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Beadnell isn’t all that far from Crastor, they’re all roundabout Dunstanburgh Castle – I bet he used to exercise the horses on the beach, I think you can go from Beadnell up to Newton by the Sea – I’ll be able to imagine that when I walk the dog. Obviously a man who like to train by castles. There was another trainer in that area who, so I’ve been told got very drunk and drove into Seahouses Harbour, but we don’t know who it was [sorry, this isn’t funny it’s all gloom and doom..] Tony Dobbin is building a stables round that area with Rose Davidson…it’s a lovely part of the world with Kelso Racecourse and Alnwick point to point nearby…mo
Could it have been Norman (surname I can’t remember) a permit holder who owned a hotel and trained a vey good horse called Braw Lad that Donal Nolan rode for him. I am sure he did something nutty like that.
Of course you shouldn’t drink and drive as Steve Smith Eccles will tell you.
I heard he decided he had too much to drink and stopped his merc jumped in the back and went to sleep (very sensible) When he woke up and some guy who had stolen it was driving it down the motorway with him in the back. The guy stopped and ran like hell when he saw Steve pop his head up.A bit unfair Jeremy, considering you are finishing her because you have deemed it only as ‘failing’.
Now if it had been deemed as ‘failed’ I would fully understand, but surely as it is just failing then she deserves the chance to turn things around
In usual circumstances, yes, I would exercise greater clemency. However, news had also reached us of the headmistress’s recent indiscretion with the school photocopier, a Cornish ram and a tin of cling peaches, which left us with no alternative.
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There was another trainer in that area who, so I’ve been told got very drunk and drove into Seahouses Harbour, but we don’t know who it was [sorry, this isn’t funny it’s all gloom and doom..]
That wasn’t the incident involving Ridley Lamb and Alan Merrigan, was it?
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
There was another trainer in that area who, so I’ve been told got very drunk and drove into Seahouses Harbour, but we don’t know who it was [sorry, this isn’t funny it’s all gloom and doom..]
That wasn’t the incident involving Ridley Lamb and Alan Merrigan, was it?
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It was ~ oddly enough, I was recounting the story to a colleague last night.
Whenever we go to get our fish and chips from Seahouses Mike tells me about this tragedy; he thought that they were celebrating a big win [thought it was the Scottish National] – and drove the car into the harbour. He said the trainer came from Christon Bank…can anyone tell me more about what happened?
Jockeys died in harbour crash-
A former National Hunt jockey was three-and-a-half times over the drink-drive limit when his car plunged into a harbour following an after hours pub session, an inquest was told yesterday.Ridley Lamb, 39, who won the Cheltenham Gold Cup on The Thinker in 1987, had drunk the equivalent of a gallon of beer before the accident at Seahouses, Northumberland.Alan Merrigan, 29, another jockey, also died in the accident last July. Verdicts of accidental death were recorded.
The above was copied from 95 article.
I’m not living in the Uk now and that’s the first I have heard about this.
I vaguely remember Alan Merrigan but I remember Ridley well riding for old Arthur Stevenson. Great Jockey and a very popular guy among the other jockeys. Sorry to hear about both.
I’m baffled as to why Jilly corrected "their" not "there" but turned a blind eye to the other 65 spelling mistakes….
Good story though, and one I can empathise with after being carted around here last week by Mouseen (85 rated hurdler) but who felt to me like a champion sprinter!
Like Fists, the reins kept slipping through my fingers, so I thought **** it, I’m gonna take a right hold – alas, shortening the reins only made him go faster! He was pointing at the line of 4 schooling fences – but from the back not the front – he bailed out sideways at the last minute causing the saddle to go round – I hit the deck and, iron man that I am (pffffff) I would have walked away grinning but for the fact that the little b***ard caught me on the elbow with a flying back hoof as I hit the deck. As I write I think my bottle has gone. What’s good for a loss of bottle? A few beers at 6 am?
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