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”!Top ten under ten feature produces amazing results!Well, it’s just a week since the VIEW FROM THE STANDS featured a special piece on ten relatively new stables fighting to get to grips with this great game of ours, if you missed it you can see it again at http://forums.raceclubs.com/Posts.aspx?fid=33&tid=294585&iv=y. Over the last seven days that feature seems to have acted as an inspiration for the stables, their supporters and the jockeys who get their leg over day in day out! Take for example the Windrush yard, last week when I penned the piece they had 9 wins, now that’s rocketed to 14, nice one Windrush. Owen Racing have doubled their number of wins from 2 to 4 and Shaka Zulu has added 7 wins (1 a day) to its 4 since the feature appeared! It’s amazing what a few words of encouragement can do. Well done all, you’re playing a blinder!It’s the only bank you can trust these days!With the ‘C’ word spreading across the European banking sector like wildfire it’s helpful to know there’s one institution you can trust. Everyday we hear about the threat of Contagion but so far we’re just about keeping our heads above water. However over at the Martin Fairbank yard things are going a lot more smoothly. On Monday, just seven months since the stable was first opened, the ironically named ‘Running Joke’ lodged win number 100 in the history of Fairbanks. So you can keep your RBS, your HBOS and your Lloyds TSB when it comes to the people’s bank we all know Fairbanks is the only one we can really trust!Roll of bad luck runs out for Bottle Top Stud!After 33 defeats on the trot the Bottle Top stud yard was wondering what they had to do to turn their fortunes around. Recently of course the stable picked up its 500th winner and perhaps it’s just a matter of time until the yard starts making waves in the qualifiers and challenge series races. On Independence Day in the USA 2-year-old filly Caspian Java finally brought the bad run to an end on Monday with a solid win in a maiden juvenile race for grade 3 fillies. Now let’s keep those fingers crossed that the streak of bad luck is out of the way and it’s onto bigger and better things from here on in.You can always bank on Jewitts for a good laughPosted by Jewitts this week:A lawyer boarded an airplane in New Orleans with a box of frozen crabs and asked a blonde flight attendant to take care of them for him.
She took the box and promised to put it in the crew's refrigerator. He advised her that he was holding her personally responsible for them staying frozen, mentioning in a very haughty manner that he was a lawyer, and proceeded to rant at her about what would happen if she let them thaw out. Needless to say, she was annoyed by his behaviour. Shortly before landing in New York , she used the intercom to announce to the entire cabin, "Would the lawyer who gave me the crabs in New Orleans please raise your hand?" Not one hand went up, so she took them home and ate them. Two lessons here: 1. Many lawyers aren't as smart as they think they are. 2. Many blondes aren't as dumb as most folks think. The Tour de France Cycle Races – hold on a second
I came home the other evening after a few pints of the black stuff down at my local and logged into Raceclubs. To my amazement I discovered the true genius of our virtual ggs. Not only can they run like the wind with limited maintenance unlike real horses but also they’re very adept at cycling. Yes the calls to ‘enter the Tour de France Cycle races’ was a new one on me but hey these horses can do anything. In many ways this race is a God send for those with very average grade 3ers who are fast coming in range for a virtual bullet! Stick them on a bike, give them a jersey, a bottle of water and a good push and off they go! Gives a new meaning to the term “horse power” I suppose!
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