Thursday 27 August 2015

FRIDAY AUGUST 28, RACING POST 2015.

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SKY NEWS : HUMAN TIDE
CAUSED BY EVIL BRITISH MALE GOVERNMENT WAR MACHINE 
REFUGEES 
JMC: Where is the governments "British Path of Peace" initiative? This government perspective should always be running upsides "British War Destruction' initiative.  How can these Tory government male's swan off for a months holiday knowing that they have turned their backs on a human tragedy that is causing such fear and such horrific deaths every single day. Who needs a Tory party such as this one? No one. Kick the lot of them out for good.

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FRIDAY AUGUST  28,  CH4 LIVE. RACING POST 
Week Monday August 24 to Sunday August 30.

 CH4 HORSERACING TEAM
A Work in Progress Guide
Taking a Closer look at Horseracing
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RACING POST PREVIEW TODAY'S EQUUS CARD

The clues are here, but can you spot them?

 *  REVIEW YESTERDAY'S EQUUS  RESULTS
http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/results/home.sd?r_date=2015-08-27 





 JMC: We do not want our little babies having to experience
  the terror of war,  anytime in their lives.
We come into this world fragile and helpless.
 next the human journey:
Many of us leave this world fragile and helpless.
 
 BBC1 BREAKFAST
interaction
6.00am to 9.15am
A warm welcome to all: 
Presented by Stephanie McGovern and Charlie Stayt.
Our Carol has started her training program for Strictly Come Dancing, finding she is very set fast this morning. Wondering if there will be any of that click clickitty click dancing, 
tap-tap-tap- dancing? 
.
Likely weather, Carol  brings us a full and thorough weather forecast. Nippy Notes only here.
Bank Holiday Weekend: Unsettled, chilly showers, blustery winds with some heavy showers in places. Sunny spells, a dry night expected. 

Paula Radcliffe | Marathon world record holder 

Visiting Beijing:


  



 
 


BBC2 Victoria Derbyshire
9.15am to 11.00am

VICTORIA DERBYSHIRE - BBC TWO

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qqk5c
With original stories, exclusive interviews, audience debate and breaking news, Victoria Derbyshire presents the BBC's new daily news and current affairs programme

 

PAUSE FOR THOUGHT 

Racing Post Thursday August 27, 2015: Page 9.
Steve Dennis brings news:
"Desire for Lowther upgrade strikes a sour note."

"BARELY has the dust settled from another  absorbing 'festival' meeting than, as usual, the racecourse executive sets out ways in which the next rendition can be even bigger and better. Progress is an unceasing progress. "JMC: The frightening fact being it is 'bloodhorse illiterate' progress ... 'Bloodhorse illiterate' progress is not progress at all. The reason why Epsom Past, Present, Future is found to be in such dire straights now. A massive burden on all the ' true bloodhorse literate horsemen and horsewomen attempting to train racehorses on Epsom Downs now, an horrific nightmare would just about sum  it up. What right has any British government got to sacrifice British horseracing through their own cruel bloodhorse illiterate power abuse? Allowing such as this to be going on, in the first place?

 


GLOBAL HORSERACING 
Your adventure into the world of Global Horseracing
a warm welcome to Nicholas Godfrey  2015. 

EPSOM PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
1947 - 2015

WEDNESDAY: AUGUST 26, EPSOM AND THE GLORY YEARS:
Part 1 of 3.
“In the first of a three-part series Nicholas Godfrey rolls back the years to when Epsom was in it’s heyday as a training centre, pages 8-9. 
http://turfcall2-racingpost.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/wednesday-august-26-racing-post-2015.html

THURSDAY: AUGUST 27  PETER THOMAS: AND STEVE DENNIS
Part 2 of 3 
"ON HOW EPSOM IS STRUGGLING FOR SURVIVAL . "
http://turfcall2-racingpost.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/thursday-august-27-racing-post-2015.html  
1947 - 2015


FRIDAY: AUGUST 28 STEVE DENNIS
Part 3 or 3
“An ace set of gallops with a nice racecourse attached. "

“Steve Dennis spends a work morning alongside the Epsom training fraternity. You’d be amazed by what’s on the other side of the fence.

