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In Kevin Blakes latest column he gives a line up of races that he thinks would make the perfect Cheltenham festival.
I am sure the perfect lineup has been discussed on here before. Can somebody give me a steer to the discussion?
Scrap the Ryanair, the marsh novice chase, the mares novice hurdle, the cross-country, the stayers novice hurdle. Extend the Sun alliance hurdle to 2.6, reduce the stayers novice chase to 2.7. These would allow for the best horses to compete against each other rather than the current ducking.
You don’t miss nothing do you gamble? Although there is no apostrophe after the t in my name
I’m still glad though, I tempted you back into the fold a couple of years ago, after your 4 year self-imposed exile
…and after the queen went home to tea
It was a toss up yeats between the shorter reply to you or replying to Tippi’s Ladies day at Ascot queen comment which somehow had a bit of the tiger came to tea flavour in it. I have some connections with the Queen and know her habits.
If I had been poisoned in Germany during the shiny leather coated disciplined ” Mach hin jungen ” period of the Third Reich I could have taken it lying down. But this was post Nazi 1988 and helmut Khol was provoking the Bild ( Sun) to splash their front pages with an enormous cabbage. ( Or was it the Sun?). Since 2006 I have suffered constant pain as a result of the poison – but quite manageable until about two months ago when the pain increased by a factor of two.
Last night I got in a bit of a sulk with my beloved. She wanted to watch Chris Powell talking about Jesus Christ chucking people out of the temple for gambling. I watched an hour but then there was a sequel and I wanted to watch Carry on Doctor – so I endured enough saintly medicine as I could then shuffled off to bed.
The pain woke me up at 130am so I got up and put the kettle on and thought I would sit it out. I started reading this Racing section on my phone and came across Tippi’s post and then viewed some back numbers and yours caught my eye. Gamble dragged me to the water and forced me to post (Meant to be on a sabbatical) – I tried to resist by reading the BBC news then the ITV.. but he kept nudge..nudge.. I was on my second tea and well it was a toss up The queen or your spot. I went for the spot in the end – it needed just a sentence whereas the queen was two yards. There have been similar spot posts before but yours was rather special – a short thread and the last post and using a spot to describe perfection was hugely imaginative.
I must say yeats I have always considered you one of the heavyweights in here as far as the content you put out goes, but have to admit, you have a tendency to veer into Jeckyl and Hyde territory… which I may explain if I post later.
Best do it now. You brought me back from the dead by nominating me quite absurdly for poster of the year after I had written zilch. That was Mr Hyde and very wicked black humour of you. Strangley you gave me a bit of a verbal Mr Hyde pasting later on ….and while the massochist in me enjoyed that, I had to go back to check it was actually you who put me up for the Big One.Last night I was up from 130-400pm then slept like a top until 930.
I had a similar rather enjoyable pain period the night before the Envoi Allen race @ Chelters. I got up and put the kettle on about 3am and studied the race in the beatiful serenity of the morning hours for 180 quiet concentrated minutes – a few lighted windows outside blinking on and off but most of bankbroke citi snoring and tucked up with the FT and slippers under the bed. Strange because I travellled in my minds eye to the stables, and curiously Old Allen was not having the best of nights – like me. I slapped enough on his rear to give me a small respectable loss but had a nice tickle on the winner @ 16’s I think. Even out of pain comes perfection. I call it
…just a PERFECT DAY not picnic in the park but tea in the dark.🐢….Waccy Baccy Zennday
HAVE A VERY HAPPY AND PEACEFUL EASTER – possibly in your back garden – I’d wear a cloak – or sit yourself in the local park as far apart as physically possible from Hyde. The lama told me !
Can I just neither hear nor see the words “Cheltenham” and “Festival” juxtaposed until 1st March 2022 please?
Thanks in advance.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Can I just neither hear nor see the words “Cheltenham” and “Festival” juxtaposed until 1st March 2022 please?
Thanks in advance.
