Which character within racing do you dislike most of all...?

....and that every pundit couldn't tip **** off a shovel.

Doorman: My dislike of Dettori is nothing to do with his magnificent seven. That was a great achievement on a day that I did three of Jason Weavers:-)

Am I alone in not liking Aiden O'Brien and his successful but baffling team of horses and owners ?
A surprising thing that I recently read about him.
O'Brien is a member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association.

simon mapletoft, always tries to put you away. he also hasn't a clue. cheers.

Brendan Powell snr

John Ferguson, A thoroughly useless nasty piece of work who has a constant shade of brown on his nose.

Shinners and Hannity doing that bike thing was utter filth, those two are way clear in this field.

Ralph Topping Ex William Hill boss.Horrible nasty bit of work.

Andy Hornby ( CEO Corals ), who quite frankly should of gone to prison for his considerable input into ''casino banking!''

What a horrible thread.

Nick Rust ex Corals/Ladbrokes now C E of the BHA !


Posed him a question once at a managers meeting ( Corals)... hadn't got a ''scooby'' what I was talking about !


Simon Clare, a truly despicable individual !

Facts, now you've joined, indeed so !   

Very droll

Levity old bean...

alastair down for his grovelling, oleaginous, uncritical prose.

can I kill he thread and say pw

only joking

Brian Wright
Michael Tabor
Victor Chandler
Jamie Osborne
Graham Bradley
Glen Gill

Dave Yates

R Walsh

wow , a fairly wicked thread ...but can i just balance it all up ? off the top of my head a short list of racing people i have met ( who would have not known me from adam ) who were really nice ; henry cecil, tom taaffe, peter easterby , brian ellison, clare balding , paul carberry, andrew thornton, jim culotty...list of footballers would be a lot shorter for sure !

Windsor Knot. That is very true. Most people in racing are very approachable.

I e-mailed the Pipes once with criticism over a ride given by an over zealous jockey once and Martin phoned me up and was as nice as pie to me...never got the bloody calender he promised though

cold calls you have been getting ever since could be the jockey

Trivia question for you, the same horse and jockey won the same race the very next year, which horse and jockey was the phone call about??

Rudest racing person I can remember was one of the Rothschild family, resenting being approached by a peasant interviewer after a winner. Quite horrible.

I hate the phoney sentiment expressed when a successful horse is killed or injured in action. Hundreds of horses die each year but no mention of them if they are below average ability. In most cases a fallen horse becomes known as "the loose horse". Horses are just the tools of the trade.

AP McCoy

imagine being an owner ,you hear loads of comments about your horse racetrack



if I owned a racehorse ,just running would fill me with joy,prob wouldn't bet

Animal Aid.

Jim McGrath by a mile

I like AP ,just trying to answer Duffy question

Karl Burke, Culhane and Fiddling Fergal Lynch.

Scumbags caught cheating, who have wormed their way back into the sport we love as if nothing has happened.

Been treating punters like fools for years and got caught.

Loads similar no doubt, but to have the front to return with a smarmy smile, makes me fume.

Another vote for the masquerade that is Simon Clare

Simon Clare
Jim Best
All of Boylleesports
Paddy NoPower
Baldy Fred
All of Ladcrooks
Slybet
Mick Fitzgerald
Simon Muppetoft
Hayley Turner
Derek Thompson
Jim Best
The Easterbys
Tim Vaughan
Paul Kealy
Richard Birch
Diick Fahey
Mark Johnston the commentator
Tony Elves
Luke Harvey
Fergus Sweeney
Paul Nicholls
Daryl Jacob - just hopeless

Likes
AP McCoy the legend
Saaed Bin Suroor
Simon Crisford
Listen O'Brien
Joseph O'Brien
The Coolmore Mafia
Simon Holt
Nick Luck
Gina Harding
Matt Chapman
Sir Michael Stoute
Gordon Elliott
John Gosden
Hendo
Colin Tizzard

I dont dislike any of them, live and let live.

"Listen O'Brien"

I like that

He's a legend is our Listen....

"Ah sure now listen I know dat we had da first 3 in da Arc but listen it's all down to the lads ye know, and Sue, she names them ye know and listen, Ryan as well, and Seamie and da other one who I can't remember listen they're all fantastic ye know and listen sure it's just an honour to be here ye know...are ye listening?"

Are you Aidan?

there are some absolutely despicable characters in racing but to single just 1 out is a tough job

...thank feck for the betfair forum to do the leg work

Sadly racing provides opportunity for unscrupulous characters, its just how it is.

Joe mug public are there to finance them every step of the way.

Pathetic thread and pathetic people on here. I reckon most dont need to look at others. Just have a look in the mirror.

shinners nevison and naughton

why no mention of clod

Or McCracken

I'be never really forgiven Dawn Run for beating Wayward Lad in the Gold Cup.

If it comes to horses, Red Rum for beating Crisp:-)

seconded Oldgit

The course photographer at Brighton once caught me in another jaw dropping moment and my wife with pursed lips when my selection was nosed out on the line after looking a sure winner. He showed me it and asked if I minded if he used it in an exhibition. He later took a very good smiley one of us and sent us prints.

