Channel 4 - Racing

[Maesfen]

And can I say how well she looked and how good she was at her job in Dubai tonight. She totally looked and acted like the pro' she is. I hope she dresses the part at Aintree too.

See J, credit can be given when it is due.

 

[Dobiegirl]

I thought she did an excellent job tonight but where did she get that hat(I feel a song coming on )

 

[Maesfen]

Her Easter Bonnet?!

 

[Faithkat]

I thought she did an excellent job tonight but where did she get that hat(I feel a song coming on )

I was going to post exactly that! What DID she look like? As my mother would have said - "don't these people ever look in a mirror?" . . . . . but, then, perhaps she did think she looked good . . . . .

 

[Judgemental]

It's so nice to see some really complimentary comments about Emma and, unless I am mistaken exclusively by the ladies of the forum.

However, I am told, over my shoulder, whilst posting 'what about John Francome'?

I am told by several ladies, mainly of the 55+ vintage, the West Country Burr 'is exciting'. Conjuring up images of a rugged outdoor life leading to being outstandingly fit.

Some who drink in our local, probably measure up to the burr but as for being outstandingly fit, not a chance.

As I live in the West Country, I try very hard, but it's normally broad Somerset and apparantly that's not the same. Especially if one adds 'snn' or 'my sunner', which is very Street and/or possibly Queen Camel. As opposed to 'ma der' at the end, which is traditionally west of the M5.

It's the relaxed undertone that is the important part of the burr. They tell me the tone is akin to the mating call of wild animals in the jungle.

Make of it what you will. No doubt some WAG will explain the subtleties?

 

[combat_claire]

I am told by several ladies, mainly of the 55+ vintage, the West Country Burr 'is exciting'. Conjuring up images of a rugged outdoor life leading to being outstandingly fit.

Not just to the 55+ vintage I can assure you....

 

[Alec Swan]

Not just to the 55+ vintage I can assure you....

....... and those that qualify as being "Birds" too, by all accounts!

Ets. I'll agree, Francome has the most appealing of dispositions. I remember that he once described an animal, as a "Proper 'orse". It stuck with me, did that one!

Alec.

 

[Judgemental]

It will be interesting to see how Channel 4 are going to deal with the Godolphin scandal and just how deeply they are prepared to probe the issues, as to doping throughout the racing industry.

The Morning Line on Saturday will be well worth viewing.

 

[Alec Swan]

It will be interesting to see how Channel 4 are going to deal with the Godolphin scandal and just how deeply they are prepared to probe the issues, as to doping throughout the racing industry.

The Morning Line on Saturday will be well worth viewing.

I was thinking the very same thing. To suggest that the Trainer alone, is the only person involved, would be nonsense, and it would be inconceivable to believe that there was no veterinary collusion. Mind you, it's probably the case that whilst the horses can't race, whilst carrying traces of steroids, steroids themselves are not banned for equine use, so the only people to be held responsible would be the trainer and the owner, or to refine it further, the person who entered a horse for a race, and presumably signed a declaration to state that the animal was drug free.

It's interesting that the filly Certify (?) didn't actually run, so have any rules actually been broken? Again, I wouldn't have thought that horses carrying evidence of steroids was an offence, but running them whilst it is still in their system, is. We shall await Saturday morning!

As someone else has said on here, "First Frankie gets busted for doing drugs, whilst riding for Godolphin, and now it's the horses"!!

Alec.

 

[BigBuck's]

Mind you, it's probably the case that whilst the horses can't race, whilst carrying traces of steroids, steroids themselves are not banned for equine use, so the only people to be held responsible would be the trainer and the owner, or to refine it further, the person who entered a horse for a race, and presumably signed a declaration to state that the animal was drug free.

Anabolic steroids are banned for use in any racehorse officially "in training" in the UK, regardless of whether or not the horse is entered for a race. If a horse is listed in a UK trainer's monthly Horses in Training return as being "in training" then anabolic steroids can not be used on that horse, even if it never comes close to setting foot on the racecourse.

 

[Alec Swan]

B_B, thanks for that, I've just picked up your reply on the other thread.

Alec.

 

[Judgemental]

I see on the News Thread Adorable Alice said, "I wonder if Channel 4 racing/Morning Line will have anything to say, are the programmes not sponsored by Dubai ?"

That will energise Ms Balding to do some real investigative journalism.

How many trainers are going to be doorstepped by Channel 4 at six in the morning and have a poke around in the veterinary cupboard.

Brings a whole new meaning to 'Facinators'.

No but seriously, this has been brewing for some time throughout the racing industry, the pressure, the costs of racing, the expectations of the owners, ok Godolophin are limited to the one owner, nevertheless there is a fundamental cauldron that eventually bubbles over, when all the players are talking mega money. There is always a finite level with horses, when the whole show in whatever equestrian discipline reaches it own level of incompetance.