Josh Apiafi

Also sticks to the ATR presenters' guide of saying after a race 'as I said beforehand' no matter what the outcome is. Though he uses the Chapman 'we' instead.

The clown thought Pacify should be evens and past the post, and seems to have ridden half the field on his way to the races.  He couldn't have got that more wrong, how much longer must we suffer his verbal diarrhoea!

Bluffer.

Token filler. No more

Is he like Harvey and describes a horse as huge big?

Funny the order he thinks the field will finish in is usually identical to the betting order. Uncanny.

I have had to put the mute button on. 'KEEP THE REVS UP' 'ALLUDED TO' This bloke is so annoying.

viking hoard not for me, wouldn't take much to shorten it, 14/1 into 2/1.

"The Yard in no better form".

WTF does that mean?

amazingly the winner's trainer has been "in great form in recent times". 1 winner in the last 14 days. Ab - so - lute - ly on fire.

"Kim Bailey doesn't train too far from Uttoxeter".

93 miles.

The man is a complete embarrassment.

No point moaning, he ticks a box that gives him a first class ticket on this particular gravy train...

wish he'd have a decade off

4 fantastic winning rides so far. should have a look at nico on northern sound.

That would entail criticism which is not for Josh.

Good set of gnashers

When the racing debate comes on if I see Sean Boyce and Apiafi (which is most sundays) at the start I switch over to the Simpsons.
Their waffle I can do without on a Sunday morn.

amazing what you can do with a little talent (!)...making a good living from racing4rewards not enough for Josh

i don't mind listening to luke harvey, at least he's ridden a horse. this bloke on the other hand. f me. i like chapman is that his name he seems genuine and he has some obvious love and knowledge for the game. this other bloke, and chris whatshisname, they're all blaggers.

Still wearing that BLM badge in a multi billion pound capitalist industry.
Utter tool

wondersobright02 Sep 20 13:12Joined: 13 Jun 06 | Topic/replies: 98,758 | Blogger: wondersobright's blog
wish he'd have a decade off


Only 10 years wonder??

ockey pats a non runner down the neck and that is...apparently... real horsemanship!!!

Jockey

Not just any bluffer. A horrible naive gullible bluffer.

"like we said before, they had the hood on her"......err no they didn't. What a complete plonker this guy is

'Easy win'? Can't be many who wouldn't back the second if they met again.

He said Spright kept it simple, how boring is that line becoming, then he says Spright done it the hard way.

Poorly prepared. Inaccurate. Inarticulate. Nevertheless he's on the racing gravy train, the one train where no one disembarks.

he does show great pace and power

He isn't any good but Alex is even worse. She could write a book on meaningless drivel.

Stable lad at Martin Pipe`s, rode winners for M.Pipe,former chief executive of the Professional Jockey`s Association and still working on behalf of jockeys mental health, part of the founding Betfair management team and racehorse owner.

His whole life has revolved around racing and works innovatively for it`s best interests.

Perfectly acceptable individual for me.

He may have many qualities FELTFAIR but presenting/punditry is not amongst them and that is the thrust of this thread.

Furthermore merely because someone's life has "revolved around racing" and "works for its best interests" is surely not reason to prevent objective discussion or criticism. Is it?

Each to his own.

never seen anything or anyone he didn't like

nauseating

Getting on my nerves and seems to be on ALL the time, mute the minute I see him. Alex nearly as aggravating, prob the decent ones don't want to do a shift with either of them.

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Eat light, bland foods (such as saltine crackers or plain bread).
Avoid fried, greasy, or sweet foods.
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After several indifferent outings I'm expecting a more polished performance today.

Ostrich Bay ffs!

I'm beginning to like him, he is affable, and comes across well not a know all like some

Agree...he is a nice fella, just trying to do a job as well as he can (and very well imo)......like most of us.

Just referred to himself as "one of the industry leaders" when discussing his input into frost covers.

I take it all back Josh.

I know him. Have played golf with him. Truly lovely man. He really has ridden out many good horses. Haven't watched him presenting. I can't watch anybody presenting horse-racing. I've virtually never heard anything helpful.

