RACING REVIEW
REVIEW YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
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PREVIEW TODAY'S CARDS
SUE AND HARVEY SMITH
Brave brave AURORAS ENCORE (top weight 11st-12lb )and RYAN MANIA 14-1 badly hampered at the second fence, blundering at seventh, in touch 17th tired 19th and pulled up. Stable mate FILL THE POWER 7 10-8 partner DOUGIE COSTELLO 14-1
5th. Held up on outside, steady headway 16th, ridden and tired before 5 out hung on to pick up 5th prize of £4,824.00. 24 ran. 7 finished. 13 pulled up. 2 fell. 1 bought down . 25 fences 2 ommited. A tough race indeed with the ground making it a dodgy slog.
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DAVID ASHFORTH
Saturday's musings from a retired racing enthusiast.
Saturday's musings from a retired racing enthusiast.
David Ashforth:
Twice voted journalist of the year
Twice voted journalist of the year
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DAVID'S RACING POST SATURDAY MUSINGS (p21)
20. 04. 2013
20. 04. 2013
"Thanks
to Mr Scott I'm no duffer for a while yet."
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+ "Ernest Hemingway thought death was a sovereign remedy - so is a big winner
Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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"TOSH!
Tosh and balderdash! Well, tosh anyway; Peter Tosh, to be precise, the owner of
Union Saint, whose triumph at Exeter on Tuesday had me standing in stands
wondering how the Devon farmer had got on at school, where the wrong name, in
the company of teachers and pupils, can be fatal.
"This essay is tosh.
"What is it, Tosh?
"What is it, Tosh?
"Tosh, sir."
"That's
right, Tosh. Tosh by name and, I see now, tosh by nature,"
Goodness
me, doesn't this man go on.
"It
might have happened. Something similar happened to a school friend of mine called Eric Wright, another unfortunate name.
"
Wright!"
"Yes,
sir."
"No,
Wright, wrong. Do try not to be Wright all the time. I think you'll find it
will improve you."
Goodness
me, improve Wright to suit whom?
Do
this, do that.
Go
here, go there.
Sit
down and be quiet.
Children should be seen, and not heard.
Punish, punish, punish
Smack, smack, smack
Punish, punish, punish
Smack, smack, smack
End of story.
End of
who's story?
"Yours
you duffer!"
"Union
Saint and Tosh brought it all flooding back. We had a maths teacher who, when presented with a wrong answer, would
screw up his face in agony and shout, "You duffer!"
"Its
rather a good word, duffer. I might
start using it while watching races.
"Richard
Hughes, you duffer! Tom Scudamore, you absolute duffer!" There are a lot
of duffers in racing, sometimes riding the horses I've just backed !!! No, no no.
It' s the British bloodhorse illiterate regulator government politicians who are the duffers. Running British horseracing paying no heed to the rights and the needs of the horses and their handler riders. As our own Queen Elizabeth 11 meetings with Monty Roberts confirms. All living creatures have rights and needs, not just us the two legged variety.
It' s the British bloodhorse illiterate regulator government politicians who are the duffers. Running British horseracing paying no heed to the rights and the needs of the horses and their handler riders. As our own Queen Elizabeth 11 meetings with Monty Roberts confirms. All living creatures have rights and needs, not just us the two legged variety.
Duffers' yes, yes, yes dump all uncaring duffers' who spend all day Ripping Off the People in Britain, holding positions they are clueless about.
Duffers' are found to be running the British Political System, the British Horseracing Government Authority, the British Legal Justice System, the Accountancy theory tricksters, the World Banking System, the Inland Revenue, the National Health Service, the Government Beaurocrats, the Local County Council System, the Medical Profession, the Office of Fair Trading, the Education System. the Church of England. On Sunday in Catholic Mass the Homily was about a mother telling a priest that she did not want her son to take up a career in the priesthood. On account of the poverty and hardship all priests face, and the unnatural standards they are expected to comply with. Upset the Catholic apple cart that Mother did, big time.
Who needs to be taken for granted any longer? Who needs fob off negative 'Lip Service' any longer? Who needs cruel government bullies any longer? ? Who needs Britain falling to bits all around them.
"Duffer
was as far as Mr Ansell went, unlike the teacher who held a weekly test and
beat everyone who scored less than the required minimum mark with a small bat,
as many times as the shortfall in marks.
"Then
there was Mr Bailey, the English teacher who, inspired either by Wackford
Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby or by test cricketer Colin Cowdrey, beat offenders
with a full-size cricket bat.
"The
headmaster, the terrifying (to 13- year olds) Brigadier Harry Butler Hitchens,
would ask a question then challenge your answer and, when you crumbled pathetically, boom,
"Stick to your guns, man, stick to
your guns!"
"Later,
Hitchins shot himself. The music master didn't but probably wished he had after,
taunted mercilessly, he yelled at the class and his false teeth shot out and
chattered across the floor. It was difficult to recover from that. In those
days, when taken together, this was known as 'the education system'.
