3.00 (2m 3f 110yd hdle) 1, Essential Jaco
(J E Moore, 7-2); 2, Concrete King (7-2);
3, Gerico Ville (4-5 fav). 12 ran. 4Ol, Kl.
G L Moore.
3.30 (2m ch) 1, Gallic Geordie (Richard
Patrick, 7-4 fav); 2, Finnegan’s Garden
(11-1); 3, Elisezmoi (17-2). 7 ran. NR: Little
Light, Sir Egbert. 7l, 1Nl. S Drinkwater.
Placepot: £238.00. Quadpot: £23.40.
Musselburgh
Going: good to soft
12.15 (2m 3f 171yd hdle) 1, River Walk (B S
Hughes, 10-11 fav); 2, Mexican Boy (13-8);
3, Hold Onto The Line (13-2). 5 ran. 3Ol, 7l.
D McCain Jnr.
12.45 (1m 7f 124yd hdle) 1, Set In Stone(N Moscrop, 5-1); 2, Gemologist (5-2 fav);
3, Smart Lass (3-1). 8 ran. 2Nl, 4l. R Menzies.
1.15 (2m 4f 68yd ch) 1, Broadway Joe
(B S Hughes, 13-8 fav); 2, Just Call Me Al
(11-4); 3, Presenting Dylan (17-2). 6 ran. 9Kl,
14l. N W Alexander.
1.45 (2m 7f 180yd hdle) 1, Emirat De Catana
(Conner McCann, 9-4 fav); 2, Akentrick (14-
1); 3, Oscar Clouds (100-30). 8 ran. NR: Lissen
To The Lady. 1l, Kl. Miss Lucinda V Russell.
2.15 (2m 3f 171yd hdle) 1, Three Castles (Sean
Quinlan, 7-2); 2, Enlighten (5-2); 3, Go Bob Go
(4-1). 7 ran. NR: Coral Blue. 3l, 6l. K Dalgleish.
2.45 (2m 7f 170yd ch) 1, Rapid Raider
(S Mulqueen, 15-8 fav); 2, Lastofthecosmics
(7-2); 3, Raecius Felix (6-1). 9 ran. Ol, 9Kl.
Miss Lucinda V Russell.3.15 (1m 7f 124yd Flat) 1, Call Me Harry
(C O’Farrell, 85-40); 2, Rose Of Siena (15-8
fav); 3, Freddie’s Frontier (5-1). 7 ran.
NR: Ellistrin Star. 2Ol, 2Nl. I Jardine.
Placepot: £9.40. Quadpot: £5.10.
Wolverhampton
Going: standard
4.00 (1m 1f 104yd) 1, Ruby Red Empress
(Mr Henry Main, 28-1); 2, The Game Is On
(5-1); 3, Dark Esteem (20-1). 12 ran. 2Nl, 1Nl.
S Curran.
4.30 (1m 142yd) 1, Maytree Respite (Lewis
Edmunds, 9-2); 2, Base Note (20-1); 3, Jelly
Baby (16-1). 11 ran. 1Nl, 1Nl. W Muir C Grassick.
5.00 (1m 5f 219yd) 1, Celtic Classic (T E
Whelan, 9-2); 2, Cafe Milano (4-1); 3, Aide
Memoire (50-1). 9 ran. Nk, 4Nl. N B King.5.30 (1m 1f 104yd) 1, Hector’s Here (Jason
Hart, 11-4); 2, Carey Street (9-2); 3, Alyara
(11-2). 6 ran. Hd, Kl. I Furtado.
6.00 (1m 142yd) 1, Nankeen (Jack Mitchell,
1-2 fav); 2, Eternal Summer (15-8); 3,
Mutalaaqy (50-1). 7 ran. Nk, 1l. S E Crisford.
6.30 (1m 142yd) 1, Umm Hurair (T E Whelan,
6-4 fav); 2, First Lott (10-1); 3, Bearwith (5-2).
9 ran. 7l, 2l. R Charlton.
