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I may have a read of that book one day, ivanjica.
In the meantime, here’s a great bit of pop from Freddie and the boys- Another one bites the dust.
Many thanks for the advice. Will definately be giving some of these a look in the near future. Forgot to list Chepstow, I have beeen there for the boxing day meet and it was a top day despite arctic temperatures.
One less to tick off the list!
Hmmm, never known Chepstow to have a boxing day meeting. Don’t think it would be a good idea for the Welsh National to clash with the King George. Anyway,any racing fan who lives in Bristol should surely have visited Wincanton and Taunton.
If not, you should.
Rasaman is a sprint handicapper formerly owned by Roy "Chubby" Brown, under his real name.
For Henry- This charming man- The Smiths.
Nine years ago
I don’t know about nice
some gave him a bad press
but plans certainly came together
for Scudamore and his pipe.
It was a rare pleasure
to see if anyone could peg themThe multitude of screens enable Pipe to keep one eye on a claiming race at Auteuil for three-year-old fillies, and another on the 2.30 at Lingfield, where he has a runner, Polar Star….
He is, moreover, the very embodiment of cheery, chuckly Somerset bonhomie, at least on the day I meet him…
"Bookmaking taught me all about probability," he says. "And that’s what racing is about, probability. It also gave me a knowledge of horses and courses. You’ve got to know your horses. There’s no point in a horse being 1,000 per cent fit if he’s only able to win a seller and you enter him for the Derby. Also, I was in charge of the money, in the days when there were no photo machines. So I had to devise systems to manage everything. That taught me how to handle paperwork, and it taught me the importance of keeping records. Now, I keep records of everything. I have 100 horses here, and 50 in the other yard, and their temperatures are taken twice a day. I get a written report about every horse, every day. By 7.30 in the morning I know every horse’s temperature, whether it’s eaten up, whether it has a runny nose or a wet nose…"
Who wrote that, Gamble?
Young David seems to be a nice guy as well.
I’d like to be the first on this thread to mention Henry Cecil as one of racing’s nice people.
Does anyone know when Paul last posted on TRF?
Shame he doesn’t post now, he seems like a very amiable man.
Surely an error of judgement by Ruby to remount the horse before establishing it wasn’t injured, if my memory serves it did suffer a minor injury and was out for a while.
Colin
I thought it was bizarre actually, when i saw it he kind of chased the horse, i thought he was just doing it so it didnt run off loose. Yet he chased it, and got back on.
Well, at least this kind of thing can’t happen now.That must be a good thing?
I was at Wincanton that day as well. Seem to remember thowing my HL ticket to the ground, but did retrieve it
Maybe the race was mentioned on this old thread?
