THE RACING POST FRIDAY OCTOBER 21st 2011 RODNEY MASTERS (The Punters Champion) KING OF THE NAPS FLAT 2011

THE RACING POST FRIDAY OCTOBER 21st 2011.

RACING POST WEEK MONDAY OCTOBER 17th TO SUNDAY OCTOBER 23rd 2011

RACING POST TROPHY DONCASTER 3.00 SATURDAY OCTOBER 22nd 2011

RUNNERS AND RIDERS

RACECARD INFO CLICK HERE:

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TODAY'S CARDS: Doncaster, Newbury, Fakenham, Wolverhampton, Dundalk and Moonee Valley.

THE MAN WHO SAVED THE GRAND NATIONAL

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CONGRATULATIONS TO  RODNEY (The Punters Champion) MASTERS

KING OF THE NAPS The Post's Lambourn correspondent RODNEY MASTERS was last night crowned the nation's top tipster for the 2011 Flat season.

DAVID BAXTER "The Racing Post's Lambourn correspondent RODNEY MASTERS was crowned the winner of the Coral/Racing Post-sponsored £6,000 naps competition, bagged himself the £4,000 first prize.

"Masters had to wait for the 6.10 at Wolverhampton for victory to be sealed, with third-placed Racing Post Ratings putting up 33-1 chance ADMIRABLE DUQUE, but when that failed MASTERS was victorious with a £1 level-stakes profit of £31.21 after his final selection GUAVA finished third.

"MASTERS said last night that the win underlined the ongoing resurgence of Lambourn as a training centre.

"As an illustration of that my most successful contributor to the profit was Jamie Snowden's handicap hurdler IXORA, a 20-1 winner at Ffos Las in the summer and again when 9-1 at Cheltenham last Saturday.

"She was Snowden's first runner from Lambourn following his midsummer move from Salisbury , I'd been confident his horses had benefited considerably from working on the excellent gallops on Mandown."

"MASTERS had been placed in the naps table on a couple of occasions since taking up

the Lambourn job with the Post 13 years ago.

"Previously he was a member of the Press Association team in Fleet Street which won the jumps table under the banner of the Liverpool Daily Post.

"He said: "Several in that team also moved to the Post but sadly one of them Vic Woodman is no longer with us. Vic was my early tutor at the PA and became a good mate. Lambourn stalwart Nick Deacon, twice a winner of the naps championship in its Sporting Life days and one of the best judges I know, has been a massive support throughout the season and as always he fired in some smart winners during my holidays. A big thanks to him."

"MASTERS added that while he was thrilled to top the table he regarded himself as a 'hack' rather than a specialist tipster and he had gained a bigger kick out of his exclusive story of Barry Hills retirement a few weeks ago.

"Much of the credit for the win must go to the team behind the scenes at the Racing Post HQ in London who work their socks off every night to get the paper out. I've huge admiration for them. Our readers will never know what a massive effort they put in."   END

IN TOMORROWS RACING POST

UNEARTHING A FUTURE CHAMPION?  IT'S RACING POST TROPHY DAY and we look at the contenders plus PRICEWISE names his best bets on a great day that also features MASTER MINDED at Aintree.

http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/cards/card.sd?race_id=536830&r_date=2011-10-22#raceTabs=sc_

Plus  RICHARD HUGHES don't miss his exclusive column as he reflects on a self imposed week on the sidelines. Fighting for Justice in and out of the saddle in an historic bid over whip tactic problems caused by bloodhorse illiterate regulators stifling the living daylights out of any and all equine progress within British horseracing over decades.