7.00 (7f 36yd) 1, Madrinho (Hollie Doyle,
14-1); 2, Always Dreaming (6-1); 3, Hector
Loza (11-2). 10 ran. NR: Mabre, The
Retriever. Kl, 1Nl. A W Carroll.
Jackpot: Not won. Pool of £27,956.07
carried forward to Ayr today.
Placepot: £185.50. Quadpot: £7.80.Making a splash
Swimming was Team GB's second
most successful sport in Tokyo -
having failed to win a single medal
only 21 years ago in Sydney.
Team GB’s top five sports in TokyoTeam GB’s swimming
medals since 2000Cycling
Swimming
Sailing
Boxing
Equestrianism6
4
3
2
2G 2 1 1 2 2
B 4 3 1 2 1
S Total
12
8
5
6
5Sydney 2000
Athens 2004
Beijing 2008
London 2012
Rio 2016
Tokyo 20200 0 2 0 1 4G 0 2 2 2 0 1
B 0 0 2 1 5 3
S Total
0 2 6 3 6 8Lingfield Park
Going: standard/slow
12.30 (2m Flat) 1, Gentle Fire (Danny
Burton, 16-1); 2, Zucayan (11-4); 3, Missfit
(14-1). 9 ran. 2l, 1Nl. S Drinkwater.
1.00 (2m 7f hdle) 1, Waikiki Waves (J E
Moore, 18-1); 2, Doyen Queen (7-2); 3,
Castcarrie (20-1). 14 ran. 1Kl, Kl. G L Moore.
1.30 (2m 7f 110yd ch) 1, Colonel Keating
(Tabitha Worsley, 6-1); 2, Invincible Cave (18-
1); 3, Doran’s Bridge (9-1). 7 ran. 3Nl, 6l. R Rowe.
2.00 (2m hdle) 1, Hudson De Grugy (J E
Moore, 7-2); 2, Calico (11-4 fav); 3, Wicked
West (9-1). 7 ran. 2Nl, Ol. G L Moore.
2.30 (2m ch) 1, Galop De Chasse (Charlie
Deutsch, 5-2 fav); 2, Golden Boy Grey (3-1); 3,
Fearless (7-2). 5 ran. 5Kl, hd. Miss V Williams.Yesterday’s racing results
playing football on Sunday mornings
too. That all changed when his right
foot was run over by a lorry. He lost
half the foot and has had more than
20 operations on it since.
In a two-year hiatus, before he was
fit enough to return to coaching, to a
new job at Maidenhead, he watched a
lot of other coaches and saw his
errors reflected in them. “I then had
to relearn how to coach,” he says. “I
used to run up and down poolside like
a nutter.” When he came back, he
was initially too proud to use a
wheelchair but he could not make it
work with crutches.
“Now I have to find a way of
motivating athletes in a calmer way,”
he explains. “I look back and I think I
used to over-enthuse them. There
were other mistakes I was making: I
was not humble enough. I was
arrogant about what I thought the
parents needed to know.”“I probably saw Paul as much as I
saw my parents,” Dean says. “A really
important figure in my life, he gave
me a love for the sport, taught me
work ethic, discipline, guided me
through the age groups, the ups and
the downs. And he handed me over as
a swimmer ready for the next stage.”
“Paul saw it as his job to prepare
Tom,” Jacquie says, “not to share
the glory.”
From Maidenhead, Dean then wentto train at Bath, where he is coached
by Dave McNulty, one of the national
coaches. After Dean’s first Tokyo gold,
McNulty made two phone calls home;
one of those was to Lloyd to thank
him for preparing Dean so well.
The night after the Maidenhead
garden party video went viral, Jacquie
invited guests back for round two.
This was the relay final. Another gold,
another delirious celebration. Taplin
joined the party that time.
“Tom has inspired me to get back
into it properly,” Taplin says. After he
and other Marlins squad members
had watched that 4x200m relay, they
went straight from Hughes’s house to
the pool to train.
The knock-on effect feels good.
