It was not the whole article [about 5000 less words]. As the writer owns another website relating to racing and also sells a selection service, I thought the rule here was not to publish other site names that might compete with this site [?]

As far as copyright goes, yes there is copyright on material sent to selection service and sectional times clients [and I was one for 12 mths], but not on freely available material on the site. Nothing I posted in this thread or any other was or has been from any information I received as a client. In hindsight I should have printed the author's name, but that would have lead to the site ...Catch 22.

I'm quite happy to put the author's name as a credit on the [part] article, but it is no longer here.