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There was one many years ago – but, I am sorry I can’t remember the members names. I believe, it all started at a TRF "meet up" at one of the race courses.
Rory, might be the one to get his "brain cells" up to speed and remind us all of the parties involved.
Regards – Matron
So when is the next TRF meet up then
Mike
Don’t know I am afraid.
Regards- Matron
Yep. Met my partner as a result, the only time I did it. We corresponded for 5 or 6 weeks before meeting and hit it off in "real" life as much as we had by Private Messaging.
Better than chatting a girl up in a club and realising only too late that it was all a big mistake, in my experience…
Prufrock I’m delighted for you both, so congratulations are in order here. It must have been terribly exciting for a time, before you met wondering just what each other was like I mean, and yet getting to know and like someone’s personality before seeing them physically should augur well for the future I would have thought. It’s funny really, it gives the ‘falling in love at first sight’ a whole new meaning
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didn’t know we’ve had TRF romances going before, ooh this is exciting, when’s my turn?
Didn’t Happy Jack and Sal originally get together at a TRF meet ?
Of course he was just known as Jack back then!
didn’t know we’ve had TRF romances going before, ooh this is exciting, when’s my turn?
Just name the time and place margaret…….oh, I hope you don’t mind me calling you margaret
and I’ll be on the next train to meet you 
stick to Thomas Hardy books UM – at least you know there will be an unhappy ending! mo [v. cynical of all aspects of romance, internet or otherwise]
didn’t know we’ve had TRF romances going before, ooh this is exciting, when’s my turn?
Just name the time and place margaret…….oh, I hope you don’t mind me calling you margaret
and I’ll be on the next train to meet you Well,
Don’t meet on "Carnforth Station" otherwise; it will end up in tears.
Regards- Matron
didn’t know we’ve had TRF romances going before, ooh this is exciting, when’s my turn?
Just name the time and place margaret…….oh, I hope you don’t mind me calling you margaret
and I’ll be on the next train to meet you …lol!…just what was it that attracted you to Ugly Mare then SC, was it this by any chance:-
"I won just over £90,000 as part of a work syndicate a few years ago"
….you cheeky monkey, just wait till I next visit Devon!
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mo, you must live in hope, you never know what [or who] is just around the corner – you’re never too old
…so get in that chatroom, NOW! lol….some funny comments, making me giggle today…
Burroughhill – thanks for being so frank. I’m quite shocked in a way, you would have been the last person I would have expected that from, but good on you for keeping it sane, by the sound of things. It’s nice to have a friend though like that I think, one you’ll never meet, but they’re just there.
In a way, we’re having our cake and eating it, because we’re both still happy with our spouses (me more than him to be honest), happy with our lives, but it’s just wonderful to have each other too. It’s like the icing on the cake! Of course meeting would be awesome, and it is tough to be so far apart sometimes, but it would hurt or affect too many people, so it has to stay just a dream for now, although neither of us like to say it would never happen.
Ok, I admit it, it’s all true – I’m so ashamed!!
Saying that, I can’t see how it can be classed as internet dating, as we met/spoke for the very first time in person when the TRF syndicate horse ran for the first time (it will be five years ago on Saturday), and had never previously conversed in cyberspace – so we’re both in the clear!! I guess we can also claim to have produced the first and only TRF sprog, unless anyone else would like to admit to something….
Seriously though, despite my previous attempt at it being an unmitigated disaster, there is a huge amount of unwarranted stigma attached to internet dating. In fact, things like Facebook and MSN messenger are a lifeblood for people who do find it a bit difficult to simply march up to someone in a club or a pub and do the old ‘chat up line’ malarkey – which 95% of the time ends up with complete and utter embarrassment.
I agree HJ .. a mate of the wife’s has met several blokes over the internet, after her husband up and left her with two kids and no cash. If she didn’t do that I don’t think she would meet anybody. It probably sounds sadder than it is ?
I know HJ but didn’t want to give you an excuse for your poor poker with having a child.
As for your last paragraph – The worst thing about that approach is that the next morning – if successful – you really wish it hadn’t have been.
Nothing worse than a girl that is just like yourself.
You play the caring individual for a change. I once gave the usual **** only for her to turn around – while in mid sentence as to why Kauto Star would never be the horse that Vicario Di Bray would have been could he run faster , jump higher and be born 15 years later.
Just like magic – she dissappeared.
AS the Verve famousily said – they dont work – bed beckons
Lee
the Thomas Hardy – is it a short story, it’s not one I’m familiar with. I used to live in Boscastle and my favourite walk was from Boscastle along the Valency Valley to Minster Church – it’s where Thomas Hardy met his first wife, Emma Gifford and they used to walk there too….I always used to imagine them there….bet a lot of it was washed away in the flood…..I know ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes ‘ was set in Boscastle. I spent my mis spent youth reading Thomas Hardy and Emile Zola – no wonder I’m such a pessimist!
I guess we can also claim to have produced the first and only TRF sprog,
…who on the two occasions I’ve seen him at the races has proven a better tipster than either his dad or me – two bets (Fisherman Jack and It’s A Discovery), two wins!
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Don’t knock it, team.
I’ve had some magnificent fun since 2003 and have met plenty of nice women from the US, Canada, Sweden and closer to home; (er, Bristol and Stockport).I still correspond regularly with a lovely lady from Tulsa, Oklahoma and if my punting fortunes improve I’ll get over there once more. It is an expensive pastime, transatlantic dating.
Seen a load of racecourses over the pond too – which is something I never imagined I would do. I was really close to meeting a woman from San Diego who was a regular at Del Mar, but she ran off with a dope smoking Marlin fisherman just before the 2005 meet.
who on the two occasions I’ve seen him at the races has proven a better tipster than either his dad or me – two bets (Fisherman Jack and It’s A Discovery), two wins!
You should see his Betfair account…
the Thomas Hardy – is it a short story, it’s not one I’m familiar with.
hi mo,
yes it is a short story. If you want any time you can read it here:
http://www.eliteskills.com/c/5181this is the paragraph when the two writers finally meet where all is revealed between them, although Raye has just married the illiterate girl he made pregnant:-
“But Raye went up to her, and took her unresisting hand. ‘Well, to think of such a thing as this!’ he said. ‘Why, you and I are friends—lovers—devoted lovers—by correspondence!”…………
….’Plainly more. It is no use blinking that. Legally I have married her—God help us both!—in soul and spirit I have married you, and no other woman in the world!
…..She put up her mouth, and he kissed her long. ‘You forgive me?’ she said crying.
‘Yes.’
‘But you are ruined!’
‘What matter!’ he said shrugging his shoulders. ‘It serves me right!’……..lovely…hope that hasn’t spoiled it for you.
Some 20 years ago it was made into a film called “Day After The Fair”.Margaret
and I’ll be on the next train to meet you 
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