THE RACING POST THURSDAY OCTOBER 20th 2011 JOCKEYS TAKE A STAND OVER THEIR RIGHTS

 

THE RACING POST THURSDAY OCTOBER 20th 2011

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WHIP TACTICS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

ANDREW SCUTTS "JOCKEYS TAKE HARD LINE OVER THE WHIP

"LICENSED PROFESSIONAL RIDERS  warn protests likely if demands are not satisfied

BRUCE MILLINGTON THE THURSDAY COLUMN

UPLIFTING  Champions Day had lots of positives for the future to plot the way forward
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19th 2011 WHIP TACTICS CHAPTER TWO

J MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL

CHAPTER TWO

THE EXCHANGE TRANSCRIPT BETWEEN NICK LUCK AND PAUL ROY THAT TOOK PLACE AFTER RACING ON SATURDAY OCTOBER 15th 2011 AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE VERY FIRST QIPCO CHAMPIONS DAY.  

HEREWITH ARE PAUL ROY'S ANSWERS

1. PAUL ROY, “NICK, I’ve made it very clear that we’ve put a new set of rules in place for whip use and those rules have been actually commended by everybody in the sport through a very thorough consultation process that has taken place over weeks and months, which resulted in a very long document and a set of recommendations endorsed by everybody in the sport, all the stakeholders including – please let me finish – the Professional Jockeys’ Association , and there are press releases to that effect. So everybody endorsed and bought into it and everybody agreed that it was necessary to make some amendments to the whip rules and that is what we did. Now, here we are in a set of circumstances obviously which, frankly, listening  to your broadcast I think is very unfortunate that it’s taking what is a fantastic day for British racing and, as I said to a number of people, couldn’t have produced a couple of clouds, let alone this clear blue sky. It’s been an absolutely stunning and spectacular day’s racing. I made it clear in the last week, having had a lot of discussion , clearly there has been a lot of publicity about Richard (Hughes) and his suspensions and the rules and so forth. We’ve had numerous conversations with Kevin Darley leading the Professional Jockeys’ Association and the individual jockeys in the sport: Ryan (Moore) Richard and everybody and I’ve made it clear that we were …  (kerfuffle)

2. P R “We all endorsed , and you endorsed, a set of rules that we put together. Now we’ve implemented them,  put them into practice … does it work? In practice, does it work –It’s a bit like buying a car, you take it out of the garage, it feels great, you put it in for a service and maybe, you know there are some tweeks that you need to do at the end of the day and some nuances and so forth, and I sense that this is the position we are in at the moment. So what I have agreed with everybody is that we’ll have a regular board meeting for the BHA on Monday morning and I’ve invited Kevin, who as you know heads up the PJA – the Professional Jockeys’ Association – and indeed some of the others, some of his team, that will probably include people like AP (McCoy) and so forth and Ryan and we’ll sit down and we will talk about the practicalities and the pragmatism of actually what’s going on here at the moment because, and nobody disagrees, it was absolutely right to bring some changes in place.”

3. PR “We’re a week on, it’s only actually a week ….

"Since we’ve and forgive the expression here, get up and running with this and obviously there are some serious quirks here. Let me say this, there are some serious quirks and we are going to sort this out.

4. PR “I do it (be BHA chairman) because I love and care for the sport. I think at the end of the day I sit here and say it’s a regulated sport. Christophe  (Soumillon) walked into that weighing room, he knew the rules as they pertain to today, he knew he had five whips inside the last furlong and he hit six times.

5. PR “I have to look at it at a very different position to that (to just a racing fan). You know that. I would say having said that,  I not oblivious to the circumstance we see ourselves in here and I think that pragmatism must rule. There has to be some common sense and speaking to Richard this afternoon, we’ve had a great conversation because I think, frankly, and I have told him I thought the reaction was over the top this week and I’m very concerned that it’s taken too much away from, as you just said , “what’s been an incredible day, and a fantastic week in the build-up to and we will get this sorted out.

6. PR “I’m not (angry or disappointed  with anyone at BHA) because ultimately at the end of the day I take the responsibility for that  (bringing the new whip rules now) as well , by the way, because we had a long debate about, and, by the way you know we consulted with goodness knows how many people on these rule changes and I won’t name the names but all the senior trainers that you see around here this afternoon, a lot of jockeys, everybody bought in. Now, so what does it really matter because here we are today and maybe it’s not working as we thought it was gonna work so therefore we maybe need an adjustment here and there and that’s what we’re getting to.”   

