February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
Well, at least Cheltenham marks three days on the racing calendar when we can assume the trainers are sending their horses out to win the races they enter.
That can’t be said about every other racing meet of the year. Not after the scandals that have hit the so-called sport of kings in recent weeks. One Irish jockey, Sean Fox, is accused of basically jumping off a favored horse halfway around the track at Fontwell, and another, Clare’s Kieren Fallon, loses an apparently unassailable lead at Lingfield.
The English trainer Alan Berry is charged with running a horse he knew to be lame while simultaneously laying big money on it losing, and in the middle of all this, the News of the World stitched the 39-year-old Fallon up good and proper. Apart from exposing him as an unsavory character, pontificating about the quality of prostitutes available for