If I called a woman a fukcin whore in the work place, in a fit of pique or not, I would deserve the sack. What’s the craic with racing? Welcome to the 21st century.
The context is the workplace is the racecourse where people have died and been paralysed in recent times.
Jason Weaver has often recalled Mick Kinane and Johnny Murtagh going toe to toe in the jockeys room at The Curragh -two trained boxers -that's how much it matters. This isn't unusual in the international context.
Maybe they should wait until the following day and make a formal complaint to the H.R. department but when your neck is on the line it's hard not to be emotional.
He said it to intimidate a woman. It’s very, very doubtful he would have said similar to a bloke, and I’m pretty sure he could have taken up his gripe with the PJA. That language is not excusable in the work place ever. If you say something like that to anyone within any other industry, you should expect the sack.
barjon (2nd April 2022), chroniclandlord (2nd April 2022)
He couldn't have said similar to a bloke because the language was misogynistic. He would probably have thought twice about saying an equivalent - if there is such a thing (do you call a bloke a rent-boy?) to a bloke - because he might have got his teeth knocked out for it.
The Orchid household discussed the Will Smith incident at some length the other day. Mrs O was on his side and said, "I know [from experience, I should add] that you would have put his lights out if he'd said that about me."
It's very depressing that none of the males in the weighing room put his lights out there and then.
Illegitimi non carborundum
Yes, so much for the self-policing of the weighing room.
I think ye are missing the point. The bullying of Bryony WAS the policing of the weigh room. It's how things were done. It's why Dunne believes he did nothing wrong. It was Bryony who decided that it wasn't the right way of doing things.
The big thing bullies have had going for them for donkey’s years is that their victims have laid down to it all for fear of being ostracised as a cry baby or a tell-tale-tit. Indeed, victims were so ostracised. In the modern world there is, quite properly, understanding and sympathy for the victims instead - except in racing’s weighing room it seems. And, if Lydia Hislop is to be believed, the appeals panel. They are an absolute disgrace.
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Desert Orchid (2nd April 2022), Len Madeiros (2nd April 2022)
Lydia Hislop and Lee Mottorshead were not impartial in their reporting -they were cheerleaders for Frost.
reet hard (3rd April 2022)
Grasshopper (3rd April 2022)
Desert Orchid (2nd April 2022)
Ryan Moore makes his first visit to Cork tomorrow after riding at Naas, Navan and Leopardstown .
Any chance he is trying to be Irish Champion jockey this year ?
Any price available for him anyone ?
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reet hard (3rd April 2022)