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I have yet to see a horse land over a fence and in the next stride take off and jump the next one.
Someone, somewhere, is surely the author of all these racing cliches – they are surely the product of a single warped mind.
If we ever find out who it is, I think we have every chance of securing a custodial sentence for them.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I like Bartlett’s “nearest to us” and “the two shades of ….”. Also when he has so much time to tell us how many ditches they jump and the tells us the number of the fences which will be jumped as ditches. I mean, it’s not a bad piece of information, but when they jump the 2nd, I don’t really care if the ditches will be number 4, 8, 12 and 16 or 3, 7, 11 and 15….
Lydia’s in fine form this morning. Already said “shall we” four times in her first ten minutes.
As this thread has morphed into cringeworthy commentary etc phrases can I add
“XYZ (Name of horse) wins the races.”
As far as I know a horse cannot run in more than one race at a time. John McCririck was a prime offender with this one.
“This horse is trained to the minute”
Well let’s hope the start is not delayed as if it is he will have gone over
“This fellow will jump a fence”
I don’t think we have races with just one fence
And of course the preposterous “He jumps from fence to fence” already mentioned
Three pages and no mention for the worst example, the totally ignorant idea that a horse who makes all the running has ‘done it the hard way’.
Just as an aside on the use of the mute button – my first appearance on the old ATR (in 2002) saw me introduced to the audience by John Hunt, who remarked that this would be a new experience for me. It certainly will be I replied, as it will be the first time ever that I’ll hear every word spoken right through the afternoon.
“Going forwards” is established office jargon meaning the same as “from now on”.
Indeed it is, Archipenko, and that’s almost as annoying as the use of the term in its racing sense.
I am always interested how many horses have Mr Eds abilities with trainers waiting for ” he will tell us when he’s ready ” .
The one that irritates me is “past *several* times”. It’s been creeping into written English for some time.
Don’t mind Lydia. She is the least irritating to me. Ruby I find a bit preachy and finds it hard to admit he got things wrong. Great at analysing a race obviously. Jason and Adele most interesting IMHO.
Australians start sentences with Look and the Irish with Listen. Yes Aiden especially you. Listen to The Lads.
And Scots women start with Eeeeemmmm
One that irritates me is when people say “listen” before making a comment.
It’s often used in an amicable way, but it jars as it sounds like a command, and not that far away from “shut up”.
@mickeyjp Sometimes it’s just “sure”.
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