Tuesday December 6th 2022

At least I backed him and also managed a mug's (Budweiser) exacta with COBblers Dream.

Brady is like the John Wayne of American Football, quite a career that even I've noted and its something i don't follow. My first visit to USA was in 1991 to Florida and we drank great draft bud in hotel every night - cold pitchers. its a drink i cant abide in cans, can take in bottles if frozen.

Florida isn't a great place for beer in my experience - best pints I had were in, oddly, Hooters which was next to our hotel. They had a great dark beer and on my 3rd visit there on days when i really couldn't face a theme park i went there and spent the day reading a book and drinking. This was uncommon as the waitresses commented.

Don't normally go to a Hooters for the beer. The Hooters in Clearwater (the original one) where I was working in 1991 was a few hundreds of yards of ale away.

Not a working class sport with price.

I did great last week del mar phil d mato flav praet and mhemas.

3 mhemas out tonite southwell.

They never win in the uk for me.

I use be very lucky with emiseal Jaramillo in gulf...b gud

That was fantastic! I hope you had overall result. Morocco thoroughly deserved that. I looked before the tournament for a relatively local team, in this very unusual World Cup, because there has been a significant bias historically for home or near teams, but I dismissed all options pretty much.

There'll be singing and dancing at Rick's Café tonight

Américain!

When you see Woozle trained by M. Munch you think of a certain Norwegian painter. I think of one of the greatest works of literature in the English language, chapter 3: In which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle.

Speaks volumes of our relative intellectual levels.

Where was the Woozle? The winner's enclosure.

I have assumed that there are problems with him, otherwise Willy Mullins would have given him more experience? Has a horse with this type of problem (injury prone? difficult to train? Etc) ever gone on to major success? I could not work out if he had run elsewhere before WM took over.

On the other point, Harry, I have seen the discussion. Strikes me that things are shifting somewhat, but the Guardian was/is not alone in tip toeing/running scared.

The role of another body which got hold of training and monitoring of policies in this area across much of the public and private sector had a significant influence and it still does. Not least on the main political parties.

Two I can think of are See You Then and Istabraq. Both supremely talented, both needed bales of cotton wool to wrap up in - and the skill and care of genius trainers. Best Mate was pretty difficult to keep right - but I risk being trolled for extolling the achievements of Hen'n'Terry in the way they handled him. But the armchair pundits moaned constantly about Best Mate running only twice a season. Did they feel his legs every evening stables. No. But they still knew better than Hen'n'Terry. Just as they slagged off Alan King and Nicky Henderson for pulling their stars out because the ground wasn't right.

People have no idea what a fast run race does to a horses system. If they saw a horses blood tests they would though. Hard races take a toll .