British horseracing acts over Gordon Elliott image
➡️Owners for horses currently trained by Mr Elliott are permitted to transfer them to a different trainer and run them at a British meeting, providing they comply with the relevant rules.
— BHA Press Office (@BHAPressOffice) March 1, 2021
Tonight.
Earlier…
Irish trainer Gordon Elliott has apologised after this photo of himself sitting on a dead horse circulated on social media
“The photo in question was taken some time ago and occurred after a horse had died of an apparent heart attack on the gallops. I appreciate that an initial viewing of this photo suggests it is a callous and staged photo but nothing could be further from the truth.
“At what was a sad time, which it is when any horse under my care passes away, my initial reaction was to get the body removed from where it was positioned.
“I was standing over the horse waiting to help with the removal of the body, in the course of which, to my memory I received a call and, without thinking, I sat down to take it. Hearing a shout from one of my team, I gestured to wait until I was finished.”
Grand National and Gold Cup-winning trainer Gordon Elliot.
Seems legit.
Gordon Elliott admits ‘shocking’ photo is real and apologises (Racing Post)
Meanwhile…
Ryanair Boss Michael O’Leary’s Gigginstown horse racing operation expressed their support for Elliott after what it describes as a ‘a grievous but momentary lapse of judgement’.
Fight!
Yeah. And , right.
Totally believable long winded story. Muppet.
Thats Grim, but I expect nothing less from the racing industry. I worked in a racing yard as a teeneger & this doesn’t surprise me in the least.
What age are you? Things have changed a helluva lot over the last 20 years. Horses are treasured by 99% of those who train.
How much of this 1% does Gordon Elliot make up?
…trainers just work for owners Daisy,no racehorse owner would tolerate any mistreatment,most certainly not at this level,its just another dead horse or animal to anyone around horses,not that you’d sit on it,but it’s really just a dead animal…..should he have close his yard,lay off his staff,no.
“Just another dead animal”. I don’t believe it’s that nasty. Trainers, lads and staff get very attached to the horses they look after and most are extremely upset when one dies.
Sounds all very all creatures great and small,after the trainer got off the dead animal,where did it go ?
Not nasty at all,just business,
“Where did it go?” I have no idea. Where do we all go?
I’m not asking for a wake and funeral for the future tin of dog food, but sitting on it and taking pictures should set off warning bells. That’s not how animal lovers behave around a dead animal.
No it’s not how animal lovers behave but not every animal lover is cat lady living alone with no friends. He’s guilty as sin but he’s a rarity in the horse racing world of today.
dog food..is that larry goodman’s truck outside:)
..he left school at 13,was a decent jockey and is a once in a generation irish trainer with a well deserved and earned reputation for excellence,is he a little rough around the edges,yes to the horses,absolutely not.
his yard should not be closed over this,nor should his irish staff lose their jobs over a bunch no nothing equestrian experts.
what you guys want,subdivisions and housing estate’s in kildare or horse stables and racing….cant’ have both.
Treasured until they stop earning. Then it’s to the pet and frozen food aisle in Tesco with them.
They’re still treasured. Not every horse ends up in a tin. Lest we not forget, these are not humans unless one is cat lady.
Most do. It’s a vile industry.
Tiz a beautiful way of life.
Gordon Elliott certainly makes it look so. Wonder how many horses he sent packing to rainbow bridge via the knackers yard.
It would be very silly to paint everyone with Gordon Elliott’s brush.
I sat down on the horse to take a call. I’ve always suspected that the horsey set is just an excuse for inbreeding, now I know.
“I gestured to wait”
doesnt look like a gesture to wait, in fairness
(ah sure, he’s just a kid who probably got caught up in the emotion of the moment and sure who hasn’t done the very same thing at his age)
He is trying to pretend he was doing the “2 secs” gestures … its not only lame but just sad at this point.
nah, that’s the universally recognised gesture for two sugars.
It’s a Father Ted excuse from yer man.
+1 JF
I’m sure he died doing what he loved, being made run in circles until his heart gave out
I was kinda onboard for believing it until he said “gestured to wait a minute” when he’s clearly smiling and doing a peace sign. sitting down to take the call is a bit of a stretch too. he’d be best to just say “ya know what, im an awful gobsh!te really, and this is a bit heartless, but I do feel bad about it”
…and then I fell back onto the fruit bowl where a banana happened to be arranged in an upright position and the rush of wind obviously pushed down my trousers and pants and….
well apparently that does happen sometimes
that’s how I got pregnant
Not to be rude, but are you still pregnant? Surely the little madam’s arrival must imminent.
