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Cheers guys
Ah yeah, valentines day. She doesn’t believe in calender based consumption (I am lucky!) but I’ll prolly write a little heart felt poem for her all the same.
Any ideas?
She’s Belgian, Beautiful and Political and she can speak better English than I can.
Hi everybody
For the first time in quite a while, I have found myself in love. This time it isn’t the love for myself, love for my beloved doggy nor love for whatever else in this world needed loving.
Not so long ago, I met a girl called Isabelli who pretty much fulfilled both the ying and the yang that I longed for in my idiosyncratic desire for passion. A quality most girls I have come across could only dream of remonstrating.
It’s a kind of love that comes around only on the rare occassion fate and cupid combine to hit me with something that truly pertains to a part of me lays dormant for long periods.
They say that you have three special women in your life and she is surely one of them.
Since it was my personification of cool, on top of everything else, that made her fall for me, it would be pretty uncool of me to scream from the rooftops so I figured that I’d best use an inconspicuous racing forum to do the same:biggrin:
I’M IN LOVE!!!<br>
Hi everybody, nice thread EW.
Personally, I take each and every race as it comes because very few races are exactly the same and it would be inappropriate use statistics which are relatively interminable compared to given each race it’s own attention.
My favourite factors are probably pace (both Flat and NH) and jumping ability (just NH) since those two have accounted for a bulk of so called (by myself) good things in the past.
I also like to see if the horse goes well, or has the potential to do so, over conditions similar to the ones it will be encountering in that race (ie going, distance and course type).
Hi Ian, always a pleasure – Haven’t you told me this story nearly every time you’ve been razzled at half one in the morning in the chat room? You remind me of a semi pro punter pal of mine. He’s a semi pro Postman too which means that he always delivers (like Brian Wright milkman? oh never mind. Macca will tell me the same jokes everytime I bump into him at the East Tameside gaming metropolis extraordinaire that is Hyde town centre.
Hi Twinkle Twinkle
I never intentially punch somebody in pits. Generally, I run around sporadically looking for people to shove or simply charge into. If my fist connects with somebodys face, I’d check to see if he was hurt or offended. Most people I do bash seem to take the view I do in that when you enter a pretty dense pit, you are more than likely to take a few stray fists to the body.
If I’ve hurt somebody, I normally take in their reaction before making my own reaction.
If he looks hungry for more – I’ll charge right back at him.<br>If he bottles it – I’d either apologise or look for somebody else to smash into.<br>If he falls then I immediately pick the fellow up and slap his back.
I’d never pretend it was somebody else because I’m a very responsible person.
Hope that answers your question and welcome to the Kotkijet show guest-starring the racing forum:biggrin:
I love your name by the way!
Brody Dalle is hot!!!
I saw The Distillers at Leeds and that was the only set which sent me to the first aid tent because whilst I was in the mosh pit, somebody managed to slice some skin of my ankle whilst jumping around. Since I took a variety of ”painkillers” and mind expanders before, during and after the gig – the time spent behind the stage was brief. Visually the best set of the weekend because of all the rubbish being chucked into the air.
Probably the most painful pit that great weekend was the Bronx one where I got smacked full force in the chest. I couldn’t breath properly for weeks afterwards!
Right now I’m listening to
Nirvana – I hate myself and I want to die
Hi empty wallet
My friend calls himself bitchtits after the guy in Fight Club because he’s got a good 20 stone on the average sumo wrestler. As a consequence of his size, his neighbours daren’t complain. As for teacher colleagues, most are as messed up as he is.
I used to be quite the Kerrang connoseur but the likes of Bon Jovi, Eminem, Good Charlotte, Evanescence, The Strokes, The Godawful Kings Of Leon and Gwen Stefani belong on the many other channels Sky has and should not be clogging up what is meant to be an anarchic hard rock channel.
These days, I find myself either watching a bit of Scuzz or relying on my trusty CD collection.
FFS, Kerrang have only one Metallica song, two KoRn songs (one being the w**k
Word Up disaster) and not a single SOAD track.Wasted talent and airtime IMO :(
Well done empty wallet – great song.
I have a primary school teacher friend who listens to that song, full blast, 6 times every morning without fail before he goes to work. Not the sort of person you want influencing your young children but one hell of a drinking buddy.
For the record, I’m listening to
Nine Inch Nails – March Of The Pigs
Hi everybody
Perhaps Hamdan’s first few thousand horses had really nice stand out names but after his millionth horse, he simply ran out of ”good” names and now he’s just running through the arabic dictionary.
All the same time, some of the names derived from that wonderful tongue have been pretty cool with my favourite being Sakhee (which apparently means Generous – thanks for that Tommo).
Admittedly, many of these foreign names will sound dull and lifeless but more often than not, they have an exotic ring to them which can bring a little flavour to our racecards.
Although it would have sucked if the greatest flat horse of our lifetime hadn’t had his name changed to Dubai Millenium. I think he was called yaami or something bland like that. I’m sure though that Yaami means something nice and I could have let it grown on me after time because I would never have known of a Dubai Millenium. Or worse still, that name could have been given to a castoff running at Ludlow tomorrow.
