Horses for Sale

   Tuxedo Junction (GB) 


Exciting dual purpose prospect,
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    Fighter Allen (FR)  


Exciting new horse with proven form, 
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There are five meetings taking place this afternoon with flat action from Musselburgh, Leicester and Wolverhampton while there are a couple of jumps fixtures from Fontwell and Sedgefield.  I won't go on but Wolverhampton offer only £30,000 for their seven race card - very poor!  David has no runners today although both Tom Scudamore and David Noonan head off to Fontwell for some outside rides.

It is not just jockeys who manage to sustain injuries at the races.  Starter Steve Taylor needed to have stitches in his elbow after getting kicked by Piccolo Grande who refused to go in the stalls at Catterick yesterday.  I bet he keeps away from the stalls in future!

Talking of flat racing I was interested to see the result of the six furlong seller at Lingfield yesterday afternoon.  The winner, Pandar was brought in by trainer Patrick Chamings for £4,000, while the 2nd Anonymous John, 4th Headspace and 6th Popeswood were claimed for £5,000 apiece so for of the seven runner field were claimed.  David Evans lost one but claimed another - I bet things were quite tense in the weighing room!

A mate of mine thought that he had seen a pair of ghosts in Torquay earlier in the week.  He said they were the splitting image of former jump jockeys John Francome and  Steve Smith-Eccles.  Far from being ghosts, the colourful characters have been staying at the Palace Hotel in Torquay for a few days.  They always used to stay there in the days when Newton Abbot had a couple of meetings in the summer.  I bet they were on a free one!

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Manchester United player Bastian Schweinsteiger is happy to sit around for two years to collect his £190,000 wages.  I would be jumping for joy at the prospect of sitting around for £190,000...thinking about it, I wouldn't be able to jump and sit at the same time but you know what I mean!

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Thought for the day...a bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are are trying to catch it as when you are on it!

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