He’s a rival for Mick Fitzgerald and that is saying something . Absolutely awful token man

ground looked ok,they almost ground to halt going to hurdle in the backstraight
,no mention of a fatality by the looks

I don't know him and thus have no view on him as a person. I expect presenters to be well prepare and reasonably accurate (not with "selections" btw) .

He isn't.

There are some decent pundits and presenters out there. For me he's not one of them.

prepared

LOL 30 mins ago nothing wrong with racing up to connections if they run,
i dead horse,i concussed jockey,20 nrs later ,well if 2 top trainers wont run horse you have to ask questions, LOL
typical useless braindead gravy boat slurper

What does that matter , he’s a lovely fellow and a nice little golfer . Isn’t that the most important thing

The sort of guy who would crash into your car, and says thats a lovely car with a minor scratch before it is written off.

Josh was right about the origins of frost covers, although he was a year out. It was the early march meeting 2006.



THE euphoria among racing professionals at Newbury on Saturday was understandable and justified. Overnight temperatures of -7C had caused neither doubt nor disruption and the legacy of the enterprise that saved the meeting is that jump racing need never again be a hostage to frost.

For years, raising the possibility of completely covering a course risked derision. BBC Radio even ran an April Fool item on it, so absurd was the scenario considered. Yet Newbury’s management confronted scepticism with an initiative that should have far-reaching implications. Cheltenham now has similar contingency plans if frost threatens.

Frost-beating protective covers have had to be laid at a racecourse to make sure a major weekend event goes ahead.

It is the first time the method has been used at Newbury Racecourse in Berkshire to protect the ground from the ongoing cold snap.

More than 2,000 sandbags have been used to hold down the material, sourced from local soft fruit growers.

Racegoers will be asked to help replace the covering after the two-day event's first races on Friday.

More than 30 full-time and temporary ground staff began laying the covering on Tuesday, which was completed on Wednesday afternoon.

Mark Kershaw, the course's managing director, said: "We believe we are the first racecourse in the country to try this method and are very hopeful that it will make a significant difference to the prospects of the meeting going ahead.

"The challenge will be to get the covers back down after racing on Friday before the temperature dips low enough for frost to set in, and we will be appealing to racegoers to stay on after racing to help the ground staff with this mammoth task."


Mick Fitz gets a swipe earlier in this thread but on that Friday evening in March 2006 he, along with his trainer NIcky Henderson, joined in in the pitch dark and freezing cold to help lay the covers and were there until nearly 8pm getting the task finished.

HOW MANY FAVS DID FITZY AND HENDO HAVE RUNNING,

Was this the meeting you and Big were cited in the Guardian by Eddie The Shoe, loper?

He could have got his minions to do it, ffs!

Yes, Paris, I forgot that Eddie was with us.

Mr Big was worried about his supper, but had been reassured by Kershaw that Fish & chips would be available afterwards.

But Barry Cope bugggered off early.

Big was distraught and immediately phoned a Thatcham curry house and placed a gargantuan order that we could pick up on the way home.

Moronic suggestion about the placepot is taken seriously by Apiafi , god help the Tote if he is involved with it

I remember Big trying to get out from under a frost cover halfway down the back straight, still on his mobile phone ordering his 2nd main course!

Here is a link to Eddie's article which will I hope bring back memories of happier days.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2006/mar/05/horseracing.eddiefremantle

Bloody hell!

That had been completely erased from my diminishing memory.
Forgot that Hughie Morrison was out there with us.

That was probably about the time that he took over Summerdown Stables at East Ilsley from Shafter Sherwood who had used his Father Nat's fortune to build it. Couldn't train a winner from there and sold it saying it was cursed.

Hughie couldn't stop turning out winners there right from the start!

a feature in the post tomorrow, j apiafi's vision for a more diverse future, and how we achieve it.

appreciate if some kind member could post the article as I've hardly been able to sleep wondering if I'm going to be left behind

Poor maddie playle has nothing left to write about in tomorrow's weekender. Bless!

Poor maddie playle has nothing left to write about in tomorrow's weekender. Bless!

He's actually getting worse.

Thank the lord for small mercies. At least he wasn't at Longchamp to see Black Lives Matter win.