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The Irishtrainer JANUARY 2018 The Irish Trainer THE NEWSLETTER FOR MEMBERS OF THE IRISH RACEHORSE TRAINERS ASSOCIATION Emotional Durkan win for Sizing John Gold Cup hero returns in top-class form just weeks after the passing of Alan Potts Saturday 14 April 2018 The Randox Health Grand National 2018 (Handicap Steeple Chase (Class 1)) Total prize fund £1,000,000 ENTRY DEADLINE: 12 pm, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 Please contact Andrew Tulloch (Clerk of the Course) at [email protected] for further details. THE IRISH TRAINER / JANUARY 2018 Foreword Firstly I would like to thank everyone who attended the AGM on Tuesday, 28 November. We had a good turnout, where a lot of issues were discussed. I can assure the members the Committee will be working hard on your behalf during the year. It is not always possible to have all the trainers’ wishes granted, but we do our best to put the trainers’ viewpoints to the relevant bodies, the Turf Club and HRI Those who were unable to attend on the day and would like a copy of the minutes, please contact the office on 045-522981 or email [email protected] On a point of safety please ensure that your staff wear hi-visibility jackets when riding out on these dark mornings. Kind regards, Michael Grassick / Irish Racehorse Trainers Association CONTENTS COVER PHOTO: Trainer: Mrs John Harrington Rule change for handicap chase ratings ......................4 Jockey: R M Power Owner: Ann & Alan Potts Limited Breeder: Bryan & Sandra Mayoh, Eskdale Stud Winners Abroad ..........................................................................5 Photographer: Caroline Norris Upcoming sales dates .............................................................5 Interview: Pat Keogh, Chief Executive, Leopardstown .........................................6 IRTA AGM report ........................................................................11 Runners in British NH Festival races ............................14 Irish Racehorse Trainers Association – Curragh House, Dublin Road, Kildare Chief Executive: Michael Grassick Council Members: Chairman: Noel Meade Jim Gorman Eoin Griffin Vice Chairman: Michael Halford Jessica Harrington Tom Hogan Andrew McNamara Eric McNamara Tel: 045 522 981 Fax: 045 522 982 Aidan O’Brien Andy Oliver Mob: 087 258 8770 email: [email protected] Patrick Prendergast Jnr. Dermot Weld Published monthly by Anderson & Co Publishing Ltd. For all advertising enquiries please call: 041 971 2000 www.anderson-co.com VISIT WWW.IRTA.IE FOR THE LATEST NEWS AND UPDATES 03 THE IRISH TRAINER / JANUARY 2018 Note for Trainers Information regarding change to Rule 68 � This rule change gives the handicapper the � He can use this discretion to mark a horse discretion to allot Steeplechase ratings to N.H. (Not Handicapped) when it is entered in moderate, exposed horses over hurdles once a handicap chase even though he may have they have run in 1 Steeplechase as opposed to been allotted a Steeplechase rating based 2 Steeplechases as the rule states to date. on 1 Steeplechase run previously, if: � the horse shows improved form over hurdles � This will benefit trainers of low-grade hurdlers since he was allotted the Steeplechase from having to compete on level terms over rating and hasn’t run in a handicap chase or fences against some of the previous season’s high-class novice hurdlers, and struggling � the horse changes trainer before it runs to compete as a result, often in extreme in a handicap chase. conditions. Such horses may be required to run in at least one more Steeplechase before being qualified � The Stewards of the INHSC have agreed to this to run in a handicap chase. rule change and will review it thereafter. � He will use the following criteria when � It has been agreed with the Irish Racing assessing whether to allot a Steeplechase Trainers Association. rating after 1 run: � It is to be used by the Handicapper at his � The horse will be rated 102 or less over absolute discretion, treating each horse hurdles and individually, and taking each case on its merits. � Will have run at least 4 times in handicap hurdles � He can use this discretion not to handicap a horse after 1 Steeplechase run, even though (i.e. in the opinion of the handicapper, the horse it may appear to the trainer that his horse will be well exposed and he will be satisfied with his satisfies the criteria outlined below. evaluation of the horse based on all known form.) 04 Note for Trainers Winners Abroad Aidan O’Brien moved the benchmark up another notch when Highland Reel made it 28 Group 1’s for 2017 with victory in the Hong Kong Vase at Shah Tin and as already acknowledged, a fantastic achievement. Elsewhere, British Art obliged at Newcastle Information for Keith Watson. On the National Hunt scene things moved regarding up a gear. Willie