melitidae is a family of amphipods .

it contains around 45 genera , and formerly included a further 40 genera that are now placed in the family maeridae .

melitidae

ecology : instream habitat : melitidae species are stygobionts , restricted to subterranean waters , except melita plumulosa which lives in the littoral areas of lentic waters . feeding ecology : habit : life history :
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review of amphipods of the melita group ( amphipoda : melitidae ) from the coastal waters of sakhalin island ( far east of russia ) . iii . genera abludomelita karaman , 1981 and melita leach , 1814 .
senna , a . r . & serejo , c . s . ( 2012a ) a new genus and species of melitidae ( crustacea : amphipoda : hadzioidea ) from brazilian waters . zootaxa , 3433 , 60–68 .
lowry , j . k . & springthorpe , r . t . ( 2005 ) new and little - known melitid amphipods from australian waters ( crustacea : amphipoda : melitidae ) . records of the australian museum , 57 , 237–302 .
appadoo , c . & myers , a . a . ( 2005 ) amphipods of the genera ceradocus , dulichiella , melita and nuuanu ( crustacea : melitidae ) from mauritius , indian ocean . records of the australian museum , 57 , 221–236 .
senna , a . r . & serejo , c . s . ( 2012b ) a new species and first record of the genus nuuanu ( amphipoda , hadzioidea , melitidae ) from brazilian waters . zoosystematics and evolution , 88 ( 2 ) , 285–292 .
cite this publication as : lowry , j . k . p . b berents & r . t . springthorpe ( 2000 onwards ) . ' australian amphipoda : melitidae descriptions , illustrations , identification , and information retrieval . ' version : 2 october 2000 . urltoken .
lowry , j . k . & springthorpe , r . t . ( 2007 ) a revision of the tropical / temperate amphipod genus dulichiella stout , 1912 , and the description of a new atlantic genus verdeia gen . nov . ( crustacea : amphipoda : melitidae ) . zootaxa , 1424 , 1–62 .
senna , a . r . , sorrentino , r . , machado , a . n . s . & torrent , p . ( 2012 ) a new species of melita leach , 1814 ( amphipoda : hadzioidea : melitidae ) from patos lagoon , southern brazil . nauplius , 20 ( 2 ) , 125–135 .
paz - rios , c . & ardisson , p . l . ( 2014 ) dulichiella celestun , a new species of amphipod ( crustacea : amphipoda : melitidae ) from the gulf of mexico , with a key and zoogeographic remarks for the genus in the western atlantic . zootaxa , 3774 ( 5 ) , 430–440 .
horton , t . ; lowry , j . ; de broyer , c . ; bellan - santini , d . ; coleman , c . o . ; corbari , l . ; daneliya , m . ; dauvin , j - c . ; fišer , c . ; gasca , r . ; grabowski , m . ; guerra - garcía , j . m . ; hendrycks , e . ; hughes , l . ; jaume , d . ; jazdzewski , k . ; kim , y . - h . ; king , r . ; krapp - schickel , t . ; lecroy , s . ; lörz , a . - n . ; mamos , t . ; senna , a . r . ; serejo , c . ; sket , b . ; souza - filho , j . f . ; tandberg , a . h . ; thomas , j . ; thurston , m . ; vader , w . ; väinölä , r . ; vonk , r . ; white , k . ; zeidler , w . ( 2018 ) . world amphipoda database . melitidae bousfield , 1973 . accessed through : world register of marine species at : urltoken ; = 101397 on 2018 - 07 - 09
genus tabatzius mckinney & barnard , 1977 accepted as nuuanu j . l . barnard , 1970
bellan - santini , d . ; costello , m . j . ( 2001 ) . amphipoda . in : costello , m . j . et al . ( ed . ) ( 2001 ) . european register of marine species : a check - list of the marine species in europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification . collection patrimoines naturels 50 : pp . 295 - 308 . ( look up in imis ) [ details ]
martin , j . w . , & davis , g . e . ( 2001 ) . an updated classification of the recent crustacea . science series , 39 . natural history museum of los angeles county . los angeles , ca ( usa ) . 124 pp . ( look up in imis ) [ details ] available for editors [ request ]
costello , m . j . ; emblow , c . ; white , r . ( ed . ) . ( 2001 ) . european register of marine species : a check - list of the marine species in europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification . collection patrimoines naturels , 50 . muséum national d ' histoire naturelle : paris , france . isbn 2 - 85653 - 538 - 0 . 463 pp . ( look up in imis ) [ details ]
de broyer , c . ; lowry , j . k . ; jazdzewski , k . & robert , h . ( 2007 ) . catalogue of the gammaridean and corophiidean amphipoda ( crustacea ) of the southern ocean , with distribution and ecological data . in : de broyer c . ( ed . ) . census of antarctic marine life : synopsis of the amphipoda of the southern ocean . vol . i . bulletin de l ' institut royal des sciences naturelles de belgique , biologie . 77 , suppl . 1 : 1 - 325 . [ details ]
lowry , j . k . ; myers , a . a . ( 2013 ) . a phylogeny and classification of the senticaudata subord . nov . ( crustacea : amphipoda ) . zootaxa . 3610 ( 1 ) : 1 - 80 . , available online at urltoken [ details ] available for editors [ request ]
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a new species of the genus dulichiella stout , 1912 is described for the northeastern brazilian coast . the new species is recognized from the others in the genus by presenting ( 1 ) the accessory flagellum 5 - articulate , ( 2 ) distolateral crown of gnathopod 2 of males with 4 spines , ( 3 ) maxilla 1 inner plate , outer plate and palp distally enlarged and rounded , and ( 4 ) pereopods 6 and 7 without bunches of long setae . this is the second species of dulichiella recorded from south atlantic and brazilian waters .
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inglis drever ( 18 march 1999 – october 2009 ) was a champion racehorse trained in the north of england by howard johnson .

he was one of the most successful hurdle racing horses to date and won the world hurdle three times , bettered only by the former champion big buck 's .

he is seen by many as having been the greatest staying hurdler of all time .

inglis drever

inglis drever : ruled out for the remainder of this season . photograph : pa .
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inglis drever’s owner graham wylie is now enjoying great success with ireland’s dominant force willie mullins .
but more than any , inglis drever was the horse who got me interested in racing .
triple world hurdle winner inglis drever was put down on friday after suffering a serious bout of colic .
racing is mourning a jumps legend after three - time world hurdle hero inglis drever died on friday morning .
inglis drever began his career on the flat for sir mark prescott , for whom he won four races .
and when inglis drever made it three , he joked :
i ' m a complete slapper .
three - time world hurdle winner , inglis drever , has been put down after a bout of colic .
inglis drever denied baracouda a third stayers ' crown with a famous success in the ladbrokes world hurdle at cheltenham today .
wylie ' s substantial and still growing investment in racing is one of inglis drever ' s legacies to the winter game .
3 times world hurdle winner inglis drever was sadly put to sleep this morning after suffering from a bad bout of colic .
inglis drever made history at the cheltenham festival last march when he became the first horse to win the world hurdle three times .
inglis drever will bid to maintain his status as champion stayer after being confirmed for the rescheduled totesport long walk hurdle on 27 december .
a new order is emerging in jump racing and it was suitably demonstrated as inglis drever saw off baracouda in the ladbrokes world hurdle .
massive repsect to inglis drever , a wonderful horse who won at the festival only to get beaten at aintree such was his way .
plans for inglis drever to return to cheltenham this march were scrapped after he failed to recover from an injury sustained at newbury last november .
inglis drever ' s trainer howard johnson said :
chepstow is a flat , left - handed track and that is what he likes .
inglis drever runs in to win the world hurdle for a second time in 2007 . photograph : tony marshall / empics sport / pa photos
but more than any horse - probably apart from lord transcend - inglis drever was the horse who got me seriously interested in racing .
johnson has had a number of top - class horses pass through his hands , but places inglis drever at the top of the tree .
it wasn’t his ability that we found so endearing . greater horses have come and gone that didn’t enjoy half the love and respect that inglis drever rightfully earned
very nice tribute bosranic . cant add much to that but to say inglis drever will be missed lots . condolences to all connected with this mighty racehorse .
staying power : thelaadbroke world hurdle ( stayers hurdle ) cheltenham : inglis drever and baracouda d . m . dent 15
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but all the while lee was stoking up inglis drever ( 5 - 1 ) and the writing was on the wall for his rivals as he surged towards the last .
in the meantime , johnson hopes to send inglis drever back to the flat for the northumberland plate , a race with near - mythical status in the north - east .
but a disappointing workout at the weekend convinced them to abandon plans to send inglis drever back to the cheltenham festival , after which the decision was taken to retire him .
inglis drever made history at the cheltenham festival last year when he became the first horse to win the world hurdle three times , showing tremendous courage to overhaul kasbah bliss .
