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Freelance Horse Racing Analyst/Odds Compiler/Writer - mostly French Flat/Jumps/Trotting & Czech. Menu du Jour enthusiast.
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A few thoughts on the Trainers & Jockey Championship's for
@whichbookieuk
#HorseRacing
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Jonjo O'Neill Jnr and a 10lb claim.
Name a better combo than a body suit and knee high boots 💙
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The young man in the photo rode his first winner three weeks ago. I took the photo below after his second success at Craon last week. It was to be his last. RIP Benjamin Messina. Thinking of all your friends, family and colleagues.
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@MitchellRossman
@dubspl
@AGenuineOutlaw
@Cheemball
Stage a World Championships then, put the best 10 teams from the NBA in, the best two teams in France, Japan, Argentina, Australia, the UK, China etc and then crown the winners the World Champions. It's pretty easy to do without meaningless games where teams send half a side.
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The Guinness Village
Quote this tweet with where you think Gaelic Warrior finishes in the Arkle 🐎
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Cheltenham racecourse needs to ask itself what the Festival is about. Is it:
a) The pinnacle of jumps racing, the best meeting around and about the best taking on the best?
or
b) Getting a lot of folk through the turnstiles to get drunk and gamble.
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Great video, General Lee comes in, gives it beans and they're all right excited while you know the next part of the video is half of them running into a door. What a show.
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Agree with this. Hewick needs to decide if he's a top racehorse or is just after a solid career. He can't keep getting caught going to the pub if he's going to challenge for top honours next season.
Unpopular opinion but I really hope they don’t take Hewick to the pub again. It’s far too agricultural and not befitting of professional sport.
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Seven years ago the only trainer putting Rachel Blackmore up was The Shark. Now she's dominating the sport. Great story. Make it into a film.
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I'd go racing more in the UK if it didn't feel like I was being asked to pay £25 to then pay double rates for drinks and food. The racing should be the main product but the price of everything else and the lack of competitive action detracts massively from the sport.
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David Maxwell with a tremendous ride there. The doubters will be quiet for a while after that.
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This is some conclusion to come to when you view the evidence:
Stall 16 (didn't open) - 15th 8/1
Stall 17 (did open) - 6th 14/1
Stall 18 (didn't open) - 20th (last) 11/1
Stall 19 (didn't open) - 14th 15/2
Stall 20 (didn't open) - 17th 6/1fav
Stewards Enquiry update on the "Dash". 🗞
"In actual terms of where those horses were when they've left the gates in relation to the others, we believe from that basis that they've not been materially affected." 🗣 Shaun Parker.
#ITVRacing
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@EpsomRacecourse
|
@MCYeeehaaa
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Everyone: Only four runners in the big one at York
ITV Racing: Only four runners but what a four they are, this could be the race of the century.
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€6,50 on course. Fiver entry, 2 euros a racecard. Huge crowd. UK courses take note.
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Enable has nothing left to prove on the Flat, she deserves a crack at hurdling.
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"80% of people under 40 wouldn't attend a horse race meeting on moral grounds"
If Animal Rising's rise to prominence in the last week has taught us anything it's that the organisation has a phobia of accurate statistics.
“Hill Sixteen was the fiftieth horse to die in British horse racing this year, to shift the responsibility onto a protest is wrong.”
Animal Rising spokesperson Claudia Penna Rojas says 80% of people under 40 wouldn’t attend a horse race on moral grounds.
Listen on
@GlobalPlayer
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@Scousebird
Probably sounds morbid but repatriation is the one thing I always ask about with regards insurance
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Life's too short for hate, racing twitter should be pleased there's so many people with a love of the sport all in one place.
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Imagine explaining to non-British/Irish folk how the Pertemps Final works. Well there's a number of qualifiers, a lot of trainers like to win them but the key is to find one that ran in Ireland and finished fifth or sixth.
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I appreciate that there's this constant need to hype clashes that were standard 15-20 years ago but Kauto vs. Denman (any of them tbh), Moscow Flyer vs. Well Chief vs. Azertyuiop etc. were all better than two just out of novice company having a bash at each other round Ascot.
Has there ever been a better horse race than yesterday’s Clarence House?
@joshapiafi
describes the buzz at
@Ascot
for Shishkin vs Energumene!
#RacingDebate
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Got to feel for Hendo. Biggest meeting of the year and the horses are sick.
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For anyone thinking of having a runner in France a sit down meal at Corlay was about £25 for 3 courses including wine. Can also recommend a place that does a 5 course meal and unlimited red wine or cider for 30 Euros.
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For safety reasons the Grand National lunch should be limited to 40 journalists.
