Cap on numbers of horses in training?

Would it be horses that you actually run in a season? I don't know what it would be, but let me just sort of set out the principle.

I just think that sport relies on competition and obviously, you know, you have... it's difficult to have restraint of trade.

But when sport is so reliant on competition, you know, in flat racing, it can move to being a sort of global thing.

But in jump racing, it really isn't.

It's much more localised than that.

So I think it's really difficult.

Which one is it? I don't know.

Yeah.

So I like that form coming in, because Calendar Girl was a really good winner of the Oso Sharp.

She was quite fancied for the 1000 Guineas.

She obviously had a setback.

We didn't see her.

She's r- ran in the Dick Hern.

She looked like she relished, uh, that trip.

Lydia, for you?

Should you?

I suppose we, the media, or we, the observers, deem this to be the team tactics rule, just the way that we have all reasonable and permissible measures we call the non-trials rule.

I mean, what it's officially titled is assisting another horse in a race.

Now, right at the very start of his submission on day one, on last Friday, Louis Weston did make...

the case that he didn't have to prove intent for this breach to be upheld.

In his submissions, I infer that Rory McNeice has said that whilst that may be the case, in terms of the sanctions, none of them actually apply because whilst the rule may be invite the non-intent way of advantaging a stable companion, the sanctions do not strictly follow.

I think this is the scene that he has mined successfully.

rat.

What was the general vibe about the place? Was it ruined by the wind and the rain?

It was a bit, to be fair, yeah.

And it was building up to be a hell of a lot better than 12 months ago.

You could feel the difference on the Friday, even for the Oaks, you know, there was noise and excitement and hubbub prior to the racing.

You know, people were enjoying themselves.

There was definitely more people in the centre of the track on the hill than But with the weather forecast and the weather conditions, I mean, it just was it wasn't just the rain.

It was the wind.

Oh, I could actually make a career out of this.

Shall we, uh, kick off on that last point, and then how do you think Epsom did, even though they were bowled a pretty horrible googly by weather? And this, by the way.

Uh, a, high marks for, uh, for, for effort and a pretty good mark, relatively good marks for execution.

Um, I think, uh, clearly they, the, the, it felt better.

On, on Oaks Day, it felt better.

There was an atmosphere, which I can't claim to have felt 12 months earlier.

You know, there was noise, there were people chatting, there was a sense of excitement.

The balance of the card, and we'd said this on the Friday, the balance of the card over the two days, the, the 16 races, I thought was much betterIt felt like a better race meeting.

One step at a time."