Matt Chapman
@MCYeeehaaa
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📺@itvracing @attheraces ✍@SunRacing @paddypower 🙋🏼♂Agent: @jsccomms. 🎤Ambassador @eventmastersuk 📩 Msgs: https://t.co/vjJASTRVdk
London, England
Joined April 2011
Bang. I’m fairly sure you will love this and @92bryan92 superb. Also featuring @NdeBoinville @PFNicholls @sevenbarrows 🏇💪 Yeeehaaa!.
🧐 Cheltenham reflections.🏇 DRF preview.🥊 @92bryan92's beef with Paddy. The latest #Unbridled with @MCYeeehaaa and @PaddyBrennan81 is here, in association with @BoyleSports!.
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May Her Majesty The Queen rest in peace. Thank you. Thank you for everything 🙏🙏🙏
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So @Keir_Starmer spends over 4 minutes slating @BorisJohnson and the Government without putting forward a single idea of his own. Not one! Good old British politics. Why not come on and tell us what you would do differently? Then we actually have something to compare. Yeeehaaa!.
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When you make it to 80! So proud of my mum. Adopted. Never found her parents. Married to my dad for 35 years who was a cool but pretty outrageous bloke. Still smiling despite being alone since he died 25 years ago. She’s done all she can for me, as I do now for her 💞 🎈🎉
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A world class jockey. A world class person. Leaving the world far too soon. Honoured to have known you @patjsmullen you absolute legend. Cancer is just so horrid. #rip
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Everyone is appalled by the Gordon Elliott picture, but there’s no point in people denouncing the act in a way which means they themselves lose all class & decency. People take their own life over continued abuse. Seemingly justified or not, there comes a time to just hold back.
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Liam Treadwell. A young man. Loved & liked. Gone. This is the most important column I have ever written. If you have an issue with who I write for perhaps just put that to one side and have a read. Retweets much appreciated for those who get it. Thank you.
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. and that was that. Whatever anyone says - just the best sport. @CheltenhamRaces thank you. And thank you all for watching @itvracing. Goodnight. 🏇🏻🙏
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Amateur jockey Lorna Brooke has sadly and tragically passed away. We can only send our deepest sympathy to her friends and family. And remember the sport we love can be so so tough. #rip
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Let's get this straight. Those who want horse racing banned due to a tiny % of fatalities are actually saying they want all race horses never to have lived. A totally illogical argument. And the saddest thing of all - the fatalities hurt those most who love them. Racing people.
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All we can do is pray for Her Majesty The Queen @RoyalFamily who be in no doubt is horse racing’s most treasured supporter 🙏🙏🙏
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So @bet365 makes huge profits. But to tell all workers their jobs are safe until August and all wages paid is what every family and worker needs to hear. Credit where credit is due. 🤝🙏.
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This is my full Gordon Elliott reaction on @attheraces. Many of you may have only seen half of it on the @attheraces feed.
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No words needed for what has happened to @HuntyCaller and family today. Impossible to comprehend the pain. Just know we are all here for you John. We love you pal - racing loves you 🙏🩵.
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I am 100% behind our champion jockey @oismurphy. In life you make choices with people. To believe in them or not. I’m a believer in Oisin. 🤝🏇🏻 #champion #respect.
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Sad to report Madge (97) of @AtTheRaces On the Line fame is in hospital and not at all well. Will try go see her next week. I do know she asked for @itvracing to be shown in her ward so she could keep an eye on me #prayformadge
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I hope @Chrisrich25 forgives me, but before I left @NewcastleRaces @AtTheRaces he gave me a card. It’s not often you get something that makes you feel good about the world - so I’m sharing (sorry Chris!!!) because all of racing should feel proud about this story. 💚🙏🏇🏻
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Christmas comes and goes. Life doesn’t. Anyone upset about restrictions at Christmas has no sense of what actually matters. Just make the best of it and be happy if you are not ill or dead. 🎄.
