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OWNER OF THE YEAR
Ballydoyle, DSJP Partnership, David Parry Racing, Harry Findlay, Alan (APRacing) Potts, Princess Haya of JordanGot to question Harry Findlay being put up for owner of the year, what horses does he own? His mother owns plenty including Denman but I don’t see Sheikh Mohammed being classed as the owner of Princess Haya’s horses.
I would like to nominate Lydia Hislop as broadcaster of the year.
May I also nominate "Paul Ostermeyer" as poster of the year?
Yes, of the more recent influx Paul O would get my vote too
Must also mention Andrew Hughes who rarely posts on ‘Horse Racing’ any more but his musings on cricket in the backwater of ‘General Sports’ are invariably interesting and well written
Carlisle course of the year for no other reason than they’ve been running all-chase cards for a while now. Another attractive card due on Sunday
"yeats":3fobv3o5 wrote:
Got to question Harry Findlay being put up for owner of the year, what horses does he own? His mother owns plenty including Denman but I don’t see Sheikh Mohammed being classed as the owner of Princess Haya’s horses.
I would like to nominate Lydia Hislop as broadcaster of the year.
Yeats,
2 completely different cases. If we went along with that hypothesis, John Magnier doesn’t own any horses either..
Horse of the year : NH Denman
reason : he won me a lot of money and moreover put his more illustrious and revered stablemate well and truly in his place, as I boasted he would do months before the big clash at Cheltenham.
Flat : Zarkava
Class personified, and the best filly I’ve seen since Allez France.
Jockey : Hayley Turner.
Her improvement has been remarkable and she is now every bit as good as many of her male counterparts.
Poster of the year.
The irrepressible Fists of Fury.
I enjoy his posts and just love it when he gets up others’ noses. Sometimes contentious, but never dull.
Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning
Agree with Himself. Fist Of Fury has to be nominated for poster of the year. Never a dull moment and never sits on the fence.
Please feel free to add your own nominees
Okay Prufrock as this is obviously a deadly serious matter, with strictly no chit-chat allowed, I will ‘officially’ nominate:
Poster of the year: Andrew Hughes Rarely posts on ‘Horse Racing’ any more but his musings on cricket in the backwater of ‘General Sports’ are invariably interesting and well written
Course of the year: Carlisle For no other reason than they’ve been running all-chase cards for a while now. Another attractive card due on Sunday
Hope that meets with your satisfaction
Indeed it does. As did your previous post. Himself possibly hadn’t grasped that point, however, and was repeating names that had been nominated already rather than saving himself the bother.
Hope that meets with your satisfaction.
The shortlist for poster of the year should be a long list with the talent of contributions on the forum.
I don’t post much on the horse racing section either because my knowledge of the sport is terrible but that’s why i joined because out of all the racing forums i checked out, i found this one to be the most informative, fun and friendly one on the net and i feel i understand the sport alot better now since becoming a member, were like one big family.
Andrew Hughes for me would certainly get non horseracing poster of the year if there was such a thing.
Blackbeard to conquer the World
Indeed Pru –
This thread is for nominations – if someone has already been nominated it’s pointless doign so again. You’ll all have the chance to vote AND give your reasons later on.
What will happen if there is more than 10 nominations for any one category because the poll can only handle 10 candidates? The only way to ensure that the 10 most popular candidates are on the ticket is by selecting those with the most nominations on this thread.
Very true David.
In case it goes to a vote, I’d like to nominate Drone for his all-round input in a number of sections, and for his mastery of whimsy.
Would i get mugged for suggesting Tommo as commentator of the year?? He’s not that bad at commentating and does make a dull all-weather card at Lingfield sound exciting…
Very true David.
In case it goes to a vote, I’d like to nominate Drone for his all-round input in a number of sections, and for his mastery of whimsy.
On previous years’ evidence it’s only really been the Poster of the Year that has frequently had as many as or more prospective nominees than the 10 maximum, prudent selection from Corm helping to keep the other awards to smaller shortlists.
It was very generous of Nathan to mention me earlier, especially after I ballsed up on swapping phone numbers ahead of the Taunton visit such that none of the rest of us could find him on the day – my bad.
However, I am quite happy to retire my title without nomination this time around if it means 10 other strong candidates can vie for honours, and I’m pretty sure there are that many. Although I don’t think I’ve mentioned him en passant so far, my fellow Pantheist (I think) and wordsmith Drone would certainly be one of those 10 as far as I’m concerned.
I was astonished and flattered to get the nod last year, but let’s see who else I can help astonish this.
Cheers,
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
I was astonished and flattered to get the nod last year, but let’s see who else I can help astonish this.
I’ve never seen a vote-grab on this scale, since Dubya landed Florida.
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