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Should have been suspended months ago, this has been common knowledge for sometime. Be pretty pissed if running 2nd to this guy whilst he is accumulating wins on premiership. Come in @Chief Stipe with some obscure excuse for him.

El Vencedor has been given the green light to defend his title in the Gr.1 Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. The reigning Horse of the Year, who completed a Group One weight-for-age hat-trick last autumn, has won just one of his seven starts this season and serious doubts about his future were raised when he faded badly to finish eighth in last Saturday’s Listed Fulton Family Stakes (1500m) at Ellerslie. At the time his trainer Stephen Marsh said that El Vencedor would back up in the Herbie Dyke Stakes only if he was “120 percent” happy with him, and on Wednesday morning he reported that after extensive tests and other observations, he will take his place. “We went over him with every possible test and we can find absolutely nothing wrong with him; his blood and heart and everything else are fine,” Marsh said. “He went out to the beach at Raglan this morning and just enjoyed himself, he looks bright and well and to be frank we can’t find any reason why he shouldn’t run. “Opie (Bosson) said he was just too laid back on Saturday, so we’ve decided to take the ear muffs off and see if that makes a difference. Wiremu (Pinn) has ridden him a lot, so we’ll go back to the tried and true there. “If there was any doubt about his soundness we wouldn’t be running, but if he was to run poorly again we would probably pull stumps and even consider retiring him. “He’s been a wonderful horse who owes us nothing, so we’ll see what happens at Te Rapa and take it from there.” Marsh will be double-handed in Saturday’s second weight-for-age feature, the Gr.1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m), with the highest rated horse in his stable, Provence, and three-race winner Tardelli. “Provence had to run at Ellerslie to get to Te Rapa and the way the race was run she had no chance, but she’s very well,” he said. “A mile is her pet distance and we’re targeting the Otaki Classic and Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes with her, but at 1400 with good tempo I could still see her running into it. “George Rooke will stay with her and Jonathan Riddell is on Tardelli. He’s only lightly raced and he was great over 1200 with that fourth in the Railway. “He’ll love the step up in distance and he’s a big strong colt, so the weight-for-age conditions shouldn’t be too much of a disadvantage.” At Tauranga on Thursday, Marsh will have a keen eye on his resuming three-year-old Magic Carpet, the winner of the Gr.2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas in October and lining up in Rating 75 1400m company off the back off a trial placing at Pukekohe. The Satono Aladdin colt holds a nomination for the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby, but Marsh rates him a better prospect for the NZB Kiwi on the same Champions Day card at Ellerslie in a month’s time. “I would have preferred to run him in his own age-group but they scrapped the three-year-old race at Tauranga. If he runs well we’ll definitely look at the Kiwi with him.” Marsh, runner-up to the powerful Te Akau stable in the last six seasons and currently a closest ever 13 wins behind the Mark Walker/Sam Bergerson partnership with 56 wins versus 69, reports that his headline act Well Written is making all the right moves in the countdown to the NZB Kiwi. “She’s perfect,” he said succinctly. “Matt (Cartwright) came in a cantered her around this morning and everything is good with her. “She looks a picture and is getting that freshness back in her legs. We won’t have to do too much with her, maybe a trip to Ellerslie on the 21st (of February) for a breeze around, so we’re in a good place with her.” Well Written, who extended her unbeaten sequence to five with a facile win in the Listed Karaka Millions 3YO 12 days ago, remains the $1.20 favourite for the $4 million slot race on March 7. View the full article

Thomass breeding??

Damn cheek!! I thought someone must've stolen the wifi password when my date levels went through the roof ffs! he should change his name to Pro Bono...damn free loader Thanks for pointing it out

Why should NZTR be responsible for funding Club infrastructure especially when there isn't enough revenue to go around?

What is even more amusing is you and @Thomass sharing the same IP address.

Exactly. NZTR in their wisdom have applied almost all of it to stakes. Some of that in advance thanks to a deal with TABNZ to that effect and all despite the Messara recommendation for infrastructure spend during the 6 years while they were closing tracks.