entries for the ladbrokes world hurdle at the cheltenham festival close this week but the list is set to be drawn up without howard johnson ' s triple winner inglis drever .
another endearing quality in the constitution of inglis drever was his tendency to hit a flat spot in his races - as evidenced by his world hurdle victories in 2005 and 2007 .
inglis drever was ridden at cheltenham by three different jockeys , the last of them being denis o’regan who said : “words can’t describe how much of a legend he truly was .
as inglis drever came to the last that day , finding himself in yet another battle , the outcome was inevitable . he was never going to come second in a fight , but still the cheltenham faithful , who cast aside their own selfish motivations for his success , roared inglis drever up the hill to a victory that would catapult him into deserved immortality .
the big players were held up towards the rear , however , with baracouda as usual looking to be cruising as the others , including inglis drever , started to come under pressure .
inglis drever made history at the festival last march when he became the first horse to win the world hurdle three times and wylie credits the horse with getting him seriously involved in racing .
on friday howard johnson’s yard , and racing in general , were mourning the death of inglis drever , the only horse to win the ladbrokes world hurdle at the cheltenham festival three times .
edward gillespie , the managing director of cheltenham , said yesterday that the course will take time to consider the best way to commemorate inglis drever . a statue , however , does not seem likely .
inglis drever was only six years old when he beat the great baracouda in this race two years ago , and was sidelined with an injury when my way de solzen took the prize 12 months ago .
really sad news his third ( ? ) win in the stayers hurdle at cheltenham with his devoted groom cheering him on was a magic moment . thanks for the memories inglis drever and rest in peace .
perhaps the most piquant aspect to the retirement of inglis drever , announced yesterday , is that he should so narrowly have missed the opportunity to measure the pretensions of his obvious heir . there is no doubting the regal bearing of punchestowns , whose accession as the new monarch of staying hurdlers could well be hastened at cheltenham on saturday . thus far , indeed , he has gone about things with rather more panache than inglis drever . but it would be unusual for any horse to dominate this exacting discipline without also disclosing a coarser grain , and inglis drever would never have surrendered his crown without an almighty scrap .
wylie does not like to name horses in advance of particular meetings or races -
it jinxes them ,
he maintains - so we won’t mention the name of possible champion hurdle entry inglis drever .
in a move away from the sadness that normally heralds the end of a career , trainer howard johnson described himself as
over the moon
after the retirement of triple world hurdle winner inglis drever today .
meanwhile , the pair at the top of the pecking order to take over the staying hurdle mantle from inglis drever are set to clash in the cleeve hurdle on festival trials day at cheltenham a week on saturday .
inglis drever , the only horse to win the staying hurdlers ' championship at cheltenham three times , will not get the chance to make it four , after he was retired from racing yesterday by graham wylie and howard johnson , his owner and trainer . ladbrokes , the sponsors of the world ( formerly stayers ' ) hurdle , said later that they will refund all ante - post bets on inglis drever for this year ' s race .
when he hears the roar of the crowd , though , inglis drever concentrates hard and has a finishing surge that is difficult to resist . paddy brennan powered him towards the lead on the run down the hill and had two lengths to spare at the final flight . mighty man then summoned a strong challenge as they galloped up the hill but inglis drever was never going to yield the advantage and held on by three - quarters of a length .
inglis drever , won 17 races from 35 starts earning nearly £800 , 000 in prize - money . thirteen of his victories came over hurdles after he was recruited from sir mark prescott’s flat stable for 110 , 000 guineas .
although he was to make his mark as a staying hurdler , inglis drever was kept to two miles for most of the 2004 / 05 season and even won a recognised trial for the champion hurdle , wincanton ' s kingwell hurdle . but there was a strong field for that year ' s champion , with hardy eustace , harchibald and brave inca in their prime , so inglis drever was stepped up in trip for the three - mile world hurdle .
racing : three - time world hurdle hero inglis drever has died . the howard johnson - trained 10 - year - old , who retired from racing in january , was put down this morning after suffering a fatal bout of colic .
inglis drever won 17 of 35 career outings , amassing almost £800 , 000 in prize money . trained on the flat by sir mark prescott , he won four handicaps but was only 11th behind landing light when fancied for the 2003 cesarewitch .
wylie , who owned three - time world hurdle winner inglis drever , admitted he knew that striking article had undergone a neurectomy but , like johnson , claimed to be unaware that running a horse after the treatment breached the rules of racing .
inglis drever , who racked up a hat - trick of victories in the world hurdle at the cheltenham festival , has been retired this morning . the 10 - year - old failed to recover from a leg injury sustained at newbury in november .
inglis drever , a horse who failed three veterinary inspections before being sold privately to graham and andrea wylie , galloped his way into festival history yesterday by winning the ladbrokes world hurdle a record third time to the wild cheering of an appreciative cheltenham crowd .
but johnson , best known for his handling of three - time world hurdle winner inglis drever and horses like direct route who was denied the 2000 queen mother champion chase by a whisker , has no intention of making what would be a dramatic comeback .
inglis drever was pulled up after suffering a hock injury on his seasonal debut at newbury last november , but graham wylie ' s gelding was given time to recover and a positive x - ray last week appeared to give hope of a fourth cheltenham festival victory .
the bookmakers ladbrokes and paddy power announced they would refund all single bets on inglis drever for this year ' s world hurdle , as a goodwill gesture . the horse had been as short as 4 - 1 in the ante - post market before his injury .
formal presentations of the season ' s order of merit also took place with john webb , owner of overall winner and top hurdler royal shakespeare receiving a cheque for £250 , 000 from andrea and graham wylie , owners of last year ' s inaugural winner inglis drever .
the 2005 , 2007 and 2008 world hurdle winner was pulled up in the long distance hurdle at newbury in november and while johnson doesn ' t want inglis drever to go out of the game with a whimper , he would find it hard to suffer his champion being heckled at his favourite racecourse .
the trainer has little else to regret in his supervision of a horse whose influence on his own career can scarcely be exaggerated . for it was inglis drever who convinced graham wylie that racing could become a conduit between his wealth and pleasure , and that johnson was the man to trust with the project .
hopes that inglis drever might bid for a fourth win at the festival were raised earlier this month , when a scan on a leg injury , sustained at newbury in november , appeared clear . however , the 10 - year - old worked poorly at the weekend and the decision to retire him followed soon afterwards .
in 14 runs over three miles , inglis drever failed to finish in the first three on only two occasions , when falling at chepstow and when pulled up at newbury on his final start . he returned with an injury on both occasions , the most recent of which has brought his fine career to an end .
but despite the dark clouds , tidal bay , the winner of tuesday ' s arkle trophy for rider denis o ' regan and the same owner - trainer combination , and inglis drever , who displayed typical courage for o ' regan in one of the most thrilling finishes of the week , both secured major prizes for their connections .
more than any horse , probably apart from lord transcend , inglis drever was the horse who got me seriously interested in racing ,
wylie said yesterday .
people might think cheltenham gave me my favourite memories of him , but it was actually a day at haydock in 2005 when both him and lord transcend won .
as it is , the substance of his achievements can be represented at the festival in march only by kasbah bliss , the french horse who made him work so hard for that unprecedented third success in the ladbrokes world hurdle last year . in the meantime , inglis drever will abide in the esteem of all and the affection of many .
inglis drever instilled in me such a passion ,
wylie said yesterday .
more than any horse – probably apart from lord transcend – he was the one who got me seriously interested in racing . people might think cheltenham gave me my favourite memories of him , but it was a day at haydock in 2005 when both he and lord transcend won .
inglis drever had a career record of 17 wins from 35 starts and his appetite for a battle , particularly on the climb to the line at cheltenham , made him hugely popular with punters . he was famous , too , for hitting a
flat spot
in a race when he appeared to be in trouble , only to run on strongly in the closing stages .
at around evens , however , this is surely one favourite that has to be taken on . it is time for a fresh face on the stayers ' scene , and inglis drever looks the one . at 10 , baracouda is not getting any better . iris ' s gift last year showed that the french horse is beatable , though that is not to denigrate his tremendous record .
since then , wylie’s colours have been carried by some of the best recruits to national hunt which racing has seen in many years . inglis drever , valley henry , royal rosa , arcalis , and chivalry are but five of the powerful string owned by the modest man whose quiet tones betray his upbringing in the north - east of england , but which also mask his true origins .
after hitting his usual flat spot in the middle stages of the race , inglis drever knuckled down to an intense battle with the francois doumen - trained kasbah bliss , which he won by calling on all stamina reserves . he jumped into the lead at the final flight and held off kasbah bliss by a length , with a gap of seven lengths back to the game kazal in third .
prevented by a tendon injury from defending his crown , inglis drever won it back in 2007 , outbattling mighty man by three - quarters of a length . his pattern of finishing strongly after appearing to struggle was now well established and he again made his supporters wait when landing his third world hurdle last year , getting past kasbah bliss only on the run - in for what turned out to be his final victory .
