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Tonight's TV Show - Racing Previews AND the Sky Sports Bounty Hunter
Tikay10
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Good morning.
Tonight, another of our Sporting Preview Shows.
The show will be a normal jobbie, with Sean Boyce & myself, from 7pm - 8pm, & 10pm until Midnight.
From 8pm until 10pm, we will be joined by.....
Ed Quiqley, from the Racing Post.
Michael Shinners, from SkyBet.
Dave Ord, from Sporting Life.
Proper experts, them.
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For tonight's Racing Preview section, we shall be covering.....
The King George V1 & Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
First prize nearly £600,000, &, arguably, the greatest mixed age race in Europe. The Derby is for 3 year olds only, & the Arc, in October, is often when horses have passed their best for the sseaon, & frequently run on bad ground.
In what I consider to be the golden age of British Horse Racing, it was won in succesive years by....
Busted. Sired so many wonderful horses.
Royal Palace. Ridden by none other than Sandy Barclay - anyone remember him?
Park Top. Owned by the Duke of Devonshire. Piggott was the jockey.
Nijinsky. Incomparable. Another Piggott ride.
Mill Reef. This was his consolation for racing in a year when the crop was so good.
Brigadier Gerard. Owned & bred by John Hislop. The book by John is a must-read.
Dahlia (two years running). On the 2nd occaasion, Piggott was up top. Dahlia was owned by Nelson Bunker Hunt. Nelson was an extraordinary man, & a billionaire at one time. His brother, William, tried to corner the world market in silver bullion, to drive up the price, & he very nearly succeeded, beforer the Federal Reseve stepped in & scuppered his plans. He then went busto, & to prison for his trouble.
Grundy. I recall this race as if it were yesterday. For many years it was called "The Race of the Century", but in these hype-filled times, there have been 394 more "Races of the Century" since then. Grundy was by Great Nephew ( who also sired the Derby winner who later disappeared without trace, I seem to recall), by Word from Lundy. Grundy edged out Bustino, (ridden by the great Joe Mercer unless my memory is playing tricks), & was owned by Lady Beaverbrook. Lady B made a habit of giving all her racehorses 7 letter names. (Bustino, Boldboy, Niniski, Petoski, Relkino, etc). Her trainer was Major Hern, this was before his tragic accident which paralysed him for life. He was also the Queens Trainer, until, unbelievably, he was sacked, & had to vacate his Stables & home.
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We will also, in the racing poreview, be covering.....
SkyBet day at York this Saturday, which includes....
SkyBet York Stakes
SkyBet Dash
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AND the Galway Festival.
This is Ireland's longest horse race festival, & lasts for 7 days.
The main races are The Galway Plate (a NH Chase), held on Wednesday, & The Galway Hurdle, on Thursday.
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......and Glorious Goodwood!
Note that this festival is always prefaced by "Glorious".
Arguably, the prettiest setting in the world for a racecourse, it is owned by The Duke of Richmond, who is a very rich chap indeed, & a member of the Gordon-Lennox family.
The two biggest races are both Group One, The Sussex Stakes, & Nassau Stakes, but the biggest betting medium is The Stewards Cup, famous for huge fields, & they very often go 7/1 the field.
Not forgetting, of course, tonight's £12,000 Guaranteed Sky Sporty Bounty Hunter.
We shall try & give a prize or two, too, maybe a free bet or two with Sky Bet, or a Tourney entry.
So, some questions for you. Best answers MAY win a prize or two.
You have all heard of The Grand National. As an analogy, what Tournament on Sky Poker most resembles The Grand National, & why?
Ditto The Derby....
Ditto the SkyBet Dash.....
What was the best horse race you ever saw?
What Sky Poker Tourney evokes your best ever memory?
The Derby has to be the Monday DTD, you have to be seriously on form to win the top prizes as it is based on 3 tournaments!
The sky bet dash is like an open frenzy sat, no one cares how much it costs to get them in but they will do everything to get that seat as soon as possible!
The grand national is the crème de la crème, so it has to be the PRIMO! The roller is big but the primo is the classic as is the national. So many runners but they so many fall at each hurdle!
The best horse race I ever saw was the Kentucky derby at Butlins. Cost me all my 10p's for no return though
I have a few poker tournaments with great memories from them but one sticks to mind, I was saving for a deposit for my new house in January 2012 and was aiming to finalise around April, however I went and run like Bolt in the PRIMO and finished 2nd for just over £2k. (I did not play well in the later levels either I just ran well put it that way) I had my deposit by the end of January and finalised a month earlier!
I am loving poker at the moment and have improved so much over the last year. I am trying to get a female poker tournament on SKY, TIKAY work your magic
Turbo Tuesday main = Epsom Dash . fast furious and over v v quick.
Looking forward to a good show as usual.
Tallyho.
i give up