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Hey, Pinza – get off your high horse!
The origin of the phrase
get off your high horse
is interesting, but as I guess it would be above your head I’m not going to tell you, dear boy.
Thanks, Rory, for answering the one about the cross fence. I’ll have a wander round and look next time I’m on a racecourse.
As for Mr Thornton, I enjoy Lee McKenzie’s commentaries (especially the crescendo) because he calls him Thornton, as any mature person should.
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As for Mr Thornton, I enjoy Lee McKenzie’s commentaries (especially the crescendo) because he calls him Thornton, as any mature person should.
Seconded! Over-familiarity breeds … contempt for the commentator.
The usually fair-to-middling Terry Spargo was all over the place at Meydan yesterday, and part of the reason was that he was so busy talking familiarly about what "Royston", "Johnnie" or "Ahmed" was up to (though not naming their mounts) that he kept forgetting such minor details as the horses names, and completely fouled up with the minor placings for the main event!
A race run again doesn’t have to be a RENEWAL & I dispute the proposition that it does have to be a RENEWAL.
A horse having SCOPE all these years on still part puzzles though I now vaguely understand the term.
The one that annoys me is ‘posy’……….
Pegasus is ridden up to get a good ‘posy’
It sounds alien.
Given that it comes from ‘Aussie Jim’, wouldn’t that be Australien?
[collects coat and exits stage left]
Hey, Pinza – get off your high horse!
The origin of the phrase
get off your high horse
is interesting, but as I guess it would be above your head I’m not going to tell you, dear boy.
would you tell me then sheldon?
The one that’s currently confusing me is race titles which end ‘App Hcap’ which turn out not, as you might expect, to be apprentice handicaps but rather ordinary handicaps sponsored by someone selling the latest gizmo for an iPhone.
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The one that’s currently confusing me is race titles which end ‘App Hcap’ which turn out not, as you might expect, to be apprentice handicaps but rather ordinary handicaps sponsored by someone selling the latest gizmo for an iPhone.
Yes indeed. You might think they’d call it the Handy Crap Handicap and have done with it.
I wanted to sponsor a
Campaign Against Vulgar and Long-winded Race Titles Sponsored by Malevolent Bookies and Corporate Noddies Apprentice Mares Only Long Distance Selling Hurdle
at Hereford, but oddly enough they wouldn’t hear of it.
A cross fence, such as the one at Newbury is on the section of track between the straights, so jumped on a different angle to the other fences. I believe that everyone refers to Robert Thornton as "Choc", including his employer, so Aussie Jim’s use of the term is one of his less annoying traits.
The one that annoys me is ‘posy’……….
Pegasus is ridden up to get a good ‘posy’
It sounds alien.
‘Posy’ – small bunch of flowers ….
yes, that’s altogether weird!
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English commentators are superb, using many words borrowed from the navy and the sea.
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