Covid was a hammer blow for
swimming clubs but Marlins’ numbers
rocketed post-Tokyo. Lloyd did a
number of clinics with Dean which
were heaving. “The best thing you
can hear,” Dean says, “is a complete
stranger saying they’ve taken up the
sport because of something I did.”
The pandemic was terrible for
swimmers in brother William’s age
group — athletes who are at the stage
where they could easily drift off and
who need those crucial mid-teen
years for the process they call
“building the engine”. William
missed the engine-building.
“Physically and psychologically,”
Jacquie says, “that is hard.”
After the Olympics, when these
swimmers started drifting back to theMarlins, Dean wrote to them
individually to congratulate them for
coming back.
Taplin got going pretty quickly.
“Watching Tom was mesmerising,” he
says. He is now an open-water
specialist and, nine days after Dean’s
relay gold, he set a new record for
swimming the 43-mile combined
lengths of 13 Lake District lakes (in
three days). He is now hoping to bring
Dean on an open-water marathon
swim with him. The Strait of
Gibraltar perhaps, he suggests. They
are too skinny to do the Channel.
Dean’s own ambitions are well set.
“Winning an Olympic gold medal is
amazing and I am really proud of
what I achieved,” he says. “It’s the first
time in my career I was able to look
back and go: ‘I was actually able to
reach the pinnacle.’ But it is one thing
achieving Olympic gold, a very
different thing defending that title.”
It is not lost on him that two of his
heroes, Thorpe (in 2004) and Phelps
(2008) won the Olympic 200m
freestyle gold but neither were able to
defend their title. “If I can go to Paris
2024 and stamp my name on the 200
free again,” he says, “then that’d be
quite cool.”
He is in Abu Dhabi this week for
the World Short Course
Championships, which is kind of a
punchline to his tale. One remarkable
aspect of his Olympic achievements is
that all that success came despite
twice having caught Covid and twice
having his training seriously
interrupted. In Abu Dhabi, Covid
struck a third time — not through a
positive test but by him being contact-
traced. So his competitive year has
ended in self-isolation.
His last race of 2021 came two
weekends ago when he was at home
in Maidenhead and was persuaded to
turn out again for the Marlins.
Without any noise or forewarning, he
appeared poolside for two relays,
both of them with William in his
team. Heads were turned. It was like
finding Harry Kane playing against
you in non-league football. So the
knock-on effect then continued: kids
wanted photos of him, opposition
swimmers were posting “I swam next
to Tom Dean.”
Jacquie, meanwhile, got to see him
racing in the flesh for the first time in
two years. She particularly liked the
second relay where Tom was handing
over to William. No video was taken
this time.Newcastle
Rob Wright
2.25 Raiff 4.30 Vindobala
2.55 Rose Of Lancashire 5.00 Maywake
3.25 Forever’s Lady 5.30 Sugar Baby (nap)
4.00 Kaboo
Going: standard to slow Sky Sports Racing
Draw: no advantage
2.25 Handicap (£3,240: 1m 4f) (6)
1 (2) 10106 LOPES DANCER 26 (CD) H Bethell 9-9-12
Joanna Mason (3)
2 (6) 12102 MAJOR SNUGFIT 13 (T,V,CD) R Menzies 5-9-6
P Mulrennan
3 (5)^65003 RAIFF 18 P Kirby 5-9-2 D Swift
4 (1) 51223 CAN CAN GIRL 3 (V,CD) D Brown 3-9-0 B Robinson
5 (4)-0004BATTLE OF WILLS 10 (C,D) Ewan Whillans 5-8-13 R Scott
6 (3) 54423 NASTASIYA 10 T Davidson 3-8-13 J Hart
5-2 Major Snugfit, 3-1 Nastasiya, 4-1 Can Can Girl, Raiff, 7-1 Lopes Dancer,
14-1 Battle Of Wills.
