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York bans highlight a tolerance to the whip...
By Alastair Down
Published in Racing Post Tuesday August 25
“Having
darkened the doors of Somerville Lodge the week before York it was abundantly
clear to me that William Haggas was
shoo-in to be leading trainer but needless to say none of the old enemy
seemed to be running a book on it.
“ Haggas, who was 55 on Sunday emerged with five
wins and three places from 15 runners which is a prodigious strike-rate at the
second most prestigious but much the most enjoyable meeting of the season.
“Much to his delight, Haggas also managed to
inject a little light-hearted needle into the eternal rivalry between Newmarket
and Lambourn with his suggestion that in the valley of the racehorse “lunch has
always played a big part in the day. “
“Cue much fluttering in the Berkshire dovecotes
with Haggas receiving a text from one Lambourn trainer saying: “You have upset
so many trainers down here we are having an emergency lunch to discuss it.”
“Up at York I even received a bollocking (well
something like it) from the genial Charlie Hills, who said: “wait till you
speak to my father. “
“This rather ignored the fact I have been
speaking to Barry for longer than
Charlie has and when I did chat to Barry he had a highly amused pop at your
correspondent, to which I replied that he had
been having lunch in Lambourn for 40 years and it had never done him any harm.
“Indeed when I rang Nicky Henderson at 12.45
yesterday he said, “Whatever are you doing ringing a Lambourn trainer at this
time of day
“But the final word on this silly-season teacup
storm has to go to Middleham stalwort James Bethell, who opined airily: “There
is no lunch culture in Newmarket for the simple reason there is nowhere decent
to eat!”
“On a more serious Knavesmire note, in a
painstaking level- headed letter in today’s Post, my old Channel4 Racing boss
Andrew Franklin points out there was a flurry of whip bans at York.
“The races included “almost inevitably two of
the most valuable” in the Yorkshire Oaks and Ebor just a fortnight after the
two riders who fought out the King
George finish also received bans.
“Franklin pleads: “Please would supporters of
the status quo drop any pretence that these deterrents work on the big
occasions. Those whose job is to uphold the basic sporting principle of fair
play have clearly given up.
“Shamefully, I must admit that, having attended
all four days, it had passed me by that the whip bans totalled as many as
11.
“Franklin highlights an uncomfortable truth-perhaps an
unacceptable one - that for races of great value we now tolerate a
situation whereby the authorities connive
at on contravention of the rules and wrist-slap the wrongdoers who break them.
“On rare occasions victory in certain races can
add millions to the value of a choicely bred winner. How much does a seven-day
whip ban matter under such circumstances? Answer: not at all.
“And what answer do you give to a trainer and
owner who have just watched their jockey stick to the rules and get inched out
in a major race by a horse on whom the jockey has patently flouted the laws.
“We are currently turning a blind eye to a
situation where the whip rules can in effect be
ignored. The bold and bad get away with it and while the meek may inherit the earth they would
rather get the race in the stewards’ room.
“Yes, we have travelled light years forward from
the black days when one jockey managed
to get his horse into the Triumph Hurdle frame by beating it 28 times from the
top of the hill. What’s more the sight
of horses being whipped when out of
contention is now a total rarity where it was once commonplace.
“It is a vexatious problem to which I have no
solution – not least because if I owned a hind leg of something in contention
at The Cheltenham Festival, any scruples over the number of times the whip
landed would soon be sacrificed on the alter of fulfilling a lifetimes
ambition.
“The whole situation is encapsulated by the
finest quote of last week which came , unsurprisingly, from Mark Johnson, whom Alan Lee quoted in
The Times as saying: “In all walks of life your principles and what suits you
should be two different things. “
“This is spot- on for the authorities’ present
whip approach. Their principles insist that excessive use is wrong but, on
major race days it suits them to turn at least half a blind eye and issue
punishments anything but commensurate to
the crime.
“On a somewhat iconic closing note, on Saturday
Irish 7lb claimer Jack Kennedy picked up a nine-day- ban for using his whip
above the permitted level on Ebor runner-up Wicklow Brave.
“Some astute judges in Ireland rate Kennedy an
exceptional prospect and his attachment to the Gordon Elliott yard, where there is
zero tolerance towards muppets of any stripe, can only help him.
“Kennedy may have picked up the week’s longest ban but he could well have the biggest future."
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