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Sunak seems to be regressing rapidly. It would be no surprise to see him, in the not too distant future being interviewed on BBC television flanked by his parents.
Ben, I think you are suffering from an early “mid-life crisis”, mine came a little later in my life. When you are married with two children and a mortgage you have to take a responsible safety-first attitude to life I.e. stick with a job that you believe ‘is for life’. However at age 43 I was offered redundancy. There was on option to move inside the industry but living in Wales and my daughters receiving a bi-lingual education that wasn’t on. So again I had to go for what looked the safe option. I became a sub-postmaster. Not a good decision and I hated every minute of it. So I sold it as quickly as possible – it took nine years to sell. So I’m 51 reasonably secure financially but still had to find some sort of employment. Worked for a local bookmaker and did some voluntary work with ‘Riding for the Disabled’. So I asked myself what did I really want to do. “Work with horses, preferably racehorses” so that is what I did.
Yours’ is a different situation, you are 20 years younger, no mortgage, no family – the world is your lobster?? Seriously, forget about the past relationships, unhappy work experience and ask yourself what do I really want. It may seem unattainable but if you want it enough it can be done.
Cliche warning, the rest of your life is a blank canvas and today (or tomorrow) is the first day of the rest of your life.
Go for it, Ben, it really is all in your own hands.
I hope your coming on here and sharing helps and admire your courage in doing it.
Wishing you the very best of luck whichever path you choose.
Doesn’t trip off the tongue smoothly but ‘Artificial surface racing’ would be fairly accurate.
It seems strange to me that, at a time when concussion in sport seems to becoming a big issue, boxing a ‘sport’ in which one way of winning a fight is to concuss your opponent seems to go ahead without any trouble.
Cork All Star, yes, low and fast is ideal but margin for error can be small. I’m probably being a wuss but I hate to see horses injured.
A very impressive performance but just a little concern about how low he gets at the flights. Very good/great hurdlers have been caught out by Cheltenham’s undulations (I know he won at this year,s festival but he won’t be running against novices in March) and perhaps I have too much imagination and an increasingly squeamish view of jump-racing not helped by seeing Portibello being fatally injured when falling at the last in the race preceding race to the Fighting Fifth. I seem to have a vague memory of a very good hurdler (Kybo???) losing his life when tipping up at a hurdle when travelling like a winner. No doubt AP Racing will correct me as I suspect my memory may be faulty. It’certainly not a scenario that I want to see played out but it is such thoughts that stop me watching jump races, I made the exception yesterday because of the rave reports I have read on here with regard to Constitution Hill, certainly not hyped at all.
Stay safe all horses.
I don’t think ‘racing forums’ are totally innocent in the matter of the “Cheltenham obsession”.
I’ve always thought that Henderson would make an ideal Tory MP, he has all the “qualities” needed.
Can someone explain to me why Oli Bell appears so confident in his “abilities”. Are there courses you can take in ‘complete un-self awareness’.
Gary Moore likes to give his staff some Christmas presents at this time of the year.
