Extra scanning was put in place on Wednesday at Britain’s racecourses in an
Brooks Reed Youth Jersey attempt to avoid a repeat of the hugely embarrassing ‘wrong horse’ fiasco at Yarmouth a fortnight ago, when a three-year-old won a race that was supposedly confined to two-year-olds. Officials began scanning every runner as it left the racecourse stables to walk to the parade ring in order to ensure that it was indeed the horse whose name appeared in the racecard. Since the first microchipping of racehorses 18 years ago, horses have routinely been scanned on arrival at the track but not thereafter. The flaw in that system was exposed when Millie’s Kiss ran at Yarmouth in the name of her stablemate Mandarin Princess, winning at 50-1. The mistake was discovered too late for stewards to intervene and change the result. Josephine Gordon will not follow Turner lead and ride in France this winter Read more Charlie McBride, who trains both horses, has said he was in a rush and saddled up the wrong horse by mistake. He faces a disciplinary panel of the British Horseracing Authority on Thursday, when the Grand National-winning trainer Jenny Pitman will be a panel member for the first time. Nick Rust, the BHA chief executive, had indicated at the time of the Yarmouth incident that the cost of additional scanning could prove prohibitive. However on Wednesday he appeared on At The Races at Brighton to declare that the extra scanning had been introduced as an interim measure. Making an impromptu announcement that caught some of his colleagues by surprise, Rust added that the new arrangements were still under review because they are “not foolproof. There are many stables at racecourses which are as far away as two miles, I’m thinking about Goodwood, Pontefract and Southwell. Here at Brighton, they’re next door to each other, you’ve got very little risk of wrongdoing, switching and so on.” On the question of cost, Rust said: “It was ?400,000 to put the people in. It costs you a seven-figure sum to put in the technology to do it
http://www.footballpanthershop.com/Corey_Brown_Jersey_Cheapwithout people.” In order to keep costs down, he indicated, the BHA will consider whether existing officials can take on the additional scanning as part of their duties. Rust spoke freely about the McBride case, indicating that the ruling body accepts the trainer’s explanation of events and does not suspect there was anything deliberate about what happened. “All of our protocols before were on the basis of integrity, to prevent a ringer, to prevent a Flockton Grey, rather than a mistake,” he said. “Obviously what happened at Yarmouth was a mistake. “There were hardly a couple of quid for the horse, really. It was a genuine mistake. We’ve got other measures to track that down, betting patterns and so on. We would have spotted it a mile off if it had been an attempted ringer.” Ribchester will miss Sunday’s Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville, despite having recovered quickly from his surprise defeat in last week’s Sussex Stakes. “He’s absolutely fine,” said the horse’s trainer, Richard Fahey, after withdrawing his star from the French race. Action needed to stop stable staff urinating on horses’ bedding, says trainer Read more “I might give him a break and wait for the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes but, either way, Champions Day [at Ascot in October] is the first choice. I haven’t entered him for the Champion Stakes, as I think we’re going to stick at a mile with him for the time being. “Quite what happened at Goodwood, I’m still not sure but I suspect it was a mistake to try to make the running and that was my mistake. It was a horrible, horrible day, not just in terms of the going but also with the weather and he may have just got sick of having the rain and the wind blowing right into his face up the straight. “They were
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