Dublin Flyer becomes Forster’s second fancied horse to be removed from the King George following the injury to Martha’s Son

Dublin Flyer becomes Forster’s second fancied horse to be removed from the King George, following the injury to Martha’s Son.”He won’t run on Saturday,” the 10-year-old’s owner, John Sumner, said yesterday. Our job now is to make international owners aware that if they are not in the race now, they can make an entry in March 1997 at the three-year-old stage.”. Racing

RICHARD EDMONDSON
Having been cut from 10-1 to 8-1 for the King George VI Chase by Ladbrokes on Tuesday, Dublin Flyer was cut from the race altogether yesterday. The curse of the privatised utilities seems to have snared even the “Magic Sign” and the bookmakers’ phone lines seem to be as frozen as Tim Forster’s Downton gallops.There is nothing wrong with the Captain’s gelding.

He has just found it more difficult than others of his trade to keep the horses going in the snap. A total of 554 horses – at a cost of pounds 250 – made yesterday’s initial entry stage, a figure 10.6 per cent down on the corresponding total of 620 published a year ago for the 1996 Derby.
Nevertheless, Edward Gillespie of United Racecourses said: “It’s a nice pool of horses to work with and we are now looking at the first pounds 1m Vodafone Derby, which has always been our target for next year. Next year’s Classic has attracted the lowest number of entries for the race since the entry date was put back for the 1992 race in order to ensure a larger pool of entries and prize-money. Maybe a couple took up the offer privately, but there was nothing expected of him beyond that.”This is the committee telling the world of its confidence in Matthew McCloy representing their views. It should put an end to the whole discussion so that we can get down to some proper work.”. The Derby, suffering in popularity with both racegoers and off- course punters, has also been slighted by owners.

But the level of support was minimal and most felt it was best all round if we stuck to what we said we would do.”Matthew offered to tell anybody on the committee who was interested what happened in New York. was rejected by a significant majority.
In October, en route to the Breeders’ Cup in New York, McCloy was handcuffed on the plane and detained for 48 hours. He pleaded guilty to the minor offence of disorderly conduct and, by not contesting it, secured his release and a speedy return to Britain.McCloy was asked to explain his conduct at the recent Industry Committee Forum but chose to ignore questions from trainers and breeders representatives. Only afterwards did he offer an apology.Despite continued disquiet from some areas of the industry, he has ridden the storm. Both the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association representative, Gerald Leigh, and the National Trainers Federation’s Ian Balding attended yesterday’s meeting.The Industry Committee executive, Annie Dodd, said: “There had been talk of extending the deadline and it was Matthew who brought it up before the committee today. More importantly, in receiving the backing of his fellow committee members, McCloy can perhaps start to put behind him the controversy that surrounded his trip to the Breeders’ Cup when he was held in police custody.

McCloy was the only nominee for the position by yesterday’s deadline and a proposal to extend the time allowed for nominations came from those that have been unhappy about McCloy’s conduct It. Though they did say, correctly as it turned out, that the child would be a girl.Many astrologers predicted natural disasters connected with water, but none mentioned Yorkshire by name, nor did they blame privatisation.The only one, as far as we can tell, to have predicted peace in Yugoslavia was Madame Hadaya, though her forecast of peace for all in 1995 and an end to all wars did turn out, like most of her colleagues’ predictions, to be a little over-optimistic.. Matthew McCloy, the beleaguered chairman of the British Horseracing Board’s Industry Committee, yesterday won a seat on the board itself for a four-year term. There had, after all, been 126 floods in Italy between 1976 and 1993. Last year, however, was a quiet one for such disasters.The one prediction we have been able to identify that did undeniably come true was that of French astrologers Madame Indira and Catherine Tranquilli, who forecast that Yasser Arafat’s wife would give birth to a baby, with whom daddy would be completely besotted.Since Mrs Arafat’s pregnancy had already been announced in December 1994, this prediction was not too remarkable. The book How to Massage Your Dog did, however, sell out in the United States, so canine Prozac can hardly be far behind.Hurricanes and quakes would hit the United States, said Maria Graciette, which seemed a fair bet. A flood disaster would hit Italy, according to others, which also seemed quite likely at the time.