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I can see the situation from the side of both the Slack family and Blockley, but my sympathy goes to the Slack’s rather than Blockley for what it is worth.
Can’t be doing with with Hen Knight to be honest, but I always remember her quote "When you deal with livestock, at some point you will be dealing with deadstock!"
I had the pleasure of having the best seat in the house on the horse 10 times in his career including 4 wins, 2 2nd’s, a 3rd and a 4th, i was there on tuesday night so seeing his first and last victories first hand was quite moving.from what i saw the horse looked as well as ever and happy. he died definately doing what he loved. having had several differences with the slacks in the past few years i was not sad to see him claimed but was hoping he would return at some point to enjoy retirement. he was the horse that got me going and gave me my biggest ‘day in the sun’ i will be eternally greatful to old ‘Mighty.’4
Great to see you back in action at Cartmel after your long lay-off, Gareth. I presume you’d be vying with Mark Ellwood for rides off Rayson Nixon overall, but has he promised you some more rides in the coming weeks? Who else are you going to ride for this term?
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
There is such a thing as too much racing, even if the horse loved racing it is the trainers job to look after that horse, working on the gallops everyday then having too much racing with an old horse can take it’s toll. Think it was just a bad judgement and a bad mistake. The horse obviously tried his hardest to please, but this time his body was telling him no more racing. r.i.p x
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Great to see you back in action at Cartmel after your long lay-off, Gareth. I presume you’d be vying with Mark Ellwood for rides off Rayson Nixon overall, but has he promised you some more rides in the coming weeks? Who else are you going to ride for this term?
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Unfortunatly in june mark was in a fall at hexham and due to complications in the hospital he could be out for a while. When i last spoke to him he was hoping to be back around christmas time, but dont quote me on that. Mr Nixon has been very good to me and hopefully i will get rides off him over the coming season. He could have around 8/9 horses this season so i am hopeful of oppotunities. The only problem now is the lack of northern NH til mid october. As well as riding out eack week at the Nixons i still live in Greystoke at Nicky Richards and work the rest of the week there so you never know. We have plenty of horses but there is also plenty of compotition for rides.
How’s Saif Sareea Mighty Fine?
Is he still as bone idle and mild mannered as when I knew him?
You should have seen him when i first saw him at Ken Hogg’s. Paul Robson certainly picked the right one that day at Uttox. Thought that was more a betfair forum question and i dont want the guvenor accusing me of been a tipster. He is a lovely ride at home and should give Rose a few good days when the goings good!
I was surprised he didn’t do better on his chasing debut, I know he’s not the biggest but he’s such a fluent hurdler that I did think he’d take to them. Personally I think the handicapper was particularly hard raising him to 132.
Didn’t realise you’d ridden his stablemate back that day what seems many moons ago now.
BTW, nothing sinister in me asking about him or wanting any tips, it’s just that I was part of the syndicate that had him before Richards/the Davidsons bought him.
Surprised everyone at Greystoke I think because he had schooled so well at home. Rose will have lots of ammuniton this year from this place and I would assume ‘Sam’ will be out early on trying to catch the best of the ground. Would hazzard a guess that the greystoke factor in some way influenced his handicap mark up to.
You should have seen him when i first saw him at Ken Hogg’s. Paul Robson certainly picked the right one that day at Uttox.
Not half he wasn’t. I was there that day (September 19th 2004) when he won his seller at 66-1 – stablemate Nifty Roy ran out early doors, didn’t he!
My review of that day’s action is still online at http://www.neigh.co.uk/revindex.htm, along with about 15 other helpings of my gassing. I think I had Saif Sareea down as being bought at the auction by Tony Forbes that day, which is probably inaccurate. Silly old me.
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Im pretty sure tony forbes claimed him as the joke was Nicky could have had him that day for bout £7K but had to pay bout £55K to get him eventually. I can still rember Nifty and me running out at the first, but it didnt seem to have done him any harm in hindsight. wouldn’t say no to a ride on either at the moment
Tony Forbes did claim him, that was who we claimed him from when he unseated Des Cosgrove back at Uttox on 13/07/05
Oh my god just found this out on here. I never knew he died. I seen him so many times up here in the north then he got claimed and remember how upset the connections were who originally owned him.
That’s so very sad. They did race him quite a bit after they bought him. and woah!… looking at the racing post form they ran him practically once every week . That has to have contributed to the heart failure, surely? Bless him, he won nearly every time too. He must have been exhausted!
Yes here we go with "Don’t blame the trainer" but come on, the horse needed a break surely?
This is the saddest thing i’ve heard for a long time. I’m gutted
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