The trainer who embarrassed racing by saddling the wrong horse to victory at Yarmouth a fortnight ago has said he
Amos Youth Jersey will use the proceeds of a bet on the “winner” to help pay his fine. Charlie McBride was fined ?1,500 at a disciplinary panel hearing on Thursday, having told the panel he had had a “fun bet” of ?10 each-way at 50-1. “I’m still ?1,000 out of pocket,” McBride said, cheerfully. “I’ve no complaints. I expected it to be something like that anyway, because of all the outcry in the press and everything. But it was an honest mistake and it could happen to anybody.” Extra scanning at British racecourses to avoid another wrong horse fiasco Read more The panel chairman, Patrick Milmo QC, pointed out during his summing up that ?2,000 was the ceiling on the level of fines for such an offence set out in the guidelines of the British Horseracing Authority. He said McBride was guilty of a “high level of carelessness” but the panel had found him to be truthful in asserting he had saddled the wrong horse entirely by mistake, running a three-year-old, Millie’s Kiss, in a race in which his two-year-old Mandarin Princess was supposed to be taking part. “It has to be said we had some difficulty in accepting what Mr McBride told us,” Milmo said. This was because of evidence produced by the BHA showing the significant difference in appearance between the two fillies. While Millie’s Kiss has no white markings, Mandarin Princess has a white star on her forehead, a white snip on her nose and significant white markings on
http://www.officialsstlouisblues.com/Adidas-Vladimir-Tarasenko-Jersey two legs. “There was plenty of opportunity for Mr McBride to notice these distinctions,” Milmo said. The BHA view, presented to the panel by Lauren Robinson, was that “anyone would be able to tell them apart by sight”. McBride attempted to reassure the panel by saying: “If you stood the two of them in front of me, I could absolutely tell the difference. But on the day, with all that pressure going on, I missed it.” In attempting to explain this, he appeared to seek to share responsibility for what happened with a young member of his staff, a groom who led out Millie’s Kiss to be saddled by the trainer instead of Mandarin Princess, as well as the jockey John Egan. Egan, who had to sweat off some weight in the sauna, kept McBride waiting for 20 minutes before weighing out and handing him the saddle, leaving the trainer little time before his horse was required to enter the parade ring. “It didn’t occur to me that she could lead out the wrong horse,” McBride said of the groom’s actions. “I’ve been in racing 50-odd years and I have never seen anybody lead out the wrong horse before. My brain could not take it all in. Wrong
Tyler Myers Womens Jersey horse wins race: investigation into Yarmouth impostor controversy Read more “We’ve tried not to get her too much involved because she’s only a young girl and we don’t want to be too hard on her. At the end of the day, the buck stops with me. She’s made a mistake, I’m sure she won’t make the same mistake again and neither will I.” McBride also complained that the time between races is too short and about the fact Egan was using an elasticated girth, “which I hate”, to save weight. “That put me further in a bad mood,” he said. He said he and the horse’s owners had been “on Cloud 29, not Cloud 9” after she won. But his celebratory orange juice was cut short by a call from the stipendiary steward, who told him simply: “Wrong horse.” “Mandarin Princess” has been disqualified from her victory but the news comes too late for many backers of Fyre Cay, sent off at odds-on and now elevated to first place. The error was spotted too late for the result
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