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Newland will be an answer to a TRF racing quiz question yet – mark my words!
(e.g. Name all the permit-trained winners of races at the Festival so far this decade, EXCLUDING any to have won the Foxhunters (I don’t know the exact answer to this cos I’ve not researched it yet, before anyone asks….))
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
As oppossed to the real story of yesterday, Dr Richard Newland, which is what National Hunt racing is all about.
You mean like a small country trainer (based in the back arse of Monaghan) celebrating a 3rd place in Cheltenham after a s**t
year of battling (and continuing to do so) cancer and seeing who two sibblings die of the disease in the last couple of years? Oliver Brady is a gentleman and for you to describe him as "borish" shows how little you know the man.Over the top yes, but Jesus there are more things to worry about in racing than that. I suspect Dr Newland was so happy he didnt even notice it himself.
I didn’t describe him as as borish – I stated I have no problem with the eccentric or larger than life, in my view it adds to the mix. Furthermore, for him to overcome the deeply personal problems he has is an example to all of us, there but for the grace go I etc, but there’s a time and a place.
However, point taken.
Jeremy, what I meant was I’m sure Burntoakboy’s connections were delighted regardless of Oliver Brady.
Didn’t hear the poem, enlighten me??!
Hello,
Good Post, Aidan…explains alot,..
(Edited by doyley at 11:23 am on Mar. 16, 2007)
regards,
doyley
and few things more tiresome than people trying to make themselves out to be "a character"
Quote: from betlarge on 2:27 pm on Mar. 15, 2007[br]Don’t know if any of you caught a glimpse of him yesterday as he ‘took over’ the parade ring after Baron de Feypo’s third place in the Coral Cup.
Betlarge i dont know how you think Oliver Brady "took over" the prade ring at Cheltenham i was there and was delighted to see Oliver Brady celebrate in a SMALL SECTION of the ring. I was watching the winning connections celebrate and then caught a glimpse of Oliver celebrating and moved down to see him along with a huge number of other people. You’re not being forced to watch him if you dont like it move away or change the channel on your TV. This man is a brilliant asset to the racing game and has to be the most honest trainer ive ever seen interviewed.
If you like trainers that tell nothing but lies when being interviewed and find it hard to smile when they have a win well as they say each to their own. But id prefer to listen to Oliver Brady anyday.
Quote: from dandan on 10:32 am on Mar. 16, 2007[br]Jeremy, what I meant was I’m sure Burntoakboy’s connections were delighted regardless of Oliver Brady.<br>
<br>Ah. Right. Yes. Whoops. The genius Column mis-reads another post.
gc<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
if you removed all the drunken, boorish, tits from the emerald isle, from chelters, you’d be left with a smaller crowd than a wolver banded meeting wouldn’t you ?
and a few dozen caravans
Thats a load of rubbish thats trotted out every year!
I go to tatts every year and happily chat with many great Irish racing fans. But they are no more drunk than the english and I would say that no more than 25% at the very most of the tatts crowd is from the emerald isle
Less than that it felt this year
Its a midlands festival. Every other accent is brummie
Its a midlands festival. Every other accent is brummie
The dialects of Brum and the Black Country lend themselves to drunken roars better than any other in the land
You’re not being forced to watch him if you dont like it move away or change the channel on your TV.
<br>I’m sorry PaulB, that is a complete non-argument.  Of course I am not forced to watch his behaviour (although that particular privilege was not extended by Brady to any of the winners connections) in the same way as one is not forced to watch a drunk throwing up in your local town centre.  It doesn’t mean that one still accepts such behaviour.
If you like trainers that tell nothing but lies when being interviewed and find it hard to smile when they have a win well as they say each to their own. But id prefer to listen to Oliver Brady anyday.
<br>This may well be the case, but that has absolutely nothing to do with my original point which solely refers to his behaviour in the parade ring at Cheltenham.
There have been plenty of examples over the last four days of lively celebrations (Sublimity, Denman, Kauto etc) that have been rip-roaring fun without falling over into idiocy.  The concept that puerile, drink-induced behaviour equals fun seems unique to the British Isles and increasingly apparent amongst it’s racegoers.
Some have said that Dr Newland, the winning trainer, would not have been bothered by such behaviour at his moment of triumph.
Maybe, but it would have been more dignified for Mr Brady and his friends to have given him the choice.
Mike
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