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Autumn Racing Featuring Beer Festival Friday 3rd - Saturday 4th October 2014 QIPCOBritish Champions Day Saturday 18th .
Week Monday August 25, to Sunday August 31.
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INTERNATIONAL HORSERACING NEWS FROM BRITAIN 2014
Your adventure into the world of Global Horseracing
Your adventure into the world of Global Horseracing
Welcome to Nicholas Godfrey (GB) (Racing Post)
DEAUVILLE FRANCE SUNDAY 24 08. 14
DETTORI'S DOUBLE
DEAUVILLE FRANCE SUNDAY 24 08. 14
DETTORI'S DOUBLE
| 2:40 | Darley Prix Morny (Group 1) (2yo Colts & Fillies) (Turf) 6f |
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13 | The Wow Signal (IRE) 9/4J  | 2 | 9-0 | John Quinn | — | * | * | ||
| b c Starspangledbanner (AUS) - Muravka (IRE) (High Chaparral) | Frankie Dettori | ||||||||
Prize Money £166,658.33, £66,675.00, £33,337.50, £16,654.17, £8,341.67
| 3:10 | Darley Prix Jean Romanet (Group 1) (4yo+ Fillies & Mares) (Turf) 1m2f |
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Prize Money: £119,041.67, £47,625.00, £23,812.50, £11,895.83, £5,958.33
| « | 110 | Ribbons 11/1 | 4 | 9-0 | James Fanshawe | — | * | * | ||
| ch f Manduro (GER) - Sister Act (Marju) | Frankie Dettori | |||||||||
British Trainer Teams take 1st. 2nd. 3rd. in this 3:10. Note the Prize Money.
1st Team (James) Fanshawe £119,041.67
2nd Team (Roger) Varian £47,625.00
3rd Team (Ralph) Beckett £23,812.50
The British political, legal, racecourse and horseracing government skim off, plunder most of the money that should be paid out in prize money in this country.
READ THE CHAMPION JOCKEY’S THOUGHT’S EXCLUSIVELY
EVERY SATURDAY IN THE RACING POST.PAGE 12-13 SATURDAY AUGUST 23. 2014
RICHARD HUGHES'
YORK REFLECTIONS
“Nunthorpe Power surge shows we’re made for each
other."
“I WROTE in this
column before Royal Ascot that if ever a horse was made for me it was Sole
Power and after yesterday’s Nunthorpe Stakes it’s pretty clear we are made for
each other.
“He is a wonderful
little horse. It was never going to be as easy to do what we did in the King’s
Stand because York is such a different track to Ascot.
“The job was not made
any easier when the field split into two at a crucial stage because as soon as
it happened I felt I lost the horse beneath me, I had to get him back into the
thick of things again, but the moment I did he came back on the bridle.
“Finding a gap from
that point was always going to require luck but, as I have said before, I would
rather get beat having given a horse every possible chance of winning. Luckily
I found room under one of Jamie Spencer’s armpits and now both Sole Power and I
have two Nunthorpe wins to our names.
“Sole Power and Tiggy
Wiggy looked to be my headline horses for York and thankfully Tiggy Wiggy
delivered for me as well.
“As at Newbury none
of her rivals saw which way she went. For a small filly she has a huge stride
but it is also very fast. Although she goes extremely quickly in the early
stages of a race, that is simply her cruising speed.
“Every horse has a
natural speed and it just happens that her’s is much faster than most other
horses. At York I was never concerned she was doing too much too soon. Her ears
were twitching all the way down the straight, so although we were going very
fast I knew she was not racing outside her comfort zone.
“I felt through the
final furlong she ground out the win having started to drag the finish out of
her rivals from half way. She wasn’t stopping at the end of the race but I’m
also a realist and I am pretty certain six furlongs is as far as she wants to
go. When a horse is as quick as Tiggy Wiggy you cannot expect them to stay a
mile. Fortunately, thanks to the new Group 1 sprint for three year olds at
Royal Ascot she already has a target for next year. More immediately she will
be aimed at the Cheveley Park Stakes and will only then go on to the Abbaye if
the ground looks likely to be soft.
“The ground is
undoubtedly an influence on her performance level. You won’t see her produce as
spectacular a display as she put up at
Newbury until she gets soft ground. The amazing thing about Tiggy Wiggy is she
can go as fast on soft ground. She is just a bit freaky. On soft ground she
would demolish the opposition, but the faster the ground the more vulnerable
she would be.
“There was a dodgy
moment when I tried to get on her in the paddock, particularly when she reared
up. She is undoubtedly tricky but once she gets that initial fly leap out of
her system she is as good as gold. You just have to hope when she does it you
are holding on to a bit of mane or you’ll be in trouble. She is the same at
home and Maurice Ahern, who bravely rides her every day, deserves a lot of
praise. He must be a bit nervous when he goes into work on a Monday morning.
“The opening-day
highlight obviously came from Australia. He might be a duel Derby winner but I didn’t
think he had earned the right to be described as a great horse going into the
Juddmonte International. Now I think we can call him a great horse.
“The Epsom form
looked suspect and he did not really do much more than beat a couple of inferior stable companions at the Curragh.
There were question marks hanging over him, but we had been told by Aidan O’Brien
just how good Australia is, and perhaps we should have just taken him at his
word.
