Search results

Newton Abbott at the age of 12 on a family day out

I'm pretty sure Nationwide don't charge for using ATMs to withdraw your money abroad so might be worth checking them out

Not my place to comment on what Dancing Mystery will or won't be doing after a below par performance this afternoon but in light of the other thread on racing older horses I would just like to say that we regularly get the vet to give him an MOT! I also get the vet at the racecourse to listen to...

I've just been sent this story of a horse with a prosthetic limb - don't know what you think but looks kind of disturbing to me... can't imagine the rest of its joints would last very long?? http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?i...0&in_page_id=34

Thanks Arkwright!

As the chief holder on of Dancing Mystery's neck strap as I try to stop the old git every morning I can report that if there has been too much rain at Brighton he will be waiting for another day. He doesn't like getting his feet wet nowadays - unless it's in the field where his favourite hobby...

Well if he was little maybe he used to be a jockey shrug::

In the absence of any other information - my friend saw him at Lingfield and said he was a "funny little man wearing a coat with velvet lapels" norty

And all us girls have to look forward to is hiding from leering sun-burned beer- bellied pervs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I felt that too. I went to a meeting a few weeks ago which aimed to get as many of those conducting research on horses in the uk together as we could to discuss the possibilities for conducting some interdisciplinary research. Anyway, there was a distinct anti-racing bias to which I defended my...

Have you seen the adverts for the Dogs Trust? For just a pound per week the dog you choose to sponsor will actually write you a letter!!!! Amazing!!! :what:

I agree. I'm pro-whip, but using them correctly is a skill that has to be learned. We had a horse running in an apprentice race a few weeks ago that got left in the stalls by 25 lengths - he wasn't even in the picture for two furlongs. Now he is not a particularly difficult ride but you could...

It's a lot patronising - just another way to reinforce the status of women as a novelty in the jump racing world. Bet they'll have jockeys WAGS at some point during the week. Anyway - rant over, Lady Oaksy should win!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/theoneshow/article/20...stablecam.shtml I keep checking but I haven't caught sight of him yet!!

Past tense? Have they stripped you of it?? I'm slightly surprised it wasn't a BA, but I suppose it's one of those subjects that can fall into either camp depending on the predominant content of the course, and the route you take through it. [/b] I've still got it but now I also have an MSc...

Wonder if they'll ever get this one back, sounds like he did a runner!!! http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/18/australia

I had a BSc in human geography (a first) and had worked in racing for several years, had about 40 or so rides as an apprentice. The Injured Jockeys Fund and the Jockey Employment Training Scheme sponsored my time at university and I would say that it was the fact my name was known in that...

They had 250 applicants that year so I suppose I did ok thanks, but gutted was an under statement cry I did have a guided tour of Dalham Hall Stud I afterwards which was pretty impressive so it wasn't a wasted afternoon!

Well i'm a graduate AND a former jockey (albeit a not very good one!!!) and I got down to an interview for the Darley Flying Start scheme - however I felt they had already chosen the candidates before I got there. I walked into the office and neither the main man ( I forget his name) or his...

"RSPCA superintendent Tim Wass said: "The owner was known to the RSPCA, and while we had concerns about his horses, conditions had been at a legally acceptable level during our last visits" What is this legally acceptable level and who decides it? I assume that they go by scientific measures of...