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Such a tragic day for racing with the deaths of both Keagan Kirkby & Dominik Pastuszka following race falls.
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Seems strange that Shishkin seemingly wasn't dope tested after his shocker in the Champion Chase. One of the biggest races of the year, favourite and seemingly beaten after a couple of fences.
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@sirrobinbobin
@stiggleys
@Startanew12
@ThrimbyFarms
Probably do t want to jeopardise any legal proceedings
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No fallers in the Topham or Grand National and both races were great spectacles.
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@JamesRu5531l
@Emily_Benn
Imagine being so wrought with hatred that you completely forget to do research before tweeting.
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Can definitely see Briony changing the weighing room culture but losing a good career in the process. But honestly if she does that she'll have accomplished so much more than any number of winners will amount to.
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Another 684 deaths in the last 24 hours. Not sure why people expect the UK to be different to countries with a superior healthcare system. Our NHS staff do an amazing job but they've been neglected for years, hope one day soon we're on top of this and nevr make the same mkes agn.
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When you hear it costs £2,500 to take a horse from Newmarket to Ayr you start to see why so many trainers don't travel to the ends of the country for these small field races.
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Million pound Ces now too - any chance of a racecourse/course ownership group saying "look a better idea is making sure all 0-90's are a minimum 17k, all 0-85's 15k, 0-80 12k, 0-70 9k & all below that a minimum of 6.5k"
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@TStranske
@pip_drop
@gnarthis
@DanBoeckner
Probably not the logistics of shipping in the food on container ships and a shortage of HGV drivers.
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@TheEricBland
@MandyMatney
@elizfarrell
Doesn't feel like a family bank, more a Murdaugh slush fund.
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There are more horses declared for the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale than for five of the seven races on Day One of the Festival.
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RIP to my great aunt Ivy. Celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday and passed away Sunday. Now reunited with her husband, one of her sisters and her brothers. Such a lovely lady :-)
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When I see beautifully looked after horses every day and then see the state of some in fields around the UK, Ireland and Europe it really irks seeing Animal Rising and co having a go at true horsemen over those who put horses out to grass and ignore them.
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Watching horses jump 2 or 3 fences when 30L last and going nowhere will do more harm for racing than any issue rearing to using the whip over X or Y height or in Z position.
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Those without Racing TV who are missing the Irish action just put the replay of the 13:10 Plumpton on and you can still see two JP horses trail around out the back in a novice chase.
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Booing national anthems is such a twattish thing to do. Grow up. Have some respect.
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Outdoor sport ok in family groups. Racing surely fine if restrict it to descendants of Northern Dancer?
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I play off 14 in the UK and 23 in Ireland.
❓| How has your handicap changed under the new World Handicap System? Have you gone up or down? Comment below 👇
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Mad this. Three lads in his corner, one giving him technical advice, one shouting "use the jab, we're fighting men" and the other going "I said a hip-hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip, hip-hop and you don't stop the rockin'"
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There's no possible upside to racing at Leicester today. The negative press however could be disastrous.
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Sad to have written my last set of spotlight comments for
@SportingLife
. It's been a great few years. Huge thanks to the team at SL,
@ICSdigital
and
@Bickley14
for the support over the years. Looking forward to the future and touch wood more exciting opportunities.
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Admission to my old local track in France remains at 5 Euros for 2024, this includes a 2 Euro betting voucher. That's value.
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Ed telling us all that the owners are a great bunch of lads from Ireland before Donnacha corrects us as they're American is a great start to the day.
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A few years ago I did some outreach work for an awesome homeless charity. I often think back to those days and a) how easy it is to end up on the streets and b) how much bad luck some people have. Most on here (including myself) are so lucky. It's important we realise that.
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Why do people go racing in the UK? £20 entry, £10 for a burger and a bottle of pop, £3+ a racecard. Whole thing seems to be rip off after rip off.
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Travesty if
@TheTonySlattery
isn't referred to as "Tony Slattery The England Captain" ala Martin Adams from now on
@Coldwar_Steve
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@alijamieson
@jonathanliew
Give it Mike Tindall till end of the season, knows what it takes to perform on the big stage and respected by the club.
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It's a tricky one but I'd imagine you have more than one horsebox and/or know of a horse transport company.
Bar that I'd suggest M40, M6, M62, M57 and then down Longmoor Lane, it should be signposted from there.
👍🏻 Nicky Henderson has hinted at sending WILLMOUNT to the Formby Novices Hurdle (Tolworth) at Aintree on Boxing Day but he didn't sound happy about it!
Per
@RacingPost
, "Goodness knows how the logistics will work with such a big meeting at Kempton taking place the same day."
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Deleting this for a bit. Will be back in due course I'm sure. Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noel to you all!!