2.55 Handicap (£2,700: 1m 2f) (14)
1 (14) 24312 MAHANAKHON POWER J28 (V,D) R Menzies 4-9-10
Laura Coughlan (5)
2 (11) 3341 ELEVEN ELEVEN 60 (H,C) I Furtado 3-9-8 J Hart
3 (12)^43120 ENGLES ROCK 18 (C) L Russell 5-9-7 Oisin Orr
4 (13) 50642 INTERNATIONAL LAW 8 (P,C) A Brittain 7-9-2C Hardie
5 (10) 63046 RECLAIM VICTORY 63 (P,BF) B Ellison 4-9-0 H Russell (3)
6 (3) 64454 PADDY ELLIOTT 11 (P) B Ellison 4-8-13 B Robinson
7 (6)^06345 SAULIRE STAR 99 (BF) T Easterby 3-8-11 D Fentiman
8 (9) 61240 ZEALOUS 42 (B) Ewan Whillans 8-8-9 R Scott
9 (8) 53504 SELECTO 92 Mrs Stella Barclay 4-8-7Joanna Mason (3)
10 (5) 00004 COSA SARA 7 J Goldie 3-8-5 Amie Waugh (5)
11 (7)0063-WILDMOUNTAINTHYME 482 Mrs Stella Barclay 5-8-5
F McManoman (3)
12 (1) 03000 GOLD RING 18 (T) T Waggott 4-8-5 A Mullen
13 (2) 43040 DANKING 22 A Crook 4-8-5 F Larson (7)
14 (4)^00625 ROSE OF LANCASHIRE 8 Mrs Stella Barclay 3-8-4
Josephine Gordon
4-1 Eleven Eleven, 6-1 Cosa Sara, 13-2 International Law, Zealous, 15-2
Saulire Star, 8-1 Engles Rock, 10-1 Rose Of Lancashire, 12-1 others.
3.25 Novice Stakes (£5,400: 6f) (9)
1 (1) 1 BLACKJACK 21 (CD) A Brown 4-9-8 D Swift
2 (2) 2532 ALHAMMAAM 19 (H,T) S C Williams 3-9-2 M Ghiani
3 (7) 00642 CANZONE 21 D C Griffiths 4-9-2 G Lee
4 (9) 6-0CLEAR ANGEL 43 (H) S Corbett 3-9-2 P Mulrennan
5 (6) 60340 DUE A WIN 21 (P) B Smart 4-9-2 G Sanna (7)
6 (5) 06000 THE LAST KNIGHT 48 Paul Collins 3-9-2Z Wheatley (7)
7 (4)0-30TISTAAHAL 118 A Brittain 3-9-2 C Hardie
8 (3) ELISHEVA Miss T Jackson 3-8-11 Doubtful
9 (8) 0-4FOREVER'S LADY 88 G Oldroyd 3-8-11 T Eaves
6-4 Alhammaam, 7-2 Blackjack, 6-1 Canzone, 7-1 Tistaahal, 8-1 Forever's
Lady, 12-1 Clear Angel, 20-1 Due A Win, 25-1 The Last Knight.
