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I read somewhere recently (can’t remember where, but I have in mind that it was somewhere reasonably reliable :biggrin: ) that the drainage hasn’t made as much difference to Cheltenham as we tend to think – apparently only a part of the course has relatively new drainage, anyway. Could be complete rubbish, mind ..
Anyway, be that as it may, the last thing I would want to see is Cheltenham run on really fast ground. I’m not a fan of jump racing on anything approaching firm …
As for Kingscliff, for whatever reason he’s more in-and-out than a blue tit with 15 babies to feed – surely deserving of his squiggle!!
What a joke it was this year!How could that idiot Pete win,i cringed watching him do his ‘stuff’ in the diary room and i really cringed watching him come out of the house and rolling down the stairs.As for the interview…feck me!… the guy is a nobhead of the highest order-a true w*nker who will soon be forgotten-thank feck
No – he has Tourettes.
Although I have never seen them, I understand that they are very steep and it bottoms a horse by running up it so many times to get it hard trained as so many Pipe horses are.
This is a fallacy. The Pipe yard has two gallops (yes, I have visited the yard and, yes, I have seen them) – one is a relatively gentle slope (by comparison with, for example, Paul Nicholls’ gallops), the other is as flat as a pancake. Martin Pipe started training with a steep gallop, I believe, but that was a long time ago ..
Superb news. ÂÂÂ
Thank you, Cormack and LRM – here’s to many more years for the Racing Forum …
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I’ve been watching out for some news of the race and the first I heard was from a thread started on Final Furlong yesterday. I can’t go on Sunday – I would dearly have liked to – but I hope Taj does Craig proud.
When I originally posted my condolences here, I was so shocked and saddened I found it impossible to write anything meaningful.
As has already been said, Craig did so much for so many people by creating this forum and running it in the way he did and by setting up the syndicates to make ownership available to people who may not otherwise have been able to become involved.
I feel very lucky, and very privileged, to have been one of those people. I have made great friends and had great fun, first on the forum and then with syndicates. There are so many good times that will stay in my memory forever – from the first time I met other syndicate members (we were supposed to go to Exeter to see Maisie Down’s first run but it was called off so we diverted to Ascot ), through that oh-so-memorable visit to Folkestone (funny how all the men had incredible hangovers but the women just carried on, albeit in a blissful, alcoholic haze!), on to Pete the Parson and the hallowed turf of the Cheltenham paddock, then to Gloaming (how many ciggies did Craig get through at Sedgefield??) and Glistening Silver and so to little Archie Clark, who was really far too sweet for racing. And in between there were stable visits and race meetings, each one an excuse for a darned good natter and a great deal of fun.
All I can say is thank you Craig – you’re going to be missed by an awful lot of people.
<br>HJ – most definitely count me in, too. Leicester would be grand – I have a glorious memory of John G staggering down the steps from the owners bar after we had persuaded him into belated celebrations of Glistening Silver’s win a few days earlier!
I am so, so sorry to hear this news. I have such fond memories of the syndicate days out …
My thoughts are with LRM and the family.
1. Sea Pigeon<br>2. Lanzarote<br>3. Azertyuiop
They’ll change tomorrow, the next day, the day after. There are so many …
There is another factor to all this that the punters amongst us, in particular, should remember.
runandskip alluded to trainers having "worked out how to get horses fit at home instead of on the racecourse" – they are, of course, no longer allowed to "get them fit" on the racecourse … (theoretically).
Having said that, I’d agree with Alan that trainers no longer like to see their horses lump heavy weights and with runandskip that the horses don’t seem to be so hardy, now. Perhaps a robust constitution has been sacrificed in favour of speed? Or perhaps the problem is related to the speed at which races are run? Most of the top Irish horses run more often than the UK-based ones – and Irish races are typically less frenetic.