if there were a group of horses ahead of him turning in , as far as he was concerned they all had bullseyes on their backsides and the drever would pop his eyes out of their sockets and take aim .
black jack ketchum had a question to answer as he set off for the ladbrokes world hurdle here yesterday , and if the reply was not one that many punters wanted to hear , at least he did not keep them waiting . he barely took off at the third flight and suffered the first fall of his career , which left the way clear for inglis drever to win the stayers ' championship event for the second time in three years in his familiar , curmudgeonly style .
inglis drever can be a difficult horse to warm to , as punters tend to prefer their horses to look like potential winners at every stage of a race . howard johnson ' s runner , by contrast , often needs persuasion to keep him interested in the early part of a race , and he was on and off the bit throughout the first two miles yesterday . there were several sloppy jumps on the first circuit too , as if the eight - year - old could not quite be bothered .
devastating news . inglis was a proper nh legend and he will live long in the memory of all those who had the pleasure of seeing him race . huge condolences to connections and also his die - hard fans , of which he had many .
inglis drever introduced his owner as a man agreeably lacking airs , while johnson ' s bluff geordie cadences also enriched the tale . then there was the horse ' s groom , ginni wright , whose emotional celebrations were shared by many who learned of her battles with cancer . but the central character was always the horse . his habit of hitting a flat spot before gathering momentum implied a latent vulnerability – a pleasing sense that it did not come easily , but that he would always do his utmost .
inglis drever left the door ajar by apparently recovering from his newbury injury , but johnson explained :
we put shoes on him the other day , rode him out , and he didn ' t even want the jockey to get on him . he was telling me he ' d had enough . i think i ' ve done the right thing for the public . i didn ' t want to go to cheltenham against younger horses and be pulled up or get beat 20 lengths . one day we might find another like him . but we ' ll struggle .
graham wylie ' s personal favourite is lord transcend , the horse who managed to get him involved in the racing game , but inglis drever is now in the same bracket .
he ' s a street fighter who never knows when he is beaten and he loves the attention he gets in the winner ' s enclosure ,
wylie said .
maybe one day i ' ll realise what he ' s done , but it is all so emotional now . i just sat quietly in the stand and watched and watched , and he had so many traffic problems . but when he came over the last , he was too good for them .
connections of inglis drever ( 3 . 15 ) have always considered him a stayer in the making , and that certainly looked the case when he finished strongly to take second place behind fundamentalist in last season ' s sunalliance hurdle . nothing was in his favour in the kingwell hurdle at wincanton last time out - a right - hand course and having to make his own running - but he still won by five lengths . at odds of 7 - 1 he is the each - way value . rule supreme , who would have beaten baracouda and crystal d ' ainay in a few more strides at windsor , is another reason to be wary of taking a short price about the favourite .
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“they took him away yesterday and from what i can understand they couldn’t do anything with him , ” johnson said .
“graham ( wylie , owner ) rung me yesterday morning to say he was thrashing on the ground so they got the vets up there to look at him and they rushed him straight in ( for surgery ) .
“they put him on a drip overnight and they rang mr wylie back this morning to say his heart rate was over 70 and it should 33 , so they have had to put him down on humane grounds . ”
“without a doubt he’d be number one when it comes to horses i’ve trained , ” added johnson .
“he went to graham’s for a good retirement and i haven’t actually seen him since he left . it is just one of those things . ”
his indomitable spirit and appetite for a scrap made him one of the most popular national hunt horses in training .
the brilliant gelding signed off with 17 wins - 12 of which came at graded level - from 35 starts and amassed nearly €880 , 000 in prize - money .
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having his first try at this three - mile trip , the six - year - old surged to the front at the last and was far too strong for baracouda up the hill .
the win continued a great week for trainer howard johnson , owner graham wylie and jockey graham lee , who were landing their third prize following arcalis and no refuge .
baracouda ' s pacemaker knife edge took the field along at a fair old clip in the early stages , with emotional moment , westender and yogi also prominent .
westender led from some way out as knife edge gave way , and he was still there two out , with rule supreme hot on his heels and baracouda set to pounce .
baracouda , the 6 - 5 favourite , gave brave chase but was three lengths away at the line , with a further three - quarters of a length back to rule supreme .
he didn ' t travel great , he didn ' t jump great but he ' s got a big heart and in the end i think i got there a bit too soon - but i wasn ' t going to stop when i got him going ,
lee told channel 4 racing .
i was forced to track baracouda for a while because i wasn ' t travelling well , but i ' m so happy for the horse . to be narrowly beaten in the sunalliance last year and now this , i ' m so chuffed for him . he ' s tough .
johnson said :
i never usually shake , but watching that race today made me shake a little bit because i love this horse . he ' s a proper little jack russell terrier .
he jumped as straight as a die today . graham gave him a lovely ride . all credit to the staff at home and the girl who does him . it ' s great .
it ' s working out well with graham and andrea ( wylie ) . let ' s hope it lasts .
i knew he ' d come up the hill . we ' ve got one that ' s high and steep at home . when he ' s on form he goes up our hill great .
that ' s the secret about training our horses - going up steep hills . it seems to get their wind right and helps them be fit and healthy .
wylie added :
it ' s all down to howard and to graham . howard ' s spent a lot of time getting the horses ready . he ' s done a brilliant job .
he was really a splendid second ,
he said .
tony ( mccoy ) was impeccable , he gave him the perfect ride . we were just beaten by a better horse and we have to respect that .
he may go to aintree . we will certainly enter him , but it is too early to say whether he will go over fences or not .
maybe as he is getting older he does not have the speed he had in the past , but he has run a good race .
owner jp mcmanus added :
we were just beaten by a better horse . he ran his heart out . all credit to francois , he had him ready to run the race of his life .
rule supreme ' s trainer willie mullins said :
he ' s had a hard race . i ' m happy with the horse . there are no excuses really .
i am a bit disappointed as he was in the form of his life , but he was beaten fair and square , and perhaps that ' s as good as he is .
he ' ll definitely go to punchestown now and then we ' ll go for the french champion hurdle again .
earlier , thisthatandtother denied fondmort in a thrilling finish to the new daily telegraph festival trophy chase .
fondmort held a slight advantage after jumping the last , but the paul nicholls - trained thisthatandtother ( 9 - 2 ) , ridden by ruby walsh , battled on just the better up the hill and wore down nicky henderson ' s charge in the last 50 yards to win by half a length .
irish raider rathgar beau , who finished third , lost his winning chance with a mistake at the final fence when bang in contention .
and even earlier , king harald put up tremendous front - running performance under mattie batchelor to land the jewson novices ' handicap chase on the third day of the cheltenham festival .
the mark bradstock - trained seven - year - old had four lengths to spare at the line from lacdoudal after an incident - packed affair .
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staying hurdlers often endure much longer than the two - milers and if he stays sound , the 6 - 1 offered by ladbrokes for the race next year could prove to be a very fair price .
he tends to come on and off the bridle ,
johnson said ,
but i said to paddy that as soon as you come down that hill and get a bit of light , he ' ll pick up .
he will never go chasing now , as you don ' t need to send a dual winner of this race over fences . it ' s always been an ambition of mine to have a runner in the northumberland plate , so i may run him in that and then turn him out .
there was little to be said about black jack ketchum , though jonjo o ' neill , his trainer , confirmed that the horse seemed to have emerged unscathed .
life goes on ,
he said .
the horse is ok , and we ' ll just have to try again .
taranis was a tenacious winner of the ryanair chase after being left in front by the fall of crozan at the fourth - last , which was probably a couple of furlongs further from the finish than ruby walsh would have chosen . the line eventually arrived just in time as our vic staged an extraordinary late rally , failing only by a neck , having looked to be one of the first beaten three - out .
he ' s a horse that tends to idle in front and i was a bit concerned when crozan fell , but ruby has given him a great ride ,
paul nicholls , who was welcoming back his 100th winner of the season , said .
when they looked to be catching him at the finish it was more to do with him idling than the others making ground . he ' s only six and i think he may well get three miles next season .
previous form at the festival usually proves significant and idole first , who took the coral cup over hurdles two years ago , added a victory over fences in the racing post plate .
ferdy murphy , meanwhile , saddled his second winner of the week when l ' antartique took the jewson novice handicap chase at 20 - 1 , giving anyone who played up their winnings from the 50 - 1 chance joes edge on tuesday a 1070 - 1 double .
it ' s 27 years since anaglog ' s daughter won here [ in the arkle trophy ] ,
tony durkan , the winning owner , said ,
and she was beaten in the champion chase the next year . this is a lovely horse and we hope that he hope that he will go on to better things .
with hardy eustace successfully defending his crown , and moscow flyer regaining his , the pattern is set for a repeat performance by baracouda in this afternoon ' s ladbrokes world hurdle , the race he won two years in succession before relinquishing his title 12 months ago .
coming into last year ' s race baracouda had won the long walk hurdle and newbury ' s long distance hurdle by a total of 37 lengths , but this season he has won the same races only narrowly from crystal d ' ainay . admittedly he had crystal d ' ainay a long way behind him in third place here last year , but alan king ' s gelding faced a stiff task then as a five - year - old .
