Thursday 5 July 2012

RACING POST NEWS FRIDAY JULY 6th 2012. BHA DEAL OR NO DEAL?



RACING POST NEWS FRIDAY JULY 6th 2012
WEEK MONDAY JULY 2nd TO SUNDAY JULY 8th


PREVIEW TODAY'S CARDS
 http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/home.sd 


In memory
 of Tiny Hubbard (shepherd)


 
Jon Lees and Tony O'Hehir
"SO YOU THINK to miss his swan song in Eclipse Injury forces O'Brien to retire star immediately.
Ten time Group winner was found to be lame, denying himthe opportunity to bow out by
 clinching a second successive Coral-Eclipse Stakes..

FAREWELL

"Instead of lining up at Sandown tomorrow, SO YOU THINK will head into quarantine to prepare for a return to Australia, where he will stand at Coolmore for a fee of A$66,000 (£44,000)"


RP BILL BARBER REVELATION REPORT YESTERDAY.

"BHA's HISTORIC BETFAIR DEAL WORTH £40m." 

"Move sees racing pull out of judicial review .....

"HORSEMEN hail  'positive first step'  towards a boost in prize-money. 


"THE agreement between Betfair and racing was yesterday hailed as a positive first step towards restoring prize-money levels by Horsemen's Group chief executive Alan Morcombe .....


J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment
THIS PRESENT HORSEMEN'S GROUP IS NOT A TRUE HORSEMEN'S GROUP AT ALL.


MISLEADING FACTUAL TITLE RIGHTS 
This is not a Horsemen's Group due to the fact that there are no True Top Professional Bloodhorse Literate Achiever Handler Riders in it.

BLOODHORSE LITERACY ZONE
A TRUE BLOODHORSE LITERATE HORSEMEN'S GROUP

This present Horsemen's Group is libellous, detracting from the true Zone that is Bloodhorse Literacy the very heart of this unique and remarkable sport. Such a Zone as this needs to be recognised worldwide in every country who has horseracing.

To honour an honest Horsemen's Group the following people are given here as a lead, a guidance as to how a true Horsemen's Group should be formed, to be known to be, and to be understood properly to be,
a true 2012 Bloodhorse Literate Zone  
(ladies first)
Lydia Pearce
Julie Cecil
Rachel Hood
Elaine Mellor
Brook Sanders
Emma Spencer
Linda Clitheroe
Alice Plunkett

(gentlemen)
Willie Carson
Clive Brittain
Kevin Darley
John Reed
John Francome
Derek Thompson
David Goodwin
Sir Henry Cecil
Frank Conlon
John Gosden
Lester Piggott
Eddie Hide

Out of BBC Horseracing Broadcasting Team now in this zone
Clare Balding
Mick Fitzgerald
Richard Pitman
 Richard Dunwoody
+ Media Hits both Jim McGrath's xx 


Female jockeys from around the world

HISTORIC ROYAL BLOODHORSE LITERACY
In 1981 our own Queen Elizabeth invites Monty Roberts to come over from the US of A and stay with her at Windsor Castle to address the issues relating to bloodhorse literacy.


BRITISH ROYALTY JOIN UP WITH BLOODHORSE LITERACY

MUCH LOVED QUEEN MUM OF THEM ALL




RPSPORT WIMBLEDON

Best bets for today's semi-final action

Sue Barker and Team bring us Wimbledon this afternoon
with raindrops falling fast
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/forrestgump/raindropskeepfallingonmyhead.htm 
MENS SINGLES SEMI-FINAL
DJOKOVIC  V  FEDERER
Playing now BBC2 1.35pm On Covered Centre Court
ORDER OF PLAY TODAY
MURRAY 4-9 TO TOPPLE TSONGA AND REACH FINAL

Pressure on Scot to end British Wimbledon hoodoo (ongoing since 1938)

Writes Michael Brear



KING IN WAITING ?
ANDY MURRAY describes the tense atmosphere of all the things that go on behind the scenes, as the pressure mounts throughout these two weeks to Final's Day.
Some Tough Journey's are Experienced 

YESTERDAY'S  SEMI-FINAL (female)
Williams v Azarenka
SERENA WILLIAMS experience and strength pips VICTORIA AZARENKA
in two sets 6-3. 7-6. 

SERENA WILLIAMS VICTORY YESTERDAY
VICTORIA AZARENKA  -  A BRAVE PERFORMANCE
Victoria's haunting  echo resounds around Centre Court  as she hits each ball.



QUEEN IN WAITING ?
SERENA WILLIAMS 1-6 for fifth title meets up with AGNIESZA RADWANSKA
in the  Final
 
FUNDING BREAKTHROUGH FOR RACING
ON the receiving end of a legal lesson in primary semantics
Tom Kerr goes back to school on day one of William Hill's action in London's
High Court.
" IT WAS just as well the BHA and Betfair agreed a deal before yesterday's hearing. Court 66, tucked away in the east wing of London's Royal Courts of Justice, could barely squeeze another soul inside. Another set of claimants was the last thing it needed.

"We need a conference hall not a court,"quipped one lawyer as the crowd filtered into yesterday's hearing. Unfortunately, the Leverson inquiry into press ethics has commandeered the biggest courtroom of this immense gothic revival complex. A dubious sense of priorities, but there you go. Some people just don't realise how important the levy is.

"This case, or challenge, relates to whether the Levy Board was right when it  said it could not collect levy from exchange users as they do not fall within the statutory definition of a bookmaker.

"Consequently, much of the court's time was taken up defining difficult and elusive words such as 'receive' or 'negotiate'. It was a bit like playing Scrabble with a three-year-old.

"Before we could get started there was the important business of announcing the BHA had made a deal with Betfair,

"One of the defence barristers, perhaps the superbly named Lord Pannick (pronounced Lord Panic), handed judge Justice Stanley Burnton a press release explaining the matter.

"I'll read that later," he replied, in  a tone that suggested he would do nothing of the sort.

"Dinah Rose QC, representing William Hill, told us the Levy Board had done a "volte face" on the issue of exchange customers, having insisted for at least eight years they were liable for levy before abandoning the position. After the BHA's withdrawal you almost began to feel sorry for Hills, a rock of stability in a sea of inconsistency.

"As mentioned, however, the main topic was defining everyday words, an activity only lawyers and primary school teachers eke a living out of.

"There was lengthy discussion of what difference, if any,there is between making and receiving a bet, interrupted briefly by an 'emergency situation', which asked us to search our immediate areas for, presumably, bombs and daggers and stuff.

"(Attention please. Attention please,"we later heard."This is the control officer. The emergency situation has been resolved. The building has been declared safe." The judge, as if he had just been told the oceans were not going to turn into jelly after all, said: "That's a relief.")

"We were told about many rulings and precedents, including something called the Quintavalle case ("Your Lordship of course is familiar with this; it is the human fertilisation case") and many blameless words like 'orginised' and 'affected' were dragged into the sorry mess, which like a good pub brawl had gathered significant momentum of its own.

"An example; Rose cited a case against a social club who placed bets using a tote-style machine operated by a company which 'negotiated' bets. The Lord Justice interjected:"Well, we need to discuss what negotiating a bet means." Yes, let's.

"The answers were illuminating. Recieve, we were told, means to take or accept. "So receive means receive?" asked the judge.

"Later, Lord Justice Burnton mused: "Basically you're arguing over two words."

"Yes. Well, really one word: receive, "  replied Rose."




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