Monday's Meetings Pontefrect Flat 7 Races 2:00-5:00p.m. Wolverhampton A/W 7 Races 2:15-5:15p.m. Windsor(E) Flat 7 Races 6:00-9:00p.m. Hamilton(E) Flat 7 Races 6:15-9:15p.m. Racecards At The Races Racing Post Bloodstock Sporting Life Good Luck
ANYTHINGTODAY 13/2 Windsor 7:30 Very close 4th last time and stable cat would win at the moment. Price won't last.
Entered Wednesday in a seller at Catterick. Seriously though, I am similar to you now stick in that I could stop a train, so I'll gladly watch and let him win for you guys.
Stick et al who travel far and wide If you drink wine from time to time and come across something you think is a bit of a stand out (not necessarily expensive) then I would be hugely appreciative if you could take a photo of the bottle (with the back label) and send it over to me. I'm importing from all over the world all the time and finding good producers is near enough the hardest thing. I specialise in small producers. Less than 10,000 bottles a year. Many thanks.
There is one I am mad about that I have in a restaurant in Ayamonte Bob, trouble is all I can ever remember is that it has a bull on the label. I just make a pair of horns with my fingers on my head and the waiter brings me the right one LOL. I will get a photo for you next time I am over. I have become a huge Rioja fan since spending so much time over there.
Just wine. We're likely to add craft beer and spirits by Christmas. Again - drinkers are often the best advisers - let me know if you have tried something you've been blown away by please
No, from SA i specialise in the other side of the country - Swartland, Helderburg Mountains etc - Blank Bottle Wine a massive favourite although Adi at AA Badenhorst is a lovely chap and prouduces great (reasonably priced for what they are) shiraz and cinsault. A fav of yours Oddy?
Brits Abroad! Thanks. I await a photo. If you like Rioja (and i do as well) then one to check out is Matsu. There's three types. The faces on the label get older as the wine spends longer in oak before bottling. Made by a guy called Raul Acha and his family - 200 yrs producing in Toro. All the same grapes, same terroir and same temperature as rioja but a third of the price. Excellent label as well. Raul teaches on the Masters oenology course at La Rioja University as well. Pretty much teaching wine makers how to make great Rioja. Toro is not rioja though so its an absolute, stone wall bargain. One of the only wines i always tell my restaurant clients to add to their lists because it is still excellent value at the usual 285% mark up they apply to pretty much all their wines. Start with el picaro at around a tenner, double decant it (pour into a decanter, leave for a bit then pour back into the bottle). Excellent.
http://www.pardevalles.es/?lang=en The wine from here is amazing. We have friends who live in Madrid and whenever we go over or they come over to us we make sure they get a few bottles of red and white in for us. I only drink red and the Red Carleon from this place is great.
I'm a big Rioja fan too stick. One of my brothers-in-law owns a bar in Calella so when we go there (not a lot lately) we get treated to the Gran Reserva. Did you know you can get very nice Rioja white wine as well? Only had it once and can't remember the label
Love Rioja. Love Campo Viejo Rioja, i know its pretty cheap and nothing fancy but me and the wife love it
Posting this early as I may not get on tomorrow. As some of you will recall my gaffer is in three syndicates that own horses. He will not be a happy bunny on Monday because we are both stuck in an all day workshop (arranged by his boss) which means he cannot go to Pontefract to see one of his beasts run; and one of the others is running at Windsor in the evening. He may be able to wangle a coffee break at 3:20-ish so we can nip across the road to the bookies. He tells me that he will not be renewing his membership of the syndicate for his jumper Snow Rescue because it is clearly a very slow donkey that barely goes fast enough to outrun the bloke from the glue factory. It was 14th of 15 last time and the other runner pulled up. His two flat horses are doing much better. The trainers report that both are training well although be advised, Dyna Might missed her last intended run as she kicked a fence when she was let out in the field a couple of weeks back and the vet had to give her bute so she could not race. Pontefract 3:30: DYNA MIGHT. She won last time at Thirsk when they were running her because five days earlier she had been second at Beverley and they knew the handicapper was going to punish her. She has been raised 7lb for that second plus the win, so winning today is going to require considerable improvement on her part. I told the gaffer after her last race that he should tell the trainer to put a sheepskin noseband on her because she carries her head too high in races so I hope she does not get beaten in a photo! Looking at the race, the obvious dangers look like Mark Johnston’s Marqoom – may try to make all for Dane O’Neill – and Cornerstone Lad with William Buick booked. Windsor 7:00: ORITHIA. She finally got her nose in front last time, although another ten yards and she would have been beaten by a 20/1 shot. The worrying thing is yet another jockey change! Two or three times in the past she has dwelt at the start and it seems some jockeys do not listen to the instructions to get a good position early. She was raised 4lb for her victory so she is not overburdened but she is up against older horses here and I am also not sure why they are stepping her up in trip. What they do not want is rain – she does not want it soft. With Reckless Wave out lame, the obvious one to beat is topweight Saumur, although it was only a five runner affair when it was second last time.
Bob - craft beer in Yorkshire? Don't do it mate An area I have spent quite a lot of time in on business is Piemont, some of the Barbera you get from there is lovely. One of my favourite grape varieties, you very rarely get a bad one and they are usually very reasonably priced. Of course if you want to splash out, then Barolo is the way to go. Having been in Germany for the last 23 years, we get lots of Italian reds here and they are very good. Not sure they are so popular in the UK?
What race is this one running in then?!? One of the great sayings in racing that, in my opinion, and always brings a smile to my visage. Cor bally blinkin’ blimey though there was tennis and bike riding mentioned on yesterday's ‘Daily Thread’?!? As a chav might say, ‘What’s occurring?!?’ That ain’t cricket now is it! Still, for once, at least you types didn’t go all ‘camp’ and start talking about boxing and rugby! Cliffs of Moher going into meltdown on ‘Oddschecker’ for the Eclipse, troops. Blue across the board and now as low as 2’s.
