It was just an ordinary race at Kempton Park held on a cool Wednesday evening yet once again it showed why a lot of punters are getting absolutely fed up with flat racing.

Dark Ranger was made the favourite and on the evidence of the form book, justifiably so. At 3/1 he represented a bit of a value bet for many as he should probably been about 6/4. And he may well have been but for one reason – the Jamie Spencer factor.

I must start with apologies to former British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, who had he been alive today would no doubt have been intrigued at the recent antics of Betfair, who once again have shown total disregard for the punters, the people who pay the wages. Not for the first time the company has declined to tell the truth and is hiding behind what can probably be best described as a web of lies.

Ryan Moore is not my favourite jockey, not because I don’t rate him as a rider but because I find his attitude and his unwillingness to communicate with the media rather tiresome. However, I can reveal that behind the scenes negotiations have more or less concluded a deal that will see him leaving Michael Stoute and joining the Coolmore operation of Aiden O’Brien next flat season.

I have probably surprised a few people by not – until now – making any comment about the changes to the whip rules. Personally I thought the changes were unnecessary and yet another example of how our spineless leaders had given in to societies do-gooders. But I refrained from commenting and decided to watch and wait. I am so glad I did, but even I have to admit that I have been surprised at the total inability of the BHA leaders to handle the situation that they have created. I’ve always known they’re not very bright, that they lacked leadership skills, that they did not understand racing in any shape or form and that they were a disaster waiting to happen. After all, I have highlighted this so many times in the past and used so many examples.

But I was wrong! None of the things I have mentioned in the past have come anywhere near the total lack of vision or understanding of this situation.

Paul Roy and his cronies should be congratulated on somehow finding it possible to stoop to depths previously unknown in their reign as Kings of British horse racing. It truly beggars belief and this is why!

So then, Aintree has given in to the do-gooders brigade and effectively destroyed the race from what it once was. Easier fences and Bechers Brook will never be the same again. Well that’s my view, although talking with Jim Sutton, he puts a different point of view.

It was no fun watching Rewilding come to grief at Ascot. A decent horse trained by a quality caring trainer and ridden by a top jockey. A horse that had been wonderfully treated and cared for in his short but successful career. Rewilding couldn’t have asked for more, apart from avoiding that cruel twist of fate that occurred in the King George.

There would be few people who deny that he had, like all racehorses, been pampered through his career.

Apart that is from that group of sick and misguided individuals masquerading under the name of Animal Aid.