Fool Fergus Wilson runs no hoper in The Derby again

Fergus Wilson, horseracing's very own village idiot, is planning to run yet another million-to-one betting no-hoper in the Epsom Derby on June 7, 2008.

The Kent-based 'millionaire' has built a reputation for running horses with no chance in the betting in big races, most notably with million-to-one chances in the Champion Hurdle and Cheltenham Gold Cup. This year he has a useless hurdler called Maidstone Mixture being targeted for the Epsom Derby, for which the horse is 500-1 in the betting but ought to be a billion-to-one.

Maidstone Mixture has never won on the Flat, is trained in France and has been campaigned over hurdles. Fool Fergus has fallen out with Maidstone Mixture's French trainer, Richard Chotard, over his plans to run the useless Maidstone Mixture in the Epsom Derby. So much so that the horse is being transferred to Paul Murphy in England to be prepared for his Epsom fiasco.

Fergus Wilson has been the scorn of the racing press over the years and certainly the owner is either deranged, deluded or just plain stupid. He has risked the welfare of high class horses by running useless nags against them. The racing authorities have yet to do anything meaningful about this ridiculous risk to life and limb. It will take a major accident to stop such idiocy.

Moron Fergus believes his horse "will not be disgraced". In fact it is the entire sport of racing that is disgraced by this donkey Derby romp.

Fortunately Fergus Wilson claims to be retiring when he is 60, in a few weeks time. Not many people in racing will be sending him a birthday card but everyone will be pleased to see the back of this menace.

It is more likely that Fergus Wilson's property portfolio, made up of residential properties in Kent and Ashford is ailing. Wilson bought hundreds of buy-to-let properties on interest-only mortgages in his hometown of Maidstone and Ashford.

It is likely as the tide has turned against him in his business he is scaling back through necessity rather than "retirement". Fat Fergus Wilson was the subject of a TV expose on bad landlords. He is certainly a terrible racehorse owner, and like many of his tenants, racing will be be happy to see the back of him.

It is unfortunate that foolish Fergus Wilson leaves racing with one last blow - running Maidstone Mixture, a betting no-hoper and a hazard to all in the premier Flat race in the UK racing calendar, The Epsom Derby.

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