The BBC report that the Jockey Club have banned Mick Quinn from training horses for three years after the RSPCA raised concerns about the condition of some of his charges.

As he will now be at a loose end we should perhaps entrust friend Marcelino and some of our other donkeys to his care.

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2001

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-- Anonymous, June 28, 2001

It's lucky for Robson/Wadsworth that the Jockey Club will not be investigating their charges ....

So if he's got nothing else to do, can Quinn still play or what?

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2001

still ?

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2001

or....what?????

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2001

We could hire him to eat up all the spare pies - all 18,000 of them!
Only joking, honest!

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2001

If his horses' girth was anything like his own then he obviously can't have been underfeeding them!

Jokes apart I do have some good memories of Mick. He scored 36 goals in first season with us including 4 against Leeds on his debut, and marked my first and only visit to the Goldstone Ground with another hat-trick.

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2001

When I read this topic title I thought we had finally got a firm offer for Marcelino. Then I read it and my heart sank.

It's not really on though, abusing horses. If he really has done it, I hope he is punished accordingly.

Marcelino, by the way, would be no good as a racing horse, you'd let him off the starting line and he'd wander around aimlessly, stumble over a fence and then pick up an ear infection and take a year out.

-- Anonymous, June 29, 2001