Surely he'd fail tests?
Surely he'd have seen what happened to Oisin Murphy?
Surely he couldn't be that stupid (or desperate)?
I'd be hugely sorry for him if that were to happen. I know he's an annoying wee shite but he's been brilliant for the sport.
If he keeps going on holiday, he won't be being tested and will have enough time to get it out of his system when he is back. I wouldn't be surprised one bit, he's been caught 3 times, how many times has he been lucky and not been caught? Even if not a regular ish habit? Others have been caught once and lost their careers over it, he's been extremely fortunate.
As Jinnyj says, a lot of the time his attitude stinks, and has for years. The difference is now more and more people are witnessing it, as he really thinks he can turn up when he likes as he likes and has a job. I feel sorry for Havlin as he does all the graft and FD gets all the glory. JG wouldn't employ him, Havlin, if he didn't rate him, he could have his pick of 'second' jockeys, so think very unfair to dismiss him as a bad jockey. He can't be that bad for one when he consistently 'hands' over progressive/unbeaten animals for the 'big' races for one.
FD's had it too easy for a while now, thinks the odd flying dismount and giggling at the camera will be enough. When doing things such as the Morning Line, he always looks as if he'd rather be somewhere else, and adds as much as someone who is.
I used to work for someone who employed him , and the rest of the staff in my section universally couldn't stand him , or rated him.
If the trainer has a microphone shoved in front of him immediately after the race and are clearly disappointed, especially if that was the penultimate race for Stradivarius , very very hard to say 'oh well never mind' and why shouldn't he be honest? If he had have said 'oh dear never mind' what would Dettori's view of the race have been? They obviously had spoken as camera with the winner, Ollie doing his 'sorry to interrupt' but isn't routine in the winners' enclosure. I bet a multi pack of curly wurlies that NO way would it have been as it was. He, FD, had nowhere to go knowing JG was peed off, so no way is he going to come out with the opposite analysis of events to the trainer. That would have really made him look as if the same old excuses were being trotted out, and none of it was his fault, but still the ' we got shuffled back' came out - well don't get in the position to be shuffled back Frankie. You do that not the horse. Along with the 'his legs aren't what they were' ... on the list of stock responses he has.
Even if it had been dealt with privately, the minute declarations out and he's not on JGs' horses, the story would have started.
In the days of Fallon, Kinane etc not so much media - there was no Sky/ATR/RUK so less airtime to fill. The advent of cable channels/online has pushed the need to fill airtime with something, seemingly at the expense of actually showing the animals, albeit a lot of it informative and entertaining on occasions.
I'm sure it will all blow over and they'll kiss and make up before too long though. Only a month to the KG...EU has to turn up for that surely?
