18 April 3, 2022The Sunday Times 2GS
Sport
Ayr
Going: good to soft (good in places)
1.15 (2m 110yd ch) 1 Return Ticket (Sean Quinlan,
11-1); 2 Malystic (7-2); 3 Gold Des Bois (5-1). 7 ran.
NR: Coach Carter, Dubai Days, Some Reign. Nk, 9l.
R Menzies. Tote: £12.00; £3.30, £2.30. Exacta:
£55.80. CSF: £44.04. Tricast: £187.28. No 5 Some
Reign (16-1) was withdrawn not under orders. Rule
4 does not apply. Trifecta: £180.10
1.50 (3m 20yd ch) 1 Dusart (Nico de Boinville, 2-1
fav); 2 Sounds Russian (5-1); 3 Now Where Or When
(22-1). 8 ran. NR: Sail Away. ½l, 7½l. N J Henderson.
Tote: £3.00; £1.40, £1.50, £4.30. Exacta: £10.90.
CSF: £12.91. Tricast: £165.05. Trifecta: £157.50
2.25 (2m hdle) 1 Anna Bunina (S Bowen, 6-1); 2 West
Cork (5-2 fav); 3 Onemorefortheroad (4-1). 8 ran.
NR: Kihavah. 1l, ¾l. J C McConnell. Tote: £7.00;
£2.10, £1.40, £1.50. Exacta: £22.90. CSF: £21.20.
Tricast: £66.14. Trifecta: £72.20
3.00 (2m 4f 110yd ch) 1 Do Your Job (Richard Patrick,
11-8 fav); 2 Minella Drama (2-1); 3 Il Ridoto (7-1).
5 ran. 5l, nk. M Scudamore. Tote: £2.38; £1.20,
£1.40. Exacta: £4.30. CSF: £4.70. Trifecta: £10.90
3.35 (3m 7f 176yd ch) 1 Win My Wings (Mr R James,
13-2 Co fav); 2 Kitty’s Light (13-2 Co fav); 3 Major
Dundee (9-1); 4 Fidux (66-1). 23 ran. NR: Streets Of
Doyen. 7l, 5l. Christian Williams. Tote: £7.50; £2.10,5.23
STRONG FLAVOURS CATERING MARES’ OPEN NH FLAT
RACE £2,178: 2M 2F (6)
1 21 Presenting A Queen 30 C Gordon 11-5........................T Cannon
2 0 Claire As Mud 40 (P) A Murphy 10-12..........................J Quinlan
3 21 Desert Fortune 91 Christian Williams 10-12.....................J Tudor
4 0 Dunatara 35 Mrs D Grissell 10-12............................M Goldstein
5 0 Kentford Swansong 59 Seamus Mullins 10-12.......D Sansom (3)
6335 Konigin Isabella 71 (T,BF) A Honeyball 10-4..................R Dingle
Betting: 6-5 Presenting A Queen, 2-1 Konigin Isabella, 4-1 Desert
Fortune, 12-1 Kentford Swansong, 20-1 Claire As Mud, 100-1 DunataraTODAY’S
RACECARDS
Hereford
Going: good
Thunderer’s tips: 1.00 Éclair On Line. 1.35 Rathmacknee.
