Not in bad taste if his family approve.

Depends if it's with the consent of his family and is used to push the charity he worked for - if not it's a touch crass I agree.

Was on boots n all last night. His family had been to see the horse.

THe wife's thinking of naming a whippet after me when I'm gone.

I think it's pretty disgusting tbh. Using Steve Prescott's name to better the Doctor's reputation should not be applauded.

I'm half way on this one.
If he gives some money to the charity then great. If the family like it, then great
If he just used a name of a guy he never met.......not great.

As I understand it, any winnings will go to the SP foundation, which is fine.

I'm not big on jerking off over the wealthy making large charitable donations; it's all relative anyway and as the Gary Barlow case demonstrated, all is often not as it seems - lotta good work for charity, friend of the royals, received an honour - all whilst robbing HMRC.

Statistics show that the less well off give a higher % of their income to charity than the well off - we just do it in a quiet, dignified way, and not as a PR exercise.

You see I'm with Gary Barlow on that one.
The rules were set. He followed them. Just like the rest of the world.

Not like the rest of the world at all though; how many average working class people have a 'wealth creation' specialist come to them and say "how would you like to pay less tax? I have this scheme...?"

As with many things in this country, the system is geared up to make the very wealthy extremely wealthy, whilst the working classes shoulder the burden; the rich get richer, and the poor go to food banks. Yay the system.

Said it before me Bren,these outlets are created for the rich to steer round what normal hard working call paying their dues.It will never change as these people look after one another I'm afraid.Away from my little rant,I hope the Steve Presscot charity is well contributed by any fund raising past or present.

But that isn't Gary Barlow's fault.

Don't be ridiculous of course it's his fault he employed someone to try and break the law - he failed.

By what appears to be your logic if I break into your house and murder you it's your fault because you didn't fit good enough locks - think about it

Your right bren, he would have bought the horse anyway, he's just bought a bit of goodwill by calling it Steve Prescott.

but the winnings wouldn't have gone to the SP Foundation