Who’s Your Favourite Authoritarian Dictator?

[Ex RubyLight]

Just had a message through from Wilhelm Hill

Maybe you should try Wilhelm Tell. The Swiss would take anything from you, even your non-gentile golden teeth.

[The Tatling Cheekily]

Some of Adolfs ‘supporters’ appear to be growing in defiance once again following his glorious victory in ‘The Nutters National’. This disturbing footage was published on CNN earlier today.

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[IanDavies]

They might not be quite so full of themselves when they see next year’s weights.

That 41-length victory hasn’t gone down too well with the Handicapper at ADOR (Authoritarian Dictator Official Ratings) HQ.

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[Marlingford]

There is a possibility that Hitler could go to stud before next year’s race – rumour has it that a previous attempt at gelding him was only 50% successful.

[Anonymous]

All together now… Hitler has only got one….

Bring on the long winter nights

[Ex RubyLight]

The other is at the Royal Albert Hall

[Gladiateur]

Hitler was a rig? So was that grand miler of the early nineties, Selkirk. Mind you, Selkirk didn’t win the Grand National by 41 lengths.

Hitler 1
Selkirk 0

[The Tatling Cheekily]

‘His mother, the silly bugger….cut it off when he was small.’

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[Marlingford]

When it comes to comparing Selkirk and Hitler, I feel Selkirk needs to be given quite a few points for what he didn’t do.

[Marlingford]

Moehat – hopefully you’ll see this at some point! Did you notice Ivan The Terrible is the topic of the latest edition of You’re Dead to Me?

Based on what I learned from listening to it, his last place finish in the recent race could probably be described as disappointing based on his best form.

[IanDavies]

Message from Moehat conveyed to me via my Facebook Personal Blog page….

“I can’t post on the racing forum when I’m away from home. I can read everything but not respond. Could you tell Marlingford that I have indeed listened to the You’re Dead to Me about Ivan the Terrible and that also I have watched the Horrible Histories film about the Romans and was chuffed to realise that I understood all the references to Nero’s mother (ie when he kept trying to kill her). I’ve tried to get onto the forum but it’s to no avail. It’s like having a sort of locked in body experience although obviously not quite as bad as that. mo”

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[Marlingford]

Thanks for that Ian

[IanDavies]

You’re welcome.

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[IanDavies]

It was today announced that the 2022 renewal of this race will be on Saturday, 13th August, entries will close on Saturday 18th June and the weights will be revealed on Saturday 16th July.

The weights range will be from 12st7lb to 9st7lb (anything weighted lower will race from out of the Handicap Proper off 9st7lb).

There will again be 40 runners and in light of this year’s result the following performance ratings were today published.

The below are likely to try again next year, but contemporary world events in the interim May produce several intriguing unexposed dark horses which will be tough for the assessor to allot weights to – but he’ll give it his best shot as always!

Adolf Hitler 210
Uncle Joe Stalin 169
Pol Pot 166
Idi Amin 161
Timur 143
General Woundwort 142
Genghis Khan 142
Chairman Mao 141
Vlad the Impaler 140
Hideki Tōjō 133
General Franco 133
Nero 130
Saddam Hussain 128
Big Brother 127
Alfredo Stroessner 126
Caligula 126
Ernst Stavro Blofeld 126
Jean-Bedel ‘Emperor’ Bokassa 125
Nicolae Ceausescu 125
Attila The Hun 125
Margaret Thatcher 125
Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos 123
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow 123
Robert Mugabe 123
Kim-Jong Jung 122
General Pinochet 122
Basil Fawlty 122
Benito Mussolini 121
Ivan The Terrible 121

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[Gladiateur]

So Adolf is going to be the only one carrying his allotted weight? Everyone else is going to be running from out of the handicap. Surely he’s a good thing?

Hitler: the Arkle of Authoritarian Dictators. Although Arkle was rated 212 by Timeform; Flyingbolt was rated 210.

[IanDavies]

Please don’t leap to conclusions, logical though they may appear to be, sir.

If you consult the scale for marathon race distances you will see there is an element of compression at work.

That said, as with Arkle, the presence of Adolf “Himself” Hitler will ensure that only a handful will race off their true mark.

I currently have a short list of four – Hitler included – likely to be in the Handicap Proper.

That’s racing! (Or rather Dictating!)

Could there by a Flyingbolt in there somewhere?

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[Cork All Star]

I expect someone from the Taliban will have made a name for himself by then and emerged as a lively outsider.

[Author]

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