SATURDAY MAY 11th RACING POST 2013. GRAHAM GREEN AL ZAROONI QC SKILLED IN SPORTING BATTLES. BHA IN NO RUSH TO SET APPEAL DATE.

 

 

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Stewards' report

By James Burn

They found Moscrop in breach of rule (B)59.4 and guilty of failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to obtain the best possible placing in that she failed to ride out on a horse who could have finished first. (7 hours ago)

 

J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment

This young lady needs true guidance not unjust harsh lethal punishment..She clearly has a licence to ride granted to her by the BHA Bloodhorse Illiterate Licensing Department.



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Ten-day ban for Moscrop

By James Burn

Eva Moscrop has been banned for ten days after Dr Irv finished third in the last at Ripon. The four-year-old shot clear and looked a likely winner, but was caught as the apprentice appeared to stop riding. (7 hours ago)

J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment
The British stewards are punishing riders for their own failures in refusing to allow an Equus Zone.

Graham Green Racing Post Report Thursday May 9th 2013.

BHA in no rush to set appeal date as former Godolphin trainer contests ban

"THE BHA yesterday refused to be drawn on whether the appeal of Mahmood Al Zarooni - who has appointed top international barrister William Clegg QC to fight his corner - will be fast-tracked like the inquiry at which the the former Godolphin trainer was banned for eight years for administering anabolic steroids to 15 horses".
 

 15 Racehorses in training who had sustained joint injuries through which their athletic training in practice in Newmarket was hindered. It’s not possible to enhance a crippled racehorses performance, due to the fact that a lame racehorses injury needs careful nursing to heal and mend obviously,

before any fast work can be resumed at home, leave alone on a racecourse. If the BHA were running British horseracing with an Equus Zone they would understand this for themselves. Bloodhorse illiterate stewarding should be outlawed for once and for all time.
 

 Anabolic steroid is a medication recognised and used globally to treat injured, lame racehorses joints. It is not Al Zarooni’s fault that the BHA’s poor standards of racehorse care are 50 years behind the times. The BHA in refusing racehorses trained here humane medication for joint injury is inhumane in its entirety. How is Al Zarooni or any trainer supposed to second guess bloodhorse illiterate stewards minds.

 

There are estimated to be 100 horses humanely trained in Newmarket who have been treated with anabolic steroids. Al Zarooni said he was not aware of any such rule himself to prevent same. Most countries around the world use anabolic steroid medication for joint injury..
 

 

“Hopes the speed of that disciplinary process has drawn a line under an affair that had already inflicted untold damage of the sports image were shattered on Tuesday, when the regulatory body confirmed Al Zarooni, 37, had submitted the necessary paperwork to challenge the severity of his punishment. 

 

“BHA spokesperson Robin Mounsey said yesterday: “A date will be found for the appeal hearing which is suitable for all parties. It is impossible at this stage to say when that date will be as it revolves around the logistics of the availability of all members of the Appeal Board coinciding with dates when council is available for both parties”.

 

“The classic-winning trainer was not legally represented when offering no defence other than ignorance of the rules at the original hearing, which was told he brought the drugs  into Britain from Dubai in his luggage and passed syringes through his car window to a member of staff to inject five horses.

 

“However, acting for Al Zarooni this time will be William Clegg QC, who has a formidable list of successes behind him.

 

“Clegg, who has been instructed by London solicitors Russell-Cook, represented Colin Stagg, who was wrongfully accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell, and also won the release of Barry George, who was convicted of killing television presenter Jill Dando.

 

“He also defended Corporal Lee Clegg, the paratrooper accused of killing two teenage joyriders in Northern Ireland, who’s conviction was quashed, and earlier this year represented Sergeant Danny Nightingale, the SAS sniper jailed for possessing a gun, when his conviction was overturned at the Court of Appeal.

“Clegg’s pen picture on his chambers website describes him as a specialist in “white collar fraud, insider dealing, FSA and other regulatory work, corporate manslaughter, health and safety, trade descriptions, international criminal law, extradition and European law”.

 

“Although Clegg has not previously appeared at the BHA, his chambers has undertaken, sports regulatory and tribunal work, including doping cases, and his workload has frequently taken him to the Middle East.

 

“A spokesman for the chambers told the Racing Post yesterday: “He has done a number of sporting cases before and his prime skill is advocacy, as you will see. That’s why he is instructed domestically and internationally all over the world by high-profile individuals. He has worked all over Dubai and Bahrain for very prominent people.”