Steve Dennis recalls the greatest amateur race ever to be run, the 1974 Moet & Chandon Silver Magnum, more commonly known as the amateurs’ Derby.

“IT READS a little like one of those fiendish quiz questions with which John Randall tests Racing Post readers each Christmas. What race involved a duel Champion Hurdle winner, the best racing journalist ever to file copy, the trainer of the best Flat horse of  all time, a Spanish nobleman with a tendency for breakages, two duel Derby-winning trainers and the first man to ride 1,000 winners over jumps, among several other racing celebrities.


“The answer is the 1974 Moet & Chandon Silver Magnum at Epsom, the accompanying racecard showing the glittering cast-list in full. Sea Pigeon, John Oaksey, Henry Cecil, the Duke of  Albuquerque, Luca Cumani, John Dunlop and Stan Mellor are the answers to the above questions, with Nicky Henderson, Bruce Hobbs, Denys Smith, Jim Wilson, Gordon Richards and Clive Brittain all in the mix in a quite remarkable renewal of what was known as the Amateurs’ Derby, run over the Classic course and distance as the centrepiece of the August bank holiday meeting at Epsom.
 

“An amateur race is still to be found on the card but these days it pales in comparison with its former self, just another 0-85 handicap without the panache or prestige-or, considering the sponsor, the fizz-of its previous incarnation. As the City and Suburban and the Great Metropolitan Epsom’s historic handicaps that have lost much of their luster, so it goes for the Silver Magnum, its golden age in the past. Not forgotten, though. Far from it. That race marked my last ride, and I went out on a winner," says Phillip Mitchell, four-time winner,
of the Silver Magnum and partner of the Robert Armstrong-trained  Laurentian Hills, half length winner on that rose –tinted afternoon 41 years ago.



“I won the Moet in 1967 on Patron Saint, then the following year on Inishmaan. A few years later there was New Member – he was probably the biggest certainty I ever sat on, the hardest thing about that race was pulling him up after he’d crossed the line – and then I rode Laurentian Hills to beat Sea Pigeon."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oaksey

John Dunlop (racehorse trainer) - Wikipedia, the free ... 

 
Young Freddie Mitchell doing well, choosing the Fegentri amateur route. Freddie's father says, "It might seem all a long time ago, but this is the connection between past and present bringing the amateur rider narrative up to date through the exploits of Philip's son Freddie, who was Fegentri (anglicised as the International Federation of Gentlemen and Lady Riders) world champion  in 2013. Mitchell snr participated in the Fegentri  'grand tour' in his latter years as a rider and was overjoyed that his son took the same path.

"I told my other son Jack that he had to go the Fegenti route  but he became an apprentice instead, so when Freddie began riding as an amateur he was left in no doubt as to what he should do," he says.

"And when he became world champion, well, proud isn't the word for it. I was absolutely  utterly, profoundly elated for him. The Fegenti series is such a wonderful grounding, you go to so many, different tracks, in different countries, ride on different tracks, in different conditions, learn different techniques - and it's all paid for.

"I took Freddie to Deauville for one of the races and it was all exactly as it was when I was on the circuit-the best hotels, lavish lunches and dinners. It brought it all back,
 all the fun I had.

"It's still a lot of fun, of course, even though the Epsom race is not included in the Fegenti series and Moet ended its association in 2001 when it lost television coverage. Indeed, the status of the amateurs' Derby has dwindled considerably since then and Richards  recognises the fact that the race no longer retains the sparkle of the original sponsor's product.

"It was very prestigious at one stage-anything with 'Derby' in it is going to have some sort of cachet that sets it apart, " he says,  "I'm sure it's still a great thing for the riders who take part, but it's not the same class of race at all. It used to mean a lot, but maybe not so much any more. It certainly meant a lot to Mitchell, and Richards, Henderson, Lord Oaksey and all the rest among the eclectic camaraderie in the Epsom changing room. Times change, tastes differ, but the 1974 vintage is still an intoxicating one. "
 
Freddie Mitchell: Jockey, Horse Racing Form -.Jockey Freddie Mitchell | Record By Race Type |.

Jockey Jack Mitchell | Record By Race Type | Racing Post

Jockey Jack Mitchell | Booked Rides | Racing Post 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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