Mullins had an excellent double with Total Recall victorious in the change to Rule 68 Ladbroke Gold Cup at Newbury and Bene Des Dieux in the Houghton Mares’ Listed Race at Carlisle. Carlisle also produced a winner for Stuart Crawford when Our Valentina landed the final of the Northern Lights Series Final. Then we had High Expectations at Leicester for Gordon Elliott, Rare Legend at Huntingdon for Shark Hanlon and Famous Lily in the Juvenile Hurdle (L) at Aintree for Gavin Cromwell. As we go to press, 2017 has a bit more to run but by any standard it has been a most successful year. A great reflection on the industry and onwards to 2018. Every success is wished for the New Year and Well Done. UPCOMING SALES DATES 23-24 GOFFS UK JAN - January Sale 2018 30-31 TATTERSALLS IRELAND JAN - February National Hunt Sale 1-2 TATTERSALLS FEB - February Sale 7-9 GOFFS FEB - February Sale 2017 15 TATTERSALLS (IRE) CHELTENHAM FEB - Cheltenham February Sale 15 TATTERSALLS (IRE) CHELTENHAM MAR - Cheltenham Festival Sale 05 THE IRISH TRAINER / JANUARY 2018 Michael Grassick in conversation with Chief Executive, Leopardstown Racecourse MICHAEL: “Talk us through your programme were considering whether the new festival for the year.” would work and how we should go about it. We also worked very closely with Jason Morris and PAT: “We hold 23 race days, 15 of those are Flat. the team in HRI to come up with a programme. The National Hunt season for us is quite short, We then had to talk to our existing sponsors as it’s a challenge for a dual-purpose track to they have a very important role in the event. maximise the ground for both codes. We build These days it’s all about festivals, be it sport our hurdles and fences from scratch every year. or entertainment; they’re becoming more and The most important thing is that we present the more important. People love these big days and best possible ground for racing. We are often they want quality. If you produce that, you have asked why we don’t have another National Hunt a good chance of having a successful event. meeting before Christmas but it isn’t feasible if we’re to have the track in the best possible MG: “Was it an easy sell?” condition for those four days of racing which are so important. PK: “Sponsors nowadays have a lot of choice We’re looking forward to the new two-day and all investment can be measured, so Dublin Racing Festival, it’s a big and very sponsorship must prove its value and there are exciting challenge. We felt the three meetings many other potential opportunities besides before were fine, but we couldn’t quite get them racing. On our side is the very strong position of to the level they deserved to be at for such Irish racing. Irish racing is in a very good place, quality racing. The Stan James Irish Gold Cup our racing is top quality and this is well fell a bit too close to Cheltenham and some recognised. Festivals are the shop window of trainers want more of a break, so the Dublin Irish racing and the sponsors really liked the Racing Festival, a week earlier, is nicely timed. Dublin Racing Festival. All our existing The most important people in our industry sponsors of the corresponding races will be are the owners and their representatives, the involved and we have attracted a number of trainers, and we sounded them out when we new ones, which is great. 06 MG: “Competing against international horses opens the door to which of our horses suit the major foreign races and provides an insight in class and conditions. We might change our opinion of what we had thought of as the right horse.” PK: International racing is so important and it is great to see the best horses racing against each other all over the world. Irish racing is being watched around the world and it is great to see the growth of streaming which facilitates this global viewing. The racing world is a small place now. The strength of the Longines Irish Champions Weekend is attracting British and French runners to Leopardstown and the Curragh and we will hopefully have a German runner before too long. We monitor the numbers who come for the We are keen to attract Japanese horses. music and we’re pleased that generally they arrive Racing is so well supported in Japan that if we early and are there for the racing. We also know had a Japanese runner, it would attract a big that they subsequently return for non-music race travelling party and also increase the viewing of days, so having experienced racing, they want to the racing in Japan. We were unlucky this year come back. We have an average of 5,000 at each of with the Japanese horse, but it will happen. We the Bulmers Live at Leopardstown Evenings and have guaranteed entry races in both Germany many of them are witnessing racing for the first and Japan and these are great to promote the time.
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