So all this extra money from Entain, the clubs do not even get the opportunity to use any of it on infrastructure

The pictures are telling and if the moderator will kindly take my restricted ability to post photos here ( so early on in my life here inexplicably) It's quite humorous. Lot 152 Too Darn Hot - Spritz colt

And you could argue that Pinn's right elbow is out as result of him trying to steer his horse back onto the line she is trying to push him off. One of those pics look like she's trying to give Billy a cuddle!

What's wrong with that?

What does the fact Fawcett being a woman have anything to do with it? I thought violence was non-discriminatory? Maybe they took into account the provocation from Fawcett? She initiated the incident with a highly dangerous and illegal action e.g. pushing out and continuing to do so. Pinn fought to maintain his line although we are all speculating until we see the stewards vision. I would say her anger took over as well because if she had been fully focussing on her ride she would have noticed there was a better run home on the inside.

Not to sure that can happen, I have just finished a deep dive into T breeding! riddled with Don Quixote on both sides!

You are sending them to yourself?

If he doesn't stop misbehaving he'll have zero speech. Quite frankly I've had enough of his juvenile attempts at humour and his equally juvenile style of writing which he only expresses here.

International representation included 37 horses from Japan, led by Godolphin's Pyromancer. Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher led all trainers with 31 nominees, followed by Bob Baffert (23), Chad Brown (22), Brad Cox (21), and Daisuke Takayanagi (14).View the full article

As expected, House Bill 881, which aims to decouple Thoroughbred racing and gaming licenses in Florida, passed its second committee Feb. 3 when the Commerce Committee voted for it to proceed.View the full article

Potente, a $2.4 million yearling purchase, breaks his maiden on debut Jan. 31 at Santa Anita Park.View the full article

Charles Sniffen, who got his training license in 1968 and for the past 20 years has been assistant trainer for Ferris Allen, has been selected as the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association Backstretch Worker of the Year for 2025.View the full article

The Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund Committee approves Keeneland's request for $6 million to $6.25 million in Kentucky-breds funds.View the full article

Oh dear. I thought you were only banned from posting naughty pics.

There's a difference between a DQ which is possible, and a suspension which is likely. He seems to have worsened the penalty by pleading not guilty and only providing frivolous and largely unbelievable evidence to support his defence.

report it to the Police!