I am, it must be said, very excited.
Sorry Janet that was inexcusable nosy of me. Feel free to ignore xx
lol, booked in for Wednesday coming ! Two days to go thank christ.
Eeeeeeep that’s very close! How exciting for you! And a bit of a relief too, I’d say ;)
No more heartburn and lots more wine
Gaviscon is gonna go bust !
Also, if I can give you one piece of advice – bring some arnica tablets in with you, and some painkillers of your own. The arnica for helping to heal the bruising and the painkillers because they can be awful stingy with the pain relief in the hospital. Also, snacks. Loads of snacks.
thanks for the tip mrs !
best of luck, J
will be thinking of you and sending positive vibes
wishing ye all the best, J. you’ll be running up and down portmarnock beach with the chisler strapped to you in no time ;)
plus a slab of Diet Coke
btw, ignore this if you want
but are you booked in for a ‘sweep’ or an elective
in any case, trust me on the slab of Diet sodas
a few trays of yogurts wouldn’t go off either
thanks everyone :) can’t wait to even get walking, been on shagging bed rest for two months now loosing my sanity,
I was thinking sashimi and champagne but yogurt probably more sensible lol
Jaysus that’s awful tough. I’ll be thinking of you, dear partner in crime.
Keep us posted, won’t you? X
I will x
Be brave Janet!
not planning on Breast Feeding then Janie
well then don’t let the midwives bully you into it
they can be relentless
if you’re teetering, then let Herself decide what she wants
BTW, I think we might have to do a cake
Lemon Cloud?
all the cake sounds good ;)
ah I’m just messing about the champagne, obvs haven’t had a drop in 9 months, just day dreaming……
shellfish and touching my toes feature heavily too ;)
well it took 9 months to get this
so take 9 months to get back to worrying about your toes girl
All the best, J, that’s one kid who’ll hit the ground running!
lol, she’s a party pants, boots the hell out of me all night or if you play a tune, sleeps all day…the dye is cast
Janet, years later: Here, honey, look at all Mum’s silly online friends wishing her well just before I went in to have you, no, no, don’t scroll up, no don’t look at the picture, no, it’s okay the horse is sleeping and the nice man doesn’t want anyone to wake her up…
ha brilliant !
Oh wow! That birth is coming soon Janet. Wishing you the best of luck with it.
thanks Jface
Woo hoo Janet! Hope it all goes swimmingly.
All the best to you and LIttle J.
:)
hahahahahaha
Does anyone remember those “Politician Apology” sketches on Little Britain? Sir Norman Fry would stand outside his home with his family reading a prepared apology with statements like “at this point I fell on top of him, and I regret to say a part of my body entered him”
“Unfortunately I slipped on the floor, and fell between the two gentlemen, in what the arresting officer assured me was known as a spit roast.”
“As far as I’m concerned, that was the end of the matter”
Yes. Very similar.
Sure Jan.
that’s a really horrible picture and a lame excuse
Grim stuff, you know how a picture paints a thousand words…
speaks volumes as to the attitude to animal welfare.
I’m sure Gordon makes a cracking lasagne though.
….how it started,how it is now.
https://www.sportinglife.com/racing/news/gigginstown-begin-winding-down/166515
The irish Bojack Horseman remake has some problems.
just shows they couldn’t give a pompomabout animals
its a business to them
He’s ringing Paddy Power to place a bet on a dead cert.
..after O’Leary,JP is(was) his next biggest owner,no sign his ‘flying priest” ?
https://www.sundayworld.com/news/irish-news/limerick-priest-flies-to-barbados-for-funeral-of-jp-mcmanus-daughter-in-law-emma-39942441.html
“Members of the McManus and Ledbetter families had flown to the eastern Caribbean island to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s Eve together, in what has been a longstanding family tradition.”
Wow, just wow, one rule for them…etc..
..the judge running the now shut down by McManus,inquest into this sudden,tragic and as now,over two months later still unexplained death,is another priest shurly just a coincidence.
….and why was there a condom on the ketchup bottle? (as the joke goes).