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Sad to let you all know that 97yo Madge - of @AtTheRaces On the Line fame - passed away at the weekend. Thank you so much to @dickyjohnson77 & @FrankieDettori who sent her loving messages. She adored both. A legend of a lady. RIP Madge. ❤💛🧡💚💜💙
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Mumma Chapman 82 today. Thrown away by her parents and adopted three months after being born. Been on her own for 27 years since dad annoyingly died. Could not be more proud of her. Absolute warrior. Adores racing. Watches it all every day. And loves a Bakewell tart 🏇🙏
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Sad to hear the passing of @RealMcCririck or 'Big Mac'. Class journalist in his day and without doubt the best betting ring commentator there has ever been on TV. Unique. One of a kind. Always supported me. #rip #respect.
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Merry Christmas everyone. Have a fabulous day and be happy 🎄☃️ Yeeehaaa 🎁
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Just found this pic. Often when Sir Henry Cecil and I had lunch he bought me a tie. Miss you my friend. Would love a chat right now. Legend. 💜 #hero
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Punctured lung. 6 broken ribs. Smile on face. That's a jockey for you!!! Crazy people. Good to see @FinnyMaguire1 alive and nearly kicking. Get well soon top man from all racing fans @itvracing @CheltenhamRaces. Tough jocks. Yeeehaaa! 🏇😎
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A friend. A hero. A legend. Seven years on from his passing and I still think of Sir Henry Cecil most days. I have no idea why he liked me. But I will be forever grateful he did. 🌈❤️🏇🏻
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Just seems a good time to post this again! Enjoy. @josephinegordo @ChelmsfordCRC @AtTheRaces. This is what we are all missing. Yeeehaaa!
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You mug a lady who has managed to live to 100 and she dies. You get caught. Then you get executed. Only punishment suitable.
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Want to wish @patjsmullen all the best in his battle against illness. Quite simply Pat is one of the world's great riders, & in my covering of Irish racing on @AtTheRaces he has been one of the legends I have respected & enjoyed meeting most. Tumour v Smullen. I take Smullen. 👊.
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That was un-beli-ev-able. Orgasmic @realfaugheen. You beautiful beautiful boy. Mwah 💜 Yeeehaaa! 🏇😎
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So proud of this boy today. Aged 12. Ran his heart out & was arguably unlucky for @WillieMullinsNH @CheltenhamRaces @itvracing. Was fully prepared for him to be pulled up. But he was running for all the right reasons - a horse who deserved his chance to show us what he can do ❤️
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Wow. @dickyjohnson77 has retired. Been an incredible man and jockey for the sport of horse racing. A credit to himself and the game. @AP_McCoy v @dickyjohnson77 shone a light on the sport. Thank you. Legendary champion. Have a Yeeehaaa! 🕺🏇🏻.
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Still a huge struggle for Graham Lee. “Graham’s MRI scan has shown that he has suffered an unstable cervical fracture causing damage to the spinal cord, as well as damage to blood vessels in the mid-cervical region.” All we can all do is keep hoping 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼.
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Why the hell is this all about Christmas? Every question from news channels. Who cares about Christmas? Celebrate Christmas in March or July. Surely deaths and jobs is more important? Sorry if you can’t have turkey with your cousins. Jeez. Yeeehaaa!.
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One of the greatest owner breeders has passed in Prince Khalid Abdullah. @JuddmonteFarms supremo. Dancing Brave. Frankel. Enable. Oasis Dream. Kingman. The list is endless. Thank you for everything you have done for the Sport of Kings. 🏇🏻🤝 #rip
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During @CheltenhamRaces Festival I mentioned on @itvracing conditional Aidan MacDonald had a horror fall @HexhamRaces. He is now in a critical condition and receiving active treatment for a suspected carotid artery dissection. All we can do is hope. 🤞.
