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28th October 2012, 12:21 AM
#1
Making up in Sport
I am a a keen sports fan i like watching most sports but what gets me is the way these sport people perform Soccer , rugby , cricket , basketball etc thevway they kiss ,hug and pat one another after scoring or what ever .I dont mind the jockey kissing the horse when he wins more so if its the one i am on
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28th October 2012, 04:20 AM
#2
Hi Lou.
I'm like you and I have given most sport away except the gee gees. Good day yesterday had a few small bets in Moony Valley race 6 Vatuvei, race 7 Silent Achiever, Cox Plate only one hore in it for me Ocean Park, Go the Kiwi's.
Cheers Des
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28th October 2012, 10:29 AM
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Des my old uncle tom a huge horse racing fan a docker his passion was every morning first thing the sporting life study form? he had notebooks on every horse that ever ran he knew who sired it who the mother was how many races it had all the facts you could think of wrote bets out that only Einstein could work out? the bottom line he never won a penny in his life!!!!! never see a poor bookie?
jp
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28th October 2012, 04:05 PM
#4
Hockey lock out
What about some comments on the lock-out from my fellow Canadians?
I for one am disgusted.
NHL was a big part of my winter entertainment!
Den.
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29th October 2012, 05:42 AM
#5

Originally Posted by
Charles Louis Barron
I am a a keen sports fan i like watching most sports but what gets me is the way these sport people perform Soccer , rugby , cricket , basketball etc thevway they kiss ,hug and pat one another after scoring or what ever .I dont mind the jockey kissing the horse when he wins more so if its the one i am on
Lou it is like being back at sea watching all those 'lovely' lads kissing eachh other.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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29th October 2012, 08:42 AM
#6
Making up in sport.
John,there is a horse here called Baby Strange(your namesake) I have been following it every time it runs missed it last week and it won 14/1,just my luck.
Regards.
Jim.B.
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29th October 2012, 09:52 AM
#7
why don't they shoot a jockey if he breaks a leg that's the part of this so called sport of horse racing let the camera go to a horse that is flailing on the ground waiting to be shot we never see that?JP
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