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The Real Whacker only cost 21k and now he's a Cheltenham winner. Great to see and the viewers at home will know they might have a Cheltenham winner when they get involved in ownership.
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@teenagebih
@annamericana
@king_h94
@_susuuu
National Insurance contributions (mostly) pay for the National Health Service that is "free at the point of access". Private healthcare exists too for those who want to pay and use it etc.
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Can somebody give the lad a heads up that "rewilding" is not turning thoroughbred horses out on the North Yorkshire Moor's, nor is it letting all the labradors loose in the Brecon Beacons or all the Holstein cattle wander around Hyde Park.
'Do you ultimately want to stop us not just having domesticated horses, but cats and dogs as well?'
'Yeah.'
'It’s a very extreme position.'
Nigel Farage grills Animal Rising activist Nathan McGovern ahead of the group's planned protest at the Epsom Derby this weekend.
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@JamesRu5531l
@Emily_Benn
More the person that EB quoted who was so filled with hate he forgot to research the Benn family tree.
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Take that to the Cheltenham sales and he'd go for 400k if you told folk he'd won a Ballyraggett maiden.
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@SueASmith571
@AnushkaAsthana
@BethRigby
Between you and me Sue (plus Anushka and Beth) I think he might have prepared a statement, asked for it to be translated and then read it out in the two languages.
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@investor_bod
@iamhamesh
@paulmasonnews
In the event that Paul doesn't seem to want to answer I'll substitute for him "...but Iraq".
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Brilliant Arc, no hard luck stories and the best horse in the world coming out on top. Race for the ages.
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Worrying number of unseats in there
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Somebody give the Irish lads a heads up that first three goes aren't for a mark.
Here's how the standings look after
@WilliamHill
Racing League Race Day 1 🤝
Consistency is key for NEWMARKET RED, they top the table after only finishing outside the top 3, ONCE, all evening!
Who will challenge Newmarket Red, come
@DoncasterRaces
next week?
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@rpdarkhorse
@KeejayOV2
There's folk in the Commons built entire careers on this sort of thing
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Touch wood will be racing in 2 weeks. It'll be a fiver entry and 30 Euros for a sit down meal with wine. Chester are charging £60 admission and £396 for the "Festival Village Restaurant" and courses/racing wonder why the sport isn't more popular and there's no prize money.
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Met a bloke called Geoffrey yesterday, he was out at 2.30am trying to stop AW training tracks freezing over. He's my unsung racing hero for today.
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So 14 years later than intended I've managed to pass my driving test. Well chuff.
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Reports in Germany saying that Bauyrzhan Murzabayev will ride as number one jockey to Andre Fabre for 2023. Murzabayev reportedly turned down a similar role with the Graffard stable last season. Brilliant that we'll likely be seeing him in all/most of the top races in 2023.
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Think after this week it's important to point out that if you do like horse racing you're still allowed to watch Peppa Pig.
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Balloting for Newcastle should be done on the basis of what percentage of a trainers total runners have come at the track. Give the regulars first option into races.
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@JennLynnC
@TeriCallen
@MandyMatney
@postandcourier
@thestate
@BradHutto
@TheTandD
Of newspaper reporting of rape cases?
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@judi_sutherland
@francesbarber13
Women just want to live a life free of fear, hate & in safety. Self ID increases fear & reduces safety while those in favour often promote hate.
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Advice for all those panicking that they might miss out on Cheltenham this year. The track seems so keen to exploit it's customers, give 2021 a miss and book a racing trip elsewhere - there's plenty of options and all will be just as special.
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UK racing wants Group 1 prize money while providing Class 6 administration.
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The Whip Debate - it's not a debate, it's a crusade from the RP and it's one that's not popular with anyone in racing and has limited appeal (say 2-3% of the population care) to the general public.
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The France-Galop site is miles ahead of anything the UK and Ireland offer in terms of information.
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If anyone thinks that racing will sort out the bullying issue in any other way than shoving it under the carpet and/or ostracising those who complain then let me know.
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Horse running tomorrow called Fast Mare, he's a gelding. Stuff like that shouldn't be allowed.
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Every meeting that charges more than £30 per head should have one of the following: A £50k+ to the winner race or average prize money of more than £15,000 to the winner. Racecourses should provide a premium product if charging a premium price.
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I went to two race meetings yesterday - Le Lion-d'Angers was free entry, decent crowd for a 10:20am start. Angers was 6 Euros entry with a 2 Euro free bet, competitive card, G1 winner running and nice, newish bar/betting area. To do the same in the UK it'd cost circa £50 and I...
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Gutted to hear that Master Dino has passed away. Shame he never got to fulfill his potential. RIP.
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