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!THE BIG COUNTDOWN – And I ain’t talking footballNot long left now. At the time of writing there are just overt three days of racing remaining in the current season and many owners are counting down the hours until the new season gets underway. There are a lot of questions for our owners this week -Will they get a good age change, will their luck alter for the better, will the failing jockeys come back bigger and better, will the rumoured random factor play into their hands? So many questions and so little time…until the answers are revealed. May I take this opportunity to wish you all the best and if you are bored (as you wait for the new season to start) then I hear platting your nasal hair can be highly entertaining!Starz in your eyesOne hundred times so far this season a jockey wearing the silks of the Starz stable has virtually punched the air in sheer joy. One the front of the green and yellow silks is a massive letter “P” and in the dying days of the current season we know that could well have stood for “perfect”. Why? Well on Monday the stable picked up its 100th graded race win of the season and at the time of writing the total of graded race wins overall stands at 139. The stable doors have only been opened for eight months making the achievement of the owner all the more special. Speed is the name of the game at this yard and it was no surprise that the stable’s biggest winner was called Top Gear – surely with Richard Hammond on board!Does JJ have a poker face?I see JJ from the Winning Syndicate stable is toying with the idea of being a poker player for a living. I’m not here to advise JJ but there’s a shortage of priests and Fulham don’t have a manager!Richmond crew- have a ball!Just a quick word to wish Pat from the Dalton’s Donkey’s yard and Garry from the Flying Fillies stable all the best this weekend. If you live on the moon you may have missed the fact that the two lads have organized for owners to meet up in Pat’s hotel in Richmond to watch the end of year finals over the coming days. And as a goodwill gesture Raceclubs have offered £500 in bonus credits as part of a raffle over the weekend. It should be one hell of a laugh and fair play to those behind the idea. The more events like this the better. I see where many cannot get to this weekend but it should be an incentive for others to hold similar events throughout Britain and beyond. I plan to attend the hotel in disguise and report back on activities in and around the bar area! Stay posted. Run Forrest run!With the European Athletics Championships being held in Barcelona at the moment and Great Britain performing so well I thought it would be no harm to include a few jokes about track and field this week. I promise not to have a go at Dwain “I’m as high as a kite” Chambers!1. Who was the fastest runner? Adam. He was first in the human race.2. Who's the English shot put champion?
Eva Brick.3. Boris Yeltsin is opening the Olympic Games and has to read a speech. "Oh," he says. "Oh, oh, oh ..." An aide nudges him, "Mr Yeltsin, stop," he says. "You're reading the Olympic symbol."4. At the Olympic Games, a girl bumps into a man carrying an eight-foot-long metal stick. "Excuse me," says the girl to the man. "Are you a pole vaulter?" "No," says the man, "I'm German, but how did you know my name is Walter?"
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