Tag: Kempton Park
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Some questions answered with more new ones created
Before we even reach the starting tape here, one can but doff your cap to Nicky Henderson and his team at Seven Barrows. What an amazing job they have done. Not only in coaxing, cajoling, maybe even codding, Constitution Hill back to full health. Not only that, but doing so in such a manner that…
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‘Also-rans’ cause carnage carving up the field
It’s actually very fitting that what you will read hereafter is being produced so close to St Stephen’s (Boxing) Day. For the day after Christmas itself was the occasion on which Gavin Sheehan cajoled a truly rousing rally out of Hewick which nabbed the King George in most unlikely fashion for ‘Shark’ Hanlon’s (temporarily Tara…
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They did it their way!
“Don’t ever f*****g tell me how to ride a horse again”. There’s not many lines of work in which one could so vehementally rail against instructions dispensed by an employer and hope to survive such a skirmish. You couldn’t exactly imagine WP Mullins or PF Nicholls or AP O’Brien reacting as serenely as the berated…