Racing’s loss…

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Three years on and Rishi hasn’t improved nor TRF correspondents’ opinions altered

https://theracingforum.co.uk/horse-r … =2&t=81519

For what it’s worth Rishi Persad’s parents had a stud farm in Trinidad and he was both a "promising" jockey and "excelled" at cricket; though as he came to Blighty when just 12 whether this promising excellence was at a Port Of Spain primary school or a secondary school here, I don’t know

So, not entirely a case of his rise through the ranks being one of multicultural positive discrimination as he could have been viewed as being qualified for the job anyway; though as we all know only too well those with backgrounds in the sports they commentate on do not, taken as a whole, make good or interesting broadcasters

My vague interest in Rishi is due to me too having Trinidadian ancestors: my great-great-grandfather was a freed slave who’s son owned a sugar plantation and became mayor of the town of Arima, who’s son (my grandfather) hopped on the banana boat to Bristol docks in the 1920s and married an Anglo-Irish girl, from which bloodline I eventually appeared

strange but proudly true

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My vague interest in Rishi is due to me too having Trinidadian ancestors: my great-great-grandfather was a freed slave who’s son owned a sugar plantation and became mayor of the town of Arima, who’s son (my grandfather) hopped on the banana boat to Bristol docks in the 1920s and married an Anglo-Irish girl, from which bloodline I eventually appeared

strange but proudly true

It’s an impressive pedigree, but I wouldn’t go to more than 1500gns if you went through Tatts.

Do you breeze-up well?

Mike

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It’s an impressive pedigree, but I wouldn’t go to more than 1500gns if you went through Tatts.

That’s not a bad sum for an irresolute arrant rogue and thorough jade. Must be because, like Rishi, I’m always well turned out, am the paddock pick, move well in my slower paces and catch the eye going down

Do you breeze-up well?

There was a time, but I’m down on my hocks these days

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Must be because, like Rishi, I… catch the eye going down

That answers my question.

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