Simon Holt

[Aragorn]

We were much vexed at Fakers today with ROC DE GUYE, FONGOLI and ROBO - depending on who was talking. ROC DE GEE with a hard G, ROC DE GUY as in 'guy'; FONGOLI - fon-goh-lee (It.: fongo-li); ROBO - you wouldn't imagine it would be anything but roh-boh, but Chaparse managed Robbo.

Unless the animal's called Bert, Pete, or Bob, there doesn't seem to be much hope for any concensus of pronunciation.

I know the guy who bought Robo from Hobbs and he calls him Rob-O as opposed to Row-Bow; but he didn't name him so?

 

[krizon]

Ardross - no, it's not! It's nothing to do with who won what or how many. It's how tidy someone looks, and Lester bumped along more often than not to the line, not showing much of a bodyline with the horse, which latterday jocks do much better. You just need to hoik a few old re-runs out and compare them. Kieren uses his body much better than Piggy did.

 

[Grasshopper]

Any commentator worth his salt should be able to get by with either "Good Boy" or "Useless Bastard" when it comes to horse names - everyone else does.

 

[krizon]

:lol::lol: Quite so - along with that old boy who's been round all the tracks for years - COME ON MYSONSHITTT.

 

[michael_o]

I noticed Matt Chapman pronounced Knockando as "No Can Do" the other day. Obviously not a malt whisky connoisseur.

 

[krizon]

ITEA DU FAU in the 3.00 Mares Chase at Hereford, pronounced 'eye-tee' by, I think, Tony Ennis. As every gardener knows, 'it-ee-uh' is a member of the saxifrage family, as well as being a very small town on the coast of Greece.