4.00 Novice Stakes
(2-Y-O: £3,672: 5f) (10)
1 (5)^6301 KABOO 89 (D) K Burke 9-9 C Lee2 (8)^15201 INSTINCTION 42 (CD) B Smart 9-8 G Sanna (7)
3 (2) 42402 LUCY LULU 42 (D) R Fell 9-4 J Peate (7)
4 (10) 20014 SASSY RASCAL 26 (D) G Boughey 9-4 D Tudhope
5 (3) 05 TOP NOTCH TOMMY 43 B Ellison 9-2 B Robinson
6 (4) WAVERLEY STAR A Brown 9-2 D Swift
7 (6) ALIA CHOICE K Ryan 8-11 T Eaves
8 (7) HELLO POWER R Fahey 8-11 C Murtagh (3)
9 (1) 00 MAD ARTYMAISE 43 I Furtado 8-11 J Hart
10 (9) OLIVIA'S CHOICE R Fahey 8-11 T Hamilton
7-4 Kaboo, 3-1 Instinction, 11-2 Alia Choice, 13-2 Sassy Rascal, 10-1 Lucy Lulu,
14-1 Olivia's Choice, 16-1 Top Notch Tommy, 20-1 Hello Power.4.30 Handicap (£4,347: 1m) (4)
1 (2) 23111 MASKED IDENTITY 11 (D) M Loughnane 6-9-10
Josephine Gordon
2 (3) 45542 TESTON 2 (B,D) I Furtado 6-9-10 Elle-May Croot (7)
3 (4) 03441 STAR SHIELD 21 (P,CD) D O'Meara 6-9-7 D Tudhope
4 (1)^40331 VINDOBALA 10 (T,C,D) T Collier 3-8-5 C Hardie
7-4 Masked Identity, 9-4 Star Shield, 3-1 Vindobala, 5-1 Teston.Course specialists
Ayr: Trainers D McCain, 14 winners from 51
runners, 27.5%; B Haslam, 3 from 12, 25%;
O Murphy, 9 from 37, 24.3%; M Walford, 3 from
13, 23.1%. Jockeys B Hughes, 47 winners from
227 rides, 20.7%; Mr K Alexander, 3 from 16,
18.8%; J Bowen, 3 from 20, 15%.
Newcastle: Trainers H Bethell, 3 from 12, 25%;
G Boughey, 8 from 38, 21.1%; M Wigham, 13 from
62, 21%; T Davidson, 6 from 45, 13.3%. Jockeys
Gianluca Sanna, 5 from 24, 20.8%; M Ghiani,
3 from 15, 20%; D Tudhope, 67 from 363, 18.5%.
Plumpton: Trainers H Fry, 6 from 16, 37.5%;
N Henderson, 7 from 26, 26.9%; Mrs L Wadham,
4 from 15, 26.7%; Dr R Newland, 4 from 16, 25%.
Jockeys H Bannister, 7 from 24, 29.2%;
Bryony Frost, 8 from 31, 25.8%; T Bellamy, 5 from
20, 25%.5.00 Handicap (£6,210: 7f) (5)
1 (3) 02350 ORBAAN 27 (T) D O'Meara 6-9-11 D Tudhope
2 (5)^00350 SANAADH 18 (T,CD) M Wigham 8-9-7 T Hamilton
3 (4) 32221 MAYWAKE 21 (CD) R Fahey 3-8-10 C Murtagh (3)
4 (2) 23412 LEAD STORY 21 (CD) K Burke 3-8-9 C Lee
5 (1)^40606 TOMMY TAYLOR 21 (D) G Tuer 7-8-4 C Hardie
2-1 Maywake, 100-30 Lead Story, 7-2 Sanaadh, 4-1 Orbaan, 15-2 Tommy Taylor.5.30 Handicap (£3,240: 5f) (8)
1 (4) 20324 GOOD EARTH 15 (D) M Herrington 4-9-7 T Eaves
2 (6) 06665 MUTABAAHY 8 (V,CD) A Brittain 6-9-7 C Hardie
3 (2)^34000 TERUNTUM STAR 45 (P,D) D C Griffiths 9-9-5 J Hart
4 (1) 50035 UBAHHA 5 (H) A Brittain 3-9-4 Mark Winn (7)
5 (3) 46200 TANASOQ 10 (CD) J Goldie 8-9-3 P Mulrennan
6 (8)^04345 FOR PEAT'S SAKE 21 (P,CD) M Appleby 3-9-1T Ladd (3)
7 (7) 60052 SUGAR BABY 21 P Niven 3-8-12 A Mullen
8 (5) 02433 BRIDGETOWN 38 (P) J Camacho 3-8-10 G Lee
7-2 Sugar Baby, 4-1 Good Earth, 5-1 Bridgetown, Mutabaahy, 7-1 Ubahha, 15-2
For Peat's Sake, 10-1 Tanasoq, 12-1 Teruntum Star.TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER MARC ASPLAND
Dean, with his
200m freestyle
gold, bottom left
— a win that was
watched by a 70-
strong party at
his mum’s house
in Maidenhead,
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