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As you say Richard man has been at war for thousand’s of years, it’s like nature has put this destructive gene in our DNA, maybe to keep human numbers down.
With plagues, and various climate changes over the millenium’s etc, I think our mother nature has a lot more say in our life than we think.
I was reading that our Queen liked him, and apparently delayed their Christmas dinner for an hour when he had a Christmas day special.
I haven’t heard of him for years, and assumed wrongly he had already died.
But at his peak on his time on this earth, he was liked/loved by tens of millions.
Shame he just disappeared into relative obscurity, while other populars from yesteryear have been treasured until they passed.
Like others, certainly interested before the age of ten.
My Dad took us to Huntingdon in the sixties, and to other racetracks if we were near one while on holiday.
We didn’t go in the stands then, but could roam about and explore in the inner wide expanse most racecourses could offer.
Of course, a little bet was put on for us to add more interest to the day, but the day out was more than a raceday, it was a picnic, time for ball games, some great family time together.
The Grand National was the big day each year. In the seventies, my Dad started doing the ITV seven. He asked me and my brother to pick out two horses in each race, and along with his choices formed multiple races choices to a 1p EW stake.
The bet sometimes came to a whopping £2.64 if we chose quite different horses.
He did get all seven up one weekend which came to over £600.I am sure by a number of accounts, it was by being brought to the racecourse fuelled the interest which still exists today.
Made me laugh when I saw the BHA initiative to get more people interested in racing, so they targeted students, who have no money?!Earliest memories of horse racing.
Of course the Grand National.
Think it was a front running horse called Tipperwood who led the Scottish National, but was beaten by Young Ash Leaf around the home turn.
Watching a dog jump in the water at the water jump (may have been Newton Abbott), and came out covered in newts.
Picking an 8/1 winner called Damastown at Newmarket in the late sixties, maybe early seventies!
Watching black and white midweek ITV racing with John Rickman, and remember John Tyrell reading out the results, the ITV patent and sounding like he had one tooth in his mouth.
Pendil, who seemed to be on a lot and not against big fields. But oh the tones of O’Sullivan who didn’t used to say much early on, and did not need to.
Andy Turnell, who seemed to ride short rein like Pigott with his bum stuck up in the air.
Bula, Sea Pigeon, Birds Nest, Lanzarote, Comedy of Errors, Brigadier Gerard, Snow Knight, to name but a few.It felt like the race was just ‘get it out of the way’ on two accounts, the clash with the FA cup and the protesters, just the same as the National.
Who really won?
Not good for the second largest spectator sport in the country.The FA cup wasn’t great either.
Not a good day for our largest spectator sports.
You forgot to mention John Rickman and John Tyrell calling out the betting and midweek hand written ITV patent, in B&W of course.
Agree with you Ian.
We had rates far too low and for far too long, and are reaping the fallout now.
In addition to inflation, in the past, and I’m talking of the period before the financial crisis, rates rises now and again used to check the increase in house prices and allowed to many more first time buyers to get on the ladder (also the lack of housing has contributed to higher prices in recent years also).
The govt seemed to give more energy into help to buy schemes which only helped keep prices up. They should have built more homes, plus the BoE should have raised rates from time to time as well to deter ‘bubbles’ being created, like we have now.
It’s a mess and will take decades to sort out!
I wouldn’t be surprised if they fund themselves CAS. They don’t have to work, probably have never done a day’s work in their lives.
For the amount of disruption they cause in the various guises they live in, they do need scrutiny, put on a list as disruptors who take things too far.
It’s both hijacking and obstruction.
And it’s interesting how large parts of msm portray or give exposure and coverage to these people.
Protest peacefully in a town where 200 unidentified illegal foreign males are dumped on your doorstep and you are labelled by the BBC as hard or far right.
But climb and wreck fencing, evade police capture and glue parts of your anatomy to fences to disrupt, and you are not labelled anything.
Agree with CAS.
These so called protesters probably have a different hi vis jacket for each day of the week.
Protesting is their life, their reason to exist, they have nothing else to do.More attention should be paid to the lives and activities of these people.
“Derogatory terms – calling people “ignorant” and needing to be “educated” is not language that wins hearts and minds”.
Good point Ian.
Same applies to climate where there are enough people ‘on both sides’ of the camp, but one chooses to belittle the other. And with their trait, the left, globalists, the putting down comes from them.
Bet the protesters are all ‘lefties’ as well!
If we are still here, you can imagine next year’s broadcast and race which will have quite a lot of percent giving more exposure to the activist’s. “Will they invade, won’t they”. The sigh of relief won’t be until the race is run and over.
Talking of “sighs of relief”, as well as people saying horses are so well looked after by everyone mentioned, I do find it ‘ a bit strange’ when owners and connections say the main thing is my horse comes back safe and sound!
Is this just for their conscience?
If you were so worried about your horse then don’t run them, and don’t deter from the fact they are there and this is all about glory for yourself!
Yes they should blame the protesters for stressing the horses GoRV, but they won’t do that!
Not sure if it’s me, but I can make a case out for most of the field! Maybe reflected how open it is with less rank outsiders this year.
Saying that, the current prices as I type look grim throughout the whole meeting!
Diol Ker and Our Power in the big one.
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