"What,
you may ask, has this got to do with horseracing?" It's a good question, a
fair question, and a tricky one to answer. My theory is that it will be
forgiven as long as there's a winning tip at the end of it.
JMC: What was the 'education system'
for children and teenagers' like in the 1950's, 60's, 70's?
What was the 'education system'
for yearlings' and two-year-olds being prepared for the racetrack like in the 1950's, 60's, 70's?
What was the 'education system'
for children and teenagers like in the 1980's, 90's, 2000's?
What was the 'education system'
for yearlings' and two-year-olds being prepared for the racetrack like in 1980's, 90's, 2000's?
What is the present day 'education
system' like for children and teenagers in 2013?
What is the present day 'education
system' like for yearlings and two- year -olds being prepared for horseracing in
2013.
Taking a closer look at the life and times of
Sir David Attenborough
Born 8 May 1926, the younger brother of actor Lord Richard Attenborough. He never expressed a wish to act and, instead, studied Natural Sciences at
Born:
The first thing noticed is David's kindness, how quietly and carefully he respects all living creatures, and his quest to get to know and understand them all, is truely great. A massive achievement.
Taking a closer look at the life and times of
Sir Henry Cecil
We see the very same foundation qualities when we take a closer look at the life and times of Sir Henry Cecil.
Sir Henry Cecil. 10-time champion racehorse trainer
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SIR Henry Cecil is a 10-time champion racehorse trainer, based in Newmarket. He is one of British racing's most famous personalities as well as one of the ...Our Staff - Henry Cecil
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JOAN IS one of the longest-standing members of staff at Warren Place, having ...
Taking a closer look at the life and times of
Virginia McKenna
We see the very same foundation qualities when we take a closer look at the life and times of Virginia McKenna
Virginia McKenna, OBE - Founder and Trustee
Following a successful
career as an actress, Virginia started Zoo Check in 1984 with her late husband,
Bill Travers, and eldest son, Will, after the premature death of Pole Pole, an
elephant she had come to know during the filming of 'An Elephant Called Slowly' who was later
gifted to London Zoo by the Kenya Government. Zoo Check later became the
registered charity, the Born Free Foundation. Whilst Virginia Virginia has also
authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous books as well as travelling
extensively over the years visiting zoos about which the Born Free Foundation
has received complaints and, wherever possible, she accompanies rescued Big
Cats to Born Free’s sanctuaries in India
and South Africa Virginia
"Ernest
Hemmingway once described death as "a sovereign remedy for all
misfortunes", but I think a decent winner is a much better one and less
inconvenient.
"Talking
of winning tips and decent-priced winners, if you ignored last week's statement
"my selections have been whittled down to Adam Scott and Luke Donald"
- you may have failed to back Scott for the US
"Tipping
is a tricky business. In my experience (very brief, 1987), it's like driving
off the top of the Eiffel Tower, something to be done only once, when you feel
that life hasn't supplied as much embarrassment, guilt and humiliation as you'd
like.
"Starting
a tipping service will soon put that right and I brought mine to a speedy end
when a client wrote to ask if I'd like to subscribe to the tipping service he
was about to launch.
"Soon
after that, I wrote a booklet called How To Stop Gambling, which demonstrated
that, on the whole, people preferred to carry on, provided the tips were good
enough.
"In
the cold pursuit of profit, there is no place for romance, except to exploit
it. Take Auroras Encore, suddenly famous for winning the John Smith's Grand
National and about to attempt to match Red Rum's feat, achieved in 1974, by
also winning the Coral Scottish Grand National'
"A
picture of Ryan Mania, victorious again, would be a wonderful sight but, at the
risk of stamping on the strawberry jelly and ice cream at a children's party,
the cruel reality is Auroras Encore will not be placed, let alone win.
"He
is rated 5lb higher than when finishing second last year and, only two weeks
after his gruelling Aintree effort, has to carry 11st 12lb instead of last
year's 10st 11lb on ground more testing than last year.
"It
is therefore my responsibility to recommend laying Auroras Encore for a place.
Not, perhaps, all your houses, but ones you treasure least. Then put one on
Godsmejudge, each-way, and don't complain if it all goes wrong and they turn
out to be the tips of a duffer. I've still got 22 more tips to go before Mr
Ansell's ghost taps me on the shoulder."
J Margaret Clarke Turfcall Comment
Handicap
Hurdle
3.35
WIN UNION SAINT 5 11-6 partner HADDEN FROST handler presenter? trainer
James Frost for P Tosh 7-1
Telegraph
7:08PM BST 28 Mar 2011
Coral
Scottish Grand National Chase 4m+
3.50 Win GODSMEJUDGE
7 11 3 partner WAYNE HUTCHINSON handler presenter VASYL DANULUCK trainer Alan King for Favourites
Racing 12-1
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CH4 EQUUS ZONE
David Nicholson
(19 March 1939 - 27 August 2006)
A British National Hunt jockey and trainer.
He was British jump racing Champion
Trainer in the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons.
Alan King trainer of Godsmyjudge worked within Team Nicholson for many years learning his trade .