2 . 00 jewson h ' cap chase : one of the new races at this year ' s festival , this has been the target for liverpool echo , whose trainer , henry daly , has a fine record in handicaps here . liverpool echo was becoming somewhat expensive to follow until he beat copsale lad convincingly at kempton . that form is working out well .
2 . 35 festival trophy chase : our vic runs here rather than in the gold cup and this 2m5f is more his trip , because he seemed to get outstayed when third in last season ' s sun - alliance chase . though given time to get over his final - fence fall in the bonusprint chase here in december , he has yet to confirm his high home rating on the track . at 10 - 1 , fondmort makes more appeal . best when fresh , nicky henderson ' s nine - year - old has a fine record at cheltenham and last season ran a highly creditable third under top weight in the mildmay of flete . he now meets our vic and thisthatandtother - second in the bonusprint - on more favourable terms than when only seventh in that race , when henderson ' s horses were out of sorts .
4 . 00 mildmay of flete chase : martin pipe has won four of the last seven runnings of this handicap , and he looks to have prepared polar red for a second crack after his creditable sixth behind tikram 12 months ago . polar red , now 3lb lower , has been freshened up by a mid - season break and two recent spins over hurdles .
4 . 40 national hunt chase : stormez and celestial gold have finished second for the pipe stable here in the last two seasons . sixo could go one better , having run well against the useful novice distant thunder at newbury . by roselier , a strong influence for stamina , sixo should be in his element over this marathon trip .
5 . 20 pertemps hurdle final : with some solid course form to his name , the dark lord should be a leading player . he was staying on strongly at the finish of the sandown handicap hurdle last time and his stable is in better form now .
the decision was made following a disappointing workout at the weekend by the 10 - year - old , who notched up 17 wins from 35 starts , amassing almost £800 , 000 in prize money in the process .
but rather than wallowing in despair at the decision , johnson breathed a sigh of relief .
i ' m over the moon i ' ve retired him ,
he said .
we put shoes on him the other day , we rode him out and he didn ' t even want the jockey to get on him .
he was telling me he ' d had enough , so he ' s gone into retirement . i think i ' ve done the right thing for everybody .
i didn ' t want to go to cheltenham against younger horses and either be pulled up or get beat 20 lengths - that wasn ' t for me .
he said :
we decided on saturday that he wasn ' t interested any more . at the end of the day , he has won three world hurdles and has been one of the greatest horses .
howard says to let him chill out and he ' ll have a box next to one of our broodmares . i ' m sure he ' ll have a long and happy retirement .
the howard johnson - trained 10 - year - old , who retired from racing in january , had to be put down after suffering a fatal bout of colic .
johnson said :
they took him away yesterday and from what i can understand they couldn ' t do anything with him .
graham ( wylie , owner ) rung me yesterday morning to say he was thrashing on the ground so they got the vets up there to look at him and they rushed him straight in ( for surgery ) .
they put him on a drip overnight and they rang mr wylie back this morning to say his heart rate was over 70 and it should be 33 , so they have had to put him down on humane grounds .
johnson added :
without a doubt he ' d be number one when it comes to horses i ' ve trained .
he went to graham ' s for a good retirement - it is just one of those things .
the brilliant gelding signed off with 17 wins - 12 of which came at graded level - from 35 starts and amassed nearly £800 , 000 in prize - money .
he was transferred to johnson ' s yard in 2003 , when he made a winning debut for his new team in november .
although the star hurdler will be best remembered for his exploits at cheltenham , he also won the long distance hurdle at newbury three times ( 2005 - 07 ) - in addition to big - race triumphs at sandown , warwick , wincanton , haydock and wetherby .
johnson said :
he ' s been a fantastic servant to me and the yard and has kept me going since we bought him off sir mark .
he won three world hurdles and was the first horse to win the order of merit .
you could always tell when he was right and he was a peach to train .
he wouldn ' t hurt a butterfly and you always knew he would come up hills because as soon as he saw our hills at home he used to fly .
it ' s very upsetting and i ' ve said to mr wylie that we ' ll get him cremated and get him back into what i call the ' millionaire ' s field ' in front of our house .
he used to love it in there , and spent his summers in there every year since he arrived , so i think we should bury his ashes in there .
there was no sign of that trademark quirk at prestbury park last march , however , as he powered up the hill to record a no - nonsense verdict over kasbah bliss .
defeat at aintree - never his happiest hunting ground - followed last april , after which he was sent to newbury for his seasonal debut .
but denis o ' regan ' s mount suffered a hock injury and was pulled up after four out .
although there were hopes he had made a full recovery , johnson realised the game was up in january .
the jockey was in the saddle when the horse won his third ladbrokes world hurdle and described him as the best horse he will ever ride .
it ' s shocking news . i won the world hurdle on him and the long distance hurdle as well ,
he said .
he was a top - class hurdler and it ' s a shame he ' s died so young , but he ' s a horse that will stick in the memory for a long time .
he ' s the best horse i ' ve ridden and will probably be the best horse i ' ll ever ride .
he ' s brought my career to the fore and it ' s a sad ending to a great career for that horse .
graham lee ' s association with the horse lasted from november 2003 to december 2005 .
their seven victories included a first world hurdle in 2005 when the pair dethroned the french champion baracouda .
lee said :
when you are a jockey you want to have big rides in big races and he was a very , very good horse .
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the ten - year - old , who retired in january this year , underwent surgery on thursday after being found lying in a field at owner graham wylie’s stud at humshaugh in northumberland , but his condition worsened on friday morning .
at kelso on saturday after silk drum had made a winning start over fences for graham wyile , the owner said : “yesterday was very difficult . i walk around the house and there are photos everywhere , all his trophies and dvds .
“i have very happy memories , but on a day like today it’s very distressing . ”
johnson was also distressed saying : “i’ve not seen the lovely horse since he left here for his retirement ; i will never have one like this to win three world hurdle and an order of merit . he’s been my pride and joy and i will never get another to replace him . ”
“he had a fantastic racing career and will be remembered for a very long time . i was very lucky to ride him and his final world hurdle win was a wonderful performance . ”
staying on a sombre theme , barry keniry faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines due to a broken leg at kelso on saturday .
the leyburn - based jockey was riding the shy man for the george moore stable when he came crashing down from fences from the finish .
yesterday he underwent surgery on the injured leg in the boarders hospital , and it remains to be seen just how long the irishman will be out of action .
this week’s local racing kicks off today at pontefract where there is an eight race card due of at 2 . 10pm .
the highlight race at the west yorkshire comes up at 3 . 40pm , a listed race over the one mile trip .
among the 11 runners is hot prospect , who looks a very interesting colt . trained by michael jarvis , he was a very impressive winner at sandown last time out and with kieren fallon booked he could just turn out to be a very hot prospect .
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the race was abandoned at windsor last weekend and so switches to chepstow as part of the welsh national meeting .
he has come back from windsor in good order and i will definitely put him in - he won ' t mind the soft ground .
officials at the bhb have also decided to revert to the original entry system , which will allow four - times winner of the race baracouda to run , after he was initially missed out of the entry stage due to a clerical error .
however , francois doumen has not yet decided whether baracouda will take part in the rescheduled event .
he said :
i will need to think about it and will make a decision later in the week .
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the magnitude of this triumph can be viewed against the backdrop of depression that descended on howard johnson ' s yard in the build - up to jump racing ' s most important meeting when a collection of his stable stars were coughing and breaking blood vessels .
o ' regan declared :
what a horse . he just took off . howard said beforehand that he wouldn ' t want to get there before the last . i was a bit down at the last but he jumped well , and he did the rest himself .
johnson ' s comment that
this is near enough the greatest training performance of my life
is indeed accurate . the winner , who had been bought out of sir mark prescott ' s newmarket yard off the flat to win the northumberland plate , was purchased unvetted . a persistent leg injury had been his problem .
johnson said suggestions of retirement had been put on hold .
he ' s only nine , but i don ' t want anything to happen to him ,
johnson said .
he might go to aintree , he might come back here next year , but there are not many races left in him .
owner trevor hemmings landed the first two races , the peter o ' sullevan national hunt chase with the alan king - trained old benny , and the royal & sunalliance chase with the jonjo o ' neill - trained albertas run , who was a first winner at this year ' s festival for tony mccoy .
our vic , who chased home kauto star in the king george at kempton park on boxing day , finally enjoyed his moment of glory at the highest level when taking the ryanair chase , a race in which he finished second last year . first - time blinkers worked a treat as our vic blazed a trail in front .
trainer david pipe said :
the blinkers sharpened him up a bit and timmy got some fantastic jumps out of him .
we decided on saturday that he wasn ' t really interested in his racing any more ,
wylie said yesterday .
