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Tony McCoy’s hopes of BBC award rest on racing changing its image | Cornelius Lysaght

by admin on 12. Apr, 2010 in Horse News, Horse Racing

• Grand National-winning jockey is 3-1 to win Award • ‘Racing is a Marmite sport, either loved or hated’ Tony McCoy’s odds are as short as 3-1 to win the BBC’s most coveted sporting prize, the Sports Personality of the Year, or SPOTY as it is known within the Corporation. It is the one award to have eluded horse racing, despite the exploits of Lester Piggott and Willie Carson, Frankie Dettori and of McCoy himself, plus many others. Third place for McCoy in 2002 and Dettori (1996) are the best finishes and, despite McCoy passing the lauded landmark of 3,000 winners last year, the man who bestrides his arena as no other could not get as much as a toehold on the shortlist.

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John McCririck’s colour seems to be anything but Green | Martin Kelner

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Gold Cup rivalry puts horse racing back on sporting map

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A good tip for the Cheltenham Festival – I heard it down the pub

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Barry Geraghty says favourite Go Native is the one to beat in Champion Hurdle

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Solwhit’s Leopardstown win awakens Festival fever for Charles Byrnes

by admin on 24. Jan, 2010 in Events, Horse Racing

• Solwhit proves battling qualities to lift Irish Champion Hurdle • Byrnes hails ‘the fastest jumper I have ever trained’ If attitude alone were enough to win a Champion Hurdle, Solwhit would probably be a 6-4 chance in the ante-post betting this morning, after a victory in the Irish equivalent here todaythat advertised a battling nature and a no-nonsense approach to getting the job done. Both punters and bookies, though, like to glimpse brilliance in a potential champion, which is why one layer was still offering 6-1 for the Festival as Solwhit returned to the winner’s enclosure after the fifth Grade One success of his career.

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Why no heralds’ trumpets for Kauto Star v Denman? | Greg Wood

by admin on 11. Jan, 2010 in Betting Tips, Horse Racing

Racing is running out of time to promote what is hoped will be the most significant race of 2010 The most significant race of 2010 is – all being well – 67 days away. Friday 19 March will bring Kauto Star and Denman together at Cheltenham for the third and decisive time and the nation will stop to watch. Well, the racing nation will, at any rate. Whether anyone else in the UK’s adult population of nearly 50 million will take any notice remains to be seen and may well be a better test of the sport’s ability to adapt and survive than any of the initiatives emerging from the Racing For Change programme.

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New racehorse owners will face ‘fit and proper person’ test from next summer

by admin on 22. Nov, 2009 in Betting Tips, General, Horse News, Horse Racing, Racing News

• Ruling body outlines plan to drive out ‘undesirables’ • ‘Impractical’ to apply test to all existing owners The British Horseracing Authority is aiming to introduce its new licensing regime, including a ‘fit and proper persons’ test for racehorse owners, by the middle of next year, in a move it has insisted will provide a model for other sports to follow. Racing’s governing body will introduce a beefed-up suitability test for trainers next February and roll it out for jockeys when their licence renewals fall due – in March for Flat racing riders and October for their jump racing colleagues. The BHA is planning to approach the Racehorse Owners Association in the coming weeks to discuss the introduction of a new test aimed at regulating new owners coming into the sport. But it also hopes to frame the new rules so that, if information comes to light that suggests an existing owner does not meet the new standard, they would be able to investigate and ban that owner.

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The Tote’s future was suffocated by New Labour greed and incompetence

by admin on 13. Oct, 2009 in Events, Horse News, Horse Racing, Racing News

The government’s indecision and incompetence killed off the Tote’s best hope.

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