Graham Clifford's view of Raceclubs.com is praiseworthy!

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 Johnny Vegas and represented Slovakia in last year’s Eurovision song contest with the song “random factor blues”!

Can I have the Mysterious Diva with some chips and coleslaw please waiter?

As ‘View from the Stands’ competition questions go this perhaps was one of the more abstract. In light of a pub on the Isle of Wight halting its sale of rook salad I asked what kind of alternative meat could be offered to the lucky customers instead! There were some interesting answers to say the very least. Orchard Place suggested “a budgie steak served medium rare”, Trists opted for fake meat or, and this one certainly surprised our voting panel somewhat, “pterodactyl meat”! Dark Star Stables reduced our work experience girl, Mandy, to tears when he suggested “Meerkat burgers” and AOK Racing told us about things he’s eaten such as scorpions and ants, yummy! He also suggested that Alligator would make a nice curry! And our old friends at Hermitage Kennels told us about the time they ate maggots! Bet they went right through you! But the winner of this week’s view from the stands competition is Malthouse stable who simply replied with “some of my horses”. The pure abjection and resignation of those four short words said it all for us. If the Isle of Wight pub take Malthouse up on his kind offer you could get a ‘Mysterious Diva’ with chips and veg, a ‘Dellboy’ and kidney pie or a ‘Juno bakewell’ baked well and for desert you could order a ‘Dark Twilight’! Well done Malthouse, the £10 in bonus credits is yours my good man, bon appetite!

Tony for President!

Every now and then a post comes along which prompts a massive and genuine response from our members. And after reading so much negative stuff on the threads Tony from the Clairesville yard decided enough was enough. His post told of how as a family man he runs his stable modestly and enjoys the game without spending huge sums of cash. In summing up he wrote “if you like the game, spend wisely and don’t fall for some of the bulls@@@ sales pitches, you can have a lot of fun for a small outlay, and maybe just get lucky enough to land that one good horse that you need.” As if to prove the point BigBoySteve, who is fast approaching his 5000th win on Raceclubs, responded saying “I am also on a very small budget and look what my stable has achieved. Yes - I pulled an amazing horse who now is dead but when I first started I sold anything challenge to run my G2's which I have a passion for. It can be done on a very small budget if you are very wise and don’t waste money.” Tony’s original post really got you thinking and all the staff here at View from the Stands wish you all the best with bambino number three on the way! I had my third little lad three months ago and at the third time of asking it’s a breeze!!

‘X’ marks the spot for momentous milestone

Some say he lives in a graveyard in Transylvania, others say in a travel lodge just outside Luton but wherever he’s based the Black Death stable owner is a man to be feared. With a faded picture of King Kenny as his profile pic we can assume he has good taste in football clubs (!) and just as Dalglish is a living legend Mr Black Death falls into that category too! Though he joined on April fool’s day 2009 Black Death is anything but and as I write he’s collected 1,998 wins just two short of the 2,000 mark. A force to be reckoned with Black Death fully deserves to bypass this important milestone and like the plague his stable to called after he’s spreading quickly and lethally across the virtual world!

Johnny makes no gaff

By the time this is uploaded I’m fairly sure the Johnnygaff stable will have collected win number 100 and that little rosette will start to take shape. A Leeds United fan this stable owner also opened on April 1st! What’s going on here!? With a stable of horses that can all shine on their day there’s no gaffs to be had here! Oh and his knowledge of the mighty Shamrock Rovers isn’t bad either!

Praise the Lord

A cowboy walked up to a priest and offered to buy his horse. The priest agreed, and told the cowboy to make the horse go you must say “Praise the Lord” and to make him stop you must say “Amen”. The cowboy mounted the horse and yelled “Praise the Lord”, he and the horse started out through the valley. As they were nearing a cliff drop it became clear that if they went over they would both be dead. In panic the cowboy forgot the words to make the horse stop so he shouted any holy thing he could think of like “Prayer, Lord, God, Saviour” but of course none of these worked. In a moment of clarity the cowboy suddenly remembered the right words. He shouted “Amen” and the horse made a sudden stop just in time. One more step and the horse and cowboy would have been gonners. Breathing a sigh a relief, the cowboy shouted at the top of his voice “PRAISE THE LORD”…………

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