Just what the forum needs, yet another haters thread.

koikeeper...........is that extended to breedingmad??

here's a nice double act






https://mobile.twitter.com/betonsportstips/status/305366616848343040/photo/1

You could be here for the night but I will throw in a few
Media
Big fat Mark
Machin
Mapletoft
Fitzgerald

Jockeys
Lee
Spencer
Heffernan
Fallon
Timmy Murphy

Trainers
David Evans
Evan Williams
Tom Taaffe
Jim Cullotty
Ger Lyons

Luck ,  cunningham and clare wouldnt be missed
Think barry the bismark , big gal and francombe are

big gal...........who is she??

cardifffc 29 Dec 16 18:44
koikeeper...........is that extended to breedingmad??

Hes not "within racing".... in any shape or form

so your policy is only to famous people.........why are they a special case??

Mick Fitz for me. Total waste of space.

cardifffc 30 Dec 16 10:40
so your policy is only to famous people.........why are they a special case??


the question was...

Which character within racing do you dislike most of all...?

David Evans, well he does hog the bar, It takes me ages to get served!

Michael Stoute, always gives interviews half baked and walks off before the end of them

^ Old school trainer, tells ya nothing, gets owners!

C.Balding

Hope we don't see her on ITV

Not one in particular but you can't work as a bookies media rep and not be an unctuous creep.

koi...............why what you think or treat people be different because they are well known??.....I think breedingmad is a knob...you seem a gent......my wife calls me a people pleaser because In her opinion she says i don't dislike anybody...........I try to treat people the same way they treat me

Matt Chapman......did anyone hear the commentary he did on at the races......sounded as though he caught his **** in his zipper.
I just can't stand the bloke.....

Oh and Simon Clare from Coral....biggest creep in racing. Seems to be baby sitting his children every time he appears on TV.

mark johnson

Dave Nevison worst tipster i have ever known.
He tipped one flat season for THE WINNING LINE many years ago and his advice was awful.

Matt Chapman, prize knob   ....

Timmy Murphy.  An obnoxiuos Back to Front!

Chapman continues to make smutty sexist remarks on a regular basis,which he thinks are funny but are in fact totally obnoxious.It almost brought his demise at Towcester and his inability to curb this disgusting flaw in his character will eventually lead to his dismissal.No help needed.

Thattwat Blanche, from Boilsports

Tos$er Geoff Banks

Stoute, ignorant as$hole

If I never see any of them on the telly again, it will be too soon.

Mark Johnston because of his contempt towards punters. Never touch any other his runners anymore.

A vgd fred imo.

I've been thinking about the likes of Graham Cunningham, Clare Balding, Coolmore backers, Neil Mulholland, Mark Prescott, McCririck (sp?) but I think my overall vote has to be for Rachel Hood.

Some interesting choices there, Happy Valley, why Hood, Mulholland and Prescott?

Simon Clare....is the reason i dont bet with the company he works for....a con man and a fruad

George - Hood because I believe she is not a nice person at all, according to my sources within Newmarket council

Mulholland because he's too damn tricky to follow in handicaps!

Mark Prescott because his atavistic views belong in to a age long gone and, while this is purely my own view, I don't believe it is good training to get decent stock, or even very decent stock, sent to you from owner breeders, and win five small races at short prices.

Had to look up the definition of 'atavistic' !

Thanks for the reasoning, Happy Valley.

I wouldn't have a clue about Hood other than what I've read in the paper regarding the Hatchfield saga.

Suppose I could have guessed the other two, though I thought Mulholland might have been more along the lines of how does he do it?

As for Prescott, I've always wonder how he would have handled Sea The Stars, if he'd been sent the horse. I've have visions of the horse appearing in three backend maidens, big, backward and absolutely clueless; then reappearing as a gelding in a 0-65 at Brighton in June, rattling up a sequence of wins, reaching a rating of 92, before being sold to Graham Wylie for £200,000!

* wondered

Geoff Banks.....pointless and dull

Geoff Banks.....pointless and dull

Big John will smash you for that H.V.

Amazed nobody has mentioned the monotonous, poker-faced Angus Macnae yet

I like him, think he is definately one of the better ones.

George B - that is a very amusing reply and many a true word spoken in jest

Acey Duecy - Big John not that far behind MsHood, imho!!!!

Ray Winstone on that advert trying to win the I'm the most cockney geezer in the world comp

Ray is the most cockney geezer in the world!! Superstar!

Look up cockney geezer in the dictionary and you will simply be presented with a a picture of Rsy!

*Ray

Chaz and Dave might have something to say abaaat that

Ray in The Sweeney, brilliant film.

Runs in the last at Warwick doorman99

doorman99 31 Dec 16 14:06 
Ray in The Sweeney, brilliant film.


Poor bait

That's Big John OBE to you now, Happy Valley.

Wait till he gets that K, and the Mrs becomes Lady Rachel.

thommo by a distance,then smarmy simon clare,mick fitz is unfortunate,he would love to be good but hes simply a mess.  i like matt chapman, francome,alistar down, gary o brien,kevin o ryan(who always seems to know more than he says and gives his opinion just as the race starts!!) and kevin blake is simply different class to them all

ScreamingBTW - adds to my dislike, i refused my gong as would any self-respecting citizen.