Back from a morning at the soft play centre with the kids ! God I hate days like that.

I did not know that the Clock Tower Cafe was now a Burger joint, but I am not a gallop watcher, I am a photographer.

I am paid by trainers / owners to take photos of their horses / strings and often the gallop watchers I do know in town, ask me if I knew what horses were what in a gallop they don't know the horse, as I would probably have an image of it I can send them.

The only work I watch is that of Aidan O'Brien's when I am paid to photograph / film his horses. This can by by the yard or the media. I go where I'm paid to go.

I just passed on that the 3/4 gallop watchers in Newmarket used to meet up to discuss work in the Clock Tower Cafe at the end of a morning's gallops. They may well still frequent it as a Burger Joint or they may go elsewhere.

I have been to Newmarket 5 times this year, and on each occasion it was to Photo horses for an owner who has horses in 4 yards in Newmarket but I won't say who. I pass photo's around to the gallop watchers and we trade, photo's for reports.

As I also do the media for 4/5 trainers websites, I also get to see video's of gallops to report on for owners blogs and have found another 4 yards online, 3 uploaded where I've subscribed to the uploader's account, and they don't secret link the files, but would be hard to find on normal searches on the media accounts.

I have contacts in certain yards from the work I do, and some contacts who buy photo's off me and I give them a reduction for info.

When I watch a gallop, it's through my lens, and I'm concentrating on what my camera is doing, obviously sometimes it's easy to see what's worked very well, but I mainly rely on informants and contacts to pass on info.

I am in Newmarket Guineas weekend, and will be out on the gallops on the Thursday - Saturday that weekend for 4 yards doing photo's they want. The Racecourse has their own photographers, so I won't be able to take photo's on track, so I'll be having an afternoon watching the racing.

I cover a number of yards in the UK, and get to Lambourn 1/2 times a month as well.

But most of my work is in Ireland for 2 yards I'm contracted to through a media company I work for.

In regards to the comment about Hey Gaman, I didn't say I thought it would win the Guineas, I said James Tate, the horses trainer was very confident it could win the Guineas. My view was, for it to win the Guineas it would have had to have won yesterday. The Stoute horse ran better than I expected it to, but it didn't find much for pressure and they finish in a bunch. I actually thought until around 150 yards out Hey Gaman looked the winner and he was beaten less than a length. I think over the extra furlong, he would certainly come out best of the four that were close in the finish, but I doubt we've seen the Guineas winner from the Greenham. That said it's his trainer who thinks he can win the Guineas and of all the trials over the years, the Greenham often does fair best for Classic winners. (Kingman / Frankel in recent years, and if you go back top class horses such as Celtic Swing, Danehill Dancer, Redback, Red Clubs, Paco Boy, Dick Turpin and Barney Roy are all winners of the race). I personally didn't see anything in the last week which jumped out as the Guineas winner to me. Saxon Warrior is a horse I like and sadly I didn't get to see his gallop yesterday in Ireland and I'm waiting to receive the video's from my friend at the yard who will send them over.

domino14    22 Apr 18 15:16 
Back from a morning at the soft play centre with the kids ! God I hate days like that.

try a condom.

ghost used to be grimmy dom..stole info and sold it on as his own then done a runner with a few thousand that wasnt his.

Fair enough Domino, I assumed given your work you was based in HQ.

Would like any updates on Saxon Warrior, For me he could be in Sea The Stars class, Am on it for everything bar the Guineas.

Ghost

in fairness grimmy has repaid the debt in bricks laid per 10p.

had to build 3 housing estates to cover it.

And I certainly ain't going over all that again

Irish are lucky will come in his crackers

Gutty

@Cutter27

No, I take pictures, not write words ! I didn't even take my exams at school, I was expelled before I was 14, and was working in a yard at 15. I didn't care for school.

@Gutfeeling

As soon as seen his gallop from yesterday I'll send you a Pm. I've had a nibble on him for the Guineas at 7/1. I think he'll probably go off favourite on the day and I could end up with a free bet around 3/1 by laying off my stake.

@Willie

Why would Ghost do that ? Surely that's theft / fraud ? If that's true I'm surprised he showed his face again.

TY

Cause it's not true Dom that's why

Willie delivered a cheap shot there he knows the story and the outcome

He is goading me to come to his "trial"

you wish to have little digs at me grimmy..i'll do likewise.

tatfortit.

If you don't mind me asking Ghost, what actually happened ?

Why would you use information that isn't yours for commercial use ?

Sounds like a friend of mine, who used to ride. He had his own service which done very well and he found out that some website which sends information from a lot of services and that to members for a fee was sending their stuff out as well. Legally he couldn't do anything about it, because the person running that website hid behind a fake identity but I personally thought it was disgusting that information was being sold for a fraction of the price on a website which was nothing to do with the persons info and at a fraction of the price. It nearly put my friend out of business as he had members not renewing with him as they told him they could get the info 30 minutes after he sends it from another website for £5 a month, instead of £25 a month.

Same all over Dom.

I had a blog which a service hijacked and started sending out at a fee so I closed it as couldn't be f@@@ed with the agro.
Also had a website / forum with a mate, Same happened again so I got out.

grimmy says hes taking the 5th amendment.

@Cutter27

In what way?

I take photos and send the proofs, with an order form.

Most correspondence is by my website, phone or the media company I work for.

I don't write an essay with any pictures I send !

As if by magic I a l appears ummmm

Anyone would think there was a pm system on here

How sad

@Ghost

So You/Your Mate had a tipping service and you took information off a forum you frequented and passed on for self gain ?

Cutie talking out his rear aperture again.

I don't think so, as if I worked within the photo porn industry, I would know the difference between photos and photo's. I'd see it every day, and know the difference, but being a mouse, and a timid creature of capture, you wouldn't know intelligence, Blouse.