2.10 Neville’s Cross. 2.45 Maliboo. 3.20 Bebraveforglory.
3.55 Peterborough (nb). 4.30 Twinjets.
1.00
CAZOO CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS’ HANDICAP CHASE
£5,010: 3M 1F (7)
1 PU4U32Wigglesworth 19 (B) Dr R Newland 7-11-12.............C Leonard (3)
2 F-662FBig Difference 9 (V) B Pauling 9-11-9................Luca Morgan (3)
3 -446PUExod’ela 16 (P,T) J Snowden 8-11-6........................A Bellamy (3)
4 53/P3FÉclair On Line 24 (P,T,BF) C Longsdon 8-11-2............Lilly Pinchin
5 P56FU6Ballybreen 23 (P,T,CD) E Williams 9-10-10.......Isabel Williams (3)
6 1F-2PPEaton Miller 36 (P) R Potter 10-10-1.............................D Hiskett
7 -02P40Take Em Out 73 (P,T) B J Llewellyn 10-10-0.............Charlie Price
Betting: 9-4 Big Difference, 3-1 Wigglesworth, 7-2 Éclair On Line, 5-1
Exod’ela, 12-1 Eaton Miller, Ballybreen, 20-1 Take Em Out
1.35
MANOR ELITE HORSEBOX ‘NATIONAL HUNT’ MAIDEN
HURDLE £5,446: 2M 4F (9)
1 2/2233Drenagh 21 (T) A Ralph 7-11-6.................................N Scholfield
2 010PHolerday Ridge 43 (H,T) Claire Hitch 7-11-6..............H Bannister
3000 Martalmix’jac 53 (H) M Rowley 5-11-6..................A Edwards (3)
4 0 Mole Court 131 B Pauling 5-11-6...................................K Woods
5 P-133Rathmacknee 18 N Henderson 6-11-6...........................J Bowen
6 /21-23Striking Out 112 Henry Oliver 8-11-6...........................L Williams
7 0-2432Sure Touch 22 (T) O Murphy 6-11-6...........................A Coleman
8 51-3Trevada 322 O Sherwood 6-11-6..................................J J Burke
93435 Emorelle 52 E Williams 5-10-13......................Miss E Williams (7)
Betting: 15-8 Sure Touch, 4-1 Emorelle, Rathmacknee, 5-1 Drenagh, 13-2
Trevada, 12-1 Striking Out, 25-1 Mole Court, 66-1 others
2.10
ROYALEQUESTRIAN BEDDING SUPPORTS LITTLE PRINCESS
TRUST NOVICES’ LIMITED H’CAP CHASE £6,535: 2M 5F (4)
1101142 Neville’s Cross 109 (BF,CD) T Lacey 7-11-8...............S Sheppard
2 3-F261Orrisdale 62 (P,CD) Jonjo O’Neill 8-11-3................Jonjo O’Neill Jr
3 2-212PJeremy Pass 59 (P,T) P Nicholls 7-11-3........................H Cobden
4 1P2132Galop De Chasse 26 (BF) V Williams 6-10-11...............C Deutsch
Betting: 13-8 Orrisdale, 2-1 Neville’s Cross, 4-1 Jeremy Pass, 5-1 Galop
De Chasse
2.45
MANOR ELITE HORSEBOX MARES’ HANDICAP HURDLE
£3,730: 3M 1F 119YDS (9)
1 1-2P23I Spy A Diva 46 K Bailey 5-11-12 D Bass
2051121 Maliboo 4 N Mulholland 9-11-11..............................K Brogan (3)
RACING
RESULTSLord Baddesley (3.40 Plumpton)
The Chris Gordon-trained seven-year-
old has been crying out for this step
up in trip and his penultimate effort,
when a staying-on fourth in the
Betfair Hurdle at Newbury, is easily
the best bit of form on offer. Things
didn’t pan out for him last time and
he can win at the main expense of
Bourbali.THUNDERER’S
TIP OF
THE DAY
3 0510-0Especially So 35 M Scudamore 7-11-9.........................R Patrick
400640 Call Blue 35 N Twiston-Davies 5-11-5...............S Twiston-Davies
5 -24035Dancing Dani 51 Mrs N Evans 7-11-3.........................J M Davies
6 4-F042Just Go For It 13 (C) Mitchell Hunt 9-10-9........................J Best
75000 On Time 10 E Williams 6-10-8.....................................A Wedge
8 -5P036Queen Of Fame 28 (B) N Kent 8-10-1......................C Hammond
9 000/03Sparkling Dawn 18 (T) R G Hawker 10-10-0..........Sean Houlihan
Betting: 2-1 Maliboo, 4-1 Just Go For It, 6-1 Sparkling Dawn, 13-2 I Spy A
Diva, 8-1 Call Blue, 10-1 Queen Of Fame, 14-1 others
