pogo(aus) 876 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 Brown bread at 79 condolences to the booby. geez NZ missed a golden opportunity when they didn’t secure him to promote racing . THE TORCH, hedley and Memphis2 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelseacol 2,488 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 heck of a character on the box and off it - something racing does have in spades. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Flash 2,135 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 Oh behave yourselves. The famous catch cry of JM. One of UKs great racing characters. Greg chelseacol 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Rum 1,833 Report post Posted July 8, 2019 The old crew on Channel 4 racing and morning line are almost unbeatable imho. Big Mac, the "greatest jockey" John Francome as Big Mac called him, Brough Scott , "the noble lord " Lord Oaksey , Thommo, Alaister Down great dry humour and Jim McGrath the timeform genius. There is a great piece on you tube of Barney Curley ripping the arse out of Big Mac and Leglock Luke Harvey . Big Mac maintained his composure .I read the other day that Big Mac's only disappointment about this incident was that he felt compelled to defend Luke Harvey in the face of the verbal barrage from Curley. Big Mac , staunchly anti whip, big on helping the re homing of ex racehorses as well. hedley 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Flash 2,135 Report post Posted July 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Red Rum said: The old crew on Channel 4 racing and morning line are almost unbeatable imho. Big Mac, the "greatest jockey" John Francome as Big Mac called him, Brough Scott , "the noble lord " Lord Oaksey , Thommo, Alaister Down great dry humour and Jim McGrath the timeform genius. There is a great piece on you tube of Barney Curley ripping the arse out of Big Mac and Leglock Luke Harvey . Big Mac maintained his composure .I read the other day that Big Mac's only disappointment about this incident was that he felt compelled to defend Luke Harvey in the face of the verbal barrage from Curley. Big Mac , staunchly anti whip, big on helping the re homing of ex racehorses as well. Correct and just by way of further history who ever missed his Saturday morning "Steamer" which for mere mortals saw him label a horse each week where the money had come pouring in for. Quite often it was in from 5's to Burlington Bertie 100/30 Greg Red Rum 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Rum 1,833 Report post Posted July 8, 2019 2 hours ago, JJ Flash said: Correct and just by way of further history who ever missed his Saturday morning "Steamer" which for mere mortals saw him label a horse each week where the money had come pouring in for. Quite often it was in from 5's to Burlington Bertie 100/30 Greg I completely forgot the "steamer " JJF , I always wanted the steamer to lose and "Barry's bismark" to win .They used to have the Channel Four trophy for horse with most wins in season , didn't matter what grade just wins , the late David Chapman won it twice I think with Chaplins Club and once with horse called Glencroft which iam sure from memory had the tube in the throat to help the oxygen get down his old lungs . JJ Flash 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
