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Andyod
Proper little ray of sunshine, aren’t you.:biggrin: <br>Doubt you’ll ever compete wih him in the popularity stakes though!
Hello andy,
I agree his private life has been a disaster, part brought on by himself, and others have damaged him. <br>But let him have his day, and let the plaudits rain in. :)
There is some excellent material about Henry’s life that would complete an entire Documentary series, and even a TV mini series…but the primary ingredient within those scripts is the fact he is one of the best, and successful, Horse Trainers of all Time…hence this Thread of Congratulations…. :)
Discussions on his private life would need an entire site not just a topic!!! :)
regards,
doyley
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I crept up behind the big Hen<br> at a racetrack<br> when he thought he was <br> alone with a woman.<br> There was no pecking just a swan neck and<br> I tilted my ear for a bit of private and heard<br> A stooping man who plays with half a plum in his mouth.<br> He was talking about his kids education and which school<br> so I wasn’t likely to gamble on that<br> I presume the lady was his wife<br> and I remember<br> he smoked a cigarette<br> as if it was a lung extension.
Certainly a character in racing<br> and wears a topper rather well <br> However the predeliction for italian ties<br> shows the fussy perfectionist<br> and prefectionism <br> especially traded in the rough theatre<br> of racing can easily lead to depression,<br> and so we have a likeable man<br> who unlike Stoute has weaknesses
Hear hear, Gamble.
It speaks volumes for the affection he is held in that no one has a bad word for him – even on the Betfair forum, would you believe?
RH, another certainty to go alongside Death, Taxes and Kauto Star in the Gold Cup…
…there’s always one!
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Agree agree
I do know the ol’ chitty boards well Max<br> and aren’t they stuffed full of Tom Dooley’s<br> who can hang a man <br> before breakfast<br> and before the herring has reached the gallows.
Must say<br> had Reference Point won the Arc<br> and I was dismissive of its chances,<br> I believe Henry would have married the horse<br> and Warren Place might have had<br> some rather strange inhabitants :cool:
<br> flatcapgamble…oh so sharp ;)
(Edited by gamble at 10:55 am on June 2, 2007)
Gamble, your 10.20 post is superb.<br>Madman, your last one’s unfair. HRAC turns brown in the sun.:cool:
<br>:old:<br>Zorro, greetings, and many thanks for the perlative,<br> and I wish you a very nice afternoon<br>with pen and horse :)
Strangely enough the Cecil following<br> happened some time in the eighties<br> and my guess would have been midweek Ascot<br> and some far rail on the course<br> a picnic atmosphere far, far away from madding.<br> It was a lovely day, guess the fourth race,<br> beating sun,<br> and the spring was in my foot.<br> I have always taken a turn to Cecil’s mannerisms, <br> particularly his hesitantly crouched, standing interview, <br> side face on – usually left cheek to camera,<br> where he tilts his chin up, half closes,<br> then raises up his sombre eyes,<br> as if consulting with the greater racing god.<br> If only the pope could do that<br> just think of the millions more in the plate,<br> and the Xtra accounts the Vatican could open with it.
As for stalking people I am rather prone.<br> Past casualties for my over eager feet<br> have been a post ..’erm Norman Lamont;<br> a half a mile treck over the flat pavements of Notting Hill<br> – he did look behind twice -<br> Autumn afternoon, he wore a white non-crease mac,<br> and I even had the gumption after the double spot<br> to lean over him awkwardly to <br> check the destination he was looking at<br> in the travel agent’s window – blair country ‘ Blarbados ‘
A late night Patrick Troughton – the old doctor- through London’s theatreland, also caught my tiger feet, and the illegal activity was punctuated by a police siren which actually made me wonder, but he was a small man in a hurry with a lady in tow with nice eyes and me ten yards adrift with stalks.<br>
flatcapgamble… far from the madding Maddens;)
Gamble’s making more sense these days… I thought he’d lost his Mojo for a while but perhaps its just a more mature Gamble these days.. Either that or he’s met a woman? ;) :biggrin:
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I am eating a different type of cheese
<br>flatcapgamble..mojorella, or to you two double *osser
a short horse riddle… If a horse wins the Tom Fool Handicap does its value go up or clown ?
Quote: from gamble on 2:25 pm on June 5, 2007[br]   :old:
I am eating a different type of cheese
<br>flatcapgamble..mojorella, or to you two double *osser
a short horse riddle… If a horse wins the Tom Fool Handicap does its value go up or clown ?<br>
Stilton? Perhaps the penicillin in the mould is curing gambility? ;)
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