Frankie Dettori brought his 40-year riding career to an end with a Grade 1 success on his final day in the saddle. The most prominent global jockey of the past half-century had elite success in 17 different countries, but famously never in Australia. Run The Numbers digs into his remarkable career. By Bren O'Brien ● Run The Numbers ● February 3, 2026 Frankie Dettori’s record in the saddle will ensure he will be remembered as one of the world’s greatest jockeys. (Photo by John Walton – PA Images via Getty Images) Over the past 40 years, Frankie Dettori did enough off the track to last most people 10 lifetimes, and none of those people could have also ridden 288 Group/Grade 1 winners. It is arguable that no human participant has enjoyed the acclaim and fame of the Italian-born jockey, who survived a plane crash, endured highly publicised ocaine-related suspensions and, more recently, bankruptcy and multiple aborted retirements during a roller coaster career which saw him more celebrity than jockey. He greeted the camera more than 3300 times as a winning jockey and many more times as the face of racing, a true showman across an era that transformed racing into a global sport. While he was apprenticed to Luca Cumani, Dettori began race riding in Italy, riding his first winner in Turin on November 16, 1986, before gaining his British apprentice licence in December 1986 on his 16th birthday. His first British winner came in June the following year. Advertisement Within two years, he was champion apprentice, equalling Pat Eddery’s then-apprenticeship record with his 71 winners in 1989. The following year, the first of those 288 Group 1 winners came via Markofdistinction in the 1990 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. He made the surprising decision to join the Hong Kong jockey ranks in 1993, a precursor to the global ambition that drove much of his career. However, an untimely caution for drug possession led to the offer from the Hong Kong Jockey Club being rescinded, a sliding doors moment that would create its own history. The following year, he set a new mark for the most wins in a British season, 244, as he claimed the first of three British jockeys championships. He became the rider of first choice for the growing global power Godolphin and, in September 1996, completed perhaps his greatest individual feat when he won all seven races on the one Ascot program, including the Queen Elizabeth II, a race he would win on six occasions all up. The feat, marked with what would become his trademark flying dismount, catapulted him beyond the fame of the racing world and into global prominence. Advertisement It was a place he occupied throughout the rest of his remarkable career. Across that time, he won a record six Prix de l’Arc de Triomphes, including back-to-back wins aboard Enable in 2017 and 2018. He won seven King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, four Dubai World Cups, three Japan Cups, two Epsom Derbies, five Breeders’ Cup Turfs and 14 Breeders’ Cup races in total. His eight Ascot Gold Cup winners included a hat-trick on Stradivarius, a horse on which he won 15 stakes races. He had 77 Royal Ascot wins and was the leading jockey at that famous carnival on seven different occasions. On four occasions, he was awarded the world’s leading jockey, the most recent in 2020, the year he celebrated his 50th birthday. His elite victories came in all the major European countries, Great Britain, Italy, France, Ireland, Germany and Hungary. Advertisement He also had 15 Grade 1 wins in the United States, eight in Canada, 19 in the UAE, eight in Hong Kong, four in Japan and one in South Africa. He also rode local Group 1 winners in Qatar, Singapore and Trinidad and Tobago. Not on that list, of course, was Australia, which proved the fly in the ointment for Dettori’s plans of global domination. He rode in Australia’s great race, the Melbourne Cup, on 17 different occasions, but could never win it, twice finishing second. His biggest success in Australia came in the Group 2 Moir Stakes aboard Spinning Hill in 2002. It became a Group 1 race 12 years later, Dettori chose South America for a farewell tour, and while he notched winners at San Isidro in Argentina in December and at Maronas in Uruguay earlier this month, it was Gavea in Brazil where his storied career would finish. And what a final chapter it was. He already had a winner at Gavea before taking the ride aboard $26 outsider Bet You Can, in the Brazilian equivalent of the 2000 Guineas, the Grade 1 Grande Premio Estado, on Sunday. The pair defied their higher-rated rivals to record a monumental success, which was to be Dettori’s final win of an extraordinary career*. We’ll leave the asterisk here, because Dettori has promised retirement only to come back before. Regardless of that, and all the off-track drama, his numbers stand up to any of the best jockeys in history. Frankie Dettori By the Numbers: Over 3300 – winners in career 288 – Group/Grade 1 wins 244 – Most winners in a British season (1994) 77 – Total winners at Royal Ascot 71 – Winners as a British apprentice 55 – Age at retirement 17- Number of countries where he won a Group 1 race (local included) 17- Number of rides in the Melbourne Cup without success 14 – Number of wins in Breeders’ Cup races 7- Number of races won on the same program at Ascot in September 1996 6 – Number of victories in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe 3 – Number of British jockeys championships 1 – Number of Grade 1 wins in Brazil 0 – Number of Group 1 wins in Australia https://thestraight.com.au/run-the-numbers-a-fitting-farewell-for-frankie/?utm_campaign=Daily_News_-_Feb_4&utm_content=link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Indiegraf

From someone who sees nothing wrong in striking a horse between the ears with a whip I'm certainly not surprised you find nothing wrong with a jockey elbowing a woman in the neck/chest Liam Lawson's old boss commented on him "driving with his elbows out" and thankfully ALL sporting codes have rules that prevent basic cheating Like jockeys elbowing others..highly dangerous and illegal The RIB should be ashamed of themselves for saying 'he's very lucky he's not on an extra charge' maybe once I've sent 'bono's screenshot (thanks bono) they'll realise how gutless they are