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Alan, did you hear Matt Chapman’s comments after those events at Towcester? He felt that spectators had been denied the excitement of the remount by the new rules!? The fact that the jocks were on the floor and the horses were "galloping" away seemed to have escaped his notice.
Colin
I thought that was funny too. PLus by the time they’d caught their horses and remounted, the rest of ’em would be well past the post.
Alan, did you hear Matt Chapman’s comments after those events at Towcester? He felt that spectators had been denied the excitement of the remount by the new rules!? The fact that the jocks were on the floor and the horses were "galloping" away seemed to have escaped his notice.
Colin
Even the missus said that when I called her in to see the replay, the guy just loves to hear his own voice even though only diarrhoea emits from the orifice on his head
Colin,
I had the mute button firmly depressed – the only time I’ve ever heard every word spoken on a TV racing channel was the small number of days when I was one of those providing the verbal wallpaper.
Watching that incident, I was mainly feeling for Leighton and trainer Richard Rowe, as the same pair had lost another surefire winner with a last fence fall from Pocket Aces at Fontwell last month. Leighton seems cursed at the moment as he also came down at the last at Fakenham on Eleazar when a length in front.
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"I had the mute button firmly depressed……….."
Good thinking, Alan.
Colin
Leighton seems cursed at the moment as he also came down at the last at Fakenham on Eleazar when a length in front.
Likewise Nick Scholfied and Andrew Turnell, who had that Huntingdon contest last weekend won all ends up before Haar crashed out at the last.
You can all be sure that Haar was as hacked off with the exit as jockey and backers were, judged by the tail-swishing and attempt to bite Kriby’s Vic on the run-in for having the audacity to pass him again.
A predictable amount of abuse was aimed at Scholfield’s aptitude on the Betfair forum straight after that race – forgetting, of course, that only two days earlier he had succeeded where all other previous incumbents had failed during 2008-9 in getting Bible Lord to put in a convincing round of jumping.
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