Rough Diamond

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A new drama series starts on Sunday night , it's based around racing and is set in Ireland. That's all I know at the moment.
 
There was a rather rushed, hectic-looking trailer a night ago.

I just know it's going to be.... Disturbed Rough Youngster is given Untameable, Mad Horse; DRY tames UMH and Finds Self in process; DRY becomes brilliant jockey overnight; UMH will not be ridden by Anyone Else; DRY rides UMH in top race (Derby? Grand Nasty? Both? :confused: ) and, after Titanic Struggle against Nasty Creepy Bent Jock and Vicious, Kicking Favourite... wins! Cue hugging, kissing, DRY redeemed and UMH sanctified with statue at Epsom/Aintree/Southwell (delete as applicable)...

You can bash this stuff out standin' on yer 'ead, y'know...
 
Yup, thar ya go... 'a crazy colt'... I tell ya, it's like shelling peas!

I thought it was 'Fibresand' yard for a moment! :D
 
Lots of dubbed on whinnying and snorting from all the horses I expect.

Its TV and Film Law that all horses must whinny and snort at every opportunity.

Its also Law that racegoers must start screaming their horses on miles from the finish when they are all still hard on the bridle ...

.. which brings us to law 3, that editors must mix up race shots so that the horses go from hard on the bridle to scrubbed along to hard on the bridle to scrubbed along. No wonder the crowd dont know when to scream!
 
Originally posted by trudij@Jan 30 2007, 07:02 PM
Typical sunday night gentle stuff - only problem I have is that its on at the same time as Top Gear.....


(and we dont have a video!!!!! )
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Ah well in that case I'll be watching Top Gear.
 
Oh you all have to watch it,if only to laugh and point at all the stupid bits!I especially like how they have girls to simultaneously open every stable door for the horses to come out for exercise(in quarter sheets and show bridles) and then a girl to lead each horse while its being ridden.And they say theres a staff shortage in racing!Also watch out for the genius wild horse,tamed after only a few mins who can then take off his headcollar and put on a bridle all by himself while in stable and can also shut stable door behind him :P
 
Agree Spoons desperate stuff....every stable girl also seemed to be blonde and a stunner....definately far from the truth!
 
Who won the contract to supply the mobile phones for the set? Who plays the part of the stable's betfair layer (or is it another fairy story)?
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You forgot the bit where at least one of the horses will be plaited ( badly and on the wrong side) for a piece of normal excercise (as in Midsomer Murders a while back....) :lol:
 
Trudij, I saw that, had me in stitches. Why do they do it????

It is as bad as the soundtracks that always have a fox barking, or an owl hooting.
 
Midsomer Murders specialises in magpies chattering. Magpies are supposedly birds of ill omen, etc., etc., so there's a little bit of subliminal menace there, you see... :teeth:

Just as the doomed one unwisely approaches the old, deserted mill/house/barn, listen for a magpie to start a rapid chatter in the background, the sudden movement off-screen, the 'oh, it's you' remark, followed by :o and then the screeeeeammm, followed by another swift chatter before switching to DCI Barnaby being bored to tears by his droning wife and drippy daughter. No wonder the murder rate's so high - I reckon he's done half of them just to get out of the house.
 
yeah, I admit I like it too! But it is like Morse, you cannot believe the number of murders that go on in such a small area. And there is that grim feeling all the time, I just have a maudlin (is that the word?) personality to enjoy it.

Mind you our village in deepest darkest country is like this, lots of hidden secrets and skeletons. But not so many murders!
 
I like MM, too, and I like/d Morse, and Miss Marple! And I adore Poirot - wonderful period detail, and he visits the most elegant places! I'm sure I was meant to be a young, beautiful heiress in the 1930s, but just mucked up filling out my reincarnation form. :o

Isinglass - what's the lovely house in your avatar? Is it your spread? On a dark, windy night, it looks like a perfect setting for a good old-fashioned whodunnit, but bathed in that sunlight, it's straight out of Enid Blyton! Looks gorgeous - I want it!
 
Gee thanks, but no, it is not my house. I wish it was too. But it is my namesakes house! Isinglass meant so much to his owner that they built him a very special little house as his stallion box at Cheveley Park Stud. It is really amazing, and had a lsmall window between his box and the wee room where his stud groom slept, so they could talk all night! He was one of the emperors of stallions and lived his life out in bliss. He is my namesake because I decided if I do get a second chance at this life bit I am coming back as a bloke, preferably a thoroughbred stallion one. Who is as spoiled and as old as Isinglass was.

It is worth going to see if you are ever in Newmarket. Think the stud have a photo of it on their website also.

The pic I have does not look much so small, but in it you can just see Pivotal, that is if you have very keen eagle eyes! His paddock is in front of the old box now.

I agree about not filling in the reincarnation form correctly, rubbish at filling forms in general!
 
In fairness it is worth watching just to laugh and point at all the mistakes they make.I wouldn't mind but they employed loads of racing people as extras,would their constant hysterical laughing not have been a clue!The other thing I spotted is the the horse Firefight is chesnut all through the programme but when they show him winning at the Curragh I couldn't see chesnut horse in race.
When is it being shown on BBC?
Oh and Gal I resent that comment,after being at Stable Staff Awards and witnessing midgets and stable lasses beating crap out of each other I am certain all stable staff look like the sort in Rough Diamond :D
 
No doubt it will have all the stereotypes including owners, trainers, jockeys, stable staff, and even the horses themselves! Has to have at centre a mad, bad and dangerous entire who becomes a lap dog and wins everything. Once he meets the 'right man' who can tame him!

I look forward to everybody's comments on Rough Diamond after we watch it!
 
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