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  • in reply to: Job application form #184868
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    As long as they didn’t tick the box next to Bestialsexual your colleague should be OK. :lol:

    Seriously though I haven’t heard of this before and as you rightly say what relevance would it have. Its big brother via the back door if you’ll pardon the expression.

    That wasn’t one of the four options! :wink:

    I would have thought that given discrimination against age is now supposedly illegal, that this sort of question surely isn’t allowed?

    in reply to: Re-homed 2 Ex-racers… #184560
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    Fabulous pictures. Absolutely brilliant stuff. Well done you.

    in reply to: Henderson and Geraghty #184160
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    Henderson would have thought hard about this and I can’t believe he would have gone with him if Mick Fitz had said not to go for it. If it doesn’t work out, Henderson won’t let it drag on I should imagine. I hope it does for the horses Henderson has in his charge. People are entitled to criticise but if I don’t like a jockey, I don’t back the horse – simple.Of the current jockeys, he is one of the top riders of the Aintree Grand National course and that’s no mean feat in itself. He’s ridden hundreds of winners so he can’t be all that bad.

    in reply to: What are you listening to? #184155
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    Tomorrow (Cambridgshire Day) I hope to be able to buy tickets for the Steel City Tour in Manchester in December.

    This is a makeup of Heaven 17, ABC and the Human League.

    Should be a good pre Christmas night out.

    That’s sounds a great night! Saw ABC a few ago when they were support to a supposed mega star. They made the night for me. Hope you have a good time.

    in reply to: French Stalls Handlers #183774
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    Indeed – I think Willie Carson referred to them as ‘heavyweight wrestlers’.

    He did indeed but might just be me but they do seem to take forever to get them loaded.

    I agree – they seemed to take forever. Very poor especially as most of the horses I saw were not being awkward in any way.

    in reply to: BBC Arc commentators… #183771
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    I watched most of with the sound down, which was a mercy once I turned it up.
    Carson is an arse – I have had business dealings with him and he is one the rudest, most ignorant individuals I have ever come across.
    Wittering is correct. Inaccurate would also apply. And he repeats things that someone has just said as if you haven’t heard it before when someone just said it in his ear!
    As ReasonvoverFaith wrote, if there were medals given out for bravery in broadcasting, Clare Balding would have a chest load by now for having to put up with him and the rest of them.

    in reply to: Arc 2008 #183603
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    Phenomenal. Thought she was a bit far back at the top of the last turn, but once she saw daylight, it was never in doubt. A privilege to watch. A great filly.

    in reply to: Has John Gosden ever been to Santa Anita? #182994
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    Maids Causeway did win the Rockfel but it wasnt a great performance by any standards, and she went out for the winter at 33-1, and was untouched, then as soon as the flat season was starting then she started getting backed heavily for the guineas (as haafhd had been the year before). Barry Hills was backing her for that like she wasnt getting beaten and if I remember, she was the biggest gamble on the day of the guineas, and would easily have won but Fallon and Virginia Waters were amazing in that race on the day.

    I had some of the 33s, and was gutted she was beaten as I had loved since her first run at Newbury. A great mare. Probably destined never to breed anything decent sadly.

    in reply to: Has John Gosden ever been to Santa Anita? #182845
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    I reckon he would. He is craving for a Kentucky Derby ever since he declared the time would come by 2002, and Worldly Manner flopped on the way there.

    He claimed a particularly promising colt in the Derby prep period but I think it was injured. This is the 2007 Derby I’m talking about.

    He is DESPERATE to win the Kentucky Derby, even more so I think than the English one.

    in reply to: Has John Gosden ever been to Santa Anita? #182736
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    I can’t remember where I saw it other than maybe Pacemaker, but I am sure I have seen in print from more than one source that all the current racing stock was also included in the sale.

    in reply to: ebay #182731
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    I bought a set of DVDs which supposed to be in European format – they weren’t. I got nowhere complaining to Ebay. When I tried to leave negative feedback the seller was no longer registered. Good luck.

    in reply to: Has John Gosden ever been to Santa Anita? #182729
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    Aragorn – didn’t Sheikh Mohammed buy the entire Stonerside Stable?

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    Yes he did

    in reply to: Hotels nr Sandown #182066
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    As long as it is an even number in the bed, yes. :lol:

    in reply to: Hotels nr Sandown #182062
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    The Woodlands Park Hotel at Stoke D’Abernon is a much better proposition than the two mentioned – but that is jusy my personal preference.

    Basically there is a large selection in the area, whatever your taste or budget.

    Live my life on a budget – can’t help it if I went for cheap. :oops:
    A bed is a bed is a bed – if all you are going to do is sleep there, what does it matter?

    in reply to: Hotels nr Sandown #182048
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    There’s a Travelodge at Chessington Tolworth which is not too far if you don’t mind them? Holiday Inn at Chessington, http://www.holidayinn.co.uk.

    in reply to: Tracing a Horse’s Pedigree, Sires, Grandsires, etc… #182002
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    This site also allows you to add horses not in the database and so extend ‘family trees’.

    in reply to: Political Correctness #181990
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    I believe that black boards in schools had to be called chalk boards. As technology has moved on, I now have an ‘interactive white board’ in my classroom!! :D

    Surely it should just be an ‘interactive board’? If black board is not permitted, shouldn’t the same apply to white? :?

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