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OBE for @dickyjohnson77. Some recognitions leave you scratching your head. This one does not. A champion. Totally dedicated. Top bloke. Credit to his sport. Enough said. Deserved. Have a Yeeehaaa! 🏇😎
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You are not a fan if you shine a laser at a goalkeeper. Or if you boo any National anthem. You are pathetic #classless 🏴⚽️.
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What’s happening around the world right now - including where I live in London - is disgusting. We should all look in the mirror and question who we are. How about everyone just tries to be kind to everyone - wherever they are from & whoever they are. Be happy to be alive. 💜🌈.
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Many Clouds has gone. He goes a hero. So talented. So brave. An @AintreeRaces National treasure. In our world of racing - never forgotten. 💐.
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The world is attacked by a virus and many flaunt the rules that might save lives. Racism and hate is embedded in every society and people fight and kill. One day someone will look down at the human race and say: “You lot did not deserve that beautiful planet.” 🌈.
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Ten years on Twitter. Thanks to everyone who has followed. Messages good and bad enjoyed. Criticism always taken on board. Keep them coming. Yeeehaaa! 🕺🏇🏻💣.
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It’s a funny old game. You don’t fancy a horse and you get sworn at and abuse. From the same people who abuse and swear at the fence sitters. Have to love Twitter. Well done Honeysuckle. You were magical. Well done to the haters who back every winner! Yeeehaaa! 🕺🏇🏻.
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History! the awesome @rachaelblackmor wins the Grand National .@AintreeRaces @itvracing. And the super tough and talented Minella Times. 💪💪💪 sport at its best. Yeeehaaa! 🏇🏻
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I have a feeling no one would complain about a statue of Tiger Roll close to Dawn Run and Arkle. Looking over the winner’s enclosure he graced five times. Could also have a cross country fence named after him. How about it @CheltenhamRaces? Yeeehaaa! 🕺🏇🏻.
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A hero in @_Davy_Russel_ retires - again. The two time Grand National winner will always be a legend to some of us. Thanks Davy for everything @AintreeRaces @itvracing Yeeehaaa! 🏇🕺🙏
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Just called Madge of @AtTheRaces 'On the Line' fame to check she is okay. "Life is full of lovely surprises' was her reply - not many say that! Madge is now 96. Says her eyes are bad so she just listens to @AtTheRaces and enjoys my voice. Asked me how Coco is. What a woman. ❤
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For those often slating Ryan Moore for how he is on camera worth just showing you how he is with the public - been taking selfies all day @NewburyRacing and everyone has loved meeting him @PJAOfficial 🏇🙏
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Spoke to William Bethell about his daughter and trainer Harriet Bethell at @yorkracecourse today and Harriet needs our prayers. Alas she has still not woken up after her fall the other week. Been a long time now. Everything crossed for her. 💜.
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The bravest of the brave. There's no stopping @freddytylicki. Everyone in awe mate. Yeeehaaa! 🏇💪👊👌⛧
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In the space of six years - @AP_McCoy @dickyjohnson77 @paulcarberry @BarryJGeraghty @Ruby_Walsh all retired. @_Davy_Russel_ hanging in there. Times change. But boy that’s a huge change. What pleasure they have all given. Each brilliant. Each unique. All so talented. Yeeehaaa! 🏇🏻.
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Lots of comments about my chat with Ryan Moore. Stayed on with him at his house for about an hour afterwards and was offered dinner with his family! Could not have been kinder. And more fascinating! Learnt much. Remember you have only seen a snip of his interview. Yeeehaaa!.
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. and then came @HollieDoyle1 5-timer @kemptonparkrace reminding us of something in racing to be in awe of and rejoice about. Sheer hard work and talent. Have a Yeeehaaa! 💃🏾🏇🏻.
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Six years after his death, the honour I feel to have met Sir Henry Cecil is as strong as ever. Absolute character, total legend. No one else like him. 🤝
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Really worrying latest news about Josh Moore. Literally everything crossed for an incredible guy and dad 🙏 “His recovery has been made complicated by a serious chest infection which has required him to stay sedated on the ventilator and has delayed definitive treatment”.
