Elf On A Shelf
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Yes the vast majority of owners go into it for the love of the game but there are also some to do indeed go into it for other reasons.
A good point. I suspect that with the owner of Godolphin distancing himself from the scandal, will allow TML to take a party line, without opinion, except that this is awful, and that the problems are being "addressed" (what ever that may mean).
I'll bet that Saturday morning's response will be a vacuous and noncommittal response. I also strongly suspect that the main influence will be around the question, "What would happen if the Middle Eastern Money were to leave British racing?".
As another poster has said, racing is inherently dishonest, and to expect otherwise will only lead to disillusion. There are those who live by the rules, I'll accept, but most will stand up against the tape.
Alec.
I had this wild-card idea that this was all uncovered because of increased testing of horse meat from UK abattoirs for illegal substances... BUT that's just me getting carried away, I expect.
Now the trainer has confessed to doping four other horses that weren't subject to the testing.
I'm thinking that Godolphin winter their horses in Dubai so they can get round our doping laws.
The whole operation now falls under suspicion.
I had this wild-card idea that this was all uncovered because of increased testing of horse meat from UK abattoirs for illegal substances... BUT that's just me getting carried away, I expect.
Wrong! I am afraid to burst your bubble but the BHA do random tests from time to time, this has nothing to do with the horse meat thing at all!
No, it's nothing to do with that. Al Zarooni has had two previous, albeit less serious, doping offences in the last twelve months so will be on the BHA's list to test more frequently.
Sheik Mohammed has announced his stable is now on lockdown and he wants every horse tested.
I think the trainer will have to fall on his sword.
Interesting! And this didn't bother the Makhtoums??
Wonder if Magniers have cracked open the champagne.
Wonder if Magniers have cracked open the champagne.
No surely their CIDER.
It seems unlikely though that Al Zarooni would be merrily doping away without the sheikhs knowlegde. The sheikh is not only a rich and powerful man but also Al Zaroonii's monarch, I can't believe he would have risked peeing him off that much by doping off his own back. And how were the steriods charged on the training bill!?
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Perhaps all horses coming into the country for competition purposes should be drug tested? Possibly all horses running in a group one too?
Perhaps all horses coming into the country for competition purposes should be drug tested? Possibly all horses running in a group one too?
It seems unlikely though that Al Zarooni would be merrily doping away without the sheikhs knowlegde. The sheikh is not only a rich and powerful man but also Al Zaroonii's monarch, I can't believe he would have risked peeing him off that much by doping off his own back. And how were the steriods charged on the training bill!?