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Ron, I'm sorry but I don't feel criticism is appropriate. The forum works for those for whom it was initially set up - clearly most of you...
This is my take on the forum. Not that there's anything wrong with it - it just doesn't appeal to everyone who opens the door and peers inside....
There used to be a racecourse at Tenby but it closed in about 1937, a few years after a betting coup was landed involving a horse called Oyster...
Without a doubt, Blackpool's 3-2 victory against Cardiff City in the 2010 Championship playoff final at Wembley.
I'm wondering if this book contains the story of how the QM came by The Rip, 13-time winner for her. According to Brough Scott she went to the...
I'd like to sell you a half-share in a colt by Schwarzenegger out of Total Recall. Cyclonic, that's a great piece about a wonderful horse. I'm...
While looking at a recently discovered blog written by a former apprentice jockey, I came across this newspaper clipping from 30 August 1935. It's...
As you mention Guineas Trials it might interest you to know (unless you already do) that in 1854 the 1,000 Guineas winner Virago had an...
As some of the above euphemisms are in fact metaphors, similies or simple ironic understatement I'd like to add, "the favourite's got a lot of...
I'm curious to know how the current standings have been arrived at. To take Frankel (136) and Pour Moi (66) as examples, is it possible to find...
Bustino, the Great Metropolitan would have been run over 18f at that time. I'm quoting from a course gazeteer that explains what happened to...
Sure - I was around when the pattern was introduced and in fairness I did say 'what are now Group 1 events'. Without exhuming my biography of Fred...
I think that's a little unfair on Ormonde. Of his 16 victories 7 came in what are now Group 1 events (including a Triple Crown, of course) plus...
I remember him from 1970. The horse won the Great Metropolitan that year as, I believe, a 4-y-o. He started 5/2 or thereabouts and obliged...
