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gonetoearth

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  1. It's stunning when you can hear them go full pelt. Really gets your heart going. My gramps was in with loads of jockeys in the old days and had a few stories of being given horses with heavily meaning winks. Full wages would be placed on a horse.. He was a bit of a picker as well in his day according to my dad. Gramps could pick a pairing but if his choice of jockey wasn't on the horse he wasn't interested. He and my dad had some very heated debates - gramps was all form and rider etc, my dad was draw advantage and has had certain courses change the starting boxes changed to other position
  2. They sat me on a big hackney edward the bosses carrige horse. I juddered round the yard with all the stable staff laughing never got on another lol
  3. Ive vid of binderee and bow charging up the gallops pre the national several years ago A great sight bow was my favorite at the time 5 out bow was in the lead binderee went on and won. Jim cull the pilot good job i took the advice and backed both heaverly lol
  4. I think your post sums up everything that people find wrong with it and everything others find right. Wrong because it is so hard to win as it is such a lottery so from a serious punters view it is a race to have a bit of a fun bet on but nothing serious because although your horse might be 3/1 that should have small print after it saying (if there were no other horses and no jumps and it wasn't two laps). I guess for that reason it is known as a race to have a bit of fun with from a betting side but it is these multiple elements that can happen that makes it such a spectacle to watch and
  5. Hope you only had 50p max on those and even better if you we're just cheering them on.. 50p lol big punter eh
  6. . Aint no cavity in english or flemish. Lol strecher you would be throwing up scot a good carrier would have cleaned up and if you carried to 3 trowels they must have been slow as fook
  7. . All ways make me laugh when people say its a house wife race , When the reason its followed and punted on is it be came a national institution big fields The races its self is harder to win than any. Mc coy the greatest rider ever threw everything at it scudermore never won it And still to this day holds it as the one to win The house wive races with a million pounds prize money and world wide coverage. Lol. Dream on Every big punter. Is scared of it because the carnt beat. The course Now we'll get the oh but cheltnam lol. I go to both. Cheltnam has fook all on Ai
  8. . As you qualify as both !!!!
  9. Tday First Lieutenant and supreme doc.
  10. . Far from it bud i like interesting debate , the national is a test of stamina and gile , witch the have made even more dangourous by lowering the fences thus increasing the speeds of the horses i fear for the jockeys and the horses and the race its self ignorant advise given to. The blind , You should attend it and meet. People that have tried to win it for years and failed. The greatest test of horse and rider in a handicap chase simple as that ,
  11. the wall was free standing. f*****g stupid, no corners or tied in anywhere, it will only ever be as strong as the mortar beds between the bricks/blocks and it will weaken in a damp area as you've said. even so malt a corretly constructed wall bonded english. Garden wall or flemish would take a lot of pushing over Even a block wall would with. Stand a lot of lateral force
  12. I've heard Brian say they did and that they didn't... Dependent on the time (80's, 90's etc) and audience... Liam's on the money Uru. dont they all love an audience eh. B.
  13. I've always believed the story's i was told, wherever the cuts were, dug terriers were there! It stands up, I've seen many photos of the navvies with bull like terriers and kerry & felly types. Then the barge travelers followed, look at the old canal maps and where they went and where they past through...
  14. Fawaz al Hasawi......there's a good old Nottingham name !! got big plans.... I hope pearse does well be good to see an english manager come through the ranks
  15. My first off kg back in 74 was staffy x. But looked fell. Stripped out had the tell tale head
  16. . Got a great shout and young scu training with. Z. Makes it one of them national stories. Theres a fw of them this year.
  17. . Ive pictures of BG Ill dig them out for , you.
  18. With all the claim issues these days out of the janitors hands unless its a big private school were they have a busar. Even then its over seen by govenors who have surveryours its become a mine field bud
  19. . There you go you have a fan club now lol
  20. . Why do you know what am on about nope lol
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