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Good points Gamble
‘Let’s get away from all this’
The week’s maddening saddening TV, the greyly familiar mean streets of the cities, the unfamiliar desperately unsettling brutality of quiet picturesque market towns and hollyhocked villages abandoned for one sunny day at the beach, in the hills…or
at
the racecourse
In adversity family bonds are tightened, and rocked damaged psyches repaired by the comfort of insular togetherness and support.
For a time the enjoyable inconsequential entertainment provided by others matters little: eyes and thoughts are fixated inwards and at your loved ones
I do hope Dougie Fraser is found alive and well; at present Raleigh Gilbert’s sad, lonely death haunts my thoughts
Men alone both?
It is not often a serial killer goes
on the rampage in the UK.
The life of Derek Bird
had infiltrated the mass psyche and
was on most people’s mind,
right up to the Saturday.
I would imagine many derby hating women got
their men folk to drive them
as far away from the crowded snipertowns
as possible.
Lands End was doing a brisk business
by 4 pm and there were more far out bathers
reported than usual when Workforce
was thrilling on the hill.Most women also knew it was the last
Rooney free Saturday for a long time
and another good reason for a last escape.My condolences to the peole of north Cumbria
You’ve just reminded me of something I was going to say at the time:
On that tragic day, there was racing at Cartmel. He didn’t stop that far short of being that far south. I can’t help thinking what might have happened if he’d got near there.
It is not often a serial killer goes
on the rampage in the UK.
The life of Derek Bird
had infiltrated the mass psyche and
was on most people’s mind,
right up to the Saturday.
I would imagine many derby hating women got
their men folk to drive them
as far away from the crowded snipertowns
as possible.
Lands End was doing a brisk business
by 4 pm and there were more far out bathers
reported than usual when Workforce
was thrilling on the hill.Most women also knew it was the last
Rooney free Saturday for a long time
and another good reason for a last escape.My condolences to the peole of north Cumbria
You’ve just reminded me of something I was going to say at the time:
On that tragic day, there was racing at Cartmel. He didn’t stop that far short of being that far south. I can’t help thinking what might have happened if he’d got near there.
It’s a good point you make Anthony. You can add in a rearranged point to point at Whitfield with a 4.30 start which would have taken some away. I was on a car buying mission with me missus and missed everything bar the Derby and to be honest it was a pretty dull build up in the weeks before the race. A combination of the infernal World Cup (wimbledon is right turn off as well) dominating everything and a nice day allied to a pretty unexciting bunch of horses – the domination of Ballydoyle is a bit monotonous – and I could have lived without it frankly. I’ve just received a you ttube sub from RUK which includes the Derby and the Oaks a better way to enjoy missed races frankly.
We are lucky to have any horse racing at all with the world economic system tetering on collaspe.
fwiw, the report of the independent panel that reviewed the list of "free-to-air" events –
"…to look beyond the interests of any one sport, and assess the events that really matter to society in the modern age. I believe our report is challenging for the sports governing bodies, the broadcasters and the Government. But unashamedly it puts the viewing public first.”
– had already suggested in November 2009 that the Derby be binned from that list along with the Winter Olympics and the Challenge Cup final:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov. … /6436.aspx
touch of self-fulfilling prophecy in the cue that gave to the BBC as to the kind of Derby coverage it might get away with ?
Corals want the Derby
mixed in with fish’n chips.
It’s as likely as Crepello
on here managing England.As far as the BBC
They try to pander to public opinion.
The whole ball game changed
when the world bankers
some call them bonkers
started shooting crap.
Gambling is now dirty linen
and the Derby which was once viewed as the
loin cloth of racing
is now viewed by the BBC as pants
and they stick it together with
their newly ordained vice gambling
like the old horse and cart
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