Graham Clifford's View from the Stands

Biography: Graham is the former sports editor of the Irish Post newspaper in London and has been a broadcast and print journalist for the last decade 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 worked as a body double for Jean Claude Van Damme and represented Belarus in last year’s Eurovision song contest with the song “random factor blues”!

Isn’t one Greek tragedy enough?!

As if the Greek people didn’t have it bad enough already Convey racing wants them to go through more pain! In last week’s view from the stands competition I asked ‘What the Duke of Edinburgh should do now that he’s turned 90 in terms of kicking back?’ Convey wrote “perhaps, being born into the Royal family of Greece, he could become the official Raceclubs ambassador for the Greek Forum. Can't do any damage on there since no bugger uses it!!!!” A member of the Danish-German House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg actually Prince Philip was indeed born in Corfu in 1921 though it’s unlikely he’d become a Raceclubs ambassador, no excrement Sherlock! The Greek forum does indeed lack a steady flow of traffic but very useful and constructive posts such as “it's all Greek to me” (thank you Peeyays) and “May I order a bottle of Ouzo” (good effort Green Bay stables) hints that perhaps it’s not fulfilling its original function!Anyway Convey Racing - for your alarming but humorous suggestion regarding the Duke of Edinburgh you win this week’s £10 in bonus credits. It’s also worth mentioning Jewitt’s answer too the saucy devil, he wrote “Cut down on his bedroom activities, chill and give Her Majesty a bit of peace!” – would that be what they call a Royal rogering!

Nippy Jordan sends the gunners into euphoria

Well Liverpool might be banging on about their new recruit, the £20 million rated Jordan Henderson but down Arsenal way there’s a champ of the same name who’s setting the tongues wagging. On the dirt in Dubai on Thursday 2-year-old colt ‘Nippy Jordan’ cut through a full field to collect his third career win but much more importantly notch up the 1,000th for the gogogunner stable. When contacted by the View from the stands team last night Arsenal manager Arsene Wegner found it hard to speak without shedding tears of joy, he uttered “I didn’t see the race in question……..but I’m delighted for our boy.”

Poetry and contemplation weekend planned for Ginger

Magaluf rests peacefully in the Spanish municipality of Calvia on the island of Majorca. Here you’ll find a dense population of churches, monasteries and theatres. Whoops confused Magaluf with Rome there in that last sentence, just hope Ginger from the Ginger Richards Studs hasn’t made the same mistake. I think he probably hasn’t to be honest, see what you think – here is his recent post of intent

– “hello ladies....I’m goin magaluf tomorrow on a stag do...gonna get wrecked beyond compare.....***Edited***my pants maybe......anyway its nothin to do with racing but i'm just lettin you know.. hope you all think i will have a good time.....the forums will be quiet for a few days.......bobs in a qualy at weekend so fingers crossed for a 2nd.......anyway girls..catch you later !!!!!” -

Yeah, I don’t think he’s confused Magaluf with Rome to be honest!

Olympic tickets – anyone get lucky?

More frenzied buying of Olympic tickets today I hear. Did many of you apply for and get tickets dear Raceclubs owners? I managed to get a couple for the finals of the ladies boxing - I kid you not. Katie Taylor from Ireland is world champion at lightweight division so I’m hoping to see her in the final on August 9, 2012. However if she doesn’t qualify my Olympic experience could consist of sitting alongside hundreds of frustrated Irish fans watching two women from outer Mongolia trying to knock each other’s heads off!

Oh the good old days when owners were the kings of the world

I’m going to start a campaign to get horse racing incorporated as an Olympic sport. Just think of the number of medals Ireland would win! Seriously though there was a time in the history of the Olympic Games when horse racing of sorts was involved. And better still it wasn’t the rider who collected the medal but the owner. In the ancient Olympic Games chariot racing was one of the main events. Now if I could just get them to consider ‘virtual horse racing’ you could win Olympic gold from the comfort of your sitting room!

Wimbledon 2011! You got to laugh!

My two year old daughter Aoife was sitting down watching tennis with me the other day and when Novak Djokovic was on I head her going “come on chocolate witch!”, priceless. Anyway here are a few more rib ticklers during this tennis fest.
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* Sean Connery gets a call from his agent one day. The agent goes, "Sean, I've got you a job - starts tomorrow, early. You'll have to be there for 10-ish".Sean furrows his brow and says "Tennish? but I don't even have a racket.
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* Q. What do you call a tennis player who has the head of a hen and the body of a man? A. A grotesque aberration against nature!
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* Q What is the difference between Serena Williams and Kanye West? A: At least Serena has the BALLS to back up her statements!

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