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  • #1633931
    Avatar photoHe Didnt Like Ground
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    I attach the video below for no other reason that it’s bloody funny …. I might have to start a father ted thread

    #1634060
    Avatar photogamble
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    SLEEP WELL WATSON ?

    YES HOLMES

    WHAT WAS THE DOCTOR UP TO LATE LAST NIGHT ?

    I WAS PUTTING YOUR LATEST POEM INTO BETTER SHAPE.

    WHERE IS IT THEN ?

    YOU’LL FIND IT HIDDEN INSIDE
    YESTERDAY’S TIMES ON PAGE TEN

    STICK TO THE CASES WATSON YOU’LL GET THE SLEUTH DISQUALIFIED

    IT’S NO LIE AND IT’S NO LIBEL
    NO-ONE WILL GUESS IT’S ME HOLMES !

    #1634365
    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    Deadline for votes in the heats is tonight at 23:59

    in the event of a tie between poets still in with a chance to qualify a playoff will take place

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

    #1634373
    Avatar photoIanDavies
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    But surely, in the event of a tie, the ancient and hitherto immutable rule of alphabetical order on names comes into force?

    Like, to give a completely random example, “Davies” ahead of “Hughes.”

    Or “Ian” ahead of “Nathan.”

    Or even “Chezza” ahead of “Hughesey!”

    I am "The Horse Racing Punter" on Facebook
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    #1634471
    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    one hour before the heats close
    if you haven’t voted now is the time to do so

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

    #1634483
    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    Through to the final

    Triptych
    He Didn’t like Ground
    Gamble
    Ben Bernanke

    play offs between

    Marginal Value and Cork all Star

    and

    Ian Davies and Nathan Hughes

    play offs will start shortly and end 11th February at 23:59

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

    #1634990
    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    Last day to vote in playoffs

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

    #1635167
    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    Final 7

    Triptych
    He Didn’t like Ground
    Gamble
    Ben Bernanke
    Ian Davies
    Cork all Star
    Marginal Value

    Final voting thread will be put up later today

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

    #1635170
    Avatar photoIanDavies
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    While Chezza salutes Hughesey for his generous decision to facilitate a Magnificent Seven-Trap Final, Chezza is frankly appalled to be drawn five of seven, a coffin box perch in a seven-runner contest if ever Chezza saw one.

    Chezza has that utterly unpredictable duo of gamble and Ben on Chezza’s inside, no doubt veering all over the shop on the run to the first bend, CAS on Chezza’s outside is the only one guaranteed to hold a true line – but that also means CAS will cede ground to no one – and Chezza has noted how ruthless seeded wide runner Marginal Value is with words and Chezza could see “The Value” cutting into, and carving up. all and sundry on that first bend with his cutting putdowns.

    Railers Triptych and HDLG, conversely, will surely have uninterrupted passages into the back straight.

    Chezza’s got a right job on here!

    But twas ever thus for TRF’s most loveable (alright, loatheable) narcissist.

    Bring it on!

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    #1635172
    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    Thats just the finalists
    the draw for traps hasn’t been um drawn yet
    Waiting for my lad to get back from sunday school to draw the numbers out of my Galopin Des Champs cap

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

    #1635176
    Avatar photoIanDavies
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    Given the above, Chezza would like to point out to Hughesey that Chezza has been a wide runner (well, wide boy) pretty much all Chezza’s life, hence Chezza would like to nominate Chezza as a seeded wide runner and automatically get Chezza the Seven box.

    Regards,

    7 Chezza (W)

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    #1635183
    Avatar photoCork All Star
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    Didn’t Sittingbourne (now known as Central Park) have 8 dog races once upon a time?

    I can’t remember what colour jackets the outside traps wore. I think green must have been one of them.

    #1635187
    Avatar photoIanDavies
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    Very possibly – I know there are eight-dog races in some other jurisdictions around the globe too, Australia perhaps?

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    #1635191
    Richard88
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    I seem to recall Towcester holding 8 dog races not so long ago. Traps 7 and 8 were solid green and black and yellow halves respectively I think.

    #1635192
    Avatar photoGladiateur
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    “I think green must have been one of them.”

    Chezza definitely needs the green jacket here.

    #1652808
    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    “Me mate Rossa Ryan
    has been a cryin
    kicked out of Amo Racing

    But he’ll bounce back
    in the middle of the pack
    timing it with good pacing”

    That’s what I’m talking about

    Blackbeard to conquer the World

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