That when I went racing a few weeks ago, I heard someone call Aidan O Brien a mick ****, (not to his face or anything s he wasn't present, but at the Tote office), when an O Brien second string, won a maiden at Gowran? I'm sure it was a throwaway remark, made in a bit of anger, but if the comment is racist, in this day and age, you are exactly what you say, so it made him look like a racist.
I do wonder sometimes how ethnically rare groups find the racing world as a whole. Take Sean Levey for example, a black jockey. I know jockeys don't like to play the victim, so I wouldn't expect him to ever complain. They're a tough bunch that don't like sympathy, etc. But given white jockeys have been abused at the tracks, I wonder how someone from an ethnic minority would get on in a similar situation.
Perhaps I'm making too much of it?
Maybe another angle entirely, is that racing as a global brand/sport, has eroded these international barriers, in terms of household names like Frankie Dettori, being so successful wherever they've worked?
I'm just brainstorming here, if anyone wants to input feel free.
I do wonder sometimes how ethnically rare groups find the racing world as a whole. Take Sean Levey for example, a black jockey. I know jockeys don't like to play the victim, so I wouldn't expect him to ever complain. They're a tough bunch that don't like sympathy, etc. But given white jockeys have been abused at the tracks, I wonder how someone from an ethnic minority would get on in a similar situation.
Perhaps I'm making too much of it?
Maybe another angle entirely, is that racing as a global brand/sport, has eroded these international barriers, in terms of household names like Frankie Dettori, being so successful wherever they've worked?
I'm just brainstorming here, if anyone wants to input feel free.
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