No ifs and ‘butts’ for the Oshtray Yard according to Graham Clifford.

Biography: Graham is a reporter for the Irish Independent newspaper and is based in London. He presented on the Raceclubs/Getminted horse racing TV show in Britain a number of years back and is the former sports editor of the Irish Post newspaper. Also he 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”!

What’s another year as Johnny Logan might say!

Firstly apologies for the lengthy delay in announcing the most recent winner of the View from the stands bonus credits – elements outside my control I’m afraid. Anyway a much belated happy new year to you all, hope 2012 is a great one for you in every way. Now when I asked what your greatest ever New Year’s Eve was I honestly didn’t expect the high standard of replies which came flooding in. After almost a month of consideration (!)I’ve decided the £10 in bonus credits must go to the Pg Drive yard who once spent a New Year’s Eve in the presence of Elton John! He wrote “I was with a gang of teenagers pub crawling in Rickmansworth and Northwood when we ended up in this hotel type pub in Northwood hills. Everybody was having a good old sing song with the piano player, and there he was this puny kid with glasses called Reggie, you’ve probably guessed an eighteen old later to be called Elton John. He even captivated everybody’s attention then.” I did also enjoy the Link Up entry though, he wrote “My best New Year’s Eve was spent in Basingstoke hospital awaiting the arrival of my first born. We had a double celebration all round, a New year and a new baby son- what more can a bloke ask for?”

Bigboy Steve – I noticed!!!

Since clicking ‘I do’ when asked to join Raceclubs back on October 31st, 2005 Bigboysteve has always continued to take his vows seriously. And this week the game’s true gentleman amazingly registered his 5000th raceclub’s win. Ironically his biggest victory came with a horse called ‘Ibuprofen’ but on the track it’s his nags who cause headaches for rivals as they whizz by with the finishing line in sight. A sensational achievement Steve, delighted for you.

No ifs and ‘butts’ for the Oshtray yard

To be successful in this game you need to be decisive and clinical and the big ‘O’ stable has both traits in abundance. Known better as the Oshtray yard this week it chalked up its 500th win with 2-year-old colt Heartland café winning in Hong Kong on Friday to land the landmark victory. By his own admission the Oshtray stable owner said “Not a great amount of quality in my stable but it's been fun winning a lot of claimers and low division races. Still enjoying it!” – well Oshtray 500 wins is 500 wins – one hell of an achievement.

…And not forgetting Mappenors

And as we continue our tribute to stables who’ve chalked up a substantial number of wins lately we couldn’t let the week pass without tipping our hat to the Mappenors stable who, less than seven months after joining the game, made it win number 100 last week. On Thursday in Australia the Fosters flowed freely as the stable owner celebrated ‘I blame hot dogs’ exquisite win (all be it in a claimer). You posted Mappenors “Let’s hope the next 100 starts quickly tomorrow!!” – well sadly it didn’t but todays another day.

“I haven’t gone anywhere” says Sullivan!

The hopes of thousands of owners were dashed this morning when inept jockey Geraldine Sullivan confirmed she was here to stay on Raceclubs. Tracey from the October Madness yard had built everyone’s hopes up by posting “good news for all owners on rc it seems Geraldine Sullivan has left the jockey ranks on rc and has now been poached by Mr a McCabe and was last seen riding desert strike in the 3.10 at Kempton lol” – Sullivan reacted saying “I have not been poached, scrambled, boiled or fired and anyone who says I have now has egg on their face!”

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