@kenneth_hawkins Take out his Cheltenham form and he’s 18 wins, two seconds. Yet still doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
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Katılım Ağustos 2010
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Jonbon, last week after the Ryanair Chase. 29 races, 21 wins, 8 second places. What a wonderful horse.
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@Jacobbarajas02 @mrbrianrowe Even more crazy to see The Gangs of New York, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon go 0/30!!
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@mrbrianrowe It's crazy to realize that a "Martin Scorsese" film hasn't won an Oscar in almost 15 years... and it was Hugo
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The way we won’t be prepared when this goes 0 for 10 at the 100th Oscars
Film Updates@FilmUpdates
First look at Martin Scorsese’s ‘WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Now in production.
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Could we see Constitution Hill on the Roodee?
Patrick Chesters of @ChesterRaces discusses the course's new partnership with NYRA and the possibility of Constitution Hill targeting the Ormonde Stakes...
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@FreddyInSpace One more random stat: only three of those are *actually* horror films.
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Random stats on the only 8 horror performances to win Oscars:
- 5 women, 3 men
- 5 villain performances, 3 hero
- 5 of 8 winners were previous Oscar nominees
- Silence of Lambs = only horror film to win 2 acting Oscars
- 2026 = 1st year 2 different horror films got acting wins
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@SussexPhilip Irish National is now used for next year’s Grand National, while the Scottish National is now used for those that don’t get in at Aintree. All cater for different horses now, rightly or wrongly. At least you still get to see genuine stayers in action at Ayr.
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And he still went on to win the race!
At The Races@AtTheRaces
Excellent horsemanship by Christophe Soumillon! 👏
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@KailSovl Since 1993 only 8 movies win best picture and cinematography. Not something lines up too often
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@racehorsesrace1 He doesn’t state anywhere that there are still tracks operational in Scotland - merely highlighting how ludicrous the wording of the law is.
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Really ill-thought out piece, rushed out again by the author
this line highlights how little research he does
There are NO GREYHOUND TRACKS operational in SCOTLAND at present 🤔
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Cutting Comment.com@mindmodeller
cuttingcomment.com/ban-the-greyho… #greyhound @Plaid_Cymru @theSNP So the greyhound goes under the bus, the cockapoo gets a biscuit, and the Welsh political class gets to parade around in the reflective vest of righteousness. Scotland, meanwhile, appears determined to join the same parade, clutching its own whistle and clipboard.
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@MattBisogno This is more akin to the 1970s. Trump had no idea what he was doing by forcing the inevitable blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Hyper inflation, fuel rationing and power cuts get more likely the longer this goes on.
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BBC News opening with the phrase "global economic crisis" in relation to oil prices, which remain entirely in line with the last twenty years. They showed a 21 day chart, ffs. Why are we getting fear and misery mainlined into us by the national broadcaster?
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@saraespratt @quevega I just posted the same!
JB@DizzyJB
This is really excellent work by @PaulJohnson01 and @NTFnews. While not everyone may agree with all of the conclusions & recommendations, there are practical solutions proposed here that should stimulate debate and provide the basis for further discussion with stakeholder groups.
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@DizzyJB @quevega This is the just published NTF strategy - although again too many cooks. We need one overall strategy.
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Following on from my post last night about field sizes, this latest news will just compound the problem even further unless drastic cuts are made to the fixture list. The current volume of racing is unsustainable.
Racing Post@RacingPost
Foal crops dropped by 9.5 per cent in Britain and Ireland last year and Tattersalls believes there is cause for concern racingpost.com/news/britain/f…
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@mrbrianrowe If you think he’s winning for Dune: Part Three after losing for A Complete Unknown and Marty Supreme, I have news for you…
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If you think he won’t pull out all the stops to go after another Best Actor Oscar nomination, I have news for you
Film Updates@FilmUpdates
Timothée Chalamet in the first poster for ‘DUNE: PART THREE’ In theaters December 18.
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@chrisgambler247 Particularly when the number horses in training lost over the same time period (since 2017) would exceed the 4,000 figure quoted for greyhound racing.
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With greyhound racing banned in Wales yesterday & Scotland vote tonight British horse racing needs to wake up, end its isolationist approach, & work with the GBGB on a joint strategy against the activists.
Otherwise its Greyhound racing > Jumps > Flat.
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The challenge now is for the various stakeholder groups to set aside self interest and form a consensus for future direction. While there will always be inherent conflicts, factional in-fighting solves nothing. There must be an aligned strategy for the greater good of the sport.
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This is really excellent work by @PaulJohnson01 and @NTFnews. While not everyone may agree with all of the conclusions & recommendations, there are practical solutions proposed here that should stimulate debate and provide the basis for further discussion with stakeholder groups.
National Trainers Federation@NTFnews
Yesterday we released our strategy for the future of the fixture list and race programme. Read it in full here👉 bit.ly/4bUKnUL
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When you read this & then have a trawl through Tattersalls accounts published yesterday, it is hard not to think that they're not putting anywhere near enough back into the sport.
Racing Post@RacingPost
Foal crops dropped by 9.5 per cent in Britain and Ireland last year and Tattersalls believes there is cause for concern racingpost.com/news/britain/f…
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@DizzyJB @JohnWathenBerry I retired a 3YO filly in January. Last year she came 2nd, 1st and 3rd within 30 days. The prize money for all 3 runs was £1K short of being able to pay that month’s training bill.
I could have kept her in training. I’m sure she’d have won more races. But what’s the point?
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@adrian_c_king @JohnWathenBerry Not just prize money either. Part of the joy of ownership was betting on your horse. Often plugged the gap for training fees. Now you wouldn’t be able to get bets down due to affordability checks, restrictions etc. I know several owners that have left the game because of this.
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@JohnWathenBerry @DizzyJB There are plenty of people who are financially able to put horses in training… but if winning a race doesn’t even cover a month’s training fees, there is absolutely no incentive for them to do so. Everything comes back to prize money - it always does.
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@mindmodeller Ed do you have help putting out these pieces as you must not sleep if on your own, such is the output
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ARC's capacity to block, dilute, or redirect policy proposals that threaten its commercial model — through RCA process, slow-walking, sympathetic working group populations, and the reliable inadequacy of BHA institutional authority — is not villainy. It is rational self-interest
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@NTFnews @RacehorseOwners @RacingTV @PJAOfficial @nickluck
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@mindmodeller @BHAHorseracing And, as always, the punter picks up the bill. Funnily enough, there was a “racing tax” after all.
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Partial explanation of bookmaker profits and a sign of racing decline @BHAHorseracing
Paul Fitzgerald@Cav_TRF
We're through the 2% barrier for UK overrounds in 2026 so far...
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@mrbrianrowe One Battle After Another won Best Cinematography at BAFTA, BSC & AFC. There’s no such thing as certainties…
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I’ve seen so much confusion why Jessie Buckley reacted like this. “She swept!” they say. “Of COURSE she would win!” The truth is nobody knows. Anything can happen. At the end of a crazy long awards season, this was the big moment and her reaction was HUMAN
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