THURSDAY JUNE 13th RACING POST 2013
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2013
Tuesday June 18th to Saturday June 22nd
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Tuesday June 18th to Saturday June 22nd
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MONTY ROBERTS
2013
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J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment
David Milnes Racing Post
yesterday talks to Clive Brittain.
BHA’S punishing stance on
Anabolic Steroids, Clive sets the scene:
“Call for closure in Sungate affair
after Brittain shock”.
“THE head of the Newmarket Trainers
Federation thinks the BHA should get the Sungate scandal “Over and done with” in the wake of Clive Brittain’s admission a
handful of his horses have been treated with the banned drug.
“Mark Thomkins want racing to move
on, rather than have to deal with negative headlines due to individual
revelations to newspapers from trainers that they are among the handful in Newmarket
“Brittain’s fellow trainer Gerard
Butler has recently being charged on seven-counts, while Mahmood Al Zarooni was
banned for eight years.
The BHA investigation into the use
of Sungate, which contains the banned steroid stanozolol, is ongoing, despite
letters on the matter to trainers being sent out by the BHA in March.
“Brittain has admitted the drug was
used on five or six horses who were out of training last winter, but said they
were treated on the recommendation of veterinary practice Rossdales, whom he
retains faith in.
“He said yesterday: ”We had a few
two-year-old last winter who had quite serious injuries and they were treated
with Sungate by our vets, as they said it would help their recovery. The use
wasn’t continuous and it was used on perhaps five or six who were out of
training.”
“Brittain, who has an isolation yard
at his Carlburg Stables on Newmarket Bury Road
“Thompkins is keen for the sport to
draw a line under the episode as quickly as possible. He said: “All trainers
had a letter about Sungate in March and anyone who has used it since then must
be stupid. If all the investigations are about previous use I hope the BHA can get
it over and done with as quickly as possible, as racing needs some positive
headlines.”
“He added: “I use Rossdales and I
have no problem with them. A few people have come out and said they have used
it in the past when it was recommended.
“What we need now is a level-
playing field. A worldwide ban on steroid use would be great..”
Great for whom? An injured
racehorse lame and in pain? Or a pompous
bloodhorse illiterate BHA official puffed up with his own pride, and
self importance, suffering no injury or pain himself?
“But we need to put our own house
in order first – and quickly.”
How can we put our own house in
order quickly, when British horseracing has been run over many decades by a
clueless bloodhorse illiterate horseracing government devoid of all true understanding of the needs of the horse and the people who work with them.”
The first thing that needs to happen
Everything
to do with Anabolic Steroids in its present form, is a dishonest BHA issue, of devastating confusion and misunderstanding.
That Mahmood Al Zarooni has been given an eight years destructive ignorant
medieval ban and owner Sheikh Mohammed (Godolphin) turned from a saint to a
devil in one week, the true sign of a sport government (BHA) in complete and utter bloodhorse
illiterate chaos and turmoil.
This
Anabolic Steroid issue is not a matter or an excuse for burdening harsh
medieval punishment as the be all, and end all, scapegoat cure, as burdened unjustly
upon Al Zarooni and owner Sheikh Mohammed (Godolphin). In doing this the BHA government
show here that they are galloping out of control in a very wrong direction. A BHA mess of their own making.
No,
what British horseracing deserve now is true respect for all those who have
achieved true bloodhorse literacy in their lifetime in their own right. As did
Sir Henry Cecil, and Team Cecil.
Firstly
the BHA need now to correct the serious mistakes they made in what they termed
to be their Whip Review (2010-2011) BHA
need to confirm publicly now how much money they wasted on their bloodhorse
illiterate Whip Review, which ended up being entered illegally into the British
Rules of Horseracing just days before the very first Qipco Champions day at
Ascot on Saturday October 15th 2011, with catastrophic,
horrendous results. And, has remained there ever since. What are the professional Jockeys riding every day since expected to do in the mean time? Adhere to the BHA'S New bloodhorse illiterate Whip Rules? How on earth can riders ever be expected to do that?
BHA’S
out of order perspective in placing Veterinary Tim Morris in charge of their
Whip Review was cruel in the extreme. .
Veterinary Tim Morris would be better equipt if asked by BHA to carry out an Anabolic Steroid Review. Because an Anabolic Steroid Review is what is urgently needed here and now. To draw a line and put a stop to any more of the BHA'S shocking mistakes, if nothing else.
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