heartwarming, racing politics, hard to forgive & HISTORY-MAKER.

​Peter Scargill, a writer of great racing knowledge and range, in the ‘Another View’ column of today’s Racing Post, reminds us of the horror that John Hunt and his daughter Amy has had to live through since the senseless, barbaric murder of his wife and Amy’s two sisters. It is a heartwarming piece and if read by John Hunt will remind him of the love and admiration there is for him within the racing community. It is a lovely piece – almost made this old cynic tearful – and I recommend people seek-out a copy of the paper or go to the Racing Post website to read for yourselves Scargill’s fine tribute to one of the country’s best commentators.

I try to refrain from commenting on racing politics, especially when the murky, sometimes actually corrupt Westminster political situation impinges on our sport. I am not competent enough to spread my take on what is going on, though I sometimes fail to quell the temptation to keep my two-penny-worth from being made public, as I am presently doing now. If you want up-do-date information on the ‘Racing Tax’ and other topics where government are involved, the man to go to is Bill Barber, the Racing Post’s Industry Editor. Another brilliant writer, even if his remit covers topics I find less than entertaining.
The problem I find with the coverage of the ‘Racing Tax’ affair is that I know it is just one of a thousand elements that form the pathway to the formation, perhaps decades away, though perhaps not, of a One World Government and natural extinction of aspects of life that unaccountable elites dislike or consider puts tiger-traps in their plans for population control, both in numbers and in restraint of freedom. If you care to research the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ you will understand where I am coming from. Starmer has only 4-years to get the foundations in place so that there can be no going back for this country. As with the leaders of the other G7 countries, and perhaps all the major countries around the world, the idea is to borrow so much money from the World Bank and the (is it?) the International Bank of Settlement – this is why I should keep my nose out of such matters – that it can never be paid back. It is all about bankrupting all the major countries and those debts being wiped clean if those countries agree to a One World Government in which people are not permitted to vote on who sits in that world governing body.
Horse racing is home to large swathes of land, all of which is planned to be designated as needful to net zero and the sustaining of the human population. 15-minute cities. Complexes miles in length and a mile in height that comprise every aspect of life, malls, hospitals, gyms, etc. There is no place for farms, studs or racecourses in the Great Reset. And the countryside is to allowed to go wild, to be as it once was back when technology was all in brass and copper.

I find it hard to forgive trainers who make their name and reputation in the world of National Hunt and then transfer their allegiance to the flat, and that goes for the two O’Briens, geniuses as I acknowledge them to have been and in the younger, remains. It is how my heart is wired. Cut me in two and I hope my veins are inscribed with the words ‘National Hunt’ and the names of all the jumpers that have warmed my heart since the days of Arkle, Mill House and Persian War.

Two corrections. Firstly, and this is due to misspelling the name of the winning jockey in Sunday’s German Derby. It is Baltromei, not Baltromel. Secondly, and this is due to reporting what the Racing Post reported, Nina Baltromei is an apprentice, not an amateur. It seemed odd to me that she could ride against professionals, and in a classic of all races, as an amateur. It is now reported that she signed apprentice forms 4-weeks ago, and as a 27-year-old apprentice professional she is eligible for her 10% of the six-figure prize-money.