David Campbell

@kelvmackenzie @kelvmackenzie, Timpson's are giving ex- criminals a chance to make a meaningful contribution to society. It is fair to this is better than someone lying about a disaster at a football match. Just saying.

Delighted to see the Timpson family received nearly £22million in dividends last year ( up 50%- weep your heart Burnham) driven by an 18% jump in its car key business and a huge rise in watch repairs, now twice the size of its shoe repairing side. Timpsons staff have one thing in common with politicians ; 10% were ex-criminals.

@KevinDu42622960 @i_horseracing @RailwayWalker Classic Thoroughbred started in the late 1980s. It could be said that the purchase of Fairy Bridge in 1976 played major part in the development of Coolmore in its current gise.

@DavidCa14313648 @i_horseracing @RailwayWalker He sort of was although it may be my pocket remembering. Try My Best flopped, Danzatore flopped, in any case I was around when it was falling apart including the Classic Thoroughbreds fiasco. Billy McDonald’s famous Fairy Bridge tip to the groom saved Coolmore.

It's the Irish 2,000 Guineas at The Curragh today. Possibly the most 'infamous' race in it's history was the 1981 renewal. To Agori Mou, fresh from winning the English version, went to post an odds-on favourite. He was pipped on the line by King's Lake from the all-powerful Vincent O'Brien stable. The result was overturned in the Stewards Room, then overturned again in an Irish Turf Club courtroom. It led to a huge diplomatic row before a trilogy played out between the two horses in England and France and made the front pages as well as the back. Racecard and the report on the race from @PowellJfpracing for his column in the following days Sunday People. #irish2000guineas #thecurragh

@KevinDu42622960 @i_horseracing @RailwayWalker This event occured in 1981. The GOAT was not struggling then.

@i_horseracing @RailwayWalker O’Brien was far from “all powerful” at that stage. People forget how badly he struggled during the last years of his career.

@William99754232 @cmoreton99 Indeed. She is found in both dirt and turf pedigrees in the USA through EL Prado's sons Medaglia d'oro and Kitten's Joy.

@DavidCa14313648 @cmoreton99 Did become an influential broodmare as the dam of El Prado and Entitled.

Paddy Prendergast's Ballymore is seen winning the 1972 Irish 2000 Guineas on his racecourse debut. Earlier, Paddy's eldest son (Kevin) had saddled Pidget to win the fillies version, initiating a memorable classic double for the family.

@William99754232 @cmoreton99 Lady Capulet did not win another race.

@cmoreton99 A rare thing nowadays. It happened twice in Irish Classics in the 70s with Lady Capulet winning the Irish 1,000 Guineas on debut in 1977.

@ciaranodeorain @The2000Guineas Princequillo's daughters were noted for passing on stamina to their progeny. Did Mill Reef full sister run over middle distances as a 3yo? In the 1970s, it was not unusal for potential middle distance horses to run over 6 furlongs as a 2yo.

@DavidCa14313648 @The2000Guineas His dam was a half-sister to a Cheveley Park winner though and his full-sister came 3rd in the Mill Reef a few years later

Looking at the pedigrees of the 1,2 in this year's 2000 Guineas , there is on paper a very definite question mark about their ability to stay 1 mile. Their dams never won beyond 6f and Gstaad is a brother to a 6f Group 1 winner. Is something changing in the modern pedigree ?

@ciaranodeorain @The2000Guineas Mill Reef was bred to stay 12 furlongs. His sire won over 10 furlongs and his dam's sire won over 16 furlongs.

@The2000Guineas Don’t know if anything has changed tbh, you do get pedigree anomalies here and there, Mill Reef wasn’t bred for 12f for example NOT a miler as well and SSB did sire State Of Rest

@DubaiAce @Chelsearory English managers have won one tournament between them and it was held on English soil. To be fair, the managers are not the problem. The players have not been good enough.

@DavidCa14313648 @Chelsearory First ever non Brazilian and it is Ancellotti . Foreign managers have failed here, we’ve done best with English managers Ramsey, Southgate, Venables, Robson

When you actually think about it, it’s a disgrace that Thomas Tuchel is England manager, a national embarrassment.

@DubaiAce @Chelsearory Five times World Cup winners, Brazil, have an Italian manager. The fans are not saying they should not have a foreign manager. Just saying.

@Chelsearory Never been comfortable with a German manager of my country, we shouldn’t have a foreign manager end of

@DubaiAce @rioferdy5 @DubalAce, the manager is not to blame for the leaking of the names of who is in the squad. You are better than that.

