️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️  Charity race at Cheltenham is supposed to be all about the taking part - except when serial winners Sir Alex Ferguson and multi-champion trainer Paul Nicholls are involved. (<unk> <unk> <unk> <unk>) Co-owner Fergie and Nicholls were so keen for the Ditcheat trainer's head lad Clifford Baker to ride the winner that his fancied mount Rainy City, which cost £100,000, had exploited the grey areas of eligibility for the last race on the Festival card yesterday.<unk> Co-owner Fergie and Nicholls were so keen for the Ditcheat trainer's head lad Clifford Baker to ride the winner that his fancied mount Rainy City, which cost £100,000, had exploited the grey areas of eligibility for the last race on the Festival card yesterday. <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> Sir Alex Ferguson (right) and Paul Nicholls (left) were at Cheltenham to watch Rainy City finish fifth. Rainy City, highly thought of in the Nicholls yard, had no BHA rating, and rival jockeys were concerned that Fergie<unk>'s horse was far superior to the rest of the field. The get-out clause buried in the fine print was that any horse without a rating could be handicapped by Cheltenham at their discretion. Rainy City finished an outpaced fifth, having led for most of the 1m 5f. Naturally we wanted to win.<unk>Nicholls said: <unk>Of course we wanted to win. But it's a charity race and we entered to give Clifford a ride.<unk> Arena Racing Company, which owns racecourses that stage 40 per cent of UK fixtures, still chose to hold their annual drinks party during Cheltenham, even though it is not one of their tracks. ARC<unk> appartient aux frères Reuben, les développeurs immobiliers milliardaires qui ont causé de graves troubles en fermant le populaire hippodrome de Hereford et en déplaçant ses réunions vers les pistes sur-courées de Chepstow et Uttoxeter. ️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️ <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> It<unk>t say<unk> much for the commitment to developing homegrown cricket talent that England selector Mike Newell, in his other role as Nottinghamshire's director of...
Sir Alex Ferguson and Paul Nicholls-owned exploited grey areas of eligibility for Rainy City to ride in the charity race at Cheltenham.<unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> Arena Racing Company hold their annual drinks at Cheltenham despite it not being one of the 40 percent of tracks they own in the country. England selector Mike Newell has signed Zimbabwe batsman Brendan Taylor as a Kolpak player in his Nottinghamshire role. <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk> LTA chief Michael Downey committed a sports administrator cardinal sin. ️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️<unk>️ £ 30,000 of memberships in the Cheltenham Club have been sold. / <unk> £ 30,000 of memberships in the Cheltenham Club have been sold.