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'I'd never go back to the supermarket - who wants to queue up and waste time?'

Charlie Fellowes and George Scott were on opposing sides at the City Ground (see below)
Charlie Fellowes and George Scott were on opposing sides at the City Ground (see below)

Dad changed the game in that horses became an international trading currency
Ben Sangster, son of Robert, on the impact his father had on the bloodstock industry in the 70s and 80s

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I used to like going shopping, seeing the stuff and picking the fruit I wanted, but when the pandemic came I thought I'm going to do my shopping online and now I'd never go back to the supermarket – who wants to queue up and waste time?
Professional gambler Neil Channing uses an analogy to indicate how his in-shop punting preference changed due to the pandemic

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You'd hang off his every word and he's so dearly missed. The memories will live on incredibly fondly with all of us
Sam Twiston-Davies remembers his friend Liam Treadwell at Worcester

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We put a picture of The Tin Man on social media when he came back and it must have had over 100,000 views. We get many emails and phone calls asking about him and it's great that so many people are interested
Jacko Fanshawe on her delight at having stable star The Tin Man back at the yard

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They'll be looking at us and going 'Hmm, I wish Oxted wasn't there'
Roger Teal has no fears about his stable star Oxted's repeat July Cup bid

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That amused me certainly because Johnny would hardly have been able to pick out one horse from another in the yard once the numbers started increasing. And he wouldn't have had a clue about how they were going or what the plans were
Jessica Harrington recounts how one or two owners in her early training days would ask to speak to her husband Johnny because they assumed he was the real trainer

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For a bit of fun we had a penalty shoot-out afterwards, in which I was cool as ice and slotted mine after first giving the keeper the eyes. When it was his turn, however, poor George put his into row Z
Charlie Fellowes jokes about his superior penalty-taking ability to fellow trainer George Scott in a charity match at Nottingham Forest

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Steve brought in a new style of riding. He was the one who introduced us to having just your toe in the iron. Everybody does it now, even jump jockeys, but it was unheard of in my day
Former rider John Reid on weighing-room colleague Steve Cauthen

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More from the Quotes of the Week series:

'The meeting was sure to be off. We were only coming here to have lunch'

'All I can think about is food. Do normal people feel like that?'

'There has been no greater influence on my life or my career than Barney Curley'

'When Frankie is having a big day I would rather be in Alcatraz'

'All hell broke loose, but it was perfect. Grown men were crying that day'


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