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I have the last copy tucked away as well have a look at it now and again to bring back memories in fact Henry Cecils horse Midnight Line is the headline.
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Dick Whitford was a co founder of Timeform with Phil Bull ...He also used to publish his own ratings booklets.
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The Sporting Life was a British newspaper published from 1859 until 1998, best known for its coverage of horse racing.[1] Latterly it has continued as a multi-sports website.
Priced at one penny, the Sporting Life initially appeared twice weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It became a daily newspaper in 1883, and in 1886 acquired its rival, Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (est. 1822).The paper continued publication until its merger with the Racing Post in May 1998; a proposed relaunch was aborted in 1999. On 20 December 1996, before the newspaper arm closed, Sporting Life launched an online version of the paper, sportinglife.com. The site was run as a joint venture between Trinity Mirror and The Press Association until PA Sporting Life Ltd was sold to 365 Media Group (then known as ukbetting plc, now a division of British Sky Broadcasting) on 14 October 2001. The Sporting Life was said to be the late Queen Mother's favourite newspaper. The eccentric racing pundit John McCririck was a journalist on the paper and later wrote a column for the website. |
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I believe the current "sporting life" website has actually no connection at all with the old paper but simply uses the name.
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STEVIE B ,I DIDNT KNOW THAT ABOUT DICK ,LEARN SOMETHING EVEVRYDAY
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OUTPOST YOU WOULD THINK THEYD JUST LEAVE IT BE ......YOUD NEVER DREAM OF CALLING YA HORSE ARKLE OR FRANKLE WOULD YA
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Marvellous paper for real racing men, not like today's comic book RP.
Anyway, anyone read 'The Story Of Your Life'? This great book is the brilliant story of The Sporting Life itself. Big book but well worth s read.... |
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Proper paper not like the dross we are subjected to these days.
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Outpost 24 Jul 13 09:38
I believe the current "sporting life" website has actually no connection at all with the old paper but simply uses the name. johnnywilkinson 24 Jul 13 10:25 OUTPOST YOU WOULD THINK THEYD JUST LEAVE IT BE ......YOUD NEVER DREAM OF CALLING YA HORSE ARKLE OR FRANKLE WOULD Y ------------- Correct. The last CE/General Manager - who oversaw the Life's closure - then moved on to a new company ... and the sportinglife.com website - already in-being for 2 years - rather 'conveniently' somehow managed to go with him.  So, he effectively managed to sh!t on the staff twice. |
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The knight, reading it now also have a house full of "The Life" just cant throw them away.
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Just pulled one out at random,March 9th 1988 35p headline Graham Bradley fined £600 fortaking wrong course on Bobby Burns the best backed horse of the day 5/4 fron 2/1 what a surprise.
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