[quote=“north county corncrake”]congrats to DB on becoming a racehorse owner
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Cheers NCC…Triumph Hurdle here we come :rolleyes:
Quote from Dessie Hughes yesterday after Sariska won the Oaks “she’d make a cracking 3yo hurdler”. :rolleyes: Good old Dessie.
McManus swoops for top young French hurdlers
By Emmanuel Roussel 13 JUL 2009
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France: JP McManus has launched a spending spree in France with the purchse of three of the nation’s top young hurdlers.
McManus has bought the four-year-old Rock Noir, the only horse to have beaten French Triumph Hurdle winner Rendons Grace, plus a pair of Auteuil three-year-old Listed winners in Sway and Temple Lord.
JP McManus: stocking up in France
PICTURE: Mark CranhamAll three will remain in France at least until the end of the year, with McManus eyeing the lucrative Auteuil autumn programme.
The Marcel Rolland-trained Rock Noir, winner of both starts this term, hasn’t run since defeating Rendons Grace in a AQPS-only hurdle race in April.
Rolland and McManus have done business before, as the French trainer sold him former top staying hurdler Le Coudray back in 1998.
Sway and Temple Lord, both by the young French sire Califet, are in training with Guy Cherel at Maisons-Laffitte
Temple Lord has won three of his four starts over hurdles this term, including the two main Listed Auteuil events for young hurdlers.
Sway, an AQPS filly, is unbeaten in five starts on the Flat and over hurdles, where her victories include a pair of impressive displays at Auteuil.
Both will probably be prepared for the €270,000 Prix Cambaceres 3-y-o Hurdle over 2m2f at the Auteuil international weekend early in November.
McManus is no stranger to France, having had a handful of horses in training over the years with Francois and Thierry Doumen, headed by the likes of Baracouda, First Gold and Foreman.
Francois Doumen now trains two horses for JP, namely Doctor Pat and Moneywise, a winner over hurdles at Fontainebleau in February.
I wonder what kind of money those horses would cost McManus to purchase? Just spare change to him no doubt.
To think some ape tried to tell me he was skint. :rolleyes:
Cartmel is just a glorified p2p track!
Saw Cartmel in the paper today alright, was wondering where the fuck it is…Somewhere in middle England?
No idea where it is, it could even be Welsh (!). The first time I saw racing from there I was wondering why ATR were showing a p2p.
Isn’t Cartmel where the Gay Future affair took place? Cracking plot except for the lazy trainer fcuking it up.
Correct.
Know a lad who’s brother has a few horses with this fella. He’s given me a few winners from the stable. Said the lads is a pure looper.
Burke warned off for a year
Monday, 20 July 2009 20:35
Yorkshire trainer Karl Burke has been disqualified for 12 months following a British Horseracing Authority inquiry into alleged race-fixing.
The Middleham-based handler has been enjoying a fine season and recently saddled Lord Shanakill to Group One success in France.
Former owner Miles Rodgers has been warned off for life, the BHA confirmed.
The BHA disciplinary panel decided to postpone the start of Burke’s penalty until the day after the time allowed for lodging an appeal - ie until 28 July - because 'it would be wrong to cause what may be irreparable damage to Burke’s business in that time if he does intend to appeal.
'It will be for the appeal board to decide whether to extend that stay of the penalty if he does in fact appeal.
'It will also enable Burke to make the application his counsel foreshadowed at the hearing for some form of dispensation from the full effects of a disqualification if he still wishes to do so.
‘As the panel do not know of the grounds for such an application, this should not be seen as any encouragement to make it or to think that it might be granted, but it is right to identify that Burke has the opportunity.’
The BHA announced an investigation after concluding its review of evidence from the Old Bailey trial in 2007, where jockeys Darren Williams, Fergal Lynch, Kieren Fallon plus Rodgers were all acquitted of any wrongdoing.
Fallon did not have to face any further charges from the racing authorities but Williams, Lynch and Burke - who was arrested but released without charge as part of the original police investigation - were called before the disciplinary panel along with Rodgers.
Both jockeys and Burke faced charges concerning their relationships with Rodgers and whether they supplied him with inside information over 12 races in 2004.
Lynch and Williams admitted those charges on the first day of the hearing as well as failing to supply information requested by the BHA team.
Lynch also owned up to a charge of betting via Rodgers and stopping a horse from running on its merits.
Williams was banned for three months while Lynch, who is now based in America, paid a 50,000 fine and agreed not to apply for a British licence for 12 months.
The disciplinary panel said it was ‘very conscious of what it was told of Burke’s personal situation and training operation’ and that it was recognised ‘a penalty of disqualification has a potentially very serious effect on his owners and employees especially.’
But despite that, the panel ‘felt driven to conclude that it was necessary to impose a disqualification on Burke, and that the proper period was 12 months, bringing into account the various features of this case.’
The BHA’s allegations against Burke were:
(1) breach of Rule 243 over the supply of inside information to Rodgers about 6 of his runners (these having been laid on Betfair through accounts controlled by Rodgers).
(2) breach of Rule 220(iv) for associating in relation to horseracing with Rodgers, who was a disqualified person for two years from 2 April 2004.
(3) breach of Rule 220(viii) because of misleading BHA investigators when interviewed in August 2008.
Regarding Rodgers, the panel said 'this is an obvious case for an indefinite exclusion order: Rodgers has wreaked havoc with the sport.
‘The exclusion order will commence immediately and the Panel directs that no application by him for any relief from this indefinite exclusion should be entertained for 10 years. If he ever does apply, it would be necessary for him at least to produce credible evidence that he is a changed man who can be trusted to abide by the Rules, rather than a self-certified character reference. But even that sort of evidence is unlikely to lead to a change in the indefinite exclusion order unless there are compelling reasons for it.’
Miles Rodgers can be seen every year in Clonmel down the front of short odds, usually wearing a long trench coat.
Myself and a mate made a nice few quid off the info we were getting from his yard in the spring/summer of 07. Dodgy as fuck.
Dunguib has tested posititve for performance enhancing drugs it said there on the radio…
what radio? Can’t find anything online.
Fucking hell that’s disasterous. Shocking really.
Uh oh, I suppose we’ll have to wait and see what the substance was before rushing to any judgement.
It was said on Today FM in the sports part of their news coverage.
I hope it’s all innocnet enough, he seems an absolute machine of a horse. His performances at both Cheltenham and Punchestown were astonishing.