Well, well, well.....
My silence has I guess spoken volumes, "no blog for a WHOLE WEEK?!?!?!...HAS HE ACTUALLY THROWN IN THE TOWEL?!?!?!?!".........not a bit of it, was just computing, or at least attempting to compute the, ahem "news" from the last handful of days that took us all on a quite the journey, from an "under performing" (the pundits view, NOT mine!) performance by Sacre in Ireland, to a drug/doping/call it what you will investigation of three-decade veteran, Mr G Bulter, via perpetual classic opinions/nonsense (just admit Dawn Approach is a stone clear and be done with it!), McCoy's 18th straight title, ("you won't have it all your own way next season A.P, J Maguire is coming to get ya"...YEAH RIGHT, the bookies ahem, TOTALLY agree, McCoy 1/7 fav, nuff said!!!) oh, and the small matter of Godolphin having a drug problem or two of their very own.
It's a wafer thin line between that ol' "no such thing as bad publicity" chestnut, and, well, what we've had to endure in the last 10 days in racing, the sport I love so dearly. I used to be quite the cycling fan/freak, but since that cheating Texan excuse for a man "came clean", or " GOT F*@KING CAUGHT as I more accurately like to put it, I have vowed NEVER to watch le Tour again, this coupled with the fact that as long as that perpetual third person speaking POISON DWARF of a runt, Chris Wilder is in charge of, what was, for 30 years the SINGLE most important thing in my life, Oxford United, my season ticket will remain posted back to the Kassam Stadium, and my shirt, firmly on the hanger in my closet, I guess what i'm trying to say is, i've lost/given up enough, MORE than enough pleasures in my life thus far, and I DO NOT want to get all disillusioned and make the sport of kings another, not today, not tomorrow, not EVER!!!!
I remember as clear as day, the K Fallon "Ballinger Ridge" case (seriously, google the race, if it wasn't SOOOO funny, it'll be painful) , where NOT ONLY did he stop the horse with an ARROGANT level of THE BLEEDING OBVIOUS, NOT ONLY did he tell all with ears that J Osbourne's 4/5 fav "Rye" would win (the horse he let, erm "catch up") but he revealed IT ALL IN A BLOODY UNDERCOVER REPORT IN THE NEWS OF THE WORLD!!!!!....But somehow, lord knows why, all of this vacuum packed, mastic sealed, 100% conclusive evidence just wasn't enough, here is a jockey that has held all the top racing jobs and fucked up EVERY LAST ONE, stable jockey to Sir Henry Cecil, left under a confusing cloud, but the choice of "bed partners" is the widespread opinion of why.....stable jockey to Sir Micheal Stoute, when most of Sir Mikes top owner RUFUSED to use Fallon, he got the boot, next the cocaine snorting chancer landed the job of jobs as Ballydoyle top lad, as stable jockey to the mighty A O'Brien, but got caught for having Class A in his system not once, BUT TWICE in France in the space of just over a year, firstly getting caught/banned, then coming back , and low and behold, getting tested positive just SIX MONTHS later, all of which, led to a third demise with a top yard in little over a decade, all of this makes me question my love of racing, am I blind? Am I naive? Or worse of all, AM I BOTH?!?!?!...talk about not seeing the wood for the trees, thanks to coke snorting weasel like Fallon, I cannie even find the bleeding forest.....
That's just one, a stand alone single case of what damage is being done to racing on an almost monthly basis, the phrase "this has rocked the world of racing" has kinda lost it's impetus, am I the only one, and I mean the ONLY BLOODY ONE who thinks these multi-gazillionaire owners/trainers don't have a spare £100,000 a year to pay a lawyer/veterinary specialist to make sure the whole "doping/didn't know that drug was illegal" thing doesn't happen?!?!?!...or is the awful truth, what we have been dreading hearing, that it's actually rife in racing, just cover up after bribe after backhander after favour after tip-off, and "faces" such as Gerard Butler and most notably Mohammed Al Zarooni (I will not comment on this case to more facts have made themselves known) have just been hung out to dry like the weekend washing in a vain attempt the half-heartedly create the asthetics of the whole "we're cleaning up racing, one crook at a time", where the REAL problem lies deeper, MUCH deeper than we EVER dared to question.
I just hope and pray Paul Bittar "grows a pair" and that this is ACTUALLY the beginning of a major clean up in the sport I love, no chequebook TOO BIG to make them above the law, no reputation to tall not to be cut down in an INSTANT...right is right, wrong is wrong, the sport is continuing to lose further and further sight of this on a daily basis.
If all else fails I s'pose we can always call on the MASTER of P.R/Spin to get us out of this mess....what's that you say?...Max Clifford has been ARRESSED!?!?!?!?!?!.....racing is not on the verge of being toast, more like Satan's Croutons.......
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