Tuesday February 10, 2015. (Catch-up.)

 

  

INTERNATIONAL HORSERACING 

Racing Right Global Equus Zone (GB)

Your adventure into the world of Global Horseracing

a warm welcome to Nicholas Godfrey (GB) (Racing Post)

http://www.racingpost.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10, RACING POST 2015. THE MEANING OF " A RACING RIGHT EQUUS ZONE" IN THESE TURFCALL PAGES MEANS THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND NEEDS OF THE RACEHORSES AND ALL THE HANDLER RIDERS WHO WORK WITH THE RACEHORSES EVERY DAY IN TRAINING.
 

Last week in Racing Post's Daily Feature Series:

 

 " Racing's Forgotten Stories"  .

 

"Black jockey's journey spanned different worlds. "

 

 Nicholas Godfrey brought us in part the true story about the life and times of  bloodhorse literate American horseman, -global-jockey, -handler-rider, - Jimmy Winkfield (USA).  In today's Racing Post page 10, Nicholas Godfrey brings us more, entitled: 

 

"Enthralling postscript to story of a life less ordinary".

 

JMC: A massive and remarkable true story that tells us accurately about one man's brave lifetime journey in true, and in this case, often harsh, often compassionate, often cruel, perspective, a true story that spans many different worlds. To be continued here tomorrow.

 

The world of the horse perhaps the most remarkable world of

all, when so generously shared with man come what may.

---

Monday, April 29, 2002
Prejudice rode ex-Cincinnati rider out of country
By Neil Schmidt, nschmidt@enquirer.com
The Cincinnati Enquirer
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/04/29/spt_black_jockeys.html 

"Wink could have been America's greatest racing phenomenon, were it not for history. Two-time Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Jimmy Winkfield's life was a rollercoaster of fame and obscurity, enduring racism, world war, death threats, and exile. While life was high he attained celebrity, wealth, and true love, though his two greatest romances were with horses, and his exiled home, the United States. Wink's journey is an odyssey through history, tragedy, spunk, and old-fashioned American ingenuity.

http://usslave.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/kentucky-derbys-black-jockey-jimmy.html

 


Pause for Thought 

 JMC: THE MEANING OF " A RACING RIGHT EQUUS ZONE" IN THESE TURFCALL PAGES MEANS THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND NEEDS OF THE RACEHORSES IN TRAINING TO INCLUDE THEIR HANDLER RIDERS ALL THOSE WHO WORK WITH THE RACEHORSES EVERY DAY IN TRAINING WHO PROVIDE HORSERACING EVERY DAY ON RACECOURSES.

It is noted that British governments'  term and run,  " A Horseman's Group Zone"  without any true horsemen in it. A misleading dishonest government practice.

 

It is noted that governments' are intending to run or replace a British Government Horseracing Levy Zone, to be termed by government to be "A Racing Right Zone - without the Equus Zone ?" Purpose to  replace the past and present  " British Government Horseracing Levy Fund. A fund that government has used to govern horseracing since 1960, throughout and still to this very day without a "True Racing Right Equus Zone" facility. 

        1960 - 2015 (February )

British political, legal, racecourse and horseracing government have and are still governing horseracing without a true "Racing Right Equus Zone."

This means that over these last 55 years British government have been cheating all true horsemen, all those who have achieved “true bloodhorse literacy in their own right” out of a top professional daily wage.  British multi billion pound governments who refuse to allow a true career structure, for expertize achieved. Horsemen left at the mercy of government’s dishonest minimum wage scams.

Instead “bloodhorse illiterate British governments” over the last 55 years have turned what they term to be their “multi- billion pound horseracing industry “ into a cruel and evil financial government theft, a government theft to prey off, and to steal from other people’s daily work load.

Clive Brittain’s Book “The Smiling Pioneer”

 sets out in Chapter Four:
Timeline 1970 – 1972 as follows:

"Sir Mark Prescott has this to say in Clive’s book Chapter Four “Enter Marcos  Lemos: "Newmarket was very different in 1972. It was for many at the lower end of racing a grim and often brutal place. Sir Mark Prescott, a man with a true feel for his local community, remembers it clearly at Heath House:  'Newmarket was a very, very different place then.  I started officially in 1970. At that time there were 35 trainers in Newmarket and 850 horses  Now there are 81 trainers and 2,500 horses.(2012)  Pages 51 - 61. 

"Everywhere was run-down. The owners could no longer afford to keep up the big studs as they had done and until the Arabs came on the scene and re did them they were pretty tired. I was unbelievably lucky to be given the chance to train here but it was all falling down. 

“Whether it was the war, whether that had something psychologically to do with it or whether it was  entirely financial I don't know but it had a run-down feel about it.  Newmarket was tired. 

"The lads' accommodation was appalling. They were paid a pittance. Single lads serving a seven year apprenticed then. There were some great horsemen but there was an underclass of those men who were absolutely no good and they were allowed to get away with murder. It took a crisis to change that culture, the stable lads' strike of 1975.   

"The strike was very cathartic. In retrospect it was a ghastly, ghastly time. But it was very good because the owners realised they'd got to pay a proper rate for having horses trained.  

 "One of the problems was the lack of graduated wage structure in British racing.  In many yards a man with 20 years' experience was getting no more than a 16-year-old starter, so the job tended to attract gamblers and drifters.  

"That was the Newmarket in which Clive set out as a trainer. But perhaps in those circumstances there was some advantage in being a trainer who had spent 23 years as a lad in someone else's yard. "
 

 

Handler-rider Tony (Group 1) calms Shambo

on his way out to the track at Newbury

Clive Brittain

And his friend Sir Mark Prescott

Just two highly successful Flat Turf trainers in both theory and in practice.

 

Human Rights

should always apply to the horses as well as to the horsemen 

who work with the racehorses in training every day, 

without whom there would be no "horseracing product" to sell

 to the racecourses, punters or the media - anywhere in the world today. 

The copyright of the  British "horseracing product" belongs to

 all those who present the racehorses to the public every day on the racecourses.

And will apply same at the Cheltenham Festival (4 days), and Aintree (3 days) 2015 meetings.

Tuesday March 10 to Friday March 13 - Thursday April 9 to Saturday April 11

Where through government greed each trainer and each trainers team member working on both these racecourses will not be paid for any of the work they do whilst on any racecourse, true horsemen together with each racehorse have been left to suffer 6 decades of government abuse resulting in the most horrendous consequence.

http://turfcallclivebrittain.blogspot.co.uk/2014_02_01_archive.html