we always knew that he would tell us when he wanted to be retired . that day has now come .
obviously we would like to do something appropriate in due course ,
gillespie said .
at this stage we are just delighted that he has been retired fit and healthy .
we have just four statues [ of horses ] at the moment : arkle , dawn run , golden miller and , most recently , best mate . there are no hurdlers , though istabraq is one about whom the question has been asked , but it has just not been possible to achieve . we have plenty of room but statues are incredibly expensive .
cheltenham will stage its last meeting before the festival this saturday and , though the track lost a meeting to waterlogging in december , simon claisse , the clerk of the course , is confident that this card will proceed as planned .
the rain we are forecast is due to arrive between now and friday morning , after which it should be basically dry through to racing ,
he said .
it seems certain that great leighs racecourse in essex will remain closed for at least another week , however . the british horseracing authority said yesterday that it has yet to receive a formal application for a racecourse licence from deloitte , the administrator trying to rescue the track .
with entries for next thursday ' s meeting due to close tomorrow , that card now seems sure to be staged elsewhere .
his trainer , howard johnson , had indicated recently that an x - ray showed the injury to be clearing . johnson said at that stage that the horse might return to the racecourse but the horse ' s demeanour has convinced him otherewise .
we decided on saturday that he wasn ' t really interested in his racing any more ,
said the horse ' s owner , graham wylie .
we always knew that he would tell us when he wanted to be retired . that day has now come .
i ' m over the moon i ' ve retired him ,
said johnson .
i ' m happier in myself now . we put shoes on him the other day , we rode him out and he didn ' t even want the jockey to get on him . he was telling me he ' d had enough . we gave him a jog along the road and i wasn ' t happy , so he ' s gone into retirement .
the following month , he joined johnson ' s yard and made his hurdling debut at aintree , winning easily . he remained unbeaten over hurdles until that season ' s cheltenham festival , when he was edged out by fundamentalist in the race known then as the royal & sunalliance novices hurdle .
it proved the making of him . his performance that day was a revelation as , after appearing beaten half a mile from home , he bounded up the hill , finishing three lengths clear of baracouda , himself a dual winner of the race .
i just hope sir mark will find me another one - he ' s on the case ,
added johnson .
i think i ' ve done the right thing for the public and everybody . i don ' t want to go to cheltenham against younger horses and either be pulled up or get beat 20 lengths - that wasn ' t for me .
prescott added his own tribute , saying :
he ' s one of those lovely horses who ' s done everybody well all his life . he was a very nice yearling - any fool could have picked him . he was a very nice horse for us and made a jolly nice price for us and he gave mr wylie a marvellous introduction into racehorse ownership .
time has been called on the 10 - year - old ' s illustrious career after he failed to recover from an injury sustained at newbury in november .


flockton grey was the british racehorse at the centre of one of the largest betting scandals to hit british horseracing .

the affair remains the best-known case of a corrupt trainer and owner using a ringer to race in place of another horse .

because of the use of the ringer , flockton grey did not actually run in the race for which he became most famous .

flockton grey

flockton grey and good hand - the police kept flockton grey and good hand in custody until 1986 , when flockton grey was sent to the wetherby sales , and bought by trainer robin bastiman for 680gns . flockton grey never raced and , in 1989 , was sold to sharon dick , who worked at bastiman ' s yard . now 21 , flockton grey is still in dick ' s care . good hand was claimed by richardson and subsequently stabled at the aike grange stud , jill banks ' s establishment a few miles from jubilee farm .
flockton grey ' s passport described a horse with a conspicuous scar on its off - fore leg . the grey in wiles ' s yard had no such scar .
the story of the flockton grey case appeared in the racing post in two parts in january 2002 . . .
great racing scams : case closed , but ringer ' s trainer still a mystery : flockton grey , part 2 .
flockton grey - two - year - old flockton grey provided trainer stephen wiles with his first flat winner when recording a 20 - length win under kevin darley at leicester in 1982 . flockton grey had been backed to win by an estimated £200 , 000 and investigators concluded that darley ' s mount was in fact a three - year - old called good hand .
good hand ' s physical characteristics , including the distinctive leg scar , had been recorded on the passport of the two - year - old flockton grey . but the real flockton grey had been the unscarred horse investigators saw at wiles ' s yard .
flockton grey : two - year - old racehorse flockton grey had a 20 - length win at leicester in 1982 . horse was backed to win by # 200 , 000 . but investigators discovered horse was seasoned three - year - old called good hand .
for the past 20 years , flockton grey had been looked after by mary dick and her daughter sharon at their stables near worksop .
wiles said that a horse did arrive back at his yard the following day , but that this horse was not the ' flockton grey ' he himself had stood with in the winner ' s enclosure at leicester . it was a two - year - old ' unnamed ' grey , who he later showed to investigators : the real flockton grey .
the trainer looked at flockton grey ' s passport and was reminded of the scar on its off - fore leg . the horse he had been sent did not have a scar . when wiles phoned mathison , he was told that flockton grey would be with them in time for it to race… flockton grey never arrived . mathison nevertheless told wiles to declare the horse for the leicester race and to book kevin darley .
flockton grey , the horse at the centre of one of the greatest racing scandals and mysteries of the 20th century , has died aged 29 .
ridden by kevin darley , the debutant ' flockton grey ' provided trainer stephen wiles with his first winner on the flat after two years with a licence .
secretariat’s 1973 belmont stakes win by 31 lengths was incredible , sure . but have you heard the one about flockton grey ? a british racehorse , grey , lapped the field , winning by a ludicrous 20 lengths at a 1982 race in leicester .
death of flockton grey , the 20 - length maiden winner who never was ; horse at centre of one of racing ' s greatest scandals dies at age of 29 .
mary dick said yesterday :
flockton grey died of a heart attack on saturday . he was a gem , my favourite horse , and people often asked about him .
another tidbit : flockton grey ( an unwitting accomplice in the scheme ) was “in custody” for four years . profoundly unjust . also : how does one keep a horse in custody ?
death of flockton grey , the 20 - length maiden winner who never was ; horse at centre of one of racing ' s greatest scandals dies at age of 29 . - free online library
flockton grey ' s celebrity , or notoriety , stemmed from ' his ' unlikely 20 - length victory in a race for two - year - olds at leicester on march 29 , 1982 .
browne ' s punishment is the longest period of exclusion since the owner ken richardson was warned off for 25 years in 1984 for his part in the infamous flockton grey
ringer
affair .
in 1984 , richardson , boddy and colin mathison , a close associate , appeared at york crown court charged with having conspired to substitute good hand for flockton grey with the intention of defrauding bookmakers .
at the end of january 1982 , weatherbys issued a passport for flockton grey , bearing the markings of good hand but with a date of birth indicating that the horse was a two - year - old . according to wiles , mathison subsequently told him to make entries for flockton grey . he said that the
little grey
would be sent to wiles and , a few weeks before the leicester race , a little grey did arrive at his yard . wiles testified :
i did believe it was the horse which i had seen for an hour in the january . i thought it was the horse then named flockton grey , and then we started to canter it and found it was absolutely useless , green , nowhere near ready to race , didn ' t know how to gallop straight , nowhere near fit for entering into a race .
for those of a certain age , events will have revived memories of a famous gamble which took place at leicester in 1982 when flockton grey supposedly made his debut in a race for two - year - olds .
the most infamous race in modern annals was surely in march 1982 when flockton grey won a race at leicester by 20 lengths , . this huge margin of victory provoked suspicion of fraud and there was an investigation .
further investigation , including analysis of the photographs of the leicester winner taken at the racecourse , led to the conclusion that this ' flockton grey ' was , in fact , a three - year - old called good hand .
of course , richardson and trainer stephen wiles both put 20 , 000 pounds on the faux flockton grey : further cause for suspicion ( their “winning” bets were never paid out , and each was fined 20 , 000 pounds ) .
the diverse list includes the arrest and background of yorkshire ripper peter sutcliffe , the flockton grey “ringer” racehorse scandal , tracking down shamed coronation street star peter adamson in bali and going on the road with young us dance sensation fame .
the flockton grey scandal is the biggest british race horse scandal in history . that ' s really saying something when you consider just how easy it is to rig a race ( and how often it has happened , too ) .
when george edmondson , an investigating officer , arrived at wiles ' s yard at flockton , between wakefield and huddersfield , he was shown a grey two - year - old , but wiles did not pretend it was the winning horse .
wiles told edmondson that he thought the leicester winner was at a farm owned by ken richardson , a wealthy businessman and gambler , who had bought flockton grey as a yearling . the winner was not at the farm . he had vanished .
flockton grey was a 10 - 1 chance for a race restricted to two - year - olds over the minimum flat racing distance of five furlongs at leicester in march 1982 , but he won by the extraordinary distance of 20 lengths . the margin did not seem quite so surprising , though , when it emerged that flockton grey was in fact good hand - who was a three - year - old , and thus enjoyed an enormous advantage against his juniors . several convictions for conspiracy to defraud duly followed .
