Wednesday May 3rd 2023

Alan King sounded a bit deflated afterwards. He probably thinks Trueshan has had enough + he may be right. A mooted hurdling campaign would be unfair on the horse, I think. He's done connections proud.

Could be a group 1 in Bradsell. Maybe over 5f. Lack of fitness probably caught him out today.

Impressive performance from Coltrane. He's been one of my trackers, and I had a good punt on him at RA last year. I backed him again today, but didn't want to nap him today so as not to jinx your nap. I'm already regretting that decision.

Cheers Jonathan, was well impressed, never quite know what to expect first run so very happy. Also backed cold case as looked after me last year, saw him win 2YO trophy @ Redcar, still not sure to expect from 2 to 3 but ran very well.

I cannot abide antisemitism. I was trying to set out the context for the vitriolic criticism of the cartoon and the almost laughable misreading of parts of it. If you knew Rowson's work you would recognise immediately his caricatures of Sunak and Johnson-as-a-pig. How is it antisemitic to associate Sharp with the company he used to work for? Do you refute the accusation of Johnson being mired in sleaze. And, the big one, what in God's name does a squid have to do with it? Until you answer these questions your tantrum is wasted on me. In the end this is an example of cancel culture where the keyboard warriors rampage like Mongol hordes and obliterate a tiny hovel in the middle of nowhere. And then they all feel so much better about themselves.

The Guardian are rank hypocrites. They asked Martin Rowson for a joke about Richard Sharp which, when he submitted it, the editor approved. It was duly printed in the paper and put up online. They thought that Sharp and Johnson were easy targets and let's have a dig at the PM while we're at it. Only when the accusations of antisemitism blew up did they backtrack and Viner did a 180. Rowson, as I said, knows which side his bread is buttered and the G is the only national daily that matches his political persuasion, so it was a diplomatic withdrawal on his part, like when an institution says it is "sorry for any offence that may have been caused". It doesn't rank high in the sincerity charts. But it's always amusing when the holier than thou get banged to rights, isn't it.

I'm far from insecure ,and just because a woman writes a load of utter drivel about horses I'm not going to say what I think about it ,or her for fear of demeaning women in general in your male feminist eyes.

On overreacting ,how many posts on TH and here did you write about Elliott and Dunne for instance.

I had my fingers burned many moons ago on a certainty,one of the few lessons in life that I learned quite easily.