@rioferdy5 This is what happens when you get a German in charge of England. Joke Maguire & Shaw aren’t going but they’ll be fresh for our title challenge next season

England squad announced before announcement… thoughts??

@cmoreton99 Morston never ran again.

Edward Hide won every English Classic, bar the 2000 Guineas. His Derby victory aboard Morston in 1973 was unique in that Hide had never sat on the horse until getting a leg up in the paddock at Epsom. It was only the second time Morston had set foot on a racecourse.

@DubaiAce @holybulll If this is also applied to horses trained in North America we would not have had the Triple Crown winner, Nijinsky or as the Americans call him Nijinsky II. In the late 1950s there was a USA trained horse with that name.

@holybulll Have they, I didn’t know that. There should be say 30 years before the name gets reused

How on earth did Coolmore get the name Thomas Chippendale for a 2yo colt. It’s only 13 yrs since the last one who died just past the post with a heart attack after winning the Hardwicke Stakes. I remember John Murtagh jumping off and cradling him in his arms. Even more poignant

@jasondoyle88 @JoePorter1990 About time they start using him.

@JoePorter1990 Where that source? Make sense if True as he by Giant's Causeway

I didn’t even know Coolmore own part of leading Us sire Not This Time Is this common knowledge?

@WeaverRacing @Tomptin Expelling Southampton after they have won the tie seems unfair. If anything they should have been expelled befoe the tie was played.

@DavidCa14313648 @Tomptin They've still spied on Middlesboro✔️ but that is a valid point.

Wow!

@WeaverRacing @Tomptin Is it known if the Oxford and Ipswich incidents occured within 72 hours of the games? If not, Southampton have not broken any EFL rules.

@Tomptin Given it is multiple . . . Fair decision, I guess.

@cmoreton99 @thethoroughbred @sconebloodstock @inglis_sales His reaction after his horse was beaten in the 1977 Sussex Stakes tells you all you need to know about the man. The first thing he did was to shake the hand of the winning trainer, Vincent O'Brien.

@thethoroughbred @sconebloodstock @inglis_sales Tbh, I've never heard a bad word said about the man. Much respected and a great trainer.

Grundy (nearside) is put through his paces a week before the 1975 Derby. Following his Epsom victory, it was announced that the Levy Board had acquired a three-quarters share in Grundy for £750,000 and that he would eventually stand at the National Stud.

@cmoreton99 @William99754232 Piggott not riding Gregorian in the 1980 King George more or less ended the partnership at that time.

@William99754232 Yes, fair to say the relationship had soured by then.

In 1980, the first past the post in the 2000 Guineas and the winners of the Derby and Oaks never ran again that season. Henbit cracked his off-fore cannon when bravely holding the challenge of Master Willie in the Derby (pictured) and was confined to his box for three months.

@William99754232 @cmoreton99 Assert had his limitations shown up in the King George. Golden Fleece's acceleration would have been the decisive factor in any race with Assert.

@cmoreton99 On a line through Silver Hawk, Assert would have taken some stopping in the Irish Derby even with Golden Fleece in the field. Assert was progressing rapidly in June 1982.

Jubilant scenes as Golden Fleece is led in by Susan Sangster following the colt's brilliant victory in the 1982 Derby. Pat Eddery claimed later in his career, that this horse was the best he ever rode. Sadly, he never ran again, so we can only wonder what he might have achieved

@cmoreton99 @William99754232 Noted. However, Nijinsky won in 2:34.68, and Slip Achor in 2:36.23. Nijinsky's final two furlongs were run in 21.85 seconds, included in that was a 10.60 penultimate furlong. I am probably missing something on the factored in element of the performance rating.

@DavidCa14313648 @William99754232 'Time' is factored into a Performance Rating, David, and Slip Anchor's was exceptional.

Top 15 Timeform Performance Ratings for the Derby since 1970: 140 SHERGAR 137 TROY 136 SLIP ANCHOR 135 NIJINSKY 135 GRUNDY 135 GENEROUS 134 REFERENCE POINT 133 GOLDEN FLEECE 133 WORKFORCE 132 TEENOSO 132 GALILEO 132 AUTHORIZED 132 GOLDEN HORN 131 ROBERTO 131 MOTIVATOR

@cmoreton99 @William99754232 Gyr and Stintino were better horses than Law Society. Just saying.

@William99754232 They are purely based on their Derby performances, of course... Slip Anchor achieved the joint third-highest Timefigure ever awarded by Timeform when winning at Epsom.