“Aidan has trained
the best so he knows what the best look like, but it’s always better to have
racecourse evidence to support those positive words. The evidence came in no
uncertain terms at York and I was wildly impressed.
“It was a brilliant
performance. I tracked Australia on The Grey Gatsby, who himself ran a super
race, but there was nothing my horse or anything else in the field could do
given the way Australia put the race to bed so quickly.After cruising into the
lead he was three lengths clear in no time at all. He possesses the sort of
turn of foot that makes him incredibly hard to beat’
“He obviously has to
go next for the Irish Champion Stakes on home soil. They can’t really not go to
Leopardstown, but after that race I don’t think they need to do anything else
with him and I wouldn’t be too surprised if he then went straight off to stud.
Anything else he achieves would just be a bonus. With his pedigree combined
with his ability, he has certainly done enough for me to send a mare to him. I
can’t afford to send a mare to him. But if I could I would.
“I can afford to pay
Aidan a compliment and I will by saying his handling of the Yorkshire Oaks
winner Tapestry must be one of the finest training performances of the last
decade. She was practically pulled up in the 1,000 Guineas and there is very
little of her, either, but he has turned her around magnificently.
“I also want to pay
York a compliment. I often criticize racecourses over stingy prize-money, but
at York this week it has been superb. They cannot accommodate as many people as
Royal Ascot but the atmosphere is still fabulous, the champagne is cheaper and
the prize-money is excellent.
“The Grey Gadsby’s
performance in the French Derby and Dante showed he is a very good horse and he
reconfirmed that at York. It was my first experience of riding him but what I
took from the experience is what I think he ideally needs is a flat-out gallop’
“America could be
perfect for him. They tend to go a good clip over there and all he would really
require in the Breeders’ CupTurf is to get a good position and hold it. The
same race is on the agenda for Telescope, who just gallops and on Wednesday’s
evidence clearly needs a mile and half.
“Also very impressive
on Wednesday was Postponed, who’s Great Voltigeur win puts him right up there with some of the seasons
best three-year-olds. The very best three-year-old of all, though, is my old
foe Kingman, who was once again absolutely brilliant at Deauville last Sunday.
“I spoke to Rab
Havlin, who rides him at home and he told me how much the horse had grown up.
He also said he thinks he’s still improving and his judgement has been spot on.
Our stable has thrown a few bullets at Kingman since the Guineas and none has
hit the target. We just have to accept that he is a brilliant horse and one now
I would rather avoid than take on. “
THE NEWS THAT SHOCKED EVERYONE AT YORK LAST WEEK:
Jamie Spencer's Statement that he will be retiring from the saddle at the end of this year.
Richard Hughes one of Jamie's weighing room pals responds:
“Here’s hoping Jamie changes his mind – he’s far
too good to retire.
“LADS in the weighing
room were as shocked as anyone to here Jamie Spencer’s announcement he is to
retire at the end of the year.
“Jamie is a wonderful
jockey. Some people love him, some people hate him, but it is exactly the same
when it comes to people’s attitudes towards me.
“Jamie and I are
horsemen. I genuinely mean it when I say Jamie gets more horses to run to their
best than any other jockey in the weighing room. The easiest thing in the world
for a rider is to jump a horse out in the first three and then after it weakens
out of contention to come back and tell connections the horse wasn’t good
enough.
“Jamie gives his
mounts the best possible chance to run well, which statisticians have
highlighted by showing his excellent strike-rate in handicaps. Sometimes he
flies home on a horse and his critics say he should have won, but if he had put
the horse in the race from the start it would not have finished as close
anyway.
“There had been a few rumours going around that Jamie had lost his job as retained rider to Qatar Racing. However, the reality is that if Qatar Racing had one or two top horses it would have made Jamie’s job so much easier.
“My own view is this
might turn out to have been a hasty decision . The good thing is that Jamie has
plenty of time now to the end of the year to have a rethink.
“I for one, would
certainly not be closing the book on his career as a top Flat jockey. He might
have said he plans to retire at the end of the year, but he definitely doesn’t
need to. No one would condemn him if he had a rethink.
“That said a lot about
him and he deserves immense credit for rebuilding his career. He has bounced
back once before and he can bounce back again.
“Jamie Spencer is too great a talent to be retiring so young. I know there will be many people hoping he realises that and changes his mind. “
J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Factfile
“Jamie say’s himself
he wants to be with his children whilst they are growing up. “
Not at some racetrack
alone, billion’s of miles from home.
A false global horseracing scene governed by
false people, impostors who can’t tell their right hand, from their left, when
it comes to the needs and the rights of racehorses and the people who work with
them every day. No one, no matter how rich they might, or might not be can
be allowed to dictate like that.
It is through bloodhorse
illiterate impostors at government level that this sport has been plunged in to
the very depths of depravity, a depravity left ongoing over six decades.
True horsemen treated
like shit by bloodhorse illiterate government dictators, dictators who believe
they have a right to play games with young ones lives. To burden the young ones
lives, to treat the young with contempt. An evil that can never be allowed to
exist anywhere on this planet in 2014. An evil that we should from now on work
together to remove from any place anywhere in the world that it is found to be
active in.
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