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Desert Orchid

Desert Orchid

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None of this is intended to offend. It's all meant in jest.

I did this kind of thing at work and it was quite popular. My own name worked out as 'Oi, u're all mince!' or 'Me ruin a collie'

First up:

Ian DAvies = vain ideas...
 
Desert Orchid said:
None of this is intended to offend.

First up:

Ian DAvies = vain ideas...
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I'm offended - but mainly because the truth hurts.

"Pretentious? Moi?" (Actually, I think you tend to get labelled "pretentious" for the crime of simply having a more extensive vocabulary than your accuser).

However, I digress.

I was really hoping to get the word "git" as an anagram of "Maurice."

But I couldn't.
 
Good work, Maurice.

I found out today I didn't make it for the 2025 Racing Media Academy.

A week in Newmarket, six weeks in a paid apprenticeship with The Racing Post down the Southbank, all fell through after I didn't make it past interview stage.

All after a two hour train trip for the interview in Doncaster last week.

Words fail me.

This thread is good work and has really cheered me up.

Thankyou.
 
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The Fortune Teller said:
Good work, Maurice.

I found out today I didn't make it for the 2025 Racing Media Academy.

A week in Newmarket, six weeks in a paid apprenticeship with The Racing Post down the Southbank, all fell through after I didn't make it past interview stage. All after a two hour train trip for the interview in Doncaster last week.

Words fail me.

This thread is good work and has really cheered me up.

Thankyou.
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I know how you feel, Marb. About 20 years ago I applied to join ARC and had to analyse a couple of races [in advance] as requirement of the application process. They told me the style and substance of my synopsis would be more important than finding the winner. Shortly after, I got a letter saying I had been successful and would be hearing from them again very soon. I think the letter was from someone called Gary. I never heard from them again.
 
Neither of you are (or were) missing anything.

I was in racing journalism from 1984 to 2001 and I had the best of it - it's completely changed now and it's not a career I would recommend to anyone (unless I particularly disliked them 😂).

You can earn far better money doing other things and just enjoy racing and betting in your spare time on your own terms.👍
 
Fair enough yes I was thinking if I jumped through a few hoops and it went well it might be a way for me to practically get back to London where I was born and raised.

But not meant to be.
 
I also applied for the job of BHA Handicapper back in the day. That might have been around the time Phil Smith got the gig. THAT would have been my dream job...

Apart from the one I applied for teaching English as a Foreign Language in Riyadh. It was offering three times per annum what I was earning as a teacher in Scotland and was tax free. The interview consisted of 20 minutes to assess the text book they used in the school in Riyadh and when I offered my opinion that it was the driest, least interesting resource imaginable it was met with the response, "I wrote that book."
 
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