Phil Bull Bsc🏇

aka William K Temple - Pro backer of Dante,Tudor Minstrel & Touching Wood - Buy no of UK racecourses that close next 5 years - Invented Timefigures #Gravyhi5

[Phil Bull Bsc🏇 @MrTimeform]

“How concerned are you about the financial plight of British racing?” 🐴 “Even if a small owner wins three or four races, that doesn’t cover the training fees.”🐴
Hamdan Al Maktoum, 1991🐴
What would the owner of Nashwan & Dayjur make of @arenaracingco prize money in 2026😱

[David Haigh @haighdavid]

Greater Manchester won't release the papers behind its £55.7m of 2017 loans to Manchester Life, the council's venture with City's Abu Dhabi owner. It calls the request "vexatious" yet accepts the public interest, per the refusal Ben Rose posted. The loans were repaid. Publish. https://t.co/a2ok6owLj5

[