Charlie Mann | Worcester faces walkover

Go Go Go Horse Race: Charlie Mann | Worcester faces walkover. Trainer Charlie Mann insists this evening's walkover at Worcester are going to be the primary of the many unless prize cash levels in racing improve.

Moulin De La Croix is as a result of complete the walkover during this evening's partex-direct.co.uk Novices' Hurdle once eleven of the twelve runners were taken out of the race as a result of a trainers' boycott.

The contest falls below the extent commenced within the Horsemen's cluster tariff by £900 however, once being warned of doable action, the course has not altered the entire.

The movement was organised by Mann and has the backing of the likes of Nicky Henderson, David Pipe and Donald McCain.

The Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Moulin De La Croix is currently set to require to the racecourse alone, therefore the prize-money is collected and distributed between trainers who can face inevitable fines.

Twiston-Davies said: "I am in agreement with the remainder of the trainers. Our mare can 'run' as we do not need to depart the racecourse with the cash."

Mann told At The Races: "The tariffs are set and it's unacceptable that we tend to're racing for the prize-money that we are.

"Racecourses' turnover was up last year and this year and bookmakers are creating profits.

"We're providing a product for these firms and we're not obtaining any come, that is wrong.

"They need to perceive that while not us, house owners and trainers, they can not perform."

This evening's concluding event at Worcester was a very high-class National Hunt contest for the time of year, that Mann revealed isn't a coincidence.

"We picked this race as it's underneath tariff and it is a novice race, that are easier to regulate than different races as we will place horses in that are adequate to stay different horses out," he said.

"It can happen once more next week and therefore the week once as so much as i am involved. till we tend to get this prize cash up, this can be aiming to happen.

"We told the racecourse last we tend toek we were aiming to boycott this race. All they'd to try to to was place up another £900.

"The solely reason this race is not being run is right down to Worcester racecourse and Arena Leisure.

"We gave them many warning. we tend to did this at Fontwell 3 weeks ago, they place the tariff up and that we did not take this action.

"Eleven horses have start off and therefore the reason we're leaving one in is as a result of we would like to require £3,000 from Arena Leisure.

"That can pay for the fines that are aiming to be imposed on the trainers that do not run and therefore the remainder of the cash can attend the Injured Jockeys' Fund."

Stuck within the middle of the dispute are the race sponsors, partex-direct.co.uk, who concentrate on cable identification systems.

Managing director Peter Symonds admits he's massively disappointed by the movement, having solely originally sponsored the race for charity.

A number of members of workers are as a result of pay the evening at Worcester and he feels it unfair that the race they sponsor has been targeted.

Symonds said: "We're clearly terribly disappointed as atiny low company.

"This could be a sponsorship we tend to undertake per annum. we tend to bring variety of workers to the track - there are fifteen folks returning tonight.

"We're booked into the restaurant {and we tend to|and that we} build an honest evening of it and it's extremely disturbing for us that we now not very have a race to sponsor.

"Part and parcel of the evening is our race. we tend to most likely would not attend Worcester on a Wednesday evening if we tend to did not have this race to sponsor.

"I do not assume we tend to gain an awful ton of enjoy our sponsorship of the race.

"We did it originally as a charity issue. i am concerned in greyhound racing and there was an auction for sponsoring this race for 3 years and every year I paid the cash that visited the Retired Greyhound Fund.

"That charity event isn't any longer held, thus for the last few years I've carried on the sponsorship and done it direct with the racecourse.

"I'm terribly disappointed because the race was jam-packed with trainers at the highest of their profession.

"There are many races throughout the year that are run below tariff that carry bookmakers names and things like this, they may have picked one thing like that."

Symonds has revealed that had the racecourse asked him to place up the additional cash so as to bring the race up to tariff, he would have thought-about it.

He said: "The race is £900 below the tariff level and that we might need thought-about that, however it's too late currently.

"We do not build a large contribution to the prize-money. we tend to solely purchase the advantage of having our name against this race."

Worcester is owned by the recently amalgamated Arena and Northern Racing cluster and Ian Renton, director of the new company, told The Times: "It is disappointing that trainers have targeted such a well-meaning course that is doing all it will within the circumstances.

"Since the downgrading of the levy in 2009, Worcester has suffered a hour reduction in daily contributions.

"We have place nearly all our income into prize cash and that we aim to fulfill the tariffs in all races next year."

Philip Hobbs, future president of the National Trainers' Federation, admitted to being "uncomfortable" with the action however that it had been a final resort.

His horse, Princely Player, was one in all those withdrawn.

"I'm slightly uncomfortable and would rather not attend these lengths, however we wanted to try to to one thing," said Hobbs.

"Arena have recently had a colossal rise in their media rights income however prize cash continues to fall. they'll positively do higher. Worcester hoping to fulfill tariff next year simply is not adequate."