The horse was worked to death.It’s what happens if you force animals to do things they wouldn’t naturally choose.
Ps.This activity under the current pandemic guidelines is essential.
Poor horse :(
I don’t know anything about this fellow, but I’m always a little surprised at how unsentimental vets are about animals, even their own.
it’s just disrespectful
Best of luck Janet
thanks !
I’m not sure I understand the outrage (unless from actual vegans); the animals that you enjoy eating have suffered way, way worse deprivations than having some lad pose for a photo over them when they are already dead.
Them pesky vegans at again, I don’t get how a flesh eating human is precluded from being upset at a non-food animal suffering deprivations, as you so succinctly put it..
Interesting to see a bookie take what looks like a hike to the moral high ground over this too.
When the fun stops, stop…
That horse is dead – this is the same end that befalls any racehorse that doesn’t run fast enough, or that happens to get injured, or who is just unfortunate enough to be born at a time when they are surplus to requirements.
I don’t really see any difference between these horses (or this horse in particular) and the other 80 billion animals that are killed for our enjoyment each year.
Well because ‘food animals’ as you put it suffer too. And far more than this horse ever did. They suffer from the moment they’re born until they’re killed for food. Also this kind of ‘well those animals are for food’ way of thinking is a bit first testament for 2021. Animals are not supplied by some higher power to provide various functions for humans.
I agree with Rob – it’s total hypocrisy for a meat eater to cast judgment over anyone mistreating animals. And we’ve passed the point of ‘but I didn’t know the animals suffered’ via unavoidable media coverage of the awful treatment of animals in the agriculture industry.
See, I have an issue with subjugation in general, Human or non human. “food animals” is not a reflection of my attitude to non human life, rather how I think society sees non human animals. Personally I don’t see a hierarchy
As for how much the horse may or may not have suffered, I can’t say with the same certainty as your good self, it is my fervent hope that it suffered not, same as my wish for all, really.
However, just because some choose a diet rich in flesh, I don’t think they should be precluded from being unhappy about that photo, or about say puppy farming or coursing.
If someone wakes up one eye at a time why is that such a bad thing? Surely what matters is that there is an awakening in the long run.
As for which testament you choose to live in – I can only say I live in a different book altogether.
I am sorry my post confused you so, will try harder to be abundantly clear henceforth
I think the lack of clarity is your own thoughts – which traveled forth into your comment. Your mention of bookie taking moral high ground is the same as meat eater taking moral high ground. That’s all I was getting at. And I do think that meat eaters should be precluded (by their own rationality) from being unhappy about that photo. It’s hypocritical given that they’re engaging actively in an industry that mistreats animals to a much greater extend and on a much wider scale, and wherein premature death is the purpose not a possibility.
“…unavoidable media coverage of the awful treatment of animals in the agriculture industry.”
Any links to that coverage specific to Ireland?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/20/it-would-be-kinder-to-shoot-them-irelands-calves-set-for-live-export
Interesting read. Thanks.
It’s very ‘yikes’! FWIW I eat meat.
Same could be said for potential Wexford hurlers.
Interesting.
All the older generation in the horse industry thankful they had their sex with a dead hoirse hazing ritual before mobile phones.
yeah, but wouldnt it have been nice to preserve the memory? who wouldnt like a tiktok link to when they spilled their seed into a dead horse’s mouth? cant be just me
It’s obvious to see and hear that Elliott’s personal career as a trainer is on hold, if not finished; his business will survive because many horse owners will remain loyal, but now that the BHA have released that statement, HRI will have to follow suit.
He might get Cheltenham out of it, but not Aintree.
Other trainers should start building new stables and gallops.
And what do you think, Steph.
Only understood that expression until now.
What ‘expression’, Ben?
… c’mon, don’t be coy…
Feel it in your heart before you write it, Steph.
Not what you think people would like to read/hear or is fashionable or politically correct.
Stand firm on the shaky ground.
Now, there you have it – personal note: must apply to self.
I’ve no idea as to what you’re referring, ben, but my comment above is based on my own observations.
No problem.
Ditto. But it’s always more enjoyable and sensual if someone else applies it for you, to you and preferably, on you :)
‘Home and Away’ theme tune is playing in the background – Sorry, can’t hear you that well.
Catch up some other time.
Horse racing is a disgusting sport but this is such a non story, the mainstream media milking it trying to create more outrage than it deserves