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How many on here work for ITV Racing using a Pseudonym, come on it’s so obvious, you’re always defending Jockeys, Trainers – Sycophants.
Come on man feel free to speak your mind, no one can see you sat in your Bill Grundies chomping on yet another Takeaway.
There’s more vomit on this site than on TV.
Let me know how many love this post lol.I have no job.
Personally Troy, when ITV or anyone says or does anything that I don’t like; I first try to think why have they done / said this? eg With ITV they’re catering for people who are not particularly “Racing” fans, especially on the big days.
Am also more likely to stick up for those who are not members of this forum / unable to defend themselves even if other forum members don’t like it. Do the right thing.
Value Is EverythingI used to think some on TV / in Racing didn’t know much about racing. But when I was in a quiz team taking on some Channel 4 presenters, journalists, form book writers, trainers, jockeys etc… it soon changed my mind and gave me a new respect for them.
Value Is EverythingI’m Luke Harvey
BigG is Jason Weaver
Tank is AP McCoy
The Tattling Cheekily is Matt Chapman
Triptych is Alice Plunkett
Ian Davies is Ed Chamberlain
and gamble is John McCririckGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
Delighted with that Nathan, Yee Hah!
Got a feeling Troy might be a bitter Lesley Graham. Get over it ‘Posh Bird’!
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You obviously haven’t read the ITV Racing thread or else you’re at the wind up.
No matter what ITV do they can’t win on this forum.
Strangely enough Nathan about half an hour before you posted I thought of writing a post declaring myself as John McCririck. Thats’s uncanny.
However John and I are essentially different, his life was his job and my life so far has been avoiding a job. I am more Marquis de Sade these days.
I’d have you down as more of a whimsical ‘Alistair Down’ gamble to be fair. Not ITV I know.
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I’m not a grump, Nathan, you should know that.
Ginge is the Health & Safety guy/person
We aim to please, messrs gamble and Troy-me-boy.
“And with the legendary ‘Gamble’, and his salubrious poetry, on the great ‘The Racing Forum, no less, he left the rest, toiling, in his magnificent wake……”
My best Fat Al impression
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That’s impressive Tatts but let’s be real here – Down is our man of letters Drone ( similar words similar majestic style and they both love the lingo )
I’m more the world’s greatest Jockey gone sour. Anyone for Cod n chips and battered sausage ?Well, in the recently revived thread from Cubone he did refer to me as ‘Drown’ so you might not be alone in believing I’m the pickled purveyor of florid verbosity, though he did seem to type with a lump-hammer
But really it’s a case of Harshthakor first the rest nowhere when it comes to using twenty words when one would have sufficed: A steroidal Down, I’m particularly fond of his oft-repeated phrase ‘ballad dancer’
The racing scribe I’ve enjoyed reading most is Ian Carnaby – has he now danced the last waltz ‘twixt paddock and board and fluttered off to punters’ paradise?
His weekly columns in The Sporting Life, which if memory serves were published on the nirvanic ‘Two-meeting Tuesdays’, were a delightful mix of cultured whimsy and the weary resignation of the punter who wants to be a winner but never quite will be, but nevertheless will continue self-flagellating until Domesday: there’s always tomorrow
The slightly stooped figure with cadaverous, fissured face and worrying nervous tick I saw from time to time on-course seemed to confirm the impression that he’d spent a lifetime in and out of the punting borstal of hard knocks
Thanks IC
Chuck in a large curry sauce and a bread roll and you’ve git yourself a date sweetheart.
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“The racing scribe I’ve enjoyed reading most is Ian Carnaby – has he now danced the last waltz ‘twixt paddock and board and fluttered off to punters’ paradise?”
“Twixt” reminds me of something John Oaksey once wrote as “Marlborough” in the “Sunday Telegraph”. It was when Guy Landau performed a minor miracle to stay in the saddle on the winner of Oaksey’s beloved Whitbread at Sandown:
“Betwixt the stirrup and the ground
‘Mercy’ he asked, mercy he found.”
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