The Racing and Football Betting Thread.

mark leach wrote:Grams and Ounces 8.40 Chepstow

mark leach wrote:Grams and Ounces 8.40 Chepstow

Reebok Trotter wrote:

mark leach wrote:Grams and Ounces 8.40 Chepstow

Non runner

Reebok Trotter wrote:

mark leach wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:

mark leach wrote:Duck La Orange 4.10 Pontefract

Archie, Just a quick one. Your selection for today was Duck a L'orange which I'm pretty sure is French. In view of Brexit can you limit your selection to UK steeds only, please.

Its Irish you idiot.

Duck à l'orange... is a classic French dish in which a duck is roasted and served with an orange sauce.

Reebok Trotter wrote:

mark leach wrote:Grams and Ounces 8.40 Chepstow

Non runner.

mark leach wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:

mark leach wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:

mark leach wrote:Duck La Orange 4.10 Pontefract

Archie, Just a quick one. Your selection for today was Duck a L'orange which I'm pretty sure is French. In view of Brexit can you limit your selection to UK steeds only, please.

Its Irish you idiot.

Duck à l'orange... is a classic French dish in which a duck is roasted and served with an orange sauce.

Surly you not that stupid RT. I didn't mean the recipe name of the horse. The horse is Irish.

mark leach wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:

mark leach wrote:Grams and Ounces 8.40 Chepstow

Non runner.

RT where is the lucky dip for yesterday?

whatsgoingon wrote:I propose this one

Sluffy wrote:Mark, would you mind very much if I put up a 'horse' picture at the side of your name (an avatar).

I think after all this time that you've been posting on this thread you deserve to have something besides your name as a mark of respect that you've clearly earned.

The picture I've chosen is this by the famous painter of horses George Stubbs -



You can actually go and see it if you are ever in Liverpool, it is hanging at the Walker Art Gallery.

The horse is called 'Molly Longlegs' and was painted in 1762.

The label text for this painting in the exhibition 'George Stubbs: A Celebration' has been written by Ginger McCain, trainer of Grand National winners Red Rum and Amberleigh House.


"I wouldn't buy a horse with legs as long as that. I know she was called Molly Longlegs but they must be what you call artistic licence. I can't see you getting a horse as long in the cannon bone as that, or one with as light a bone. But she has super shoulders, her ribcage is beautiful, and her hindquarters are grand. Bodywise, she looks a very fit racehorse.

I've never been a great advocate of Stubbs's horses' heads. He always makes them very small, emphasising that they're thoroughbreds, basically. She's showing the whites of her eyes and in some horses that means they're bad-tempered, in others that they're nervous. But she's a mare and mares do tend to flash their eyes at you. You like a horse with a generous eye, and it could just be that the groom is giving her a jab in the mouth, telling her to stand to attention.

I started off thinking I might be quite critical, but while I've been looking at her she's really taken my fancy. I like the look of the groom too, though I might give him a bollocking for leaving his tack in a heap on the ground like that."

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/stubbs/horses/mollylonglegs.aspx


If you rather not or prefer something else just say - I wont be offended.

Reebok Trotter wrote:

mark leach wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:

mark leach wrote:Grams and Ounces 8.40 Chepstow

Non runner.

RT where is the lucky dip for yesterday?

Since Barb Dwyer packed in, I haven't seen the point tbh. You said you didn't agree with lucky dips whether or not. I don't want you to miss out though, so you can have today's lucky dip in lieu of yesterday which is Final Choice in the 6.00 at Bath.

mark leach wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:

Banks of the Croal wrote:Sidney Ruffdiamond ... 19:20.  Windsor.

Thanks RT for the profit, been unable to post and I'm away next week, so might be a bit of a Write Off this month for me.

Don't worry Banksy. You enjoy your break. that's what the Lucky Dip is for.

I don't agree with lucky dips becase people are getting profits when they arnt around. You should have to pick your own choice.

mark leach wrote:Caius Marcius 2.10 Perth

Banks of the Croal wrote:Jess ... 16:30    Catterick