Racing Post Issues: MONDAY DECEMBER 16th RACING POST 2013. CLIVE BRITTAIN 'THE SMILING PIONEER' WITH ROBIN OAKLEY. A CHRISTMAS BOOK TO TREASURE FOREVER

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STORIES OF 2013

Great 12-part series starting today, page 11

Lee Mottershead begins a 12-part series

on who and what hit the headlines in the past year.

BRAVE GLOBAL RACEHORSES

together with the

true horsemen beside them, who share their greatness with them'

THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU THIS CHRISTMAS.

CLIVE BRITTAIN THE SMILING PIONEER

WITH

ROBIN OAKLEY

Sports/Biography

First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Racing Post Books

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INTRODUCTION PART ONE

"Newmarket trainer Clive Brittain is not just the smiling face of the sport - he is one of racing's pioneers. He was the first trainer to have 100 horses on Newmarket Heath and the first at racing's Headquarters to install an equine swimming pool. And other leading trainers pay tribute to him as the man who led the way in travelling horses abroad It was six years after his victory with the wonder filly Pebbles before any other British - trained horse won at the Breeders' Cup in the USA.

"But Clive Brittain's story is much more than training statistics. A natural horseman who was always given the rogues to handle, to gentle, he served 23 years as a stable lad with Noel Murless before he defied tradition by setting up on his own and going on to train the winner of every British Classic except the Derby.

"Working closely with Clive, Robin Oakley has put together the remarkable story of one of racing's true characters. He tells of how the Wiltshire boy came to work with Noel Murless in Newmarket. He reveals how Clive supplemented his wages by winning thousands of pounds a year on Murless's horses.

"It is a story full of great horses and the racing characters who's stories have been intermingled with Clive's, like Willie Carson, Captain Marcos Lemos, Pat Eddery, Philip Robinson, Bill Gredley and Lady Beaverbrook.

"He's always in tune with his horses. He's got the equivalent of a gardener's green fingers. He can just feel it. " Willie Carson

"He was the true pioneer in travelling horses and his record is the envy of most of us. " William Haggas.

"ROBIN OAKLEY, through spending most of his life covering politics as Political Editor for the Times, the BBC and CNN.

For 15 years he has written the Turf column in the Spectator. He covered racing for the Financial Times and has written Valley of the Racehorse, chronicling a year in the life of Lambourn, the training centre in Berkshire, Frankincense and More; The Biography of Barry Hills and The Cheltenham Festival: A Centenary History."

INTRODUCTION PART TWO

"As the third lot reaches the Al Bahathri training track there is hesitation up at the front of the bunch. We take away the lead horse and find a natural leader among the two-year-olds. ' Those riding two-year-olds at exercise are not allowed to carry sticks. I don't want them given a crack for not knowing what you want. We are starting to get the two-year-olds to canter upsides. See that one with the white socks: she's ready to go a stride faster but she needs to be able to settle upsides another. I don't want them ready for March. I want them ready for when they are ready. "

"To everything there is a purpose and there is effort to reassure handler riders as well as the horses. If the yard is having a lean period with few winners, Clive takes individuals aside and tells them not to worry. 'You had that horse cherry ripe, you've been riding him well. It was my fault for racing him over the wrong distance. '

"He says: 'If it's gone wrong nobody wants to feel the blame rests on them. That's what I'm here for. Same with jockeys really. It's no use screaming at them after a race if they've got it wrong, got stuck in a pocket. The jockey didn't come meaning to give him a bad ride. '

"The choice is there. Some might choose to pay thousands bringing in professional motivators with flow charts to lecture on the advantages of applied psychology. Or you could watch Clive Brittain run a yard full of horses ridden by a bunch of youngsters speaking half a dozen languages. Then you will see what can be achieved with good humour and the common sense acquired in 42 years of training horses and people. It is a formidable record".

URGENT "TURFCALL ii" RED ALERT

Save Our True Professional Horsemen and Horsewomen Now
A Dying Profession

February 14th 2001 - All these facts were bought to light.

Now to date December 2013 - 12 years on there has been absolutely no action taken to sort any of these issues out. We have a Bloodhorse Illiterate political and horseracing government.

1. INTRODUCTION - February 14th 2001

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