7. PR “I don’t mind (being lampooned) that’s part of the job. Part of the is, you know you have to take the plusses and you have to take the minuses. But I do think with hindsight, you want me to be very candid about it, I would say sitting back here now probably feel a lot better if we were running this through the winter season and not just now.

8. PR“It’s a set of circumstances and ultimately, as you rightly say,( Tim Morris and Jamie Stier) are the top professionals in their field in the sport and I think that’s not just me saying it, I think that’s recognised by everybody in the sport and I feel the other importaint thing here, by the way, as I was at the conference in Paris on the Monday after the Arc where all the international racing confederations come  together. We talk about all these issues and so forth, and yes I did talk about what we were doing, what we are changing and I didn’t hear anybody because I fundamentally believe that we  should show leadership in all of this internationally.

9. PR “Tim, I think is showing immense leadership across everything on withdrawals for drugs and so forth across the whole international. Tim Morris, who’s a leader in that and that is why he’s chairman of that world welfare group for the international racing federation. So we have, as you rightly point out, some excellent people and, by the way, because you’re an excellent person and really good at the job, it doesn’t mean you get it right every time, as I’m sure you would agree.

 

10. PR “We’ve got a terrific board with lots of input and expertise, whether it’s Mark Johnston or Morag Gray or the team on Monday and were going to have a proper full representation from the PJA with Kevin and the team that turns up.

11. PR “I think it (Champions Day) is so good and it’s been so spectacular that I don’t think you can take anything away from today, Nick, and I think for everybody in the industry who has bought into it. My mantra in all of this is that I love the sport and the traditions of the sport, that’s one of the things that encouraged me to get into the sport in the first place, and we now need to look forward and we need to compete, and we need to compete and with a racing product, not just worry about what is our income from gaming and so forth, and we need to compete, we need to compete with other sports, and with other countries. Therefore I love the tradition but I also want to modernise at the same time and that is what we have done by creating Racing for Change and Champions Day, so the public actually understand there’s a beginning, there’s a middle and there’s an end and there’s a finale to the racing season and we have champions  at the end of it.” END

 "COMMENT REPLIES WITHOUT A SHRED OF REMORSE.
(Racing Post Monday October 17th 2011)

"CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON’S understanding of English is excellent but someone may have had to explain to him the meaning of Paul Roy’s answers to Nick Luck’s straight questions on Saturday; how some “quirks” referred to by the chairman of the BHA managed to cost the jockey more than what many riders earn in a year and why his answers, running to almost 2,000 words, carried not one shred of embarrassment or remorse.  Roy nearly got away with it, very nearly managed to get through the biggest day British racing has staged without having to account for how and why a major, now closely unworkable, change in the rule on whip use was allowed to sabotage what should have been a triumph. But emphatically he did not get away with it, by just one flick of the whip administered a fraction too late Roy was caught as surely as SOUMILLON caught CIRRUS DES AIGLES. The difference was  that the rider had a split second to decide, Roy had months to mull over the right time to introduce important changes that were bound to take time to understand, accept or amend. And what better than the richest prize of all to put Roy on the spot, to highlight the unfairness of the punishment for the stroke of the whip which, if issued 20 yards earlier would have carried as much of a sting for CIRRUS DES AIGLES but none for his jockey.

“ Does the punishment fit the crime?” Luck asked. Roy’s reply rambled through “the consultation  process”, around “numerous conversations” with the PJA and on “the clear blue sky” which had blessed the day if not his thinking.  It did not answer the question.