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When you read this remember Ali Rawlinson’s first words he sent me on the way to hospital were “gutted for the horse” after his horrible fall @WindsorRaces. Measure of the man and the care in the sport. Top bloke. 🙏🙏🙏
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18 days ban, £1000 fine, no @CheltenhamRaces and a day at racing school for training for a lad using a foam padded whip on a horse 2 times over the limit. Welcome to the dictatorship @BHAHorseracing. Disgraceful. NO WELFARE ISSUE. Brilliant ride @williams_lorcan Yeeehaaa! 🏇🙏🙏.
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Happy New Year everyone. Have an amazing 2023 and be brilliant at whatever you do. Thanks for all the support over the last twelve months! Here’s a New Year Yeeehaaa! 🎆🎇💃🕺
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Animal falling. An absolutely superb take down. Give them a medal. Yeeehaaa! 💪💪💪🏇
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Oh my.
Watching a set from #Tomorrowland and in rocks @MCYeeehaaa bopping around in the crowd. 😂🤷🏼♂️ #RandomSpot #CouldntBeUpToYa 🕺🏻
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I’d like to wish Battaash boy Bob Grace a very happy retirement. Epitomises so much of the good in horse racing. 34 years in the game loving his horses. Class man. Decency through and through. Wish I was half the bloke he is. @cbhills. Bob have a Yeeehaaa! 🕺🏇🏻
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John Gosden. Ice cube trainer. When you watch wonder mare Enable and @FrankieDettori @JuddmonteFarms win the Eclipse without a fluster in the world @itvracing @ITV @Sandownpark. Cool as. Yeeehaaa! 🏇😎
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Actually the campaigners want horses to never exist. So easy to end this chat @gmb straight away. Just ask the campaigners what they think the horses would be doing if not racing? The sport mostly gives them life. Not death. Where is the @BHAHorseracing message? Silent as ever.
The campaign group Animal Rising plans to 'disrupt' the Grand National on Saturday, calling on animal lovers to 'turn up' and 'make their voices heard'. But would this protest cause more harm than good?
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Racing should be utterly embarrassed about this - and another sign the sport @BHAHorseracing @TheJockeyClub don’t believe in their own product. To airbrush a whip out is pathetic. 🏇🙏
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Rest in peace Mrs Mullins. Absolute legend of a lady and racing. A privilege to have met you. 💙
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The sad truth about Frost v Dunne is that no one wins. Good people have had their names dragged into events that were nothing to do with them, and some have been slurred for no reason. The lesson to everyone is be decent. Just be decent.
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Nichols Canyon so sadly put down @LeopardstownRC @AtTheRaces. A Stayers' Hurdle hero. A horse who beat @realfaugheen. 12 wins. 30 races. Over £700,000 in prize-money. A star.
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Devastating news that @SC_Cherchi has died after his horror fall. Always had a smile on his face. Loved riding. #rip 🙏🙏🙏
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When a picture tells you all you need to know about the love for a great sport. People’s horse Frodon and Bryony Frost win the King George VI Chase @kemptonparkrace for @PFNicholls on @itvracing. Yeeehaaa! 🎄💃🏾🏇🏻
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Galileo #rip. What a life. Had more good nights than most…and more good days than most. Star sire. Class horse. Derby hero @EpsomRacecourse, @curraghrace and King George legend @Ascot. Yeeehaaa 💪🏇🏻
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The picture that says a thousand words. The class of @dan2231 & @johnnymoore111. And the brilliance of Flooring Porter in the @paddypower Stayers’ Hurdle @CheltenhamRaces @itvracing @ITV Yeeehaaa! 🏇🏻💣🕺
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The lads in a selfie of all selfies @BreedersCup @DelMarRacing @AtTheRaces @JosephOBrien2 @coolmorestud Yeeehaaa!
