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If my memory isn’t letting me down (again), I thought jockeys were paid for television interviews!
Colin
Let’s hope he get’s paid by the word.
RYAN MOORE, who rides Tartan Bearer in Sunday’s Irish Derby, was handed a €1,000 fine before racing at the Curragh on Sunday following an altercation with a gateman.
When asked for his comment on the matter, Moore replied: “I don’t want to talk about it, thank you.”
The official report on the matter has not been released yet but it is believed that Moore got upset with a member of the security team when refused entry though a gateway near the weighroom.
Me thinks young Moore just has a bad attitude. He comes across increasingly more so as a sullen individual with a bad attitude rather than shy or quiet.
Most people connected with racing talk out of one side of their mouth.Danger of lip reading by the press from a distance I believe.
"He had also been spotted mouthing ‘this is bollocks’ on Tuesday when appearing in a pre-racing parade of riders before the opening of the Royal meeting.’
Well said that man!
The BBC wasted 10 minutes of its Wimbledon coverage on Saturday showing celebrities in some box on Centre Court.
Its the sport (racing) we want to watch not this other nonsense.
From what I see Ryan Moore is a superb jockey – that’s what counts.
Welcome seepigeon… you’ve a lot to live up to with that name.
Agree completely with your post. 13 years ago my doughter had to have a serious heart operation and the night before the op we met the surgeon. My wife said she didn’t like him very much as he didn’t say very much.
Do you want him to be a chat show host or a surgeon I said.My daughter is now a healthy teenager.
Stu
Oddly enough, Dustin Hoffman asked the question, "Who would you prefer to operate on you, a nice, friendly surgeon who wasn’t that expert, or a miserable, sour-faced surgeon who was one of the best surgeons? I know who I’d choose." Words to the effect. A bit like House, really, though at times his meanness ceases to be funny.
But, generally, I like people to look dour, when they’re suppose to be smiling. I got a real kick out of a photo on Racing Post of a group of racing journalists who seemed to be looking at the camera without a hint friendliness. Later I saw it again, but a larger and clearer picture showed them smiling, though Brough Scott, who is actually the soul of geniality, was looking, not dour exactly, but pensive. Remember the way Mike Reid used to signal to people to stop laughing at his jokes with a crossing motion of his arms. "All right. That’s enough!"
It annoyed the hell out of me to see an earlier Democratic candidate for the Presidency flashing ingratiating smiles all the time at a particular event. He was actually cheated of out of the nomination by the fraudulent machines – the Republican and Democratic "centre" are both actually far right, and couldn’t countenance Edwards.
But it was precisely because he had real policies he wanted to implement to help ALL Americans that he was by far the most popular candidate in reality. And that was why he didn’t need to smile, kind of joining in the show-bizzy ballyhoo. People would have been much more favourably impressed on the personal level if he’d looked as serious as his policies were. I think he came to realise that in time, but he dropped out because he knew the fix was in.
These videos of Noam Chomsky throw a fascinating light on the media’s sudden coverage of the helath care issue:
What exactly is a Bollocks?
Apart from being my favourite word, it’s also a slang term for ‘testicles’.
"This is bollocks..", is to say, "This is rubbish".
Or indeed.."This is the bollocks", is to say, "This is great!"
my wife says it refers to the scrotum and its contents not just the testicles, she says the word could even include the penis when used in the manner described by onthesteal this I discovered following the answer on this website Incidentally she learned to use the word while vacationing in Ireland. The word is not familiar or in common use in the US.
The word is not familiar or in common use in the US.
That’s surprising for a country with George Bush as president!
"Or indeed.."This is the bollocks", is to say, "This is great!"
Scurrilous as this thread sounds, I feel I must throw further light on the matter. It sounds like that phrase has been abbreviated, and dogs are not given due credit for their shamelessly wanton disporting of said items.
I first heard it in Oz many years ago, though it was in connection with visibility, as in "they stood out like dog’s bollocks".
Are those of the dog more prominent than in other warm-blooded mammals, a bull, say?
Are those of the dog more prominent than in other warm-blooded mammals, a bull, say?
Racehorses aint lacking. I recall a colt/horse trained in the north by Denys Smith many moons ago… Raphael Molina had a impressive lunchbox. Surprised he could run at all.
There’s a world of difference between being uncommunicative and downright rude or offensive.
It’s sad to see so many who are willing to try and defend the indefensible.
I don’t dispute his talent as a jockey but the other aspects of his demeanour, being discussed here, are far from professional. When displayed so obviously within his ‘operational theatre’, they lend nothing positive to the image of the sport.
I haven’t witnessed the more recent incidents first-hand but his behaviour at last year’s Peter O’Sullevan event – for charity remember – was cringe-worthy. The only thing remotely ‘mysterious’ about his persona is why someone in such a priveleged postion finds it necessary to be so obnoxious. Lessons in humility and anger management wouldn’t go amiss.
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