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That Racing Blog: February 2007
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Reflections on various aspects of horse racing, written by freelance writer, analyst and pundit Jeremy Grayson. Friday, February 02, 2007. GEOS - VERY SAD, BUT NOT A STICK TO BEAT POINTING WITH. Posted by Jeremy Grayson @ 11:48 pm. ALL THAT'S MISSING IS STUART MACONIE. If it's the start of the year it must be time for the Racing Post to run another "100 Greatest." poll, and this time around it is greatest rides the paper has been asking its readership to nominate. A gelding who routinely stopped as soon ...
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That Racing Blog: December 2006
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Reflections on various aspects of horse racing, written by freelance writer, analyst and pundit Jeremy Grayson. Friday, December 22, 2006. WHERE TO GO RACING. IF YOU DON'T LIKE RACING. Back in 1937 John Betjeman immortalised the line Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! In print. Nearly seven decades on, the temptation to suggest he should have directed his apocryphal payload nine and a half miles further down the road to Ascot racecourse instead is all too great for your correspondent. Likewise an ex...
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That Racing Blog: August 2007
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Reflections on various aspects of horse racing, written by freelance writer, analyst and pundit Jeremy Grayson. Friday, August 31, 2007. A MIGHTY SAD END. BUT NOTHING MORE SINISTER. Outside of or maybe for some people even alongside - great champions, there are two particular kinds of racehorse that seem to draw a greater emotional response from racegoers than any other. The facts of Mighty Fine’s campaigning prior to his demise are not in dispute, and it was without question a very, very sad end for a h...
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That Racing Blog: November 2006
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Reflections on various aspects of horse racing, written by freelance writer, analyst and pundit Jeremy Grayson. Tuesday, November 07, 2006. A CASE STUDY IN POST-RACE ANALYSIS ("Hardest game in the world, son, thirty years man and boy." etc.). Moreover, with one likely fellow trailblazer withdrawn at the start and another unusually reverted to hold-up tactics, this was a far easier time of it up front than he'd have had any right to expect before the race. Raison d'etre was to identify what would be a win...
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That Racing Blog: October 2007
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Reflections on various aspects of horse racing, written by freelance writer, analyst and pundit Jeremy Grayson. Friday, October 26, 2007. FOUND : ONE RACECOURSE. ANSWERS TO THE NAME OF. Call off the dogs, look what’s been found hidden in the undergrowth! A Long Time Gone. Survey will tell you the whole sorry tale there). In scrutinising the current surface in one of its essays, the new edition of Timeform’s. Remember that, with the exception of Fakenham and few if any others, point-to-point meetings at R...
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That Racing Blog: December 2007
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Reflections on various aspects of horse racing, written by freelance writer, analyst and pundit Jeremy Grayson. Monday, December 31, 2007. PERILS OF THE JOB REAFFIRMED AS CAT LOSES A LIFE. The latter is a fair comment up to a point. Up until around five years ago (the latest figure this writer possesses, taken from a. The point to make about this sextet, however, is that their departure from the roster was not instant, not overnight, but was instead due to the cumulative effect of mistakes and / or loss ...
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That Racing Blog: November 2007
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Reflections on various aspects of horse racing, written by freelance writer, analyst and pundit Jeremy Grayson. Sunday, November 25, 2007. NO TIME FOR HAND-WRINGING AS OWNER POTTS THE QUESTION. The blunt, unequivocal recourse to the maxim of that’s racing with which messrs Henderson, Hobbs and McCoy’s responses in the. Column yesterday, and unequivocally stated that something needs to be done about the offending obstacle, Paddy Brennan alone of those interviewed in the. Ultimately, if racing's participan...
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That Racing Blog: October 2006
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Reflections on various aspects of horse racing, written by freelance writer, analyst and pundit Jeremy Grayson. Friday, October 20, 2006. AS YOU WERE IN NORFOLK. A rather less frivolous matter is the injury sustained by Adam Pogson in a bruising opening selling hurdle, when his mount Protocol was brought down. He required sedation before airlifting to hospital in King's Lynn, where he is believed to have sustained damage to his pelvis. Posted by Jeremy Grayson @ 10:33 pm. Thursday, October 19, 2006.
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That Racing Blog: July 2007
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Reflections on various aspects of horse racing, written by freelance writer, analyst and pundit Jeremy Grayson. Thursday, July 05, 2007. SOUTHWELL - EMERGES FROM THE DEPTHS AS A RACECOURSE AT RISK. Tenure, I rarely finished down on the day there, even when confronted with a card of wall-to-wall Banded fare. This assumes, of course, that Southwell will. However, Arena must have a figure in mind beyond which it is not prepared to go to restore the course to a horse- and spectator-fit condition, and coming ...
