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Article: 'Now is the time to finish the job' Jim Bolger, who took the Turf Club to the High Court and won, talks to Michael Clowerabout the case and spells out the changes hebelieves still need to be made in Irish racing.(Sports)
- Article from:
- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 15, 1999
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Not content with beating the Turf Club in the High Court, Jim Bolger believes the time is right to strip it of a lot of its powers.
"I would leave them with the whistle so that they could still referee the races-but that would be all," he says.
Bolger has long been the Turf Club's most outspoken critic.
His first public attack came with his Moyglare Dinner address in 1984 and, little more than five years later, he made his now famous speech at a breeders' function in Kilkenny.
He described the Turf Club as a club "where pedigree counts for ...