“Did  SOUMILLION  deserve to loose 40 grand?” Luck persisted. “He knew the rules,” was the nub of Roy’s answer. Then an admission that “It’s only a week since we got up and running with this”,  which of course is precisely the point about this terrible mistiming . Credit though to Roy for not blaming others for what Luck identified as “a PR balls-up”.  “I’ll take responsibility. If  I’d felt differently I’d have said so, Roy offered. “These things are very difficult, 50-50 (sic) hindsight is a great thing.” As he spoke, the racing writers at Ascot were trying to explain to gnarled editors what a fine day’s sport they had witnessed and that the story was not just about racing’s bungled suicide attempt by shooting it’s self in the foot.

“Sunday’s headlines showed some of them failed, with the largest circulation paper devotees three-quarters of their racing story to the whip debacle before mentioning some horse called FRANKEL.

“Of course Paul Roy does not have to answer to Nick Luck, the Racing Post or the Sunday papers, but ultimately he is accountable to all those who care about the future of British racing. As he said himself, “It was a judgement call”,  and again, sadly, the judgement of the man with responsibility for steering British racing has to be called into serious question.”

JOHN COBB

 

THE RACING POST WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19th 2011 SOUMILLON TEAM OUTLINE GROUNDS FOR WHIP APPEAL

THE RACING POST WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19th 2011

RACING POST WEEK MONDAY OCTOBER 17th TO SUNDAY OCTOBER 23rd 2011 

TODAY'S CARDS  Newmarket, Kempton Park, Worcester, Fontwell, and Navan

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LEWIS  PORTEOUS “CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON TEAM OUTLINE GROUNDS FOR WHIP APPEAL. Pic of Christophe Soumillon in angry mood following his whip ban at Ascot on Saturday.”

PAUL EACOTT “Strike action would be disaster say bookmakers

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THE RACING POST HEADLINES TUESDAY OCTOBER 18th 2011

RACING POST HEADLINES TUESDAY OCTOBER 18th 2011

“JOCKEYS ON THE  ROAD TO WHIP REFORM

PETER SCARGILL REPORTS: "BHA announces hasty review into new rules after crisis meeting top jockey’s (from left) Richard Hughes,Ryan Moore, Frankie Dettori, Tony Mc Coy. Riders, chief Kevin Darley and trainer John Gosden head to their whips meeting with the BHA yesterday.”  Pic: Men on a mission

“THE BHA last night instigated  a hasty review of the controvercial  new whip rules and suggested that reforms could be ironed out by the end of the week, with jockeys’ leaders warning ‘time is pressing’ over the issue.

“The new rules, brought in last Monday (10.10.2011) after a ten- month consultation process, (under BHA’S Jamie Stier and Tim Morris) will be reviewed in a matter of days with the BHA review group ordered to report back by no later than Friday (21.10.2011)

“In the mean time, five more jockeys  fell foul of the beefed- up whip rules yesterday with Kieren Fox left contemplating his future after picking up a ten-day whip ban at Windsor, his second such penalty under the new regulations following a 15- day suspension at Salisbury last Monday.

JOCKEYS WARN  ‘TIME IS PRESSING’  FOR REVIEW.

“In a statement, the BHA said that “any changes to regulations must be carefully considered and subject to due process” and that the new rules would remain in place in the interim.

“The BHA added that it still endorsed the principles within the review and that the review group would need to speak relevant parties before making any further comments on the rules.

“The announcement comes after a delegation from the PJA, which featured chief executive Kevin Darley, leading riders Ryan Moore, Frankie Dettori, Tony McCoy, Richard Hughes and trainer John Gosden had met the BHA in High Holborn.

“After hearing the BHA response, Hughes, stated he would not ride again until the whip rules were reviewed after he had twice been suspended for hitting his mount six times in the final furlong, said that the group had welcomed the opportunity to speak about their concerns.

“We are all pleased that we were able to enter into a consultation process with the BHA today and it’s great that we had the chance to put our views across and to explain our feelings to them,” he said.

“My position has not changed and I won’t be riding under the current rules. We will all now wait to find out what the BHA says later this week.”

