Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Graham Clifford reviews the horse racing community at Raceclubs.com; read all about it in Graham Clifford's View From The Stands!

 

Biography: Graham is the sports editor of the Irish Post newspaper in London and has been a broadcast and print journalist for the last eight years working in the U.K., Australia and in his native Ireland. He presents a show on local BBC radio in the South East of England and claims to have Psychic powers. He once caught a falling star and glued it back in space again and is in line to become the official starter of the Aintree Grand National in 2010! 

Dermot you’re a terrible man!

Okay, I like a joke as much as the next man but the winner of the latest View from the Stands competition has simply gone too far. By way of public humiliation for the failing England footballers Dermot from the Hermitage Kennels yard has come up with some of the most ghastly, twisted and sadistic methods to embarrass the multi-millionaires. If you missed it here were just some of his suggestions 1.A ban on all professional barbers/hairdressers, they must cut their own hair 2. No foreign holidays or sun beds. Tan, gone 3. Not allowed to use an body grooming products. Man moisturizer, gone. Exfoliating cream, gone. Nosehair clippers, gone and now for the truly shocking suggestion - They must live in a local housing authority property. You win the £10 in bonus credits Dermot but my you’re a beast! I mean it’s not like they drew with Algeria or anything and I heard some are on the minimum wage (for a millionaire!)!

Siggiewi Lodge, what kind of excuse is that?

It appears all roads will lead to Richmond foran upcoming finals night and fair play to Pat Dalton for organizing it. Its great to see owners getting together and ultimately it will increase player’s enjoyment surely. However I was very disappointed with the excuse from Siggiewi Lodge for his non attendance. He wrote “ A few years ago when I was living in London I would have definitely been up for it but now living in Malta sweating my b******s off so a little too far to go especially on short notice!” I did a quick check and there’s a mere 1,296 miles between Valetta and London or in other words 2,085 kilometres. When you consider the Proclaimers would walk “500 miles and then 500 more” they would end up just 296 miles away from London or just north of Liverpool! Then a quick train journey and they’d be there! If they can do it then surely you can Siggiewi Lodge!


Darren seeking black beauty (non smoker preferable)
This post did make me laugh from Darren at the Darren stable! He wrote “I read on a website that certain colour horses produce better quality horses. Is it true that black color horses produce better horses or is it a myth?” I suppose in that this is a virtual game there could hypothetically be some truth in it but I have visions of Darren at the Sales ring asking for just the black horses please!

Shot_gun mike makes history

With 5,737 wins Shot_mike now comfortably leads both the most wins and highest earnings table in the history of Raceclubs. When I first started working on the virtual ggs Ken Allen was so far ahead in every respect that you thought he could never be caught. Now the legend is the third highest earner and only 9th in the most wins table. It’s an astonishing achievement by shotgun_mike and I for one will be writing to the BBC asking that he is in the running for Sportsperson of the year 2010!

Tommy Copper jokes – they never get old!

I went to the doctors. He said 'What appears to be the problem?'. I said 'I keep having the same dream, night after night, beautiful girls rushing towards me and I keep pushing them away'. He said 'How can I help?'. I said 'Break my arms!'

My wife had a go at me last night. She said 'You'll drive me to my grave'. I had the car out in thirty seconds.

 

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