Horses for Sale
- Sunday, 27 November 2011 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Eggleton
I keep watching I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! Willie Carson is so small that he seems to be missing a lot of the bushtucker trials. Maybe the producers are too frightened to put the "Cackling Scot" in with a bath full of cockroaches in case he gets lost! I wonder how Clare Balding would get on in the jungle? Not so well I would suspect - I would imagine that Clare is one of those girls that likes her home comforts...you just have to look at her to see that there is never a hair out of place. When they work together for the BBC, Willie has a crate to stand on - I wonder what they would use in the jungle?...a kangaroo perhaps?
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There is only a month until Christmas and this time last year I remember it being freezing cold with snow lying on many of the racecourses. Newcastle was completely covered in the white stuff, but this year I don't think I can ever remember it being so mild, mind you there are some pretty strong winds in the north of England. You watch, now that I have put the kiss of death on the weather, we will probably have the coldest December on record!
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I was interested to read David's column in yesterday's Racing Post where he said that Well Chief was the most talented horse that he trained and one of the most that his father ever trained. In my 30 or so years at Pond House I would probably suggest that Carvill's Hill was the one that stood out in my mind - he won a Welsh National under a huge weight, pulling a train from a subsequent Grand National winner. He also went over to Ireland and did the business in the Irish Hennessy - I will always remember how revered he was with the Irish people.
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I see that my former boss Trevor Hemmings is having to fork out £750,000 a month to keep football team Preston North End afloat. Trevor is funding the club out of his own pocket - just think of all the new horses that would buy. I played Trevor at table tennis many years ago at one of the Pontins holiday camps that he used to own - he was no mean ping pong player!
