Pedigree Query

Pierre LP

Do you think this blatant example of non-trying brings the sport into disrepute any more or any less than Kieron Fallon et al being charged but not yet found guilty?

As good as Red Rum was Arkle has to be my favourite steeplechaser. Ran 35, won 27. Won the premier steeplechase race, the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1964, 1965 and 1966 and has the highest Timeform Rating of any steeplechaser at an amazing 212. Just referred to as 'Himself', particularly in Eire where h...

Louis It was a Class 5 Maiden Stakes for 3 - 4-y-o and Florimund was joint third favourite of 19 runners. My understanding is that if it had been a claimer then the horse's ban goes with the horse. Questioin for Pierre LP et al, what are the subtle differences between this breaking of the rules and ...

Pierre LP et al You said…. Like it or not, before betting exchanges, people could lay horses by getting a bookie to take money out of the ring for them. Spread betting firms also gave punters the opportunity to bet against horses winning. Betting exchanges don't put enough back into racing and I hav...

Pierre, Galejade, you both make interesting and valid points. I come at this from a different angle. I've been a small-level punter for 40 years but have also been a minor shareholder in horses (including the joy of part-owing a Group 3 winner). I'm probably unusual as a punter because I can go to a...

Hi Pierre LP Yes, the report was from the RP and I agree completely with you on their standard of assessing going. Their standard times seem over-generous perhaps making the differential of 'over standard' too small. By the way, the last race (9:10) at Chepstow that night was abandoned, do you happe...

Well said Galejade! It always bothers me when sporting authorities, whatever the sport, prejudge criminal cases to the extent that a suspect's case is jeopardised before guilt is proven. Couldn't it be said that such action taken by the HRA could affect a future jury's thought processes? If the HRA ...

Just to add another viewpoint... the race report said <quote> The rain had got into the ground and it was closer to good than anything else. This six-furlong juvenile event did not look that strong on paper and with outsider KYSHANTY collecting, that would seem to be the case. However, there did not...

The Racing Post in the UK now report that Fallon, Lynch and Williams will attend an appeal on Wednesday next at HRA <quote> KIEREN FALLON will have another date at the headquarters of the Horseracing Regulatory Authority on Wednesday when his appeal against the decision to ban him from riding in Bri...

Angelsprite Yes, as I said at the top, I am a mature university student in UK. Thanks for the advice to be cautious. Despite Marianna Haun's strong bias to Secretariat which is understandable if you want to sell books or have another agenda, the subject of large-capacity heart arose in the 1950's wi...

Derring The red lines represent single copy mares and the blue ones double copy mares. The theory is that a double copy mare is certain to pass on the large heart gene to a colt and to a filly IF the sire also has a large-heart X chromosome. If the sire does not have the large heart then the large h...

Sorry, I didn't explain myself very well. I subscribe to the database so I can see the X-Factor horses if I switch the flag on. But how can I verify the information? With Dosage, for example, I can calculate a Dosage profile for myself because how Dosage is made up is published by Dr Steve Roman. Si...

Thanks, I'll try that route.

George (I hope you don't mind the familiarity) What fascinating data! Very interesting to see that: 40% of tracks produce worse than slight losses 20% of tracks produce slight losses 6% of tracks produce slight profits and 34% of tracks produce better than slight profits Can you pinpoint any factors...

Thanks for your input Xfactor Fan, your caution is understandable. As you say, when entering a new horse into the database there is no field to enter heart score, as a consequence some method must be being used to decide that what has just been entered is going to show as a single, double or no X-li...