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the previous year , good hand had been claimed out of a selling race at ripon , on richardson ' s behalf . richardson claimed that he had sold flockton grey to wiles and also arranged for wiles to take good hand away , with a view to selling him .
flockton grey was an unremarkable two - year old horse from a relatively unsuccessful yard . when it was entered into its debut race ( a race strictly for horses its age ) the owner ken richardson and trainer stephen wiles decided to say “screw it” and break the law .
the flockton wattle is known or predicted to occur in the following sub - regions of the sydney basin interim biogeographic regionalisation of australia .
he is the first trainer to receive such a sanction while holding a licence since harry bell , warned off for welfare offences in 1985 , and the first to be banned for corrupt practice since stephen wiles , who was involved in the notorious flockton grey
ringer
scandal in 1982 .
instead , a three - year - old horse , good hand , deliberately ran in place of flockton grey . heavily backed , he won by 20 lengths and landed perpetrators of the scam a fortune , although their deceit was later rumbled and they were punished heavily inside and outside the law courts .
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ken richardson , flockton grey’s owner , had swapped out the two - year - old gelding for a veteran three - year - old horse prior to the race . of course , nobody knew that definitively in the immediate aftermath , but the bookies were suspicious to halt payouts on the 10 - 1 winner .
flockton grey landed a massive gamble when winning by 20 lengths at first time of asking at leicester racecourse on 29th march 1982 . as a debutant from an extremely low profile yard he was priced up at 10 / 1 and his owners placed a huge bet on him that would return & pound200 ; , 000 .
the investigators soon found that good hand had a scar on his foreleg ( unlike flockton grey ) and the racecourse vet also noted that the winner had teeth too developed for a two - year - old . both men were caught and charged with conspiracy to defraud . richardson was warned off by the jockey club for 25 years .
the plot thickened with the revelation that jo n jack , an ex - irish chesnut gelding , was bred by one of the three men involved in the notorious flockton grey ' ringer ' scandal a decade ago . but the jockey club established conclusively this week that last week ' s lingfield winner was in fact jo n jack and not a more talented substitute .
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flockton gray was ridden that afternoon by north yorkshire jockey kevin darley , who was completely unaware that there was anything untoward and was not involved in any way in the fraud .
wiles was to state that the horse he knew as flockton grey ( good hand ) , was not in his yard , but he had been instructed to declare it for the leicester race , and to meet the horsebox at the course . peter boddy , the horsebox driver , who worked for richardson , claimed that he subsequently dropped off the leicester winner at wiles ' s yard .
i have already indicated that even after a through search no plans of old workings in the flockton thin seam in the vicinity of south 9b district were found before or after the inrush .
if the wileses were responsible for obtaining a fraudulent passport , bearing good hand ' s markings , why did they employ a different horse as the ringer ? even if their horsebox had broken down , would they have arranged for boddy to collect the ringer the day before the race , and take it to leicester via newmarket , requiring the horse to stand in the horsebox for 22 hours ? there was no evidence to link the wileses to a single bet on flockton grey . richardson testified that he had never known stephen wiles to have more than £5 on a horse but claimed that wiles had asked him to put £100 on flockton grey for him . why did stephen and fred wiles drive 70 miles to confront richardson and mathison , demanding to know where the winner was , if they already knew ?
stephen and elaine wiles - in 1986 , stephen wiles was banned from holding a trainer ' s licence for five years for having entered and run flockton grey , knowing that the horse had not been in his care for the 14 days preceding the race . stephen later trained point - to - pointers while elaine worked for trainer steve norton and , after his retirement , held a number of jobs within the racing industry .
ringer this means racing a horse that looks similar to another , but is in fact much better . when flockton grey was backed to win £200 , 000 at leicester in 1982 , the horse that actually won the race was in fact called good hand . trainer john bowles was banned for 20 years for a similar scam in 1978 when a horse with little form called in the money won five races . the beast that actually did the running was cobbler ' s march .
7 ringer this means racing a horse that looks similar to another , but is in fact much better . when flockton grey was backed to win £200 , 000 at leicester in 1982 , the horse that actually won the race was in fact called good hand . trainer john bowles was banned for 20 years for a similar scam in 1978 when a horse with little form called in the money won five races . the beast that actually did the running was cobbler ' s march .
at the subsequent trial , geoffrey rivlin qc , for the prosecution , accused boddy of
lying through his teeth
. his evidence was
quite ridiculous and untrue
. richardson was also at the moat house hotel that evening . he had dinner with allan smith , who trained for him in belgium , and made a number of phone calls , including to darley . richardson advised flockton grey ' s rider that the best piece of ground at leicester was next to the inside rail .
however , they had no intention of actually running the real flockton grey in the contest and instead ran a far more physically developed three year old in his place called good hand . unfortunately for ken richardson and stephen wiles , the two behind the scam , the ' ringer ' was simply too good and won by a record winning margin . it was the size of the winning margin that caused a huge amount of suspicion and the police were soon involved as bookmakers refused to pay out .
early on the morning of sunday , march 28 , the day before the race , boddy arrived and told wiles he had come for the grey . later that morning , a horsebox arrived at geoff toft ' s yard at malton . according to toft , richardson had asked him to gallop a two - year - old for him . he had been told that it was a grey . andrew harrison , who rode the horse , confirmed toft ' s verdict that it was weak and backward and nowhere near ready for racing . the horse stayed at toft ' s until the day after the race - tuesday , march 30 - when the same driver arrived to take it away . the same day , the grey who had been taken from wiles on sunday was returned by boddy .
however , mills said at the inquiry that had he been aware of all the information he would have been very hesitant about working coal in the low laithes area and that a considerable amount of doubt has been sown in his mind as to the flockton thin seam as a whole .
ken richardson - banned from racing , richardson turned to football , buying control of bridlington town and then doncaster rovers . colin mathison and peter boddy were ultimately installed as the sole directors of bridlington , while ken haran , richardson ' s friend who denied in court backing flockton grey for richardson , was made chairman at doncaster . in 1995 , the main stand at doncaster was burnt down . in 1999 , sheffield crown court heard that richardson had offered an ex - sas man £10 , 000 to set fire to it . . . richardson , 61 , was given a four - year jail sentence .
“bye pit believed sunk to haigh moor seam at 141 yards deep and bored to silkstoone seam at 302 yards dep . flockton thin seam at 219 yards deep . ” it was in this form he signed the layout plan on august 4th 1971 and initiated its progress through the chain of planning responsibilities .
at no time during the inquiry was any documentary information produced to show that workings existed in the flockton thin seam in the vicinity of south 9b face . the only plans of the area which were available were old estate plans , not certified and likely to be incomplete and unreliable . the information available , the efforts made by surveyors to find out all that they could about workings adjacent to south 9b district and the decisions which they reached are described in the following paragraphs .
on 8th october 1970 , in the course of his investigation to ensure that there was no danger from old workings , wood the colliery surveyor , made a visit to the mining records office at rawmarsh , near rotherham , to inspect abandonment plans . he inspected all available abandonment plans relative to the are of coal proposed to be worked by south 9b face and found no evidence of any workings in the flockton thin seam or of old shafts sunk below the haigh moor seam .
many old shafts have been completely filled with debris but are only filled above wooden platforms sited at a short distance below the surface . variations in the level of water table caused by the weather can have a considerable effect on the fill material , and in time , wooden platforms rot away . this could explain the subsidence at the bull pit in september 1972 . the flockton thin seam workings were 350 yards away at this time and would not affect the shaft or its filling .
in reply to later questions he agreed that there were inconsistencies in the colouring of various boring and sinking sections and that he could not say with certainty where the sinking sections and the bore hole started . i find it significant however , that his impression on seeing the journal for the first time - this is , when he entered the witness box - was that the shaft was sunk to where the coloured detailed section commenced at the flockton thin seam at a horizontal depth of 218 yards .
i find that seven men lost their lives as a result of the inrush of water at the face of south 9b district in the flockton thin seam . the conditions in the district following the incident were such that only one body could be recovered . access to the face was not possible but i am satisfied that the evidence given at the inquiry was sufficiently comprehensive to enable me to determine the causes and circumstances of the inrush . the names of the men who lost their lives in the accident are given later in this report .
in young horses , teeth provide a remarkably accurate guide to a horse ' s age . john hickman , a veterinary surgeon , and douglas witherington , the jockey club ' s chief veterinary officer , examined blown - up photographs . they were agreed that , in racing terms , the winner was undoubtedly a three - year - old . thousands of naming forms and certificates were examined , in a search for a three - year - old grey with a scar on its off - fore leg . there were only three candidates . dick ` e ' bear and wednesday morning were quickly eliminated… that left good hand .
