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Changes – R a c i n g ’ s n e w s i n a n u t s h e l l PEOPLE AND BUSINESS Richard Hills Paul Hanagan Sir Mark Prescott Silvestre de Sousa Noel Fehily Whip rules Phil Kinsella George Prodromou Charlotte Kerton Jimmy Quinn Coronation Cup Northern Racing Coral American racing William Haggas Luck Willie Supple
Calls time on riding career aged 49 having partnered almost 1,900 winners in Britain, including six Classics Reigning champion jockey becomes Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s retained rider and will relocate to Newmarket following the retirement of Richard Hills Announces he will not employ a retained rider this year, but that Seb Sanders and Stephen Donohoe will both continue to ride for the yard Joins the Godolphin team along with Mickael Barzalona; the pair will become stable jockeys alongside Frankie Dettori Becomes stable jockey for Emma Lavelle and will continue to ride for Charlie Mann when available Controversial amendments revised again by the BHA, which relaxes restriction on number of strikes and focuses on manner of whip use Jump jockey is forced to hang up his boots due to loss of hearing following a fall at Market Rasen but plans to stay working in the sport Norfolk trainer warned off for eight years after being found guilty of instructing Charlotte Kerton to ensure two of his horses did not run on their merits Will not be allowed to apply for a jockey’s licence for six years after being found guilty of stopping two horses for trainer George Prodromou Refused permission by the BHA to work in racing stables for the duration of his six-month disqualification, which ends in June Investec-sponsored race renamed Diamond Jubilee Coronation Cup to mark start of the Queen’s celebrations and switched from Oaks Day to Derby Day Signs seven-year deal with Betfred to provide pool betting services and on-course betting shops at the group’s ten British racecourses Leading bookmaker joins the vast majority of competitors by announcing intention to move online operation offshore Graded Stakes Committee reverses its raceday medication decision which would have seen a ban on the use of Lasix in juvenile Graded stakes in 2012 Newmarket handler succeeds Stuart Williams as President of the National Trainers’ Federation HBO horseracing series which had received critical acclaim is cancelled after one series following three equine deaths on set Flat jockey retires aged 43 citing lack of big-race rides; he won the Lockinge Stakes aboard Fly To The Stars and Golden Jubilee Stakes on Fayr Jag
RACEHORSE AND STALLION – MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS Zacinto Ollie Magern Recession Proof Zaynar Blazing Bailey Deacon Blues Zenyatta Smart Missile Adios Charlie
Juddmonte-bred Group 2-winning son of Dansili sold to stand at Inglewood Stud in New Zealand Stable stalwart of Nigel Twiston-Davies retires aged 14 with 13 wins to his credit, including the Feltham Novices’ Chase and two Charlie Hall Chases Winner of last season’s Totesport Trophy out for the season after suffering an injury at John Quinn’s stable High-class novice chaser and winner of the 2009 Triumph Hurdle moves from the stable of Nick Williams to David Pipe Alan King-trained son of Mister Baileys retires at ten; his 12 victories include Grade 1 World Series Hurdle at Punchestown and Grade 2 Cleeve Hurdle QIPCO British Champions Sprint winner for James Fanshawe out for the forthcoming Flat season after sustaining a tendon injury America’s wonder mare produces her first foal, a colt by Bernardini, on March 8 at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky Group-winning son of Fastnet Rock retires to Arrowfield Stud in Australia’s Hunter Valley Four-year-old Grade 2 winner is retired to Ocala Stud in Florida, where he will stand for $3,500
PEOPLE OBITUARIES
AGE
Davy Jones Christian Marner Harriet Smulders Atkinson John Akehurst Bruce Deane
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HORSE OBITUARIES
AGE
Royal Academy Environment Friend Dyhim Diamond Earthmover Golden Minstrel Uncle Ernie Bygones In Brid Simonsberg Noverre Garde Champetre Scotsirish Palawi
25 24 17 21 33 27 6 9 14 13 11 5
Former amateur jockey and member of The Monkees pop group Owner/breeder of Polar Region and Cragganmore; husband of Fiona Marner of Kingwood Bloodstock and former manager of Kingwood Stud Former secretary to Andy Turnell, Simon Sherwood and James Bethell; former assistant to the Chief Executive of the NTF Royal Ascot-winning trainer who was based in Epsom Former director of Tattersalls and breeder of 1978 champion juvenile filly Devon Ditty
Son of Nijinsky who won the 1990 Breeders’ Cup Mile under Lester Piggott, sire of Val Royal, Oscar Schindler and a noted broodmare sire Winner of the 1991 Coral-Eclipse and sire of Kerry National winner Alfa Beat dies at Mellon Stud in Ireland Group-winning sprinter and sire of Turtle Bowl and Bannaby dies at Dehesa de Milagro in Spain Prolific winning chaser who won the Christie’s Foxhunter Chase at Cheltenham twice, in 1998 and 2004 Provided the late Josh Gifford with his first Cheltenham Festival winner when landing the 1988 Kim Muir Chase High-class two-mile chaser trained by Jimmy FitzGerald who rounded off his career with victory in the 1997 Grand Annual Chase Harry Redknapp-owned hurdler suffers a fatal injury in a first-flight fall at Taunton Ian Ferguson-trained gelding fatally injured in action at Musselburgh; the son of Sonus had won eight point-to-points and two hunter chases Godolphin’s Sussex Stakes winner and sire of Group 1 winners Le Havre and Music Show dies at Sohna Stud in India Popular banks specialist who won 13 races, including the Cheltenham Festival cross-country contest twice A favourite at Willie Mullins’s yard who won nine of his 40 races, two of them Grade 2 chases Five-time winner for the John Quinn stable who was being lined up to contest the Scottish Champion Hurdle
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