Saffie Osbourne has somehow avoided serious injury after coming off her mount during the flat race at Windsor. People who saw the incident say it was one of the worst they have ever seen in flat racing with her horse Zeyzoun clipping heels with Maykir. I think she got stamped on as well. The rider of Maykir has been suspended for 10 days for careless riding.
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As a jockey she'll shrug it off "as a bit of a bump", and probably want to be riding out in the morning. Nasty one though, a 35 mph dismount followed by a multiple trampling. Pleased the horse was uninjured.
She's one of a cohort of fine young jockeys who are daughters of trainers - Ella McCain and Megan Nicholls being a couple of others. Saffie has had a good year and I've backed her to victory/places a few times, that 7lb claim has come in useful (For non-racing fans: apprentice jockeys "claim" a weight allowance to be deducted due to their inexperience - 7lbs up to 20 wins, 5 up to 50 and 3 up to 95. Why not 100? Who knows...).Comment
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"We didn't know 'Jungle Bunny' was racist", say, er…
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Well I wouldn't have known either. When I saw the headline I thought it would be something much more obvious. Loads of people will never have encountered that expression used in that way.
If the sire is indeed Bungle Inthejungle then that explanation strikes me as highly likely to be honest. And yes, there is a computer game called Jungle Bunny Run - I just checked.There was no word as to whether disciplinary action would be taken against whoever submitted the name. Emma Evans, the wife of the horse’s owner-trainer David Evans, said the naming had been an innocent mistake deriving from the name of the filly’s sire, Bungle Inthejungle.
“David’s daughter gave us the horse and there’s a computer game called Jungle Bunny Run, which her son loves playing,” Evans said. “I just thought, that’ll do. I had no idea. It was completely innocent and that is the gospel truth.
It reminds me of the furore around 10 to 15 years ago about the use of the expression "nitty gritty".Comment
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This appears to be yet another case of two peoples separated by a common language
It is absolutely five alarm racist over here and I have never seen it used in any other wayComment
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Is also listed as a co-owner of a horse called "Zulu Zander"
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Yeah, it's racist as all giddy-up in England too.Comment
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Yes, I don't doubt that it has a racist usage which has travelled over to the UK too. The question is to what extent (ie.. to what proportion of the population) that racist usage is familiar. ;Some of us live slightly more sheltered lives. I've no recollection of ever hearing anyone use it (hardly surprising in terms of face to face life since I've barely encountered any racist language used, as opposed to discussed, in my presence since leaving secondary school (at which there was plenty). But I don't recall noticing its usage in TV drama or film either.
What's the story with the kids' computer game Jungle Bunny Run, which the horse owners claim is played by their kid?Comment
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I mean, I'm not ruling out that they named the horse as a racist joke with a back up excuse story. It just strikes me that their explanation is credible. The "Zulu Zander" thing increases the suspicion level. If it was deliberate, then they must be not only racist but also have an appetite for trouble.Comment
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Sorry Guy, I'm agreeing with you, not sure what your response there is about.Originally posted by Guy Profumo View PostComment
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On reflection I'd like to withdraw my defence. Just thinking through it, the thing that strikes me as vanishingly unlikely is not that they would have been initially unaware of the connotations/racist usage, but that, in all the time since they originally named the horse and entered it in races etc, nobody would have said anything to them about the likely offence.Comment
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What did "all giddy-up" mean?Comment
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His first wife divorce story, although completely irrelevant to this discussion, is moderately amusing too.Comment
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Ah right ok. "as xxx as all giddy-up" means "very xxx".Originally posted by Guy Profumo View PostComment
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Even by the dodgy standards of lower ranked horseracing owner/trainers, Evans has a reputation as something of a prick, he's also been in trouble for accidentally letting a bookie know about a non-runner, as well as cheating on his wife.
As above they prob knew it was racist, but had a back up story - I'm surprised it passed the checks, I'm wondering if they were younger people doing the checking,, it strikes me as quite an old fashioned slur which a young person might not have heard, they might have thought it was related to the less offensive ski bunny/gym bunny. Or perhaps they don't really do the checks.Comment
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Paisley Park In the Long Walk Hurdle, what a finish, what horse.Comment
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An excellent win for Bryony Frost in the King George VI at Kempton today. It was eerie watching it in front of empty stands particularly as last year I had been in the crowd right by the winning post. A 20-1 outsider she beat off the favourite Clan Des Obeaux who was 85-40 to win. Now, 85-40 is quite an unusual price and I've seen an 80-45 but never an 85-40 which prompts me to ask what unusual prices people have found in the past.Comment
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The answer is probably that it's a hangover from the days of tic-tac men on the course, 85/40 being easier to sign correctly and not be misunderstood, that's certainly the case with 100/30 (Burlington Bertie) rather than 10/3, same with 6/4 not 3/2.
I wish they would go decimal and be done with it - 3.125 is a lot easier to understand than 85/40 or 17/8
Frodon and Frost made mugs of all the pundits and the vast majority of punters yesterday, fair play to them.Comment
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Khalid Abdullah has passed away at the age of 84. It's long been speculated what would happen to Juddmonte after his death as apparently none of the sons shared his enthusiasm for the sport, or even more importantly the breeding operation. Now we'll find out.
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I can't (well, I can actually) believe the outpouring of suck-up eulogies to Abdullah, everywhere. Billionaire by birth, part of an oppressive regime in his country, using his ill-gotten monies to buy horses while his countrymen live in poverty. What a guy!Comment
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