on the day of the race , monday , march 29 , 1982 , boddy drove a horse to leicester racecourse in richardson ' s horsebox . according to boddy , he had picked the horse up from wiles ' s yard the previous day as a favour , their horsebox having broken down . that sunday , he drove the horse to newmarket , along with another two - year - old grey from jubilee farm , which he had to deliver to pat haslam ' s yard . boddy arrived at haslam ' s pegasus stables between 6 . 30pm and 7 . 30pm . john hammond , now a leading trainer in france but then haslam ' s assistant , was there when the horsebox was opened .
coal was won from longwall advancing mechanised faces and the seams worked given in descending order were ; flockton thin – three working faces , eleven yards – one working face , beeston – two working faces . development was taking place in the blocking bed seam which lies between the eleven yards and beeston seams . very little water is pumped from the mine . the main make at lofthouse a and b ) shafts is from the old haigh moor workings and is between 160 and 230 gallons per minute dependent on the season . at wrenthorpe shafts there is a well shaft 63 ft deep , from which 33 to 55 gallons per minute are pumped dependent on seasonal variation . the make of water from the main shafts at wrenthorpe is only 15 gallons per minute pumped from the silkstone pit bottom .
members of the jury , i am sure that you must have found in this case , as i have , that it is both curious and fascinating and you may have thought more than once , ` well , this would make a very good book , a very good detective story ' .
judge harry bennett qc , york crown court , may 30 , 1984 .
in 1979 , colin tinkler jnr had bought good hand as a foal for 600gns . a few months after arriving at tinkler ' s stable , good hand injured his leg on a gate . the injury left a prominent scar on the front of his off - fore leg below the knee . tinkler sold good hand to his brother nigel and , on july 22 , 1981 , the two - year - old made his debut in a selling race over five furlongs at catterick . backed from 5 - 1 to 2 - 1 favourite , good hand did well to finish third after missing the break . he was third again at thirsk later that month , and fourth at ripon in august .
acting on ken richardson ' s behalf , his right - hand man colin mathison subsequently claimed good hand for £3 , 100 , and sent him to jubilee farm . richardson was a yorkshireman with a self - made fortune founded on sacks and paper . his interest in horseracing was a gambling interest , and a highly successful one . richardson claimed that , during the late 1970s and early 1980s , he was winning between £70 , 000 and £90 , 000 a year .
richardson made it clear that the purpose of racing horses was to land gambles . in 1973 , lunness had a two - year - old filly called jubilee girl . he told richardson that jubilee girl might be good enough to win the brocklesby stakes at doncaster , the most valuable early - season two - year - old race . richardson preferred to run her in the seller . he had £10 , 000 on jubilee girl , causing her price to tumble from 4 - 1 to 13 - 8 . she won by seven lengths , and later beat alexben , the winner of the brocklesby .
at the beginning of december 1981 , the two - year - old good hand and the unnamed yearling by dragonara palace out of misippus , both greys , were at jubilee farm . according to richardson , he arranged for stephen wiles to take good hand away with a view to selling him . a busy man , richardson did not subsequently enquire about the horse and heard no more of good hand until after the leicester race . in the same month , again according to richardson , wiles bought the dragonara palace - misippus yearling . peter boddy , who often drove richardson ' s horsebox , delivered the yearling to wiles early in january 1982 .
richardson claimed to know nothing of the horse ' s subsequent movements . when he had asked boddy where he had taken the horse , boddy had replied that he had left it at wiles ' s yard , but both stephen and elaine wiles , and stephen pleasant , a stable lad , testified that no horse by the name of good hand , or like him , ever appeared at the stable after january 5 .
boddy maintained that there were two horses in the box , one intended for haslam , the other for leicester , but hammond testified that there was only one , which he led out himself .
i don ' t think i am wrong about this ,
he said .
my clear recollection is there was only one horse in this box when it arrived and that horse was delivered to us and then the box went away .
boddy claimed that he had then driven to the nearby moat house hotel and parked the horsebox there overnight . if boddy was telling the truth , the winner of the leicester race spent about 22 hours standing in the horsebox .
the field was leased by sylvia jones , whose son , greg , worked for stan mellor . her husband , peter , occasionally rode in point - to - points . mrs jones stated that on march 25 , the thursday before the race , she had gone to the sales at malton , where she told several people that she was looking for a horse as a companion for a foal . subsequently , she was away from home for a few days and , when she returned , on the evening of wednesday , march 31 , her daughter romney told her that a man had phoned that afternoon and a horse had then arrived . jones assumed that someone had heard she was looking for a horse and had responded to her appeal . she did not think it strange that she had not heard from the horse ' s owner since .
jones subsequently contacted derek gardiner , the huntsman who looked after the hounds for the goathland hunt . she offered him £200 to shoot a horse . the offer made gardiner suspicious , and he told jones that he had run out of ammunition . jones denied having contacted gardiner , but when both gave evidence during an appeal hearing in 1986 , lord justice lane made it clear that he believed gardiner but not jones , whose evidence the judge described as
incredible and untrue
. the police found jones an unhelpful witness and , when richardson ' s trial approached , in 1984 , she disappeared .
the jury disagreed . by a 10 - 2 majority , they found all three defendants guilty . richardson was given a nine - month suspended and fined £20 , 000 , with costs estimated at £25 , 000 . mathison was fined £3 , 000 while boddy escaped with a conditional discharge . richardson protested his innocence . in 1986 the court of appeal rejected his appeal and later that year the jockey club warned him off for 25 years , but he did not give up . in 1991 , richardson submitted a petition to the home secretary , kenneth baker , claiming that he was
now in a position to prove that the winning horse could not have been good hand
.
in 1995 , richardson obtained permission to apply for a judicial review of the home secretary ' s continued refusal to refer the case back to the court of appeal . finally , the home secretary , michael howard relented . in june 1995 he agreed to return the case to the court of appeal . the appeal was heard in december 1996 , when the crucial evidence was presented by dennis bellamy , and dr alfred linney , head of the medical graphics division at university college , london .
the passport generated by the naming exercise carried out on january 5 , 1982 showed a two - year - old gelding bearing the markings of the three - year - old good hand . it would have been bizarre for the conspirators to have presented this passport to racecourse officials , yet run a different three - year - old . two days after the race , good hand was delivered to a field leased by sylvia jones . less than eight months earlier , good hand was considered to have been worth £3 , 100 . if the gelding was not the ringer , why would someone make an anonymous gift of him to a woman no - one acknowledged knowing ?
would make a great drama film . plot a bit complex for me though .
hi felix , i always think that these ringer stories would make for a very good film . . . the only one i can think of that has been done was the gay future affair , my favourite i think would have to be the francasal one at bath races . just been reading about the
king of the ringers
, a guy named peter christian barrie aka paddy barrie . . . he was an excellent painter of horses , not so much in the style of sir alfred munnings but more a case of he painted the actual horse itself with henna dyes i . e . turning a chestnut into a bay etc ! best wishes burnsy
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the winner , returned at an sp of 10 - 1 , had been heavily backed , and the jockey club launched an investigation .
in december 1982 , a reporter for the daily star received an anonymous telephone call , saying that the leicester winner was in a field near glaisdale , on the north yorkshire moors . the horse was identified as good hand .
the field was leased by sylvia jones , who claimed that a man had delivered the horse on march 31 . her explanation was that someone must have heard that she was looking for a horse as a companion for a foal . no - one had contacted her since . jones had offered derek gardiner , a local huntsman , pounds 200 to shoot the horse but gardiner refused .
although the police failed to establish a link between jones and richardson , a link did exist through a friend of jones who had trained for richardson .
richardson received a ninemonth suspended sentence and a fine of pounds 20 , 000 , plus costs estimated at pounds 25 , 000 . two years later , he lost his appeal and the jockey club warned him off for 25 years .
in 1991 , richardson submitted a petition calling for the case to be referred back to the court of appeal , on the ground that richardson could now prove that the winning horse was not good hand .
eventually , in 1995 , the home secretary agreed to another hearing , which took place in 1996 . after hearing conflicting expert evidence on the winner ' s identity , the appeal court judges dismissed the appeal .
lord justice rose noted :
there was a very strong case indeed . . . not only that they had participated in a conspiracy to defraud , but also that the winner was good hand .
richardson was ordered to pay pounds 50 , 000 costs .
a tantalising question remains . who trained the ' ringer ' ? it wasn ' t wiles .
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you probably never heard of the unreal performance , because , well , it wasn’t real . instead of inspiring admiration , the winning margin awoke suspicion .
the police were involved immediately , and the official investigation showed the winning horse’s teeth were far too developed to belong to a two - year old . further evidence was collected , and ken richardson was charged with conspiracy to defraud .
richardson was convicted in june of 1984 . in addition to the fine above , he was ordered to pay £25 , 000 in costs and was hit with a ( suspended ) nine - month prison sentence . he was banned from the sport for 25 years .
interestingly , the jockey , kevin darley , remained above the fray . why ? well , because if he was in on the scam , he was a moron . had he known what was going on and that he was racing a superior / illegal horse , he’d have pulled back on the reins and not allowed the horse to win by such a ludicrous margin .
and if this absurd story wasn’t already uncanny enough , consider richardson later became the chairman of bridlington town football club and conspired to burn down club facilities to reap an insurance windfall . he spent four years in jail .
