European prize money payment
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(European Trainer - issue 33 - Spring 2011)
British racing - Looking to the future
Despite favourable recent debates in the House of Commons, the whole infrastructure of the betting world is in turmoil with the future of the Tote, as always, at the centre of the argument. Racing needs a radical rethink on the way it is funded. Betting exchanges and off-course betting emporia cannot be disinvented but some fairer mechanism for the provision of prize money must be found before owners decamp en masse to France and other jurisdictions.
Racing ills hardly compare with uprisings in Egypt, earthquakes in Haiti or famine in the Sudan. But 2011 promises a year of cutbacks in prize money, horse numbers and owners with the accompanying hardship for those employed in the industry. Already trainer bankruptcies are occupying unhappy column inches in the racing press while premature retirements from a sport which is much loved by its participants are an unwelcome adjunct to the professional lives of those who make their living in this rarified world.
Colin Mackenzie (European Trainer - issue 33 - Spring 2011)
Sports nutrition - Horses and humans. What parallels can we draw?
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European Trainer - issue 33 - Spring 2011)
TRM Trainer of the Quarter - Ioannes Osorio
The TRM Trainer of the Quarter goes to Ioannes Osorio for training Entre Copas with a record of 8 wins and 14 places out of 31 races.
Mariano Zomeno (European Trainer - Issue 33 / Spring 2011)
Overtraining the racehorse
Almost all trainers will have experienced a problem with individual horses, groups of horses, or sometimes even a whole yard where performance drops off for no immediately apparent reason. In human medicine we talk about chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) which can affect both athletes and non-athletes, but in athletes we may be more likely to talk about overtraining.
In people, chronic fatigue syndrome is well recognised but often poorly understood. It typically affects young to middle aged adults with women being more commonly affected than men. It is estimated that somewhere between 150,000-250,000 people in the UK alone are affected by CFS. CFS is also referred to as simply chronic fatigue, post-viral fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyeltis (ME). The latter term describes muscle pain and central nervous system inflammation but that is not always apparent in chronic fatigue patients and so the term CFS has become more commonly used.
Dr David Marlin (European Trainer - issue 32 - Winter 2010)
TRM Trainer of the Quarter - Freddy Head
The TRM Trainer of the Quarter goes to Freddy Head.
Editorial Writer (European Trainer - Issue 32 / Winter 2010)
