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I am not sure which commentator but there is one who likes to say “He picks up the persuader on (horse)” and this has entered the jargon like ‘a shade cosily’and phrases like took a keen hold, keen to post, rearing in the stalls, dwelt, dwelt in the rear, held up, made all, made most, hampered, tracked leader, game and held on gamely, etc. Also there is the sinister ‘lost action’ which is a euphemism for fatally injured. One of the most annoying is ‘concertinaed-up’.
Also there is the sinister ‘lost action’ which is a euphemism for fatally injured.
By no means always the case, often just a career delaying injury or a temporary knock. A friend owns Coachie Bear, who lost his action on his first run last year, but returned to the course on Thursday and ran passably well.
“there was only one winner of this race”
It’s not exactly a shock there was only one winner of a horse race.
I can’t find the name of the one you mean but I think it is the one with a northern accent who is pretty good and has a phrase ‘picks up the persuader’.
I can’t find the name of the one you mean but I think it is the one with a northern accent who is pretty good and has a phrase ‘picks up the persuader’.
Must be Malcolm Tomlinson.
I am not sure which commentator but there is one who likes to say “He picks up the persuader on (horse)” and this has entered the jargon like ‘a shade cosily’and phrases like took a keen hold, keen to post, rearing in the stalls, dwelt, dwelt in the rear, held up, made all, made most, hampered, tracked leader, game and held on gamely, etc. Also there is the sinister ‘lost action’ which is a euphemism for fatally injured. One of the most annoying is ‘concertinaed-up’.
‘Took a keen hold’ must be Richard Hoiles.
I like it when the ‘complexion’ of the race changes. Most of the times there is still plenty of race and plenty of runners left, BUT the complexion of the race just changed. It’s either Hoiles or Machin.
Also from Hoiles ‘under more or heavy restraint’.
I have never fully come to terms with the phrase, ‘hosed up’. My experience with hoses have invariably been tangled, stressful and damp, not descriptions I’d associate with an easy victory in a horse race.
Does anyone know the origins of this phrase?
I dunno, but I always check to see whether the horse is wearing undeclared stockings whenever this phrase comes up.
Nautical terms invariably feature(d) in race commentaries. They are quite descriptive in their way.
“Horse (A) was anchored at the rear early on. Fully 4f out the jockey tacked over to the stands side and cruised up to the leaders with 3f to go. He set sail for home but began almost immediately to send out distress signals, allowing Horse (B) to come with a wet sail on the outside and win a shade cosily.”
I find these expressions entertaining. Being a literal kind of guy, I can never hear ‘distress signals’
without looking for orange flares. Furthermore, I don’t think trainers should be equipping their horses with sails, especially wet ones. It’s not fair on the rest of them.
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