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there ' s a big world out there without racing ,
dermot browne said as he left the jockey club ' s headquarters yesterday , and now he has another 20 years to explore it .
the former jockey and trainer was
warned off
until 2022 by the club ' s disciplinary committee after he admitted doping 23 horses in 1990 . but since browne , dubbed the
needle man
, also claims to have passed information to the club naming several individuals who are still involved in the sport , it may be that racing has still not heard the last of him .
browne has been accused of many things over the years , but a shortage of charm has never been one of them . as he spoke after yesterday ' s hearing , there were plenty of smiles mixed in with the expressions of regret . he could not have been further removed from the stereotype of a horse - doper , the grubby , shifty man with a woodbine and a syringe .
but that will be of little comfort to anyone who was , in effect , robbed by browne ' s actions during a seven - week doping spree in august and september 1990 .
when they backed horses like bravefoot , last of five at 11 - 8 in the champagne stakes at doncaster , or hateel , third of four when 11 - 8 favourite for a race at glorious goodwood , browne and his syringe full of fast - acting sedative had already ensured that they could not win .
his other victims included argentum , in the group one nunthorpe stakes , the prolific and popular timeless times in a listed event at ripon , and three horses in one day at yarmouth .
browne , who is 41 , was warned off for 10 years for a number of breaches of jockey club rules in october 1992 . yesterday ' s hearing , however , was the first time that he had been formally found guilty of doping offences , and beforehand there was a feeling that he was likely to be warned off for life .
the fact that his penalty was
only
20 years may reflect his apparent willingness to assist the authorities with any further inquiries .
it ' s more or less what i expected ,
browne said .
i came down here today to put an end to something that ' s been going on for some time .
there are a lot of things going on in racing , but there are a lot of very hardworking genuine people in racing as well . i got involved with some of the wrong ones . there ' s still some of them out there , they ' re still there racing now , and they ' re the ones i ' d like to see out of it as well . why don ' t they come out and admit what they ' ve done ? i ' ve left information here and i ' m sure they ' re going to take it on .
browne has named the man who persuaded him to carry out the dopings as brian wright , a suspected drug - smuggler who is currently a fugitive from justice . other members of his gang are currently serving prison sentences .
i cannot comment on specific situations referred to by dermot ,
john maxse , the jockey club ' s pr director , said ,
but we are grateful for information which would assist in investigations of breaches of the rules .
browne clearly believes that more action is needed .
if i didn ' t care about racing i wouldn ' t have come down here ,
he said .
people have said a lot of things about me , but the truth is out there and it ' s probably going to come and bite them soon .
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a group of punters behind a gambling coup on a 33 - 1 winner were last night facing the prospect of either talking to detectives from their local cid - or not being paid out .
the punters became a target for suspicion soon after jo n jack romped home at lingfield nine days ago leaving a number of bookmakers , particularly in the bradford area , decidedly less affluent . estimates of the winnings range from pounds 75 , 000 to double that .
minutes after the 2 . 30 race , the betting office licencees ' association ( bola ) advised its members to withhold payment on all winning bets because of ' unusual betting patterns ' , centred on west yorkshire . bola allegations were then sent to the jockey club who , although finding that no rules of racing had been broken , passed certain information on to the police .
west yorkshire police have asked local radio stations and newspapers to inform the public of two bradford cid telephone numbers that jo n jack backers should ring . the punters are not exactly in hiding , but late yesterday afternoon , detective chief inspector raymond falconer of bradford cid told the independent : ' we haven ' t had a call , not one . '
both bola and the jockey club refused yesterday to divulge the nature of the information that has led to the police inquiry . however , it is understood that part of the basis for bola ' s concern is that most of the bets involved in the coup were ' on the nose ' , and not each - way as may have been expected for such an outsider .
again , most of the individual bets were for relatively small amounts , pounds 100 a time , up to a maximum of pounds 250 , with various bookies . they were placed only moments before the ' off ' , giving no time for bookmakers to use their common practice of laying off money at the course in order to shrink the odds .
there is , of course , nothing illegal in any of this and it appears punters were merely exploiting the system in a legitimate way . indeed , there has been no suggestion from bola that those who backed losers in the lingfield 2 . 30 should have their money returned .
there is concern in racing generally , including among the major bookmakers , that the issue has grown out of proportion and that bola ' s hard line , followed by police involvement , is bringing damaging publicity to the betting industry .
the club have also exonerated roger ingram , who trains the four - year - old at epsom , from any rule - breaking . ingram has consistently expressed astonishment at the controversy and insists he had only pounds 20 on his charge , the same bet he has on all his runners .
dci falconer said yesterday : ' i would like the punters involved to contact us . we have an obligation to investigate a complaint and our intention is to find out if a crime has been committed . if some people have received a tip for a horse and made maximum use of the information and organised a betting coup , then that is not a criminal offence and the people involved would then be advised to contact their individual bookmakers .
' but if it is established that this was a criminal enterprise then the matter will be vigorously pursued , ' falconer added . he declined to discuss what kind of criminal offence could be involved .
tom kelly , director - general of bola , refused to divulge what information it has supplied . david pipe , spokesman for the jockey club , also refused to provide any details and said : ' we passed on to the police some of the information given to us by bola . it was information not directly connected with the race . it is bola ' s information , not ours . '
followers of form may want to know that jo n jack comes under orders again today , in the 4 . 00 at beverley . but he is unlikely to start at 33 - 1 .
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never known that happen ( by accident ) before . was uncle ken involved again ? ?
no masses o money made , the issue here was that the favourite came in second . the bookies have honoured the bets and made out 50k .
the bookies would rather a 50 / 1 chance win than a 4 / 6 . fair play to them for paying out on the favourite .
betting scams have almost as long a history as competitions they ' re attached to . here are the ten most notorious . . .
betting scams have almost as long a history as competitions they ' re attached to . here are the ten most notorious :
hansie cronje : south african cronje , 32 , was banned for life for match fixing in 2000 . he bartered with a bemused nasser hussain to make a game of the rain - ruined centurion park test . his gesture to forfeit an innings was hailed as a pr masterstoke . but he was motivated by a backhander of # 5 , 000 and a leather jacket from a bookie . he died in 2002 in a plane crash .
fixers : three malaysians fronted a far east illegal gambling syndicate . they targeted premiership football for a multi - million pound betting scam and were jailed for 12 years in 1999 . they were caught about to tamper with flood lights at charlton athletic .
angel jacobs : in 1998 amateur jockey angel jacobs was unmasked as an ex - professional . got 10 - year world - wide ban for 21 rides he took .
gay future : cartmel on august bank holiday monday 1974 . permit trainer anthony collins declared gay future to run in a novice hurdle . on the morning of the race , he was backed in doubles and trebles . but the other two horses were declared non - runners - in fact they had not even left for the courses . gay future won by 15 lengths at 10 - 1 .
in the money : this horse won hatherleigh selling handicap hurdle at newton abbot in 1978 , by 20 lengths at a well - backed 8 - 1 . horse was cobbler ' s march , a five - time winner .
francasal : horse ' s 10 - 1 win in the spa selling stakes at bath july 1953 was set up as a scam to make five men # 1million in bets . the conspirators replaced the moderate french horse francasal with a better horse called santa amaro . .
football : in 1965 ex - england footballers tony kay and peter swan and their sheffield wednesday team - mate david layne were given life bans , jailed for four months and fined # 150 for match fixing . .
running rein : lord george bentinck exposed that a four - year - old horse won the 1844 derby , a race for three - year - olds . the case was a landmark in the fight against corruption .
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one of the most famous horse racing betting scams of all involved trainer anthony collins and a horse named gay future . basically , collins plotted up a gamble on his charge for a race at cartmel on bank holiday monday . according to the form book , all of gay future ' s previous form had been moderate to say the least . however , it later transpired that collins had not run gay future in these races and had instead run a far worse horse in his place .
on the day of the cartmel race , with a string of apparently ordinary form figures by his name , gay future was sent off at 10 / 1 . collins and his syndicate protected the price of the horse by backing it in doubles and trebles with two other stablemates who were later withdrawn . in fact , they never even left the stable . all this meant that all the doubles and trebles turned into one big single bet on one of the day ' s easiest winners . gay future bolted up by 15 lengths and was returned at 10 / 1 . bookmakers became suspicious and the syndicate was later convicted of fraud and fined .
in the money recorded an easy 20 length success in a weak selling race having been backed off the boards at big prices into 8 / 1 . it later turned out that in the money was actually a far better horse called cobbler ' s march who had already won five races before . trainer john bowles paid the price though as he was banned for 20 years .