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The Great Man

Slim

Slim

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It's getting to the point where it's so blatant it’s obvious. Lovely Hurling strangled up the straight to finish on top of a 151-rated horse. They cheat so hard yet can’t even do it properly. They’ve disgraced themselves and ruined the mark.
 
Gotta be honest he's done Fact to File dirty today. Sort of knew it was coming but so disappointed he wont get to take his chance in the Gold Cup.

Love the horse and think he's an absolute star even though he's consented to Lose when ive had my balls on him and bolt up when Ive left him alone.

Gutted.
 
Danny said:
Gotta be honest he's done Fact to File dirty today. Sort of knew it was coming but so disappointed he wont get to take his chance in the Gold Cup.

Love the horse and think he's an absolute star even though he's consented to Lose when ive had my balls on him and bolt up when Ive left him alone.

Gutted.
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Opening the door for Inothewayurthinkin and it will be a real piss take if that one wins.
 
He wont win it. Absolutely impossible. I know people think they've been playing around with it but the horse is just gone at the game. I know its conspiracy central here at TH but this is not a handicapper the benefits of stopping a horse in his previous races or the risks of running a horse when he's not fit enough to do himself justice far out weigh any positives of which tbh I can't see any.

He may well run better he may well be a better horse on good ground in the spring but to go from what he's been doing to winning a Gold cup not a prayer.
 
Such is our disappointment in the great man's decision to not supplement Fact to file. The Talking horses massive have launched protest by making a mockery of his thread with our childish humour he will rue the day he disappointed us that's for sure.

Ferk Jp, Ferk Willie Mullins, Ferk AP and Ferk anyone they are related to, and may Jango Baie slay, sashay away, hey!

Don't even ask me about that last bit...no idea.
 
He started off big with Jack Of Trumps , Cill Dara, Mister Donovan , Shining Flame, Rugged Lucy, Hindhope ,Glassilaun among others.
Returning favours to retired UK based Irish NH jockeys (ask Slim!) got him into numbers, along with buying and developing Jackdaw's Castle for Jonjo O'Neill.
Aiden was a numbers man where Edward O'Grady preferred a work/lifestyle balance.
Cometh the Celtic Tiger cometh the numbers to a peak of nearly 500 in training.
Many of his better horses now are home bred; when home bred Synchronised won the Gold Cup Ted Walsh (jokily) predicted the end of Frank Berry and friends as an unnecessary expense !
 
I've never met him, but strikes me as a man you could meet in the pub and if you did not know who he was, you would leave none the wiser after blethering all night. Same as the late Trevor Hemmings. I saw Trevor at Kelso one day approaching the wee charity tea room on his own to be met at the door by a woman telling him, 'Really sorry, we just closed.'
'No problem,' says Trevor and turns to walk away then turns again on his heel, pulls a £20 note out and hands it to the woman, 'For the charity.'
 
If the pub that person was sitting in was in Limerick, then no doubt the lad beside him would be grovelling over McManus’s charitable work in the city and county. Of course, these McManus ultras, nearly all of them driving Limerick-reg cars, conveniently forget that what he chooses to give away each year is likely only a tiny fraction of what he saves by living as a tax exile in Geneva. The fact that people cheer on that heist on the public purse is one of the greatest three card tricks scams ever perpetrated in plain sight.
 
Slim said:
If the pub that person was sitting in was in Limerick, then no doubt the lad beside him would be grovelling over McManus’s charitable work in the city and county. Of course, these McManus ultras, nearly all of them driving Limerick-reg cars, conveniently forget that what he chooses to give away each year is likely only a tiny fraction of what he saves by living as a tax exile in Geneva. The fact that people cheer on that heist on the public purse is one of the greatest three card tricks scams ever perpetrated in plain sight.
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I have no qualms about McManus not paying his taxes here in Ireland. Our government are the most incompetent shower of idiots. It would get pissed away on a bike shed or sent to Ukraine.

You can dislike his involvement in racing all you want, but to talk down on his philanthropy because its only "a tiny fraction of what he saves" is ridiculous. He just gave 32 million to the GAA, something the government would have never done with his money if they had it. We should be thankful that he doesn't take the approach of Smurfit and numerous others.
 
mellows45 said:
I have no qualms about McManus not paying his taxes here in Ireland. Our government are the most incompetent shower of idiots. It would get pissed away on a bike shed or sent to Ukraine.

You can dislike his involvement in racing all you want, but to talk down on his philanthropy because its only "a tiny fraction of what he saves" is ridiculous. He just gave 32 million to the GAA, something the government would have never done with his money if they had it. We should be thankful that he doesn't take the approach of Smurfit and numerous others.
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The government being incompetent is one of the poorest arguments put forward by tax-exile sympathisers. If that is the justification, then why don’t we all just stop paying tax?
 

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