Just been reading an article by Tom Kerr in Friday’s racing post.  He thinks the British Horseracing Authority were lenient on Rebecca Bastamin, basically he thinks a £5000 fine was not enough, ok her father gave one of her winners a Haemo 15 injection( on race day), I commented on it yesterday on my blog.

Judging by what Rebecca told the BHA, at the inquiry, she has very little money, so a fine of £5000 is very steep.  A number of years ago Rebecca spent the winter in Dubai working for Godolphin for about 5-6 months, she was at our Al Quoz stables.  What I can remember of her, was a very hard working girl, who was keen on learning the way everything worked in Dubai, which is very similar to USA.  The horses train every day on the track, as is the norm in America.   She seemed a nice quiet girl, who wanted to learn as much as she could about all aspects of the job.

I don’t know Tom Kerr and I don’t think he knows Rebecca very well.  I hope she can put things behind her, and move forward.  Hopefully she can keep training winners. Training is pretty tough, you need decent horses, and staff to be successful. Getting paid your training fees every month,  is the biggest issue the majority of trainers have, the BHA need to do something to help with that problem.  No doubt Rebecca will miss her father being around the yard, I am sure he has been a huge help to her since handing over the license, granted he made a mistake giving the horse an injection on race day, but this man has been a grafter all his life, who obviously loves the racing game, to ban him for 3 years is very harsh, as I see it.

Plenty of racing today.  I will try and put a free each way tip on later, with a bit of luck I can find something that will be in the mix at good odds.