Simon Nott

Echo the above, love his interviews and worked his guts out at the ptps during covid via livestream.

One of the good guys.

It's true what he says in that blog post. There was a time when one of the tenets of proper economics was that everything in life is a trade-off, or what we would call a gamble. Before you decide to do anything, you price up the options and then decide whether the odds are in your favour. And sometimes you have to act even when the odds are not in your favour, because you can't afford the consequences if things go the wrong way. Or, as David Ashforth once put it: all of life is 6/5 against.

Say hello to Simon next time you see him at Taunton or wherever, Somerset Sam. Life's too short to regret not telling someone you appreciate their work.

SFBTW.
Spoke to Simon a few times and read his book seems a decent guy i would ask for odds he has tried to ask for an interview with you.
hope you are well sad to say Hogans is know gone.
Ronnie.

It wouldn't be much of an interview, ronnie. I'm stone deaf now!

We're all still standing though, clinging on. Just a pity that Hogan's isn't.

I did like Nott's description when we had a chat at Taunton back in the spring: "a scourge of the ring"!

https://www.simonnott.co.uk/blog-racing/taunton-first-march-meeting-02/03/23        (paragraph three)

I think that that's what I'd like to be known as from now on - The Scourge Of The Ring. It's got a better sound to it than Deaf Paul imo.

Hope your health scares resolve themselves, ronnie - another one of the good guys.

wingerwanger on here ....according to a few !

Yes onlooker Andrew commented on the forum meeting thread , so will be the case.


Andrew.in.Sweden

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Hayden

Thanks for 11.23 and totally agree.

Of all those mentioned on page 1 of this thread, i would happily see them again, in fact i meet with 3 of them often, and when i go to Newmarket or Sandown, i chat with Ed Thompson (and Brian).   

I could have added wingerwanger (Simon Nott) to the list as well.

Interesting blog post (aside from the inferred health issues obviously). Nice to see that there are still people with a public profile that hold values similar to mine dear. One senses we are still in the majority, but largely bullied out of the public space. Soon to be online too.

I would comfortably argue that relying on the NHS to help when you most need it is the actual gamble. They tend to love the 'sexy' high adrenaline stuff. If a paraglider flies into a cliff, they will use dozens of resources and £millions recovering them, and putting them back together. But not the mundane (to them) stuff like an illness that wears away at you.