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Great to see you back in action at Cartmel after your long lay-off, Gareth. I presume you’d be vying with Mark Ellwood for rides off Rayson Nixon overall, but has he promised you some more rides in the coming weeks? Who else are you going to ride for this term?
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Unfortunatly in june mark was in a fall at hexham and due to complications in the hospital he could be out for a while. When i last spoke to him he was hoping to be back around christmas time, but dont quote me on that. Mr Nixon has been very good to me and hopefully i will get rides off him over the coming season. He could have around 8/9 horses this season so i am hopeful of oppotunities. The only problem now is the lack of northern NH til mid october. As well as riding out eack week at the Nixons i still live in Greystoke at Nicky Richards and work the rest of the week there so you never know. We have plenty of horses but there is also plenty of compotition for rides.
I had the pleasure of having the best seat in the house on the horse 10 times in his career including 4 wins, 2 2nd’s, a 3rd and a 4th, i was there on tuesday night so seeing his first and last victories first hand was quite moving.from what i saw the horse looked as well as ever and happy. he died definately doing what he loved. having had several differences with the slacks in the past few years i was not sad to see him claimed but was hoping he would return at some point to enjoy retirement. he was the horse that got me going and gave me my biggest ‘day in the sun’ i will be eternally greatful to old ‘Mighty.’4
Been a reader for ages but this is my first post.
Been a former amateur myself, how depressing that you only seem to mention irish riders. As 99% of bumpers in ireland this distorts the statistics about the number of winners those mentioned ride under rules. the stats on the racing post show this.
For what its worth Burty and Tom Greenall get my vote.
Ps how much hunting had some of those hunters done (human and equine)
