TRF Poster Of The Year 2023

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Alan can rest assured
his name will once more be entered on
THE LIST
He can sleep easy to know that in twenty years time his name
will still be there.
A few of us may not be around in twenty years time but which
nosey Parker will ?
BILL LIST.
Dungheap never made it but the Blues Brothers was possibly a surprise winner a bit like the black boy from the Bronx. Riversdale is a safe area but it is high crime most parts of the night.

Alan’s writing has strangely enough improved in my opinion over time and his writing about real racing, when racing was real, has really captured people’s interest this year.
I suppose Waterloo Boy will never truly be forgotten.

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Gnats a good win on thread of the year – I missed your post back there apologies. Yes the blob the column and the midnight man seem to have cornered the market for many years. They all share a secret but I don’t know what that is ! A boy from the Bronx shouldn’t be told !

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You can’t bring back the past but you can dip back into it now and again.

Tony Hadley wrote about Spandau Ballet

“You could offer me all the tea in China and I wouldn’t get back with them. There’s no way.”

That’s good – the history boys won’t be singing Gold again

As Bryan Adams might say …

We’re in heaven !

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I congratulate Alan for winning and rejigging Jim’s clock.

[He Didnt Like Ground]

Always preferred ABC , think It was the gold suit …

Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026

[Drone]

Where is THE LIST?

[Nathan Hughes]

2023 APRacing
2022 Nathan Hughes
2021 Cork all Star
2020 Venture to Cognac
2019 Venture to Cognac
2018 Venture to Cognac
2017 Venture to Cognac
2016 Venture to Cognac
2015 Venture to Cognac
2014 Venture to Cognac
2013 Gamble
2012 The Blues Brother
2011 Billion/Kingfisher Joint Winners
2010 Bob Rolf
2009 Drone/Glenn Joint Winners
2008 Graysons Column
2007 Graysons Column
2006 Graysons Column
2005 Diane Avis
2004 David Cormack
2003 Ian Davies
2002 Ian Davies

Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026

[Nathan Hughes]

2005 downward were provide by gamble

Gaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026

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The boy from the Bronx hit the sack at 4am after polishing off a fine bottle of Argentinian wine with grapes picked from a high altitude and enjoyed it mixing it in with eighties culture and pop – and for afters a quarter bottle of a fine South african. Spending part of the evening with the lead singer of Spandau Ballet ripping open his Golden voice brought me back to the past and through this circuitous route and thanks in part to my winged armchair it sparked me to the 2001 result
I awoke at 11am with a cup of tea brought to me for hopeful revival. I still feel a bit mucky but after a shower I feel right as rain – wasn’t it Churchill or maybe Napoleon who spoke of the curative powers of hot water.
I was thinking tax had to be submitted today but it’s in a months time so am overjoyed at this kindly error. On the downside Lingfield is on and I am being forced out for walkies and a coffee in the park and all that kerfuffle. Oh woe is me I am like a bit of bendy plasticine on two upright legs – bend me shape me any way you want to ( Amen Corner ) – it will probably do me good.

At some time today I will explain the error of this post below

‘Alan can rest assured
his name will once more be entered on
THE LIST.’

Surprisingly as explained above, I will also be giving you some enjoyable history – the result of the 2001 competition to be added to you know what

THE LIST

( Gnats)

[He Didnt Like Ground]

So Mr Davies was popular once … well so were Shawoddywaddy , times and taste change …. in this case for the better

Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026

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The Blob still has his tentacles intact but as you state Ground, his click or network has possibly suffered some decline. This is similar to the Gambino family who were once top dogs in the Bronx and all over the big rotten apple once but now run a miniature operation.
There last big boss Frank Cali was gunned down standing in his driveway in Rooftop terrace Staaten Island just three years ago. He had a legitimate net worth of 30 mill but what he was worth off the books could be assessed at a much bigger number. The guy that killed him pleaded insanity thinking Cali was involved as one of the ringleaders in deep state which planned to bring down the government – I thought they tried that on Capitol Hill.
Davies runs a ferret type operation. You see him then you see him not. He keeps isolated and away from the danger of large crowds. A lonely looking figure munching away at his home prepared sandwiches but this belies the truth he’s as happy as Larry but always keeping an eye out for any lurkers or germ ridden crowds. He better keep to this pattern, otherwise..

In 2023, federal prosecutors in New York on 8 November announced the arrest of 16 members and associates of the Gambino crime family following an international operation alongside Italian authorities. A 17th defendant is also said to be at large.10 Nov 2023

THE BIG ONE

2001 Forumite of the year in reverse order.

In 5th place Daylight.

It was difficult for him to win the big one as he was handicapped as admin and tried to stop the handbags at dawn arguments like the one between the Master and Slippy Blue from developing into full blown fisticuffs. Daylight was old guard like Pewter. I loved the shouting and mayhem and we were therefore in a deeply polarised state of love hate.

Davies is not down and out… There’s quite a lot of life form…

https://www.showaddywaddy.net/

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The Blob has also been known to glass up like Daddy. He would replace the dee bom bom bom Dee bom bom bombity bom dang dang dang, dang dang, dangity dang with a click click click, click click, clickety click.
It’s a nice song but more to the point you’ll never see him doing this at a point point, point, pointity point – it would draw far too much attention !

