There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
18 Mar 16
17:20
Joined:
Date Joined:
08 Feb 08
Could have won it?
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 91
|
By:
imho - yes. seems clear that the game plan was to just make it round. not sure how it works in cycling but thats ort of thing very frowned upon in our sport.
|
|
By:
unbelievable. Well done , lady
|
|
By:
C4 treating her like she's won.
|
|
By:
McCoy and Fitz just telling to hunt around hmmm she could have been encouraged to be a bit closer.
|
|
By:
More crowd atmosphere for Victoria getting 4th or 5th than the Gold Cup lol.
|
|
By:
She's a fame junkie who can't bare to be out of the spotlight - even if she will end up badly hurt
|
|
By:
'fame junkie'...what a d!ck
|
|
By:
Fair play for getting round, but the horse was never put into the race until too late.
Any other jockey on any other day, and the stewards would want a word about that. |
|
By:
yes, she's that too!!
|
|
By:
just give the lass credit for something you moaners can never do, have a positive outlook to life
|
|
By:
Does she now shower with the lads?
|
|
By:
she went for the double kiss and only got one kiss on nina
 great stuff for her to finish 5th. |
|
By:
to be fair she gave him a good ride but I would give Sam Waley Cohen ride of the race as he managed to stay on Paint the clouds probably forgot he was in the race as he bolted into 3rd but fair play he got around
|
|
By:
She did better than I thought. Fair play and that but fame junkie is fair comment for anybody that has been on Strictly or similar then does something like this for a reported 200k
|
|
By:
reckon those who wanted her to
fail are gutted. |
|
By:
why are you a fame junkie for accepting loads of money for stuff you enjoy and would probably be happy to do for free? if someone gave me a million quid to sit naked on the front row of the Mastermind audience, would that make me a fame junkie if i said yes?
|
|
By:
agreed penzance...these saddoes would have loved to have seen the lass get buried
|
|
By:
Duncan, naked in front row of the audience or in front of John Hunphries?
|
|
By:
penzance 18 Mar 16 16:32
reckon those who wanted her to fail are gutted. Quite ! There would have been a ' feeding frenzy ' on here, if she'd fell off. Well done Victoria. Brilliant PR for the sport too. |
|
By:
duncan idaho
why are you a fame junkie for accepting loads of money for stuff you enjoy and would probably be happy to do for free? if someone gave me a million quid to sit naked on the front row of the Mastermind audience, would that make me a fame junkie if i said yes? Specialist subject - button mushrooms. |
|
By:
£5 million to actually sit in 'the seat' naked...million as prev plus extra £4 mill for having to bone up on some supposed specialist subject
|
|
By:
to Spinmaster
|
|
By:
Seems that she had the 2nd or 3rd best horse there. She came 5th. She was probably the 10th best rider. She will need to dig deeper and get a lot more experience if she wants a career in the game, as she has said she does. Can't see why she couldn't do it, though.
|
|
By:
Absolutely brilliant ride given her inexperience. Fair play to her. The parochial, negative response within NH racing has been truly pitiful imho.
|
|
By:
She had never sat on a horse before she was approached so I don't see how it can have been something she enjoyed. Pretty sure ballroom dancing would have been the same.
If you sitting naked involved hours of prime time TV, months of newspaper coverage and PR firms then yes you would be a fame junkie if you had already done similar. |
|
By:
she enjoyed doing the dancing and she's enjoying the riding. And she's got paid for both. You have no argument.
|
|
By:
Good publicity for racing.
|
|
By:
She did much better than I thought she would;in my view a magnificent achievement so well done to her
|
|
By:
johnnyrant
Absolutely spot on. |
|
By:
She has just said on the radio that the horse would have won with a better rider.
|
|
By:
Great, so a fortune spent on denying a hoss a festival win?
|
|
By:
All about opinions but imo it should be about the races and the horses not some sporting celebrity from another field.
She could have just ridden in a charity race if she really wanted to race. Then you've got good publicity and money for a good cause and not for some already loaded sportswoman (that we're paying for through commission on here). When they're talking more about the 5th placed horse than the winner then there's something up. |
|
By:
She only started doing those things after she was approached, with publicity and wads of cash involved. She is far from alone in that. Nothing had stopped her learning to ride or dance before without those things so they were clearly a factor.
Any enjoyment came later as it's impossible to enjoy something you haven't done. Again, fair play to her. |
|
By:
Can't fault the girl.
If someone approached me and said "take the year off and learn to race ride, if you're good enough, we'll sort you with a ride for Cheltenham. Oh, and here's a hundred grand to keep you going", snatched their hand off doesn't even begin to cover it. |
|
By:
I'm not faulting her. Limelight and money are clearly factors rather than just the love a challenge and olympian spirit etc. Pointing that out doesn't make you d1ck or a saddo.
|
|
By:
Wonderful publicity for the sport and it needs it of course.
|
|
By:
when people praise her for reaching that standard so fast, she wasnt exactly doing it on horses that would get tailed off in the members at marks tey. she also has a very bland personality compared to Nina who had her great moment devalued by the toadying to victoria. it would have made a far better story to have concentrated on the best women jockey ever to ride in a national hunt race
|
|
By:
she wasnt exactly doing it on horses that would get tailed off in the members at marks tey
Nina's not exactly doing it on poor or average horses either is she? What Pendleton has achieved is remarkable and she deserves all the praise going. All very well for people to talk about the money etc but plenty have sadly come out of this sport in wheelchairs. There were far easier ways to have stayed in the limelight. |
|
By:
Nina earned the right to get on the good horses, victoria was presented with it. or rose loxton who rode a better race altogather by getting hers placed but didnt get a mention
|