But then I think back to my second favourite entire (Persian Punch was the best flat horse of all time and don’t you forget it…He died for all your sins) flat horse in Lammtarra.
His name was so cool that I’ve probably spelt it wrong. That and I still have no idea what it means!!!!
Hey, I just reminded myself of the episode of Family Guy (where Peter sets up his own country) when they’re standing in Clevelands back lawn and Peter starts talking and just loses control pretty much :-
Brian asks Peter ”Do you even listen to yourself when you’re talking?” and Peter replies ” I drift in and out.”
It’s getting late now so I’m going to bed before I start to believe that I’m dating Lorna Bradbourne for real.
Good topic though!
Peace
Hi everybody<br> <br>What everybody is forgetting is the FACT that racehorses these days are trained to the point of perfection when it comes to the big races.
If Arkle was at his peak during Gold Cup months within the same era that Best Mate IS around then Best Mate would really make a mockery out of Arkle.
In the golden era, racehorses were made to prove their worth week in week out. By the time Cheltenham came, it was down to the most battle hardened to emphactuate themselves within the shades of glory.
These days, the only horses who triumph are those who are the biggest, strongest and fastest when it matters.
The idea of horses conceding 2 stone to moderate animals to prove their worth in this day and age is absolutely absurd. Seriously, it is like Arsenal giving away a 4 goal lead to Man Utd. We know that Arsenal (and Man City for that matter) are eons superior to Man Utd but making Arsenal fight with one hand behind his back will prove nothing.
That is part one of my ”Why Best Mate is the best racehorse of all time” lecture, but Misery Mesh knocked the nail on the head in saying that this is the true great of our generation and we don’t know any better.
Peace out everybody
Hi everybody
I WILL put a thorough lecture as to why Best Mate is the best racehorse of all time (behind Jair Du Cochet) when my puny little brother gets off the internet. But for now, I will give three reasons why he isn’t racing inside a depleted generation
See More Business
Looks Like Trouble
Bachannal
And that’s just for starters.
Even if your head was full of acid, you wouldn’t for one second contemplate the idea that any of the aforementioned weren’t of the highest order
It is truly unfortunate that insignificants like yourself can’t appreciate that we are experiencing a true period of glory amongst equine breeds.
Peace out everybody
1. Dark Fountain – My first ever winner as a punter at my first ever visit at a racetrack. Beat a 4/6 shot ridden by Richard Dunwoody by a head winning at 7/1. The reason my flirtation with Horse Racing lasted longer than those of wannabe footballer, pilot, dus driver and womoniser. Dark Fountain is and millions of racehorses like him worldwide are the only reasons why horse racing exists at all.
2. Party Politics – A giant of a horse and the winner of the Grand National the year before I first watched horse racing. I couldn’t accept Esha Ness as my jolly as he didn’t have to contend with the mighty Party Politics. Back then, the Grand National was a wonderful, magical spectacle and it still was until pundit after pundit slagged it off for being a ridiculous handicap THANK YOU ALISTAIR DOWN YOU FAT DRUNKEN IMPOTENT SELF IMPORTANT IMAGE SPINNING IDIOT!! Despite Red Marauders extraordinary heroics in my favourite GN of all time (because I picked a 33/1 winner) Party Politics takes second place as those were the days where gambling didn’t come anywhere near first and you were happy to just sit on the edge of your seat, enjoy the race and cheer on your favourite horses.<br> <br>3. Dubai Millenium – A horse that really captured the imagination and the reason I got back into racing full time. Nobody could have beat Dubai Millenium, not even my second favourite flat horse of all time Lammtarra. Dubai Millenium made absolute trees out of everything the world had to throw at this machine. Shame how it ended but we must dwell on his on course performances and nothing but.<br>
What I meant by our sport being hurt by breeding is that the better horses never, IMO, get an opportunity to prove themselves enough to obtain cult popularity. If one was to ask Joe Bloggs who Desert Orchid, Dark Fountain or Red Rum were then Joe would say horses but ask him who Dr Devious was and he wouldn’t have a clue! Was Sinndar better than Galileo? Absolutely, but their stud values do not reflect this. Had Sinndar stayed on and thrashed Galileo then Sinndar would have got more and the breeding programme would be more efficient. Finally, wouldn’t football be a farce if Niko Anelka & Robbie Fowler were retired to stud at the age of 17?
The idea of excluding a championship horse from a championship race because it’s impotent is awful. The sport of kings has already been pillaged by the breeding programme and discrimination at the highest level is absurd.
Oh my god!!!!!!
Do you know what? He put two and two together, and lo and behold – He got four.
Dammit you’re quick Racing Daily
I just think that x-country racing is endlessly refreshing and easy on the eye.
The horses look like they enjoy the experiance and it’s just nice to see something that occurs none too often.
Its never a thing to bet on thus it’s not going to be ruined by the seriousness of the terrible habit.
So long as it isn’t a regular occurence and prevents itself from becoming stale then I have no objections to it whatsoever.
The charges from abroad are another delightful benefactor to this wonderful contraption.
Keep it up Cheltenham:)
