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The 2025 King George VI Chase

jinnyj said:
Luke is great in person. Very down to earth and will happily chat to anyone who approaches him at at point to point (and that's even without being able to get him to come and compere my Awards evenings (I have tried several times!)

Jason too is lovely and we go back a very long way. In fact I taught him riding in the Pony Club for three years. And he was a great kid - very talented and small so I used to try and get him to think about being a jockey. But at the time legendary Showjumper, David Broome, was the Master of the hunt affiliated with our Pony Club so they all wanted to emulate him. Anyway fast forward a few years and I was working for Cumani and Jason pitches up at the Open Day with his parents. I introduced him to Cumani as he was booked to go on the course at the British Racing School the following week. Cumani offered him a job on the spot on my recommendation and he duly returned to the yard following his course and lived with me for a while. He's an absolutely great person and you most definitely have him very wrong. He's still thrilled to see me every time I am at Ascot or Goodwood and wander down to the commentary box and I get a big hug.

When Jason was in the Pony Club, we had our summer camp at Chepstow Racecourse. And he was so talented (he rode this lovely coloured pony called Toby) so the other instructors used to come over and "borrow" him to get other kids ponies to jump - as you so never got on them your selves in case you showed yourself up when they wouldn't jump for you either.
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Yeah, ok Jinny, I may have misjudged him. But he should still smile a bit more for the cameras.

I’m not that keen on Ed Chamberlain. I think I’m on safe ground here, unless he had a two foot growth spurt at 13 and was in your Pony Club before that.
 
Double J said:
Strange how people see a race. Some saying best ever, i thought it was a pile of shite.

Mark Walsh and Paul Townend, by their usual standard, absolutely disgraced themselves.
The ride on Fact To File was bewildering. Maybe he had an eye on Townend, but just send the f$%^ing horse. Maybe it was instructions, but instructions surely weren’t sit midfield 6 wide

If all lined up in the Gold Cup, Id wanna be on Jango. (Cant see Galoping or Iknow losing sleep like) could be best Gold Cup field in some time
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Paul Townend gave Gaelic Warrior a perfectly good ride. Above average I would say.
 
I used to work with Ed Chamberlin on Sports Adviser donkeys years ago - I think he was at Ladbrokes at the time and we both freelanced there.

Really nice guy and very polite and respectful to everyone.

Doesn't seem to have changed much from what I've seen of him on TV.

As for Jason Weaver, why do you need him, or anyone, to smile, Len?

Don't know Weaver, but he seems alright to me.
 
I’ve liked Luke ever since he ( and his dog) featured in a tv documentary about jockeys many years ago. Then we was on R5 for a while. When they dropped him we wrote and complained. I like self depreciating people. I like Ed, too. He could easily have stuck with the football but he joined ITV Racing because of a genuine love of the sport.
 
Ian_Davies said:
I used to work with Ed Chamberlin on Sports Adviser donkeys years ago - I think he was at Ladbrokes at the time and we both freelanced there.

Really nice guy and very polite and respectful to everyone.

Doesn't seem to have changed much from what I've seen of him on TV.

As for Jason Weaver, why do you need him, or anyone, to smile, Len?

Don't know Weaver, but he seems alright to me.
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I like smiley people, that’s all! 😀

Jinny has vouched for JW, so all is well.
 
GETTING BACK ON TRACK


f$%^ing hell what a race! I'm willing to bet that saves Kempton Race Course.

This is why we love horse racing, and regardless of owners you don't like or like, Its the Horses and the jockeys that races them, its the people on the farms that take cares of them, its the trainers that keep them fresh and preps, its the people getting their schedules sorted, its even the people that clean up their shit.


THIS IS HORSE RACING!!!!!
 
I really want to pull Ed's bottom tooth out - it irritates me enough to refer to him as Snaggletooth. And I find him a bit of a twat at times but no he wasn't in the same Pony Club. Does he even ride a horse? I thought he was just seconded from a football punditry job?

Gaelic Warrior wins the GC for me.
 

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