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RACING POST SUNDAY NOVEMBER 25. 2012 .
WEEK MONDAY MOVEMBER 19th TO SUNDAY NOVEMBER 25th
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PREVIEW TODAY'S CARDS
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POUNCE POWER
HOW THE TWO MIGHTY JUMPING TEAMS STAND AFTER
YESTERDAY IN JUMPS TRAINERS' CHAMPIONSHIP 2012 - 2013
PRIZE-MONEY
Paul Nicholls Prize-money £789, 245 Title odds 6-4
Nicky Henderson
DAVID ASHFORTH
(RP Saturday November 24th 2012)
MUSINGS FROM A RETIRED RACING
ENTHUSIAST
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In David's words "That's what Dr Peter Jenkins, my oncologist, suspects, which is why a
team of radiographers have spent 33 days blasting away with their radiotherapy
machine. I'm glad they've stopped. I'd hate to die from loss of blood from my
bottom.
"The offending cancer cells may be confined to my pelvic area or,
after waiting a while to get my hopes up (cancer's like that), suddenly pop up
somewhere else and shout, "Cooee! Over here!"
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"Don't shake your heads - racing
should give my ideas the nod."
"Luckily for British racing I've
come up with a fantastic ides. Admittedly it's not a new idea, but did Thomas
Edison invent the light bulb? Precisely. My case rests.
"As a supporter of Racing for
Change (even though we're still waiting for four -furlong dashes - do get on
with it, or it'll be just like women bishops) it grieves me that nothing has
been done to progress what I am confident will be the defining initiative of
2013. I refer, of course, to bobbleheads. The campaign begins where the next
full stop ends. Right, it's started.
"By the early 1930's photo-finish
cameras were common at US racetracks. They finally reached Britain
"Are we going to let the same
thing happen with bobbleheads? Are we going to be the snail again? Or are we
going to hold our heads up high, if bobbing around a bit, and say, yes, bring
those things on buddy, right here, right now, yes we can?
"Where the jockeys led, trainers
followed.. Back at Hollywood Park, on June 15, 2002, the silver-haired Bob
Baffert bobbled his way into history, 20,000 times, which was 30,000 fewer than
Jerry Bailey/s bobblehead at Saratoga the following month.
"On November 30, 2003, again at
Hollywood Park, Julie Krone, having been the first woman to do most other
things, became the first to have her own boobblehead; another 20,000.
"I once had a bobblehead of
trainer Nick Zeto, one of the 10,000 given away by Churchill Downs on November
23, 2002. It was a jolly good one and I will not rest until I have one of Sir
Michael Stoute bobbing on my mantelpiece. (Actually, I might rest. I'm quite
tired already and I haven't got a manelpiece.)
"I want to see a bobblehead of
Paul Nicholls, and of Tony McCoy, I want there to be bobbleheads of Willie
Mullins and Ruby Walsh, of John Gosden and Richard Hughes. I want to have a
bobblehead of Richard Hannon, and of Rod Street
"There should be bobbleheads of
Alastair Down and John McCririck, of Clare Balding and Nick Luck.
"On Champions Day at Ascot
"As well as going racing and
finding bobbleheads waiting for me , I want to know that there will be a big
screen waiting for me, always. (another campaign coming up)
"AT TAUNTON Hereford
"It makes a huge difference and
the fact that some of the smaller courses provide screens at midweek meetings,
while others, including some belonging to big groups, don't, suggest it is not
simply a question of cost.
"It's all about management's
attitude to racegoers. I think we should name and shame courses that fail to
give their customers what 21st century racing demands - a big screen.
"Now that I've got a head of
steam coming out of my ears, I want there to be another campaign against music
pollution at racecourses (also in coffee shops, pubs, restaurants, in fact most
places apart from my living room).
"I agree with Alastair Down
(Racing Post last Sunday) that "the insanely loud blaring music that
greets a major winner these days " detracts from the enjoyment of the
occasion and that the crowd is perfectly capable of providing a suitable
welcome. Please, Ian Renton, stop it.
"Also I want to be able to sit
down quietly with a cup of tea and the paper without having something aurally
unpleasant compulsorily inflicted on me in the belief that it will make me feel
jollier and better able to get into the swing of things.
"It won't; it will just make me
feel irritated and inclined to murder someone, possibly the manager.
"I think I might start a campaign
on behalf of curmudgeons, for the right to complain.
"And another thing ...
J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment
On the page David has two little bobbleheads to show us. (Toys R
Us:) bobbleheads of racing greats such as Bob Baffert and Jerry Bailey who are
a big hit Stateside, he tells us.
Of course Bob and Jerry are not bobbing their
heads on the page. But you know the
Churchill car insurance advert on TV with the bobbing dogs head saying, YES to all the questions he is asked,
in such a way that this dog in answering gives people the confidence and trust to
believe that Churchill car insurance is second to none, the dog says Yes, Oh
Yes. Oh Yes. as he nods his bobblehead. This dog has a very convincing manner indeed.
KAUTO STAR
PICTURE: Chasing legend Kauto Star poses alongside his new
statue at Haydock on Saturday before leading the parade for the Betfair Chase,
which he won four times in a glittering career. The half-size sculpture by
Willie Newton was commissioned by Haydock and Betfair.
BRITISH HORSERACING
AUTHORITY GOVERNMENT
VETERINARY
ZONE
The Racing Post bring us news this week that BHA Veterinary Tim Morris is no
longer required by the British Horseracing Government.
Whilst in the employ of
same, Tim was required to carry out a review on the use of a whip in races, not
within trainers teams, but specially the use of the whip in races at the
tracks.
BRITISH HORSERACING AUTHORITY GOVERNMENT
EQUUS ZONE
Calling into question however did the British Horseracing Government
employ a Veterinary to carry out a professionally licensed handler rider's costly whip review?
(ongoing throughout 2011)
Resulting in the very first British Champions Day in October being reduced to a bloodhorse illiterate farse, with the French rider Christophe Soumillon stunned by his tenth century punishment beyond all belief. Who are these people running British Horseracing? Who are these people running this County's government?
Soumillon furious after £50,000 whip fine
THE BRITISH HORSERACING AUTHORITY GOVERNMENT'S DO NOT HAVE AN
EQUUS ZONE.
AND HAVE NOT HAD AN EQUUS ZONE OVER THE LAST SIXTY YEARS.
EQUUS ZONE.
Bloodhorse Literate achiever in his own right,
both in the saddle and out of the saddle,
both in theory and in practice.
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