Tuesday 1 October 2013

TUESDAY OCTOBER 1st RACING POST 2013. DAVID ASHFORTH WITH A FRONT-ROW SEAT ON DAY ONE OF JOHN McCRIRICK'S TRIBUNAL- V - CHANNEL 4




TUESDAY OCTOBER 1st RACING POST 2013
WEEK MONDAY SEPTEMBER 30th TO SUNDAY OCTOBER 6th 

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REVIEW YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
 http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/results/home.sd?r_date=2013-09-30 

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

BIG RACES COMING UP
http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/big_races.sd

Horse Racing Cards - Sunday 6 October 2013

 

Today's action

By James Burn
There is Flat racing at Ayr and Kempton and jumping at Sedgefield and Chepstow, where Megan Nicholls, daughter of seven-time champion trainer Paul Nicholls, is set for her riding debut.
Chepstow
5:20 32Red.com Standard National Hunt Flat Race (Conditional Jockeys´ And Amateur Riders´ Race) Cl6 2m110y Card Betting

 

Worth a read

Check out today's Racing Post for a brilliant interview with champion trainer John Gosden, the day's best bets from Richard Birch and Graeme Rodway plus David Ashforth's take on day one of the John McCririck v Channel 4 court case.

 

Wohler 'couldn't be happier' with Arc hope Novellist


By James Burn
TRAINER Andreas Wohler on Tuesday reported leading Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe fancy Novellist in great form for Sunday's race. ( 1 hour ago)More
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Paddy Power's view

"Orfevre is our worst loser by an awful long way, although Novellist winning wouldn't be a good result either. The addition of Channel 4 Racing covering the event means losses on both of these horses could be very significant body blows." (10 mins ago)
 

21 in Arc

By James Burn
That's how many have been left in this morning, although Leading Light, Treve and Meandre are expected to be supplemented on Thursday. All the major names are among the 21. (31 mins ago) 
 

France: Arc field to take shape?

By International
There's a forfeit stage for Sunday's Arc this morning. According to France Galop's website 106 remain in the autumn championship, while St Leger winner Leading Light will be added to the field. Stick around to see who's been left in. (2 hours ago)
 
 
 
France Gallop
http://www.france-galop.com/France-Galop-courses-hippiqu.3964+M52087573ab0.0.html
http://www.francegaloptv.com/christophe-lambert-ambassadeur-du-qatar-prix-de-larc-de-triomphe-2013.html
https://twitter.com/francegalop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Galop



McCririck: C4 figures 'disastrous' since axe


By Tom Kerr
JOHN MCCRIRICK on Monday claimed Channel 4 Racing has suffered a "disastrous" drop in viewers since his departure from the programme as he spoke on the first day of his age discrimination claim against the sport's terrestrial broadcaster. (15 hours ago)More
 
 PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

David Ashforth at the Derby Awards 6.12.10
David Ashforth:
Twice voted journalist of the year
PICTURE: Dan Abraham
 
David Ashforth sets the scene as the protagonists prepare to square up in the Channel 4 Racing tribunal..
 
"While McCririck hands out his own witness statement, Beverley [his solicitor] advises him against doing so. McCririck ignores his advice. A paucity of hair but there isn't a wig in sight.
 
 
"FAIRS FAIR, he does look quite old, but that's no reason to get rid of him, according to John McCririck, who was born on April 17, 1940, just after Tom and Jerry and just before Bugs Bunny. Tom and Jerry died in 2005 but Bugs Bunny is still going strong and, if Bugs Bunny can do it, so can Big Mac. I think that's it.

 

"The other side (Channel 4 and IMG) agree (I'm guessing) that McCririck is, if not old, then not young, but insist they didn't get rid of him because his birthday was in the wrong place. There were other reasons.

 

"It will be interesting to hear what they are but we can't yet because, having gathered late at 10.15am, the London Central Employment Tribunal breaks up early at 10.35am. Led by Judge Alison Lewzey, assisted by lay members David Buckley and Ms A  (Alison? Alice? Anastasia?) Mitchell, the  panel need to mug up on the subject before examining it. I'm sure that at school we were told you were supposed to do that before exam. Still, times, like Channel 4's racing team, change.

 

"My name is Miss Lewzey, " says Judge Lewzey. No one challenges her. "The issues are quite straightforward. "  Even so, it's expected to take six or seven days to sort them out.

 

"Judge Lewzey is a no nonsense lady, crisp, concise, dark jacket, striped blouse, neat hair, neat mind, thick-rimmed spectacles, a touch of the girl guide leader about her demeanour.  "I think we need to do some housekeeping, don't we?" 


"BEVERLEY cautions journalists against placing the contents of the statement in the public domain until McCririck  has given evidence. The statement has 106 paragraphs, and some of them are jolly interesting. "


"In typically combative form, McCririck said that he intended his case against Channel 4 to act as a watershed moment in tackling age discrimination in the media and elsewhere.

 

"Last month David Blunkett MP said, 'The way TV executives worship the cult of  youth seems to be an unstoppable fetish' ," McCririck said. "I am saying it is not an unstoppable fetish.  If this tribunal awards punitive damages then no employer ever again will dare sack someone just because of their age. "

"The tribunal resumes this morning,"

 
 

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