“After meeting for an hour and a half, the jockeys’ delegation left BHA headquarters at pace leaving Darley to answer questions about the meeting immediately afterwards.

“He said: “It’s fair to say the BHA board and the jockeys were trying to achieve the same objective. We’re trying to get rules in place that everybody’s comfortable with. It was good having a few jockeys there who put across the scenario of what it’s like to ride in a race.”

“DARLEY urged the BHA to make a decision as “time is pressing and added: “Amendments to the new rules that jockeys believe are workable need to be adopted very soon . As far as jockeys are concerned the current situation cannot continue and we have made it clear to the BHA. A resolution to this issue must be found.”

“ASKED if the jockeys could strike should the BHA fail to amend the rules to suit the riders, as has been mooted for Windsor and Pontefract yesterday the PJA chief executive added: “It’s too early to say about that.”

“DARLEY’S words come after another day when jockeys felt the wrath of the new rules with Adrian Nicholls and Joe Fanning – who said it was only his third ban in 22 years riding – Micky Fenton and Jack Quinlan all received bans alongside Fox. Fox partnered Push Me to finish second at Windsor but was found to have used his whip with excessive frequency by hitting his mount eight times. He will miss November 12^th and November 14-24^th and said “I’m riding out of love for the sport, but how can I carry on? I’ve got one kid already and another due on November 7^th , and I’m earning nothing. After fuel and other expenses I earned  nearly £500 last month  which would barely insure the car. I can’t afford to do this job even without getting all these days.” END

CHAMPIONS DAY THE VERDICT

“With the glorious image of FRANKEL’S latest wonder show still fresh in the mind, ALASTAIR DOWN looks at how to build on the success from events on the track at Ascot. PLUS key reaction from across the sport.”

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THE RACING POST TUESDAY OCTOBER 18th 2011 C4 NICK LUCK QUESTIONS PAUL ROY (BHA CHAIRMAN) ON THE EVENING OF QIPCO CHAMPIONS DAY 15.10.2011

THE RACING POST TUESDAY OCTOBER 18th 2011

RACING POST WEEK MONDAY OCTOBER 17th TO SUNDAY OCTOBER 23rd 2011

THE RACING POST YESTERDAY PUBLISHED THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE EXCHANGE BETWEEN NICK LUCK AND PAUL ROY AFTER THE CURTAIN CAME DOWN FOLLOWING THE VERY FIRST BRITISH QIPCO CHAMPIONS DAY AT ASCOT.

J MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL

FOCUS WHIP TACTICS IN THEORY (the rules of racing perspective) IN PRACTICE (action perspective handling and riding )

The use of the whip both in the preperation of racehorses for the track and whilst competing challenging to win races on the tracks, both go hand in hand, you can't have one without the

other, to date we hear nothing from Jamie Stier, Tim Morris or Paul Roy that joins this up properly. 

That a guest who came to compete from France got such shocking treatment from the British Regulation Authority defies all belief , CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON partner CIRRUS DES AIGLES the winner of the 4.10 Qipco Champion Stakes over 1m2f  winner to receive  £737,230 the winning jockey earned £52.000 swiftly denied taken off CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON as a fine,  by the British Authority due to one over the limit hits. CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON asks for the rules of racing to be universally the same. Obviously this  issue is long overdue, vitally essential to all handler riders world wide. So how is it in the year 2011 that there is no fair guidance for licenced professional riders to follow?

J MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL
 CHAPTER ONE

PAUL ROY'S response to NICK LUCK'S questions show he is no where near the hymn book, leave alone right hymn,  same page, right verse, or the right line even. A musician holding a choir practice could not cope with someone so out of tune as this.

