"RACING'S FORGOTTEN STORIES"
Today:
Vincent O'Brien
1960 Warning - Off
"He stated directly his desire to put me out of racing indefinitely" .

Michael Vincent O'Brien (9 April 1917 - 1 June 2009) was an Irish race horse trainer from Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland. In 2003 he was voted the greatest influence in horse racing history, according to a worldwide poll hosted by the Racing Post newspaper. In separate earlier Racing Post polls he was voted the best ever trainer of national huntand of flat racehorses. He trained six horses to win the Epsom Derby, was twice British champion trainer, won three Grand Nationals in succession and trained the only British Triple Crown winner since the 2nd World War, to name but a few of his many achievements. O'Brien was not related to Aidan O'Brien, who took over the Ballydoyle stables after his retirement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_O%27Brien

"RACING'S FORGOTTEN STORIES"
Tomorrow:
Paul Nicholls
On his early years in the saddle.
"I was exactly the kind of jockey I wouldn't employ today.

Early life[edit]

The son of a policeman,^[1] Nicholls was educated at Marlwood School, Alveston before leaving at 16 to take up work in a local point-to-point yard.

Jockey career[edit]

Nicholls turned conditional in 1982 under the tutelage of Josh Gifford before joining David Barons in 1985, and became stable jockey in 1986. It was with Barons that Nicholls was most closely associated during his riding career. The pair enjoyed numerous big race successes, including back-to-back wins in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury with Broadheath in 1986 and Playschool the following year. Playschool also won the 1987 Welsh Grand National, and the 1988 Irish Hennessey with Nicholls. Playschool was subsequently made favourite for the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup^[2] but was pulled up before the 20th fence. Barons attributed Playschool's lacklustre performance to doping but his claims were never substantiated.^[2] Following a broken leg when kicked by a horse during pre-season training sustained in 1989, Nicholls retired from the saddle having ridden a respectable 133 winners during a seven-year career.^[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nicholls_(horse_racing)#Jockey_career

Jimmy Winkfield, the black American jockey who escaped the Bolsheviks and Nazis.
" Black jockey's journey spanned different worlds. "
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/04/29/spt_black_jockeys.html

"RACING'S FORGOTTEN STORIES"
Saturday:
Lester Piggott's jump career
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Piggott
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/Lester-Piggott-Jockey-Supreme-283782.html
Lester's Father, Keith Piggott's Jump Racing Career
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-keith-piggott-1492349.html

"Keith Piggott's influence on jockeys did not end with Lester. He was known as a good teacher of apprentices and two recent Derby-winning jockeys, Ray Cochrane, who rode Kahyasi in 1988, and Alan Munro, Generous in 1991, both thanked Keith Piggott for using films of previous running's of the Derby to help them ride the tricky, undulating course."

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4, CH4. RACING POST 2015

Week Monday February 2, to Sunday February 8, 2015

CH4 HORSERACING TEAM LIVE

Taking a Closer Look at horseracing

Sponsored by Dubai
http://www.racing.channel4.com/
High Definition

RACING POST PREVIEW TODAY'S EQUUS CARDS

http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/home.sd

http://www.racingpost.com/news/live.sd

J Margaret Clarke

Turfcall Factfile

CREATIVE
BBC1 Breakfast
direction

Jules Wyman Life Coach
http://www.positive-belief.co.uk/

The Lost Gardens of Heligan
A Creative Adventure

http://www.heligan.com/

The Lost Gardens of Heligan, 75 years in The Wilderness.

All the gardeners’ were marched off to fight in World War 1, never to return.

"THE WIDE OPEN ELECTION STAKES"

May 2015

Lee Mottershead brings us a refreshing focus on a tricky British political, legal, racecourse and horseracing financial government quartet. Money being their key objective.

NEWS ANALYSIS

SPECIAL REPORT

"AS the general election nears, Lee Mottershead looks at key issues facing the racing and betting industries and at what the future might hold. "

"KEY ISSUE ONE

Gaming machines.

"KEY ISSUE TWO

A racing right.

"Seven politicians with an interest in racing to watch out for ...

BRITISH HORSERACING TIMELINE

JMC: In the past and at present this government quartet have shown money to be their key motive to cash in for themselves every which way possible from horseracing. No matter where such money comes from, or at whose expense such money is stolen. Or at whose illegal punishment burdened. Every which way, an ongoing government quartet jamboree, of evil malice.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT QUARTET:
A tricky British political, legal, racecourse and horseracing financial government quartet. Money being their key objective.

RACING POST
Big-Race-Entries 2015

http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/big_races.sd

RACING POST
PREVIEW THE WEEK AHEAD

The clues are here, but can you spot them?

http://www.racingpost.com/news/live.sd

* REVIEW YESTERDAY'S EQUUS RESULTS *

http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/results/home.sd?r_date=2015-02-03

http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/results/home.sd?r_date=2015-02-02

http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/results/home.sd?r_date=2015-02-01

http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/results/home.sd?r_date=2015-01-31
http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/results/home.sd?r_date=2015-01-30

INTERNATIONAL HORSERACING

Racing Right Global Equus Zone (GB)

Your adventure into the world of Global Horseracing

a warm welcome to Nicholas Godfrey (GB) (Racing Post)

http://www.racingpost.

Monday, April 29, 2002
Black jockey's journey spanned different worlds

Prejudice rode ex-Cincinnati rider out of country

By Neil Schmidt, nschmidt@enquirer.com
The Cincinnati Enquirer
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/04/29/spt_black_jockeys.html

Wink could have been America's greatest racing phenomenon, were it not for history. Two-time Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Jimmy Winkfield's life was a rollercoaster of fame and obscurity, enduring racism, world war, death threats, and exile. While life was high he attained celebrity, wealth, and true love, though his two greatest romances were with horses, and his exiled home, the United States. Wink's journey is an odyssey through history, tragedy, spunk, and old-fashioned American ingenuity.

http://usslave.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/kentucky-derbys-black-jockey-jimmy.html

TEAM BBC1 BREAKFAST TODAY
a warm welcome to team BBC1 Breakfast

BBC1 6.00 am - 9.15 am
Louise Minchin. Bill Turnbull.
Stephanie McGovern. Carol Kirkwood, Ice, Cold Wind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Kirkwood

Landlords and Letting Agents
Rip Off Britain
David Cox explains.
http://www.zoopla.co.uk/find-agents/branch/prs-lettings-ltd-leicester-45676/

BOOK

To Kill a Mockingbird

Author Harper Lee

Published July 11 1960

Country USA

followed by: Go Set a Watchman

For the film based on the novel, see To Kill a Mockingbird (film).

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird

Followed by

Go Set a Watchman