3.20ROYAL EQUESTRIAN BEDDING FREQUENT RUNNER FINAL
HANDICAP CHASE £3,513: 2M 3F (8)
1003102 Salamanca School 135 W Greatrex 5-11-12...............H Bannister
2 -12435Gouet Des Bruyeres 98 (T,BF) O Greenall 6-11-10...J Andrews (5)
3114020 Captain Cobajay 176 Dr R Newland 9-11-9........S Twiston-Davies
4 00-513Bebraveforglory 27 (BF) E Williams 6-11-3...................A Wedge
5636353 Gosuatri 27 (B,T) Jonjo O’Neill 6-11-2...................Jonjo O’Neill Jr
6 00643FAnuas Ar An Bpost 10 (P) David Dennis 6-10-7...........C Todd (3)
7 0P-06PGlobal Frontier 107 (P) Mrs N Evans 8-10-0................J M Davies
8 /04-6PSmartmandarcy 60 (H,P) Claire Hitch 7-10-0........Sean Houlihan
Betting: 5-2 Gosuatri, 7-2 Bebraveforglory, 4-1 Salamanca School, 5-1
Anuas Ar An Bpost, 6-1 Gouet Des Bruyeres, 8-1 others
3.55ROYALEQUESTRIAN BEDDING & MANOR ELITE
HORSEBOX HANDICAP HURDLE £3,730: 2M (11)
1 3-3634Balleticon 21 (T,D) K Bailey 8-11-12...........................C Gethings
2 64-543South Mountain 31 (H,T) B Pauling 6-11-11....................K Woods
3243241 Peterborough 59 E Williams 9-11-10...............Isabel Williams (3)
4 -6P510Shiroccy Road 74 (T,D) E Lavelle 6-11-4......................B R Jones
5 0111-0Sehayli 133 (T,CD) R G Hawker 9-11-4.....................K Brogan (3)
6 2-050FI Will Follow Her 67 (H) M Rowley 8-11-3...............A Edwards (3)
7 0-600Little Brown Mouse 226 A Wintle 5-10-12......................B Poste
8 0000-PMoved In March 13 M Young 6-10-6................................J Best
9 24020FKarannelle 142 (H,T,D) D Rees 7-10-3...........................S Bowen
10 PP00Kolisi 59 (T) D Pipe 4-10-0....................................T Scudamore
11 0-000PKing Of The Story 35 (T) Mrs K Stephens 6-10-0...Sean Houlihan
Betting: 13-8 Peterborough, 4-1 South Mountain, 6-1 I Will Follow Her,
Karannelle, 10-1 Balleticon, 12-1 others
4.30CAZOO OPEN NH FLAT RACE
£2,614: 2M (5)
1 2 Bobby Socks 116 (BF) O Murphy 11-1.........................A Coleman
250 Feast 82 F O’Brien 11-1.................................................C Brace
30 Lucky Lugger 86 M Rowley 11-1...........................A Edwards (3)
4 The Bold Thady N Mulholland 11-1....................S Twiston-Davies
5 1 Twinjets 94 M Harris 11-1..........................................M Bastyan
Betting: 2-1 Bobby Socks, 9-4 Twinjets, 3-1 Feast, 13-2 The Bold Thady,
12-1 Lucky LuggerPlumpton
Going: good-good to soft in places
Thunderer’s tips: 1.55 Saligo Bay. 2.30 Hiway One O Three.
3.05 Gleno. 3.40 Lord Baddesley (nap). 4.15 Good News.
4.50 Loup De Maulde. 5.23 Desert Fortune.
1.55SUPPORT THE SUSSEX CANCER FUND MAIDEN HURDLE
£4,357: 2M (6)
1 3-55U3Alto Alto 20 C Gordon 5-11-6......................................T Cannon
2400064 Joint Account 20 (P) D Frankland 9-11-6..................M Goldstein
3 06 Major Reward 25 Suzi Best 6-11-6.............................B J Powell
4 00-3P0Noahthirtytwored F88 (T) A West 6-11-6...................L Edwards
5 4 Mamluk 30 Christian Williams 4-10-12............................J Tudor
6622 Saligo Bay 18 G L Moore 4-10-12............................Jamie Moore
Betting: 8-15 Saligo Bay, 5-2 Alto Alto, 10-1 Mamluk, 16-1 Major Reward,
33-1 Joint Account, 100-1 Noahthirtytwored
2.30
GLOBAL HERBS SUPPORTING EQUINE ATHLETES
HANDICAP HURDLE £4,139: 2M 4F 114YDS (5)
1 3-3P3Technological 11 (P) M Harris 7-12-1........................B Harris (10)
2 -50102Hit The Rocks 13 G L Moore 7-11-12...............Tom Cheesman (5)
3050511 Hiway One O Three 16 (T) C Gordon 5-11-8..................T Cannon
