishing unfair treatment. The panel felt he had a serious case to answer
on the basis of the material put before it by the BHA. Although the panel came
to a different conclusion about
Fitzsimons' ride than the BHA advocate, the BHA's contentions were neither
improper nor based on flimsy grounds."
J MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL COMMENT
CALLING INTO QUESTION THIS BHA QUOTE:
"The BHA's contentions were neither improper nor based on flimsy grounds ......
THIS IS actually a case of improper BHA justice/judgement based upon flimsy grounds, due to the fact that the BHA disciplinary panel are all Bloodhorse Illiterate so this immediately places all the issues in contention out of context.
The BHA are punishing people for achieving True Professional Bloodhorse Literacy in their own right, both In the Saddle and Out of the Saddle, both in Theory and in Practice. For this reason the BHA's working practices are redundant, estranged, not fit for purpose.
How much damage money do the BHA owe Paul Fitzsimons? And all the others who have been prosecuted unjustly same?
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