Topic: Sheepskin noseband | The Racing Forum

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February 5, 2008 at 17:46 #140430
Gingertipster
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I know Afsoun often wears ear plugs in the preliminaries and going down to start, but anyone know if he has worn them in a race?
I believe not.
Sometimes Afsoun finds little under pressure, thought this might have more to do with hearing the crowd than anything else. Wearing ear plugs in the race could stop this. Exotic Dancer was transformed when wearing ear plugs.
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February 5, 2008 at 18:31 #140437
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What makes you so sure earplugs are what transformed Exotic Dancer? It’s as easy to argue that he started to progress once fitted with cheekpieces.
February 5, 2008 at 18:35 #140438
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And I’d heard he’d redesigned his box using several basic Feng Shui principals he’d learnt at an evening class…
February 5, 2008 at 20:14 #140453
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What makes you so sure earplugs are what transformed Exotic Dancer? It’s as easy to argue that he started to progress once fitted with cheekpieces.
Could be either David, nobody knows for sure. But it is some coincidence if it did not have some effect. I am convinced (whether ED was effected by them or not) some horses idle not because they are in front, but because they hear the crowd and it frightens or distracts them. Not saying it will definately do the trick with Afsoun, but it might.
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February 5, 2008 at 20:45 #140460
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Ginge, IIRC I overheard the channel 4 team (or an interviewee thereof) on Saturday commenting that Afsoun has been tried with earplugs in the past.
July 29, 2011 at 21:46 #366435
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I am currently in possesion if the sheepskin noseband belonging to and worn by Red Rum. Found after 32 years, brought back from Southport. The home of Red Rum. Any interest in buying this. Email me on onlineshopping10@hotmail.co.uk
July 29, 2011 at 22:49 #366450
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Sounds like one of the 9,358,307 pieces of the True Cross just resurfaced…
caveat emptor
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July 29, 2011 at 23:14 #366455
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Sheepskin noseband?
Them’s the vagaries.
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July 29, 2011 at 23:32 #366457
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I’ve got one of Captain Becher’s galoshes, which he was fortuitously wearing the first time he fell into a certain Aintree Brook. I found it when I was diving for pennies there to amuse tourists about thirty years ago. I’m open to reasonable offers. All enquiries to:

ripoffmerchant@scamgits.co.uk
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