4354362 Fred Bear 15 Miss S West 4-10-12............................M Goldstein
5 P6P31PStrike The Flint 171 (B,BF,CD) Miss Suzy Smith 8-10-6..M G Nolan
Betting: 10-11 Hiway One O Three, 4-1 Hit The Rocks, 6-1 Strike The Flint,
7-1 Fred Bear, 8-1 Technological
3.05HOLLYWOODBETS APPRECIATION FOR SUSSEX CANCER
CENTRE HANDICAP CHASE £6,862: 3M 2F (5)
1 11223PTommie Beau 46 Seamus Mullins 7-12-1.....................M G Nolan
2 45P143Len Brennan 12 (P,CD) M Harris 9-11-10..........................H Reed
3 -23052Gleno 20 (BF) G L Moore 10-11-8...........................Joshua Moore
4056124 Aye Aye Charlie 159 (BF) Christian Williams 10-11-8.........J Tudor
5 50P164Prairie Town 23 (P,CD) A Carroll 11-11-0..................Jamie Moore
Betting: 2-1 Len Brennan, 9-4 Gleno, 4-1 Aye Aye Charlie, 9-2 Tommie
Beau, 10-1 Prairie Town
3.40HOLLYWOODBETS CELEBRATES FIGHTERS OF CANCER
HANDICAP HURDLE £8,332: 2M 4F 114YDS (6)
1 10/420Burrows Edge 71 (P,D) N Henderson 9-12-2......Sean O’Briain (10)
2 4P3P44Lord Baddesley 29 C Gordon 7-11-12..........................T Cannon
3112225 Luckofthedraw 67 (BF) T Bulgin 9-11-7..............N F Houlihan (3)
4 -14321Bourbali 26 C Tizzard 5-11-6......................................B J Powell
5 -61350Ray’s The One 26 (P) G L Moore 5-11-0.................Joshua Moore
6 21F145Global Agreement 26 M Harris 5-10-7...........................K Jones
Betting: 11-8 Bourbali, 3-1 Lord Baddesley, 6-1 Luckofthedraw, 7-1
Burrows Edge, 15-2 Global Agreement, 14-1 Ray’s The One
4.15HOLLYWOODBETS PROUD TO SUPPORT SUSSEX CANCER
FUND HANDICAP HURDLE £4,139: 3M 1F (7)
1 U53PWild Wilbur 90 E Lavelle 6-11-12 T Bellamy2 0-020PCrawford 90 (T) M Bradstock 6-11-11..............................J Tudor
3 -PF431Good News 34 (V,CD) Mrs L Richards 10-11-11..............T Cannon
4 -3545PManning Estate 98 (P) O Sherwood 8-11-10............A Jordan (10)
5 P11005Jumping Cats 16 (B) G L Moore 7-11-8.....................Jamie Moore
6 0-0000Precious 58 A Honeyball 6-10-0...................................R Dingle
7 55-3PPJappeloup 62 (P) Mrs D Grissell 13-10-0........Tabitha Worsley (3)
Betting: Evens Good News, 5-1 Jumping Cats, 6-1 Wild Wilbur, 8-1
Crawford, Manning Estate, 10-1 Precious, 50-1 Jappeloup
4.50WEST SUSSEX BREAST SCREENING SERVICE
CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS’ H’CAP CHASE £6,862: 2M 4F (5)
1102445 Darebin 26 (B,C) G L Moore 10-11-12..................N F Houlihan (3)
2 -36362Silent Assistant 15 E Lavelle 8-11-9..................J R Wildman (10)
3515453 Balkardy 20 (P) E Williams 5-11-5.................................F Gillard
4231322 En Coeur 15 (T,C) Seamus Mullins 8-11-1.....................D Sansom
5043362 Loup De Maulde 20 Christian Williams 5-10-12...........J Tudor (3)
Betting: 13-8 Loup De Maulde, 5-2 En Coeur, 5-1 Darebin, 6-1 Balkardy,
7-1 Silent AssistantI believe in
a protected
female
category
The guidance that was released last
year by the Sports Council Equality
Group, which includes UK Sport,
concluded that “for many sports, the
inclusion of transgender people,
fairness and safety cannot co-exist in
a single competitive model”. So what
is a sport’s priority? For elite sport,
either you prioritise inclusion or
fairness — you cannot prioritise both.
Testosterone suppression does not
make it a fair competition. It is plain
to see the physical differences
between men and women. Reducing
testosterone levels is just a tiny part
of it and doesn’t negate the effects of
puberty on the male body. A female is
not just her testosterone levels. We
are more than that.
