RACING POST TUESDAY JULY 24th 2012. COUNTDOWN TO OLYMPIC GAMES LONDON 2012. OPENING CEREMONY FRIDAY 27th JULY 2012 BBC 1. FROM 7.00.pm

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REVIEW YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/results/home.sd?r_date=2012-07-23 


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

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Homeless Boy Steals The Talent Show
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RACING HANDED £10 MILLION QIPCO BOOST 

Graham Green reports

"THE long-term future of British Champions Day and the series it climaxed has been secured by a deal with Qatar-based sponsor Qipco understood to be worth well in excess of £10 million to racing over the next five years.

QIPCO'S SHEIKH  FAHED IN A SPECIAL ALASTAIR DOWN INTERVIEW

"First class the target on long-haul ticket

Alastair Down  talks to Sheikh Fahad Al Thani about his love of racing and renewed financial commitment to its flagship series.

"ON THE dank morning of July Cup day in Newmarket  there was a fascinating meeting between racing's past and a man who is rapidly emerging as a central player in shaping its future.

" Sheikh Fahad Al Thani is one of the key figures in his family's Qipco organisation, which is extending its already considerable backing of Flat racing with a five-year commitment to the British Champions Series and Champions Day. On this drizzly Saturday the Sheikh was receiving a guided tour from Chris Garibaldi, the livewire National Racing Museum director, of the five-acre Palace House complex smack in the middle of Newmarket that will eventually house the new racing museum, the British collection of sporting art and the headquarters  of the Retraining  of Racehorses charity.

"Palace House is the oldest surviving part of King Charles 11's royal residence and the £16 million project will give racing a stunning flagship celebration of the horse in a mixture of ancient heritage  and 21st century design."

http://www.britishchampionsseries.com/

J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment

To see Palace House as it stands today is a sad reflection upon the poverty and hardship burdened upon the bloodhorse literate achievers their skill and expertise unrecognised, unwanted even in 2012. When is the BHA government going to wake up and smell Sir Henry Cecil's roses? When is this dormant hibernating BHA horseracing government going to recognise  that they do not have a thriving, working brilliant Bloodhorse Literate Zone to be proud of? Or are they intending to continue on until some one or some thing fires them out of office for gross neglect and negligence?  What does Paul Bittar intend to do  to ensure  the young ones just starting out in life  in the real world, are not trapped in his bloodhorse illiterate charity zone?

Bruce Robertson Hobbs

Born December 27th 1920 - Died November 22nd 2005

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

Bruce Hobbs assistant trainer to Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort in the 1950's in the days of ZARATHUSTRA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Boyd-Rochfort

 

Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort stepfather of Sir Henry Cecil

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

 

Born on Long Island, New York, Hobbs became the youngest jockey ever to ride the winner of the English Grand National when successful on Battleship, a son of Man o' War, in 1938 just three months after his 17th birthday. Two weeks later, Hobbswon the Welsh Grand National on Timber Wolf. At the end of the 1937-38 season, during which he rode 35 winners, Hobbsmade history by becoming the first jockey to win three Grand Nationals in one year, being successful in Long Island's Cedarhurst version.

A crashing fall in 1938 resulted in injuries including a broken spine. Although told he would never ride again, he returned to the saddle, but turned to training horses at age 25.

Hobbs retired from racing in 1985. He died at Newmarket,Suffolk, in 2005, aged 84. ^[1]

Later in his career, he was the resident trainer at Palace House Stables, Newmarket, built in the 17th Century to house Charles II's racehorses.

Hobbs retired from racing in 1985. He died at Newmarket, Suffolk, in 2005, aged 84.