C4 NICK LUCK QUESTIONS PAUL ROY LIVE ON RUK SATURDAY EVENING OCTOBER 15th 2011(Paul Roy Chairman of British Horseracing Regulation Authority BHA)

NICK LUCK ASKS PAUL ROY 

"At the end of Saturday October 15th 2011 the day that Christophe Soumillan’s whip ban for his winning ride in the Champion Stakes had threatened to overshadow the inaugural British Champions Day, BHA chairman and acting chief executive Paul Roy was interviewed live on Racing UK by Nick Luck." Here is Chapter One of transcript of the exchange.

J MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL
 CHAPTER ONE

1. NICK LUCK ASKS PAUL ROY “It’s not what anybody wanted. In your eyes does the punishment he (Soumillon) received today fit the crime that he committed?

2. NL”You’ve spoken to Richard Hughes today haven’t you? Have you guys come to any sort of agreement?

3. NL”The practical implication hasn’t worked as you’d hoped and certainly as the jockeys hoped – that’s where the disconnect is, isn’t it?

4. NL “Let me ask you as an owner,  as a racing enthusiast,  which is what informs your whole reason for being the BHA chairman – you don’t just do it because you fancy it – you’ve watched Christophe Soumillon’s ride there. Does it offend you ethically and did he deserve to lose 40 grand as a result of it?

5. ” I wasn’t asking you as a regulator, I was asking you as Paul Roy the racing fan – does what he did offend you?

6. NL “Are you cross that it was brought in this week? Do you think it’s a complete PR balls- up – well it is a PR Balls up – but are you cross with people underneath you who made the decision?

7. NL “I do want to talk as British Champions Day as a whole and I don’t want this to dominate, but on the timing who’s call was it to, because I know I’ve spoken to people at (Britis h Champions Series) BCS and they’ve said ‘we asked the BHA please don’t bring this in on the Monday as it’s going to take away from our headlines’, so who’s call was it to say ‘no, look, we’ve got to bring these in now, and why?

8. NL “I’ll only lampoon you if you want to take the lampoon ….

9. NL”The disconnect for me, Paul, is that in Jamie Stier and Tim Morris, and I think everyone agrees, you’ve probably got two of the most forward-thinking, savvy, smart executors that have led this through and who were widely praised after it. Yet somehow, the whole thing has turned into total and utter chaos and that’s what I can’t get to grips with ……..

10. NL “Leadership on whip regulations?

11. NL “So mistakes made and review now?

12. NL “You are sorry and I am sorry and everyone is sorry that we have ended up talking about the whip at the end of what has been a fabulous British Champions Day ….

…

THE RACING POST MONDAY OCTOBER 17th 2011 JUMPS STABLE TOUR

THE RACING POST MONDAY OCTOBER 17th 2011

RACING POST WEEK MONDAY OCTOBER 17th  TO SUNDAY OCTOBER 23rd 2011

TODAY'S RACECARDS: Pontefract, Plumpton, Windsor.

Mark Winstanley with today's best bets page 10 

WHIP DEBATE GETS HEATED AS RICHARD HUGHES SPEAKS OUT

http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-racing/more-than-words-richard-hannon-richard-hughes-kempton-a-w-kempton-a-w-hughes-slams-bha-over-new-whip-rules/931655/thewhipdebate/

 JUMPS STABLE TOUR'STHE POST’S SIX –PART WEEKLY SERIES STARTING

TODAY DON’T MISS THIS 16 PAGE PULLOUT. LICENSED TRAINERS PHILIP HOBBS, TIM VAUGHAN, NOEL MEADE AND FERDY MURPHY

 

ANDREW SCUTTS  JOCKEYS DEMAND WHIP RULE CHANGES AT CRISIS MEETING.

“Compromise will be sought as the British Horseracing Regulation Authority meets senior

riders. Senior jockeys today will demand changes be made to the whip rules that came into force a week ago …..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/oct/16/jockeys-bha-whip-rules

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/uk-jockeys-face-whip-restrictions-under-new-racing-laws/story-e6frg7mf-1226149202106 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/8826905/Jockeys-poised-to-strike-over-new-BHA-whip-ruling.html

 

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