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Daddy was a bad choice Ground they are still apparently hugely popular. People can’t get enough of the history boys.

THE BIG ONE 2001

4th place …Moi ! gamble

who described himself as having a mouth as big of the Sargasso sea (note the alliteration) before ZASS in company with Matron, who urged him on when he said, ” I am going to enjoy peeling this one like an onion, and on the contrary it won’t make me cry at all, I shall enjoy it !”
– before booting me off the site.

Slippy Blue encouraged Daylight to give me a reprieve about a year later. Most would have crept in quietly but I emailed Daylight conditions for my return one being a full Q & A session like the horseracing celebs. He declined answering any of my three emails – I rather liked that and he went up in my estimation for that. I then found I could access the site – there was no song and dance just access!

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3rd place ….Dungheap

A very popular member with an unusual name. I don’t know why he left or stopped writing and I herald the poster Tinman for his honesty in giving reasons for his goodbye, which was refreshingly interesting, but of course he still posts now and then. People come and go.

Tippi (Tryptych) confused me when she wrote that Alan was a previous winner. I did not have the list to hand, it has to be dug out of a thread, so amended my post, although in my own mind I was pretty certain it was his first time.
I did watch Alan’s three videos with a cup of tea a few hours ago, and was surprised I had missed them. I found them excellent and hugely interesting.

It may be a unkind for me to name Ian Davies as The Blob. The reason I thought of the word, may partly have been to annoy him, but in reality he has so many interesting sides to him, and narcissism which I share in spades with him, is just one. He thinks very logically and I usually agree with every word he writes and he hits the nail better than anyone. He did terribly well to get 7 points with Steeplechasing hot on his heels. I think people do not give him their full support because he is ultra able – people get a bit jealous if you will. He is an amalgam of many fine sides of character and knowledge – so Blob defined him rather uncouthly but I think well.

Although tired I am receiving some guests later this evening so I have one bottle of Moet in the freezer and another in the chiller and an inferior champagne in the sideboard. I know I will be up until 3 am but I largely don’t drink these days due to my renewed interest in horseracing since May – it’s just Xmas and New Year gives me the perfect excuse to do a bender. I haven’t involved myself in any racing today and I have enjoyed the break, I may well have a few days off.

Seasons greeting Drone and Nathan replied in my stead but I did remember you tied with Glenn, and it must be quite nice to have had company on the winners podium and to share it with one with such acerbic wit and you the brilliant wordsmith – well it was truly apposite despite the chalk and cheese.

I tend to write and then make corrections. I don’t see the mistakes until after I post !

[IanDavies]

“3rd place ….Dungheap. A very popular member with an unusual name. I don’t know why he left or stopped writing”

I met this gentleman in real life in 2004 after I drove up to Central TV to appear in a documentary about the betting industry.

He took me to a working men’s club in Wolverhampton, run by a bunch of Asian lads, and I had one of the best Indian or Pakistani (I forget which – I like both) eat-all-you-can buffet meals I’ve ever tasted, and it was great value for money too.

He was a character and a half – and a great judge of a place to eat.

“It may be unkind for me to name Ian Davies as The Blob. The reason I thought of the word may partly have been to annoy him, but he has so many interesting sides to him, and narcissism which I share with him is just one. He thinks very logically and I usually agree with every word he writes and he hits the nail better than anyone. He did terribly well to get 7 points with Steeplechasing on his heels. I think people do not give him their full support because he is ultra able – people get a bit jealous if you will. He is an amalgam of many fine sides of character and knowledge – so Blob defined him rather uncouthly, but I think well.”

I have to say it is a little bizarre to, after finishing a surely-respectable five lengths (sorry, votes) fourth of ten, be ridiculed by some who didn’t even make the final field.

I was, after all, additionally carrying the 10lb penalty of the purposely perennially-obnoxious Chezza persona I created.

It’s all good fun, though, and, of course, you gamble, are living on a higher plane of existence, so “The Blob,” “Diane Avis,” (was that the year I won in absentia after orchestrating my own ban?), call me anything you like – it’s all H2O off the back of a plate of a 1970s duck a l’orange.

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Whether I am duck or daft that was a fine gem of a tale about Dungheap Davies and the blob never fails to surprise. Whereas I’m a talker and babbler on a higher plane or not – you are doer and maybe this causes a bit of envy on my part. Babblers die babblers men of action get into history books and people queue to visit their graves. Such is life. I was born bone idle and nothing has changed.

As I write it is 3.20 am exactly the time I predicted I would be up until – the guests are tired but still here and given the option are staying the night. Damage amounts to two bottles of champagne and two superior bottles of wine shared between four people, all of which I drank a higher proportion of, but no apparent head damage. Elton John was the uninvited guest – he sneaked into our presence via the crouching menace in the corner. Somebody suggested that Daniel was his own brother he’d lost – I suggested Daniel was a figment.
Who the hell is going to have the courage to tell Elton to get his @rse home pronto ?

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The Prisoner is now cult viewing – I always wanted to know who number two was ?

Patrick was a Catholic and turned down James Bond – I always thought the Prisoner was perfect for him as he was all the while trying to escape the rigidity of his strong beliefs.

Number two was Grasshopper!

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