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I’m sure everyone would join me in wishing @DarrenBirdie all the best having suffered a pretty major stroke. Darren has done so much for racing - often unpaid - and is now concentrating on family, getting better & back to doing what he does so well. Sending all love 🙏 ✍️🖊️✏️
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When Matt met 95yo Madge. What a lady. She loved her pic of Smad Place. @AtTheRaces Yeeehaaa! #ontheline 💜💜💜
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How British racing should be - bring the horse to the people! Love crazy Don Cantillon @WindsorRaces @AtTheRaces Yeeehaaa! 😎🏇
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The animal lovers wait - the animal haters cause chaos. Funny old world. @AintreeRaces 🏇🙏🙏🙏.
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If anyone needs me this evening I’m just studying various menus and drink lists…….🏇🤍🖤 . @AtTheRaces @kemptonparkrace @PaddyBrennan81 🙏🤲🏼
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I can’t tell you how good the celebration of @harryskelton89 is for racing. Of course some will moan - stuff’em. Love passion and joy in victory. Fans love to see it matters @CheltenhamRaces @itvracing Yeeehaaa! 🕺🏇
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Latest on stricken jockey Graham Lee. We keep him in our thoughts. 🙏
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Passion. Watching record breaker @KingAltior through the eyes of @sevenbarrows @ITV @itvracing @Sandownpark. Yeeehaaa! 🏇😎
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Not something you hear every day! @ronanofficial and @FrankieDettori - a rollercoaster! 🙏🏇🎤
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What I love most about @Hayleyturner123 is that she’s so down to earth. Regular lass. Fair play. Brilliant today @Ascot Yeeehaaa!
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Not bad for a horse that can't jump National fences! Well done @gelliott_racing & the sensational @_Davy_Russel_. And the amazing Tiger Roll. Yeeehaaa! 🏇😎
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That is one of the greatest Flat performances of all time. I thought Trueshan had no chance. So pleased I was totally wrong. Genius @HollieDoyle1 and Alan King @NewcastleRaces Yeeehaaa 🕺🏇🏻
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The Tank has gone. But never forgotten. A @CheltenhamRaces Gold Cup hero - but the weight you carried in the Hennessy @NewburyRacing was the real joy. A Sherman amongst horses. #ripdenman
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@jcorrigangolf James I’m worried about you. Last night you attacked me. Now @chrishughes_22. Are you ok? Might be time to talk to someone. .
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Jeez this is tough to see. Can only admire Graham’s strength in the on-going battle. 🙏🙏🙏.
Graham’s had so many familiar faces allowed to see him over the last few weeks… including Henrietta Knight today! These visits have made so much difference to dad’s motivation and help make the days brighter 🤍
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The intense debate on social media over every aspect of @CheltenhamRaces 2021 just goes to show horse racing remains one of Britain’s most treasured and intellectually stimulating sports. Not everyone will love it, but once in it. well you are just in it heart & soul. Yeeehaaa!.
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BREAKING: End of an era as my boy & absolute beast @realfaugheen retires with star stable companions Douvan & Benie des Dieux. Five @CheltenhamRaces Festival wins between them @Ruby_Walsh @PTownend. Trained by genius @WillieMullinsNH for Rich Ricci. 🏇🏻💜
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Has any @AintreeRaces @CheltenhamRaces winner ever just stood there and been chatted to like this? What a total legend Tiger Roll is for @gelliott_racing @SkySports. Yeeehaaa! 🏇😎
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Totally adored Beat the Bank. Brave of the brave. Went out on his sword in victory at @Ascot today @ITV. A horse who loved to be asked to race. And boy was he a warrior. Gutted to see him go. But in what style. 📷 @FrancescaJane_x. #rip
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So sad to report former 4-time German champion jockey & Prague-born Filip Minarik has passed. Life was so hard for him after a horrific fall at Mannheim in 2020. Loved the guy - & he loved the sport. Leaves behind a young daughter - she will one day know her dad was a star. #RIP
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