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If i could pick someone to seat beside at my own dinner party it would be Barney. R.I.P.
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Now there was a real character of the game,ever remembered for his betting exploits and his savaging on live TV of John McCririck and Luke Harvey outside the weigh room.
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He was a complex character Frank.
I spent a few hours in his company at killarney about 15 years ago. He was with a top UK based jock that was friendly with one of the guys I was with and we hit the bar with him. Barney wasn't a drinker but came in to us between races . It was funny to watch the punters who recognised him follow him around the ring while the bookies pretended to quiver or jokingly usher him to the next joint. I wouldn't say I knew one iota more about him after the day than I did before tbh. |
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RIP Barney.
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A Man who made racing a lot more interesting when he had a horse in a race.He was a great judge of a young horse.When you look at the horses that he sent to the Dickinsons.I can remember my uncle telling me that Barney had 100000 on one of his own horses in a bumper at Galway one day and the horse lost.That was back in the 1980 S.He sent over a couple of horses to Galway in 1999 with one of them doing the business with a young Jamie Spencer up.Racing needs characters like Barney and Harry Findlay more then ever now.He made racing pay.RIP Barney the world is a poorer place without you.
And so the wild Geese fly heading for home again. |
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@ punchestown: "that" interview is legendary but it was also nasty at times and showed a man who believed in his own egotistic hubris. He "won" the argument through belligerence and bullying, not any cogent argument.
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I think it was more his delivery and aggression than the content of what he said as most (but not all) of what he said was true.
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Barney would have some interesting stories, frank. Not sure he'd tell them though.
R.I.P. Robin Hood |
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A character undoubtedly , made his own rules .
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