Tag: Newcastle
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A Constitutional Conundrum
The prolific racing blogger Stephen Power (@racingblogger) posted a very simple question in the immediate aftermath of the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle: “If you owned Constitution Hill, what would you do now?”? First, the back story. From the first time Michael Buckley’s animal was seen on a course, he was seen as one of…
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Grande outcome for Martin as Alphonse gets big pot back
Those of us who reckon Tony Martin was due a change of luck and indeed the man himself finally got a ball to break in the right direction. With today’s news that the decision to strip Alphonse Le Grande of the Cesarewitch Handicap was overturned on appeal earlier this week. The progressive handicapper was first…
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Mick Reilly – A Tribute
At what point did you notice yourself getting old? Or older at least. Personally, seeing ‘older’ relatives pass away back in the years probably have had a different effect than is now the case. You know the way it is when you’re a youngster, ‘grown ups’ seem eons older when the reality may in fact…
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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…
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Back, out or sideways?
At some stage in our lives, we’ve probably all been told two topics never to enter discourse about in a pub were politics and religion. The latter is not something yours truly would be bothered about anyway. Simply because, if there really was a God, what is currently transpiring in the world wouldn’t be, would…
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Predictable results achieved in unusual ways
How oft has it been said that, eventually, the cream always rises to the top. A couple of years ago, Liverpool were so far ahead of the pack in the Premiership the won the title pulling up in a manner commensurate to Honeysuckle’s demolition of the Champion Hurdle field last March. Go back a bit…