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‘You’re still allowed to whip the horse, just whip them more kindly’ is basically a new rule cleverly thought through by the BHA, set to be introduced on February 6th, 2023, a month before the Cheltenham Festival.

Announced in July of this year, the new whip rules put in place will restrict jockeys to the backhand grip only (the Luke Morris style), increase the punishments for breaking the whip allowances, and can put horses at risk of disqualification from races if their jockey strikes the horse four or more times above the permitted amount (seven on the flat and eight over jumps).  

The BHA has also allowed flat jockeys to use a longer version of the whip, the same length whip jump jockeys use now, to prevent horses from being struck in the wrong position. 

There’s surely going to be a lot of retrospective decision-making made given the Stewards will have to check all the jocks whip use in some long ass VAR-style process.

Seems an unnecessary ball ache to me, something which could have been avoided had the original rules been implemented more strictly.

So how has Twitter reacted to this news? Well, Matt Chapman and whoever it is behind the Fergal O’Brien handle were not afraid to share what they thought about the announcement. 

Nico de Boinville saw the other side of the argument and suggested that the BHA could have been clearer with their new guidance – does he have a point? 

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Circus at the circuit 

Weird one here but Newbury Racecourse is set to have a large carnival in the centre of the track for its two-day Coral Gold Cup meeting this weekend.  

The funfair, described as “the south’s largest Christmas event”, will be in place until January 2nd and includes a tall Ferris wheel and lots of big circus-type items. 

Unsurprisingly, the course has already had to come out and make a statement to say that this won’t affect the race-day experience and that this can offer “great additional entertainment” to the race-day… lads, there’s a great big fuck off ride in the way which means you won’t see the fences down the back straight! 

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£300k for The Eagle 

Ballylinch Stud bought outright the 2021 Irish Derby runner-up LONE EAGLE for £300,000 in an online sale organised by Goffs yesterday.  

The four-year-old by GALILEO was owned by Ballylinch Stud in partnership with Aquis Farm before yesterday and has 11 rules races under his belt, including success in the Listed Cocked Hat Stakes at Goodwood last year to beat YIBIR. 

The future for this 110-rated horse is still unknown, but still being a colt and now under the full ownership of Ballylinch Stud, you could assume that a career at stud is in the pipeline.  

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Wetherby bumper

Weak fave in LUNAR DISCOVERY who’s taking a lot of the market, take on. Rowley’s needs quicker imo. Haslams form is shit. For me it’s between the two BALCK SAM BELLAMY horses for Murphy and Menzies with Menzies coming into form.

Our view: BOWLAND BELLE should be a good ew at 18’s

Hereford bumper 

Nicholls fave fancied and cba to take on despite the breeding being a slight unknown.

Risk on 

Finndog’s NAP

When looking at the cards last night I thought it was a tough race between PEMBROKE and previous bumper bet, MAGIC WAVE but the messages have been coming for Skeltons all morning and he’s subsequently been slammed 13/8 into 5/6. Use as lev for another bet, maybe Menzies to place in Wetherby bumper paying 5’s.