Great thread this Barney and I'll certainly join you with Harry 'hype' Herbert at the top of my list! A stuck up, born with the silver teaspoon right in his big arrogant gob whose seriously far up his own backside! Just listening to his pompous tones makes me want to split the TV at times My other one is that crass loudmouth Mark Winstanley. A right mouthpiece, I only wished Paul Nicholls had have thumped him on the Betfair Cheltenham preview panel last year when he was giving the whole 'he couldn't even ride Jordan' jockey bashing' (even worse I think he was talking about Barney's favourite Corinthian jockey at the time...)! This is great saves on the anger management classes for those of is that need it
Nicky Henderson (bent as ****) Aiden O'Brien (complete arse) Jim McGrath (dick) Joseph O'Brien/Jamie Spencer (most overrated wastes of space that have ever ridden a horse)
The eejit that was waving a flag at Flemington on Tuesday http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/melb...nned-after-araldos-death-20141105-11hgey.html
Top shout. A man who goes around buying horses for ten grand and then syndicating them to a value of forty grand while trading on the back of his old school chums and ***s. He could syndicate THE NEW ONE at a tenner a go and I wouldn't be interested!
Another vote for Mr Henderson I'm afraid, based purely on personal experience. Also Dettori, Fallon, Gosden and Ms Hood (Gosden's wife and current Mayor of Newmarket). I'm not denying that they are skilled horsemen, just not nice people.
Sir Barney, how come you have included Princess Haya on your list? Is that just because she is married to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum? She is not Jordan – just from the country of that name. Assuming that the flag in the photo is the offending item, then that is fair enough as he should not have brought it. The authorities should not have let him in with it. When Frankel ran at Newbury in the Lockinge, they gave out flags in Khalid Abdullah’s colours for all the kids to wave at him. So as a general catch-all, I nominate the Muppets that run racing worldwide – too many clueless half-wits. Must go and give this some more thought...
I am surprised to see John Gosden in there Princess. I of course have no personal knowledge of him but always feel he comes across as straight forward. A few come to mind for me Mick Fitzgerald Mark Johnston Graham Cunningham On another note how about people in racing who you have no idea what they look like, you see their names every day yet could walk past them without having a clue. What does Ted Durcan actually look like? Graham Gibbons?
How can anyone not like Henderson! please log in to view this image Hes one of the few old schoolers left, always likes a laugh and always gracious in victory and defeat, we might never see his likes again. William Haggas is scum, wouldnt piss on a punter if he was on fire. That guy who owned Huntball was a bit annoying. The guy who owns Cali Chrome as well.
I too am surprised at the Gosden neg rep from Princess. Always comes across very well on TV. I thought he was one of racings solid characters. I wouldn't want to be on the staff at Chuckle Towers this morning. Some poor bugger is gonna have to retrieve his monocle from the ol boys porridge.
Princess has more insight into these people than most of us, so you have to respect her views -I'm sure that some of these people are fairly ruthless and don't be surprised if they tread on folk in their quest to dominate!
I say Iâm most distressed to see mention of Mr Henderson and Mr Ponsonby on this thread. In fact I was so shocked that Iâve had to spend the past hour led down in the sick bay. Anyone who thinks old boy Gosden is a lovely, refined bloke go up to him and say you want to build a new house within a few miles of his gaff! In all probability Iâd need to look some of the words heâd use up in the dictionary! Heâs a master of his art but I must say that in my opinion, in my lifetime, there have been 3 trainers on the Flat âcapableâ of getting very good horses comparatively low handicap ratings â him, John Dunlop and that terrible, terrible old rotter, Prescott. The fact that the first 2 mentioned are probably considered two of the finest gentleman in our sport really does show how well they hide their âtalentâ.
Hunt Ball's new owners are even worse. Add them to my list. They had the absolute temerity to overrule Mr Henderson and insist Hunt Ball ran in this year's Grand National. No suprise who ended up being right. And it wasn't the new owners as to use a chav expression, 'Hunt Ball couldn't have stayed the trip even in the back of Charlie Slater's taxi'.
Gosden, in my experience, is arrogant and extremely rude to anyone who doesn't agree with him. He's also known to tell a few porkies which, without giving myself or my job away, I've been able to disprove, much to the delight of my boss I sat at a table for lunch at Goodwood with Sir Mark, he was extremely nice and a great raconteur. I know people that have worked for him and they say he's hard, but fair and if he likes you he'll bend over backwards to help you out.
