Murray Fish

I believe the Racing/gambling Industry is in a big Battle with the Real-estate Industry for that sort of thing! God speed my saying good bye to it all!!! they are welcome to themselves!!!

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I say, enjoying racing? I be all keen, meeting to go to on Saturday! some interesting fields! weather looks 'ok'.

I agree, social lubricant! if given and used in good taste! with decorum! One person gossip is another's intelligence!

so far his cunning has negated being Hit with Libel.. also, a vulgar as it may seem, he has 'put a lot into the Industry', pays his bills! has his say! I wonder where, the policing will be around, those real Nasty ^punters*, that hide behind a alas, and ATTACK especially jockeys, especially woman jockey!!! often on facebook and instagram.. usually turn out to be rather bitter males

especially so 'knowing' his background! his style! or course, other factors were at play...

YES Especially if you are rich entitled fella, a litigative sort! who wants to feel vindicated by putting up a fight! I'm sure most Barristers$ would be happy to take action on their behaves! yee ha!

yes sir! I have a story along those lines! of outspoken harness trainer, (+100 wins) passed tests previously! got asked for another, after a slightly heated verbal clash! with 'mr stipe koont',... other than pain killers from shoeing thousands of horses! he has always been near tea tootler!!! sigh

oui!!! last meeting, I walked 7.7ks, back and forth, don't mention the 18 times trying before managing to get onto the course wifi!!!!!! (with thanks to Mrs!!!).. did I mention the fat fingers! fecking GLARE!!!!! sigh.. back on track on Saturday, 1st time in a long long time that I actually have a couple of betting options!! cash is the plan! and I expect to be paid out in the same form!

I presume that one of the every day topics @HeadOffice, around the coffee machine is "Did you see what X said on x social media" , enough of that sort of thing can then generate its oh heat! Flashing the Current Available Punishment is worth trying!!! Show those trouble makers you MEAN (purrr) Business! A pro active approach! (something this Industry is not known for,,,) would be to monitor the active sites/groups, Note what simple factual information is being misrepresented! Politely provide the correct facts etc. For the 'rabid voices', they are actually very easy to deal with, case by case! Often leaking them some juicy false info can bred some internet fun!

Either or, someone should frame a book!

So if one makes the effort to get on course then fuck you? <--- yes I can 'attempt' to use my phone to do so! but the fecking thing isn't friendly contrast etc wise!

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doh! noted and to be brought up at the next meeting of the local Slowlearners Club!

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I see that local horse Mawkeb is in two races again. R3 and R10 Favorite in both. Betted in so for R10 (6.5 / 3.30) Presuming it don't line up in both! Then if one has bets in R3, a surge bet say on #1, Mawkeb is scr, is there reduction on my bet?

throwing in a historical comment about Human Testing. mid 80's! starting with a 'witch hunt'... cannabis in the "jockeys colony", Shock Horror! Amusingly, a senor rider from America was visiting and having a few rides, he was standing by me with reading a copy of FFlash, with some Large Headline!!! Gee, he says, all that for pot!!! Back home there would have been few riders! way more concern then around Class A drugs etc... The drums were beating to get 'these druggies' and lets get these druggie stable hands and track riders as well. *we all know they are on it*. I had a chuckle and a chat with Bud Flavell (Sen Racecourse Dect) about how was going to have a interesting time delivering on that.. Unbidden fallout from above: Cannabis testing came in, leading to some Convictions!!!! but slowly negated the use for Riders, Knowing how long it can stay in your system! easiest solution! trade up from Class C to the A's, out of your system way quicker!!! Enough said for a Public Forum! lol, in person, I could share some stories about what I have posted above!

lol, reality doing a fine job on that sort of thing!!! for some. "water of a ducks back" others "all rather booo who ho.." One of the (to me) unwritten rules that I like and followed on Channel X when it first started was "If you were going to be commenting directly about a 'named person' in racing that you would throw in you actual name at the bottom! otherwise, it will be a bit of fun seeing this 'policy' (which is always Trumped by Statutory Law!) policed!

fact? for those stated events! Have not charges etc been laid? in time those actions will have measured consequences? ps. I note some chickenlicken in ya back ground as well!!!

perhaps more important that this person got caught??? https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360933499/italian-biathlete-rebecca-passler-suspended-ahead-winter-olympics-positive-doping-test

Oh for the life of a professional jockey! That need to be so Competitive! going along with, that need to be so professional regarding your fellow workers, at a very dangerous work space! One where unless a Ambulance is there! then you are not allow to work!

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

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

yeah right! I will say my insults when I am standing in front of you! Do you get out much, or is it 100% social media worrier! baby!! Ponder this, most times I am on course I will have a brief chat with the stipes on that day! I do find that they give me their time and ear! 95% of the time the topic will be 'unsafe tracks' perhaps that is the approach that you might like to try! re Jockeys, On the surface, there is a lot of gilts and glamour! In reality many are often challenged with weight and the reality of 'dieting' and the challengers that go with that sort of thing! Then having to produce top physical and split second decisions in the race! mistakes are made! rules are broken! The best stipes know that and take that on board! Then of course! Any 'work place' mistake can get serious media spotlight! I could continue in this vain! but sigh! I really am getting tire with 'things racing', very soon I will be gone....