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Twenty years ago today....

jinnyj

jinnyj

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Full Result 2.30 Yarmouth | 18 October 2005 | Racing Post

Full Race Result from the 2.30 at Yarmouth on 18th October 2005.
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My very first winner and possibly the most nerve wracking/best day of my life! And sadly I was too poor to even buy a photograph....šŸ˜­

She was a really lovely filly and cost me only Ā£1500 after I got a phone call from my partner's father that he had decided to help us out and buy a cheap horse for no more that Ā£1500. She was unlucky not to win on debut but she fell out of the stalls before making up loads of ground to quite a decent filly who was listed placed next time.

On the day she won, I was slated in the RP for not having trained a winner - there was a reason for that in that for four years my shits of landlords had been failing to tell me that I was poisoning my horses with a contaminated water supply (something they well knew about) and this was the first run since they had "kindly" admitted it "could" be a problem and fitted my yard with a supply from their filter.

Anyway it's long in the past but it surely did me no favours and as a result when she hit the front a furlong out (it was an absolute egg and spoon race for horses that had cost Ā£2k or less and she couldn't lose it) but I was convinced the way my luck was, she'd get hit by a seagull or something.

We took her to Windsor next but she hit some un-watered ground pulling up and suffered a fracture which we mended but she never ran again. Huge shame as I thought she was Listed class.

Anyway - it's twenty years ago today so I may celebrate with a gin!
 
I've cracked open a bottle of Sicilian white wine - realised there was no tonic left and I'm not at the stage where I'm drinking neat gin (aka Mother's Ruin)
 
Wow - is it really twenty and a bit years since we had that conversation where I said it must be the water for ALL the horses to be affected because thatā€™s the only thing left that all of them are having the same? Bloody hell.

We are OLD šŸ˜†šŸ˜†

As A says - itā€™s something that not many ā€œexpertsā€ will ever do, you should be way prouder of yourself than you are. šŸ¤©
 
trudij said:
Wow - is it really twenty and a bit years since we had that conversation where I said it must be the water for ALL the horses to be affected because thatā€™s the only thing left that all of them are having the same? Bloody hell.
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Jaysus, Troods. Much as I love you I cannot let this pass.

This is the fecking Picasso of after-timing. Makes Ian's efforts look like a child's crayon scrawl.
 
I'd actually checked with my vets after that and they said it wasn't likely. And anyway I wasn't sure how to check back then. It wasn't until Reg ran so flat at Wolverhampton having worked with two of the landlords horses (one of which was a Listed winner) and blew them away that he came down and confessed that "you may have the same problem we had and now we have a lovely efficient water filter which stops the problem....". I can remember the conversation now as I was dumbstruck before saying "and you've waited FOUR f$%^ing YEARS to tell me this?" Of course they knew. Mike Kettle who had rented the yard before me left for that very reason and went to Oman to train.

Apart from the fact that I haemorrhaged money (I had sold my house to finance this), I felt I really let those horses and their owners down. So many horses were really badly affected by it suffering from azoturia regularly (muscle cramps) and a couple never really recovered. Plus my reputation was rubbish as a trainer so I never recovered either.
 
Itā€™s a horror story, jj. Iā€™ll kick their door in again when I go up to the gallops, although thatā€™s not often nowadays.
 
I didn't know that. Mine was high nitrates leeching from the fertilisers in the soil into the water course.
I'm not sure many people believed me but Jim Old had the same problem too and we had a long chat about it. He really encouraged me to take out my licence again but it's got so expensive and the BHA idiots think I need to retake my training modules!! (the cash cow in other words!)
 
It takes some bollocks to have sold your house to chase your dreams I have nothing but admiration for people who move "all in" in the pursuit of happiness.

If you'd have fell short on your own abilities that's difficult enough to take but really to have been pretty much sabotaged needlessly must have been utterly heartbreaking.

To come out of that and still be a good person , helpful, kind and doing all the unpaid work you do at grass roots level of the sport is something very special.
 
Danny said:
It takes some bollocks to have sold your house to chase your dreams I have nothing but admiration for people who move "all in" in the pursuit of happiness.

If you'd have fell short on your own abilities that's difficult enough to take but really to have been pretty much sabotaged neebeen utterly heartbreaking.

To come out of that and still be a good person , helpful, kind and doing all the unpaid work you do at grass roots level of the sport is something very special.
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Danny they do not come more honest and genuine than Jinnyj you only have to look at the work she puts into this forum. If I do get a kick in the balls I would have deserved it šŸ„“šŸ„“šŸ„“
 
Danny said:
It takes some bollocks to have sold your house to chase your dreams I have nothing but admiration for people who move "all in" in the pursuit of happiness.

If you'd have fell short on your own abilities that's difficult enough to take but really to have been pretty much sabotaged needlessly must have been utterly heartbreaking.

To come out of that and still be a good person , helpful, kind and doing all the unpaid work you do at grass roots level of the sport is something very special.
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I concur with Danny it takes a lot of guts to sell your house to finance yourself like that, I like it when people put it on the line and get some success with their enterprise !
 
pawras said:
I concur with Danny it takes a lot of guts to sell your house to finance yourself like that, I like it when people put it on the line and get some success with their enterprise !
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I keep wondering whether im too old and fat to sell my house and go become a beach bum surfer somewhere down Cornwall. Well, I dont really wonder as I know the answer.
 

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