Rearrange the following into a well known phrase or saying:-
a, chance, have, hell, in, snowballs, you
You have more chance of hitting the jackpot in the National Lottery, Irish Lottery and Euromillions in the same week
I know, Paul.
Next week’s Grand National is but a trial for the 2022 Cross Country Chase – the entire NH season is about four days in mid-March.
Maybe one day the whole sport of football will solely be about the World Cup once every four years – oh, but hang on, they have got (a bit) more sense.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Another cracking idea (NOT) – it’s not like the tedious template for it, the Shergar Cup, has been voted Britain’s worst race meeting of the year by punters and racegoers every year since it’s inception or anything!
Poor old Shergar – as if being kidnapped and done in wasn’t bad enough, he has to have his great name tainted by being linked to that annual monstrosity instead of rightfully having something more appropriate – like the Classic Trial at Sandown Park (which he won by the length of Esher High Street) – named after him instead.
Easter Sunday evening rant over!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Ian’s quipco quipping painful plaintiff voice rightfully turning Shergar Cup Day
into a wool wash and watching weeds in the garden ( Pet Shop Boys )
Just see racing wilt
Slowly losing its home and dry
It just cant stop falling
from its former sky
despite Alan Potts brushwork
strokes painting its days in the sun before the pillage by Tom & Jerry’s audacious break in and stir fry
performing ‘live’in the
shops to build up the lucrative zombie factor
The soft option
West End Girls
watch them cryEat your heart out Tank
The rude boys really have
taken over the asylum
There is no vaccine
Football reigns supreme
they have lost all will
to threaten or kill
they just want you to
watch the wallpaper
forget the thrill
Your locked
inside their dream
wall to wall racing
like you’ve never seen
accessible on your
money talks
Apple screen
In a dead end world
Piggot so far away
Home and dried
a has been.🐢…overtaken on the inside lane – are you gonna go to the Sun sex sin and destruction show ? It’s a it’s a it’s a
Sin.“They didn’t quite succeed….”
Those lads were good with an understated line.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Oh the Shergar Cup
another reason not to not to go to Ascot.Gamble..
the Queen doesn’t even turn out for this one. She’s much too busy polishing her crown whilst putting the kettle on and ensuring the crusts are cut of her salmon and cucumber sandwiches.Going with Ian’s train of thought would like to see the whole day scrapped and Shergar remembered by a Group 1 race run in his name at Epsom.
Jac
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...I’m probably going against the grain here but I think the Shergar Cup does have a place – although the day could be better named.
I was vehemently opposed to it when it first started, citing all the reasons that have been aired over and over again.
However, having attended it for several years I changed my opinion and came to see the benefit of it.
I still 100% agree it is not a meeting for the racing purists or serious punters – but it is only one meeting a year, or 0.06% of the meetings in 2021.
Where it does serve a purpose is as a potential hook for new racegoers. By attaching a concert to the end of the day and having other attractions it attracts crowds that wouldn’t normally go racing, especially families.
The day is well organised, the basics are well explained, jockeys are accessible – it’s a good PR for the sport and the sport needs to attract new racegoers.
As I say, I can absolutely see why the purists hate it and I abhor the idea of a Racing League but as a once a year sideshow I cannot see it does any harm to the sport and if it potentially attracts new racegoers then good luck to it.
I would suggest a fun day racing in Berkshire would be more likely to attract the new racegoer than a booze fuelled Saturday meeting elsewhere.
Shergar Cup Day some years ago was actually the one and only time I ever stayed for the music after racing – because it was actually far better than the racing!
It was an 80s theme, featuring Visage, Toyah Wilcox (never mind, nothing is perfect) and Jimmy Somerville (whose voice had stood the test of time remarkably well).
However, my personal highlight was…err…Ms Clare Grogan, who had aged remarkably well and still looked every bit as cute as when I first set eyes on her in Gregory’s Girl!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"
another reason not to not to go to Ascot.
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