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Good Morning all,
Over the many years I have followed this most absorbing and frustrating sport, I have heard many cliches which irratate the hell out of me, Most probably don’t bother most folk. To use a pun ""’orses for courses.", which is probably an annoying cliche in it’s own right.
Anyway, for some unfathomable reson, the one that gets up my probiscis, is "******** wins the races". First started by John Mcririck, if memory serves me correct. But, unfortunately, other are at it.
I’d be interested to hear other annoying remarks.
My apologies if this has been covered before, but life’s too short to look at the moribunded topics. Not only that, but ‘er indoors is telling me to get on with peeling the veg for Sunday dinner, and I’m more frightened of her than any caustic comments on here.
Thanks,
Dave
For this topic just look to one man Mr Derek Thompson:
"He wins a Thriller", "The Favourites gonna win like an odds on favourite should" "That’s a photo thats one for the judge" "He’ll have to sprout wings to win from there"
etcpeeling the sunday veg at 10 am – you should be going through sunday’s cards again at this time and she should be clearing up the mess from the breakfast in bed she made you
once you’ve sorted the cards out and finalised your bets one should be getting ready to pop down the pub for a few leisurely drinks while you wait for the text message advising you dinner will be on the table at ‘xx.xx’ hrs
cliches eh, thommo has a few that make me wince and one that the lovely emily uses too much imo is ‘squeak’ as in it has a squeak of a chance – wtf does that mean ? a mate said that at the races once and i was dumbfounded, i think squeak is beginning to bother me now …
cliches aren’t for me, im far too modern for that
"Doing it the hard way". Winning from the front is often doing it the easy way.
"It is impossible to win from the front at [insert name of course here]".
Lazy attempt at pretending you know the first thing about pace analysis."Such And Such is a good yardstick on which the race can be rated". Lazy attempt at pretending you know the first thing about handicapping.
" They are not messing about here"
"…………and as they settle down to battle it out……"
Both reproduced with the kind permission of Thommo Enterprises.
The totally insulting "trainer X is capable of getting one ready first time out"
and Nick Luck’s ex old favourite " X, (be it trainer, horse, jockey or even tipster) is in a rich vein of form"
Nick seems to have controlled the urge to say this at every opportunity and now satisfies himself with such comments as "this horse is alarmingly well handicapped"……………..WTF!!!!!
Colin
After working with Americans over the years and being cliched to death, I’m surpirsed that they don’t annoy me more than they do.
I have noticed that the unisex word ‘guys’ has finally invaded the UK.
‘C’moan guys’
‘You guys’
‘Hi guys’
‘All right guys’
.. it’s all so bizzare and mysterious, ‘rock-on pop-pickers’, whatever next?I saw Tommo on the telly yesterday talking to some lads out on a stag party, dressed up as Elvis. I don’t know what he said but I was hoping he was going to take them for a ride on the teacups ..
TLA’s are more annoying than cliches imo.
LOL @ sberry !!
"the last twice"
whoever thought that one up? first heard via Richard Pitman,
now they all seem to be using it.
He’s a nice horse who’s working well at home and we’ve always thought a lot of him!
Ray Cochrane – ‘He’s a bonnie little horse so he is’. Doesn’t matter if he’s describing Party Politics, he still uses that bloody phrase!!
‘One appears to have stayed in the gates.’
Well has he or hasn’t he?
We hear it a lot here
On the other side of the coin, Jim McGrath (the commentator) has come out with some classics.
My personal favourite was when he was commentating on a race where the field was well strung out and after mentioning the first couple covered the rest of the field with comment "you couldn’t hit the rest with a gun"
"and [Jockey] is shovelling on the coal"
"pulling double"
"double handful"
"and [horse] is careering right away" – J McGrath (meaning the horse has gone a length up)
"and [horse] goes two, three, four, six, twelve, a distance clear" – G Goode (meaning the horse has gone half-a-length up)Can I add that the MOST annoying thing in Racing is seeing (mostly National Hunt) trainers dressed from head to toe in Tweed. In particular, Charlie Mann. He annoys me.
The way commentators use ‘outstayed’ to describe the way a horse has won when it’s completely wrong, eg a handicap.
"There’s nothing in it , you could throw a blanket over them". Dangerous as they wouldn’t be able to see where they were going.
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