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john m

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Shit Fan Collide
« on: June 13, 2021, 08:35:41 am »
Probably our Greatest Sporting achievements are in Racing .Employs tens of thousands of workers and is worth Billions .Gordon Elliott sits on a dead horse and the whole industry kicks him when he is down bur Paul Kimmage this morning just Fucked a Hand Grenade that might destroy the whole industry and the Whistleblower is one of the most respected Horse Trainers in the World .........
Paul Kimmage

June 13 2021 02:30 AM

The raids on the premises of (John) Hughes and (Philip) Fenton took place within 15 days of each other in January and February 2012. They showed that Irish racing had a serious problem with illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Though Fenton would be treated more severely by the courts, the Hughes case was more serious.

As a vet . . . John Hughes had a stable pass and was a licensed person at Irish race meetings. Investigations by the Department of Agriculture established that he had been dealing with a company called Nature Vet, based in Australia, and between 2002 and 2012 he had bought 250kg of Nitrotain from that company.

Nitrotain, which contains ethylestrenol, is a particularly potent anabolic steroid and the quantity Hughes had bought from Nature Vet was sufficient for 62,500 individual doses . . . The investigation into Hughes showed that illegal drugs have been a part of the sport for at least a decade.


john m

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Re: Shit Fan Collide
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2021, 10:09:52 am »
So after reading the Sunday Papers .Garda are now like American Cops smashing kids heads in when arresting them .Jim Bolger says the Racing game is full of drugs and he knows who they are .Facebook say you can fuck off to the sun and work if you can get a plane now that Stobarts are gone broke .Dr Hoolingan is scared by Curry Cough .Boros is going to tell Mick and Dr Leo to shove their back Stop up their Back passage .

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Re: Shit Fan Collide
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2021, 08:30:26 pm »
So where are the people in the business who either agree or not?,they surely can't let Bolger be the lone whistle blower or the one who has it all wrong.

john m

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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2021, 09:19:28 pm »
So where are the people in the business who either agree or not?,they surely can't let Bolger be the lone whistle blower or the one who has it all wrong.

Its a huge accusation to make .This morning on At the Races not a mention .Might go some way to explaining how we went from winning four or five races at Cheltenham every year to winning most of them .You saw Bob Baffett one of Americas greatest trainers disqualified from this years Kentucky Derby due to Junkie Ponies .Paul Kimmage usually has his research well done before he goes to print .You wonder if Bolger has an axe to grind as none of his classic winners ever made it as a top stallion certain owners never sent him a filly to cover .

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« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2021, 06:32:43 pm »
As he prepares to send the 2000 Guineas winner Poetic Flare to aim at Royal Ascot glory in the St James’s Palace Stakes, Jim Bolger has dramatically unleashed the biggest of feline contenders into horse racing’s off-course pigeon coop with stronger-than-ever words about “drugs cheats” operating within the sport.

During a purple patch for his County Carlow-based operation, Bolger, winning breeder/owner as well as trainer in both the Newmarket Guineas and the Irish version (with Mac Swiney), has talked during a number of the accompanying interviews about his belief that the use of illegal, performance-enhancing drugs is Irish racing’s “number one problem”.

He has also raised the likelihood that it is an issue in Britain too.

The authorities in Ireland, he has said, should be “stepping up to the plate” to ensure “a level playing field” in races because it is “like you coming down the Champs-Elysees on a Sunday in July [in the Tour de France] knowing that the fellow in front of you is full of dope and you’re going to be second, and on the other side of the podium.”

Jim Bolger
The reference when speaking to the website NewsReader.ie to cycling and to global sport’s most infamous medication scandal with the assertion that “there will be a Lance Armstrong in Irish racing [one day]” could hardly be more eye-catching – and not, of course, solely to a racing audience – while the insistence that “I know who they are; if I had responsibility for rooting out cheats, I’d have them rooted out in six months” will be interpreted as a clear swipe at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB).

Reactions I have heard varied from “wow – Lance Armstrong: who can he mean?”, to grumbles comparing the IHRB – and indeed other regulators – to ostriches with their heads firmly in the sand on such matters, to a lament of “oh no, I’m sick of Jim banging on, and still not saying who he means – what’s he doing to the sport that’s made him?”

The suggestion that Bolger who has gained a giant reputation in pretty much every aspect of horse racing since abandoning accountancy and starting training in the mid-1970s, before broadening his expertise into thoroughbred breeding, is somehow just intent on inflicting damage is absurd.

His words should probably carry extra weight because during those years when he has trained and/or owned (in the name of his wife Jackie) and/or bred the winners of most of Europe’s major flat races, he has literally never been regarded as a rent-a-quote merchant, and the timing of what he has said when his stables have found a rich vein of form excludes any possibility of sour grapes.

Bolger, who will be 80 on Christmas Day 2021, has said naming names is not practical for legal reasons.

Discussions have taken place with the IHRB which is adamant that its house is in order, though vigilance remains paramount, but the Board’s own reputation has come under fierce scrutiny as, however hard it claims otherwise, many do not see its actions as being as robust as they might be – for example, no one has been publicly named as the person (people) behind the notorious 2018 nobbling at Tramore of Viking Hoard, the trainer of which is suspended for negligence for leaving the horse unattended during the time when it is believed the doper struck.

The fall from the cycling’s pinnacle of Lance Armstrong caused a dramatic evaporation of trust; public trust matters to that sport but even more so to horse racing and its future credibility. Whatever else people think about Jim Bolger, they cannot – they must not – ignore him.

 


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