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That is a wonderful selection of videos on Youtube. I think the person responsible put a lot of them up a couple of years ago, but they were taken down soon after. Here’s hoping they stay up this time.
Some great memories there from the likes of Galway Blaze, Ra Nova and Little Bay.
Best shut up now, lest my fondness for nostalgia lead to accusations of being boring.
Harry Bell.
Astral Charmer. Scottish Grand National 1981.
Training performance of the Century or not.
Stu
Ken Payne is a legend
yeah, his main fans are fallon and mccoy and j egan, oh not forgetting linda ramsden. and at least the vast majority of the public and ALL the racing journalists KNEW kp was a bigger twister than chubby checker.
Ken Payne is a legend
yeah, his main fans are fallon and mccoy and j egan, oh not forgetting linda ramsden.
Ken Payne is a legend
Indeed
The old grey mudlark Kithairon(didnt Easterby end up with that?) and the stories of Harry Flapman are top drawer
Latest racing scandal from South Africa.
"Now that the truth is emerging, it’s clear Roux has for years been running his own version of a crooked pyramid scheme – crooked in that he understated the true value of horses to customs and pocketed the difference between that and what he charged owners; and a pyramid in that he’s been using income from future shipments to pay the costs of previous ones.
Kantor admitted from London his losses through Roux’s thievery makes mine chump change. Apart from the “stabilizing” capital injection, Kantor has already paid SARS another R2,5m for the VAT and customs bill on his recently imported stallion King’s Apostle – the first R2,5m included in Roux’s bill never hit the SARS bank account.
Roux’s victims stretched far and wide. Among those I know who have been swindled are veteran trainer Ormond Ferraris and his Hong Kong-based training son David; Summerhill Stud’s Mick Goss; Champion trainer Mike de Kock; former RA chairman Bruce Gardiner; even racing’s matriarch Bridget Oppenheimer. All of them, in good faith, paid Roux the taxes he included in his invoices. Only now are they being told the funds went no further than the thief’s own bank account. As the authorities had been releasing the horses from quarantine – presumably with the assistance of a Pretoria Salute* – nobody had been any the wiser."
Linda Ramsden immediately comes to mind and her association with a certain K Fallon too!! I remember one of hers owned by bookie Colin Webster being backed from 33/1 to 5/1 fav one day and winning when it had six duck eggs for form!!
I think a certain jockey that rode for Josh Gifford most of the time but sometimes for a certain B Curley has to be added too!! I remember him geting one of Barneys beat at Nottingham once!! Genius really but not good for the integrity unit!
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