TUESDAY MARCH 26th RACING POST 2013. DAVID BAXTER J T 'McNAMARA OUT OF COMA AND FULLY ALERT''

 

 

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RACING POST TUESDAY MARCH 26th 2013

WEEK MONDAY MARCH 25th TO SUNDAY MARCH 31st 2013

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'McNAMARA OUT OF COMA AND FULLY ALERT''

David Baxter "JT McNAMARA,  the amateur jockey badly injured in a fall at the Cheltenham Festival, was yesterday described as "fully alert after being brought out of his medically induced coma.

 

"McNamara, 37 , did not suffer brain damage as a result of the fall and the latest update, issued jointly by Turf Club senior medical officer Dr Adrian McGoldrick and Lisa Hancock, chief executive of the Injured Jockeys Fund, on behalf of the McNamara family said the rider still required help with his breathing.

 

"The statement read: "JT McNamara remains in a stable condition at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. He is now fully alert but requires full -time ventilation at present.

 

"In due course he will be transfered to the National Spinal Unit at the Mater Hospital, Dublin, where he will be closer to his family.

 

"His wife Caroline and family very much appreciate everyone's  continued good wishes and prayers on JT's behalf."

 

"McNamara, a winner four times at the festival, was injured when his mount Galaxy Rock fell at the first fence in the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup 12 days ago."

 

J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment
 The first fence in this 4.40 race however was not the first fence at all. Due to the fact that in the previous  race the 4.00 MATUHA suffered a fall, unable to get up, lying badly injured out on the racetrack, infront of the stands. The reason why the first 4 fences were omitted in the next race the 4.40.
 

The British Horseracing Authority Government are called to attention over their error of reasoning in allowing the 4.40 race to take place whilst there was a horse MATUHI  10 10-11  partner  BRENDAN POWELL (3) trainer David Pipe lying badly injured  out on the race track as was the case on Thursday March 14th during the running of the 4.00 in the Byrne Group Plate (a Handicap Chase) Grade 3 Class 1. 17 fences  2m5f  22 ran  at the Cheltenham Festival.
 

The following race the 4.40 Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup Handicap Chase (Amateur Riders) Class 2.  17 fences 4 omitted 3m1f  In future no other race can take place with runners badly injured lying dead or dying out on the race track. This must never be allowed to happen ever again. Fundamental highly dangerous bloodhorse illiterate error of system regulation.

IF, as reported in yesterday's Racing Post "STREET'S AHEAD"  THE MAN MAKING A BIG NOISE ABOUT BRITISH RACING

Industry editor Bill Barber talks to Rod Street about the challenges ahead for the newly rebranded Great British Racing. There is nothing " Great" about what happened at the Cheltenham Festival  on Thursday March 14th in the 4.00 and 4.40 races at all. All caused by bloodhorse illiteracy.
 

Bill quotes:

"It is an utter disgrace that the governing body allows such a group to pass judgement."

 

"A high- cost body full of marketing speak and PR puffery, but sadly very little substance."

 

"Perhaps Mr Street and his cohorts could depart and destroy someone else's sport."

Bill "THOSE are just three comments made about Racing For Change in this paper's letters pages over the years - and there are plenty more in a similar vein.

 

"Well , RFC is no more, perhaps sadly for those who wrote the words above, Mr Street and his cohorts have not gone away.

 

"Instead Street - that's chief executive Rod Street - now heads Great British Racing, the successor to Racing For Change (RFC) created because racing's leaders decided they liked what he and his colleagues had been doing and wanted to make the body a permanent feature.

"A fundamental  difference to us is that we have been endorsed by the stakeholders," says Street following a day of meetings in London last week.

 

"I think we've probably spent half of our energy justifying ourselves in the last few years, constantly explaining what we do, winning hearts and minds, reminding people of why we've got to do it. To do what exactly?

 

"Now we've moved on from that. Who is we?  Moved on from what exactly?  Lots of that really powerful PR we've done in the last few weeks is due to the fact the team is now getting on with it. Getting on with what exactly? And who exactly is working within this team? Their names? Their status? Are 'they' Bloodhorse Literate? Or are 'they' Bloodhorse Illiterate? In what context 'do we' belong in the Equus Zone?

 

 

 

"They come in every day knowing that they've only got one job and that is to make a big noise about the sport. It's a lovely single focus. There's a big change in dynamics." How do they intend to make a lovely single focus on the plight of  MATUHI loosing his life at Cheltenham Festival? How do they intend to make a lovely single focus on the plight of  JT McNamara who so nearly lost his life at the Cheltenham Festival?