It seems to me that the governing
bodies of some sports could be on
the wrong side of this argument and
are not looking after 50 per cent of
their membership.
There are ways to achieve inclusion
in grassroots sport. I would like
people to be able to live however they
choose to live and identify as
whatever and whoever they want to,
but, in elite sport, I still believe in a
female category. There is a reason
why a protected category for
women’s sport was created, the same
as for different age groups and
different disabilities.
I believe the best way forward is to
have a female category and an open
category, and the female category
cannot be opened up to anyone who
wasn’t born female. The open
category would be a safe space for
everybody, whatever their gender,
and wouldn’t inhibit anyone’s rights.
But it would protect women’s sport.
I sense there is disappointment that
some governing bodies haven’t
worked to protect women’s sport
better. Whether or not trans athletes
are winning is irrelevant. If you take
the situation with the swimmer Lia
Thomas at the NCAA championships
in the US last month, there aretrope of the predatory trans woman
lurking in the shadows of changing
rooms or bathrooms.
Emily Bridges isn’t a threat to
women’s sport and she isn’t cheating
anyone out of their place. She’s
making her way into womanhood
through a different path, which is
incredibly difficult even when you
negotiate it in private, so to do so in
the glare of all the attention she is
under is remarkable.
Even more commendable, she is
participating in research to provide
the data that everyone is so desperate
to pore over and base their sporting
regulations on. No more feelings,
concerns, prejudices and ideology;
just actual numbers that can be
verified. So far they show her power
outputs have reduced significantly
and are now in the female range.
Same for haemoglobin — so thatPIPPA
YORKI
have made the mistake of reading
another dreadful story that redu-
ces trans women down to their
DNA again. I wonder why it is
even called a debate. It never is,
at least not a two-sided one. No
balance. No empathy.
This is the toxic environment
Emily Bridges finds herself in —
endless talk about trans women
invading sport, taking girls’ places,
erasing them, denying them a future.
Framed as concerns, fairness, safety.
Eventually it reaches the ridiculousWHAT YOU MAY NOT
HAVE READ ABOUT
EMILY
BRIDGES
The late exclusion of the cyclist was
down to bureaucracy, not fairness
scholarships, places on teams, in
finals, on the podium at stake for
female athletes. The ripple effects of
one trans woman competing are huge.
People are asking: why are athletes
so quiet on this subject? What worries
me the most is whether they are
being gagged and whether they are
being allowed to speak freely on this
subject. If not, why not?
There is a history of women not
being able to speak up. We are where
we are now because women have
had to fight for their position. It
seems again that women are being
gagged — they may be being
discouraged from speaking out
against their governing bodies, or
afraid of being abused online.
There is an attitude of “deal with
it and shut up”. Decisions are being
made by men. I find that frightening
and a dangerous precedent to set.
lKaren Pickering is a former world
champion and Olympic swimmer for
Great BritainKAREN
PICKERING
Stephen Park, the performance
director at British Cycling,
yesterday described the
transgender debate as the “single
biggest issue for Olympic sport”.
“It’s important to have the
discussion and to
understand the
challenges sport
faces,” he said.
Park was speaking
24 hours after the
multiple Olympic
champion Laura Kenny,
inset, had withdrawn
from yesterday’s omnium at
the national championships in
Derby. Sources have told The
Sunday Times that female riders
were discussing taking some form
of action had Emily Bridges, the
transgender cyclist, been allowed
to race, amid reports of a boycott.The riders were said to be afraid to
speak to the media, worried that
expressing concerns around
fairness could lead to accusations
of being transphobic. On Friday
Kenny’s representatives said
she had no intention
of discussing the
issue publicly.
How the riders may
respond if Bridges
is drafted into the
British women’s elite
programme remains to
be seen. If the UCI, the
sport’s world governing
body, does not issue a ban, British
Cycling may be forced to select
Bridges as a female rider as a legal
requirement under the Equality
Act. Insiders nevertheless suspect
that objections could surface from
within the women’s team.CYCLING CHIEF: TRANS CONTROVERSY IS
SINGLE BIGGEST ISSUE FOR OLYMPIC SPORTFor elite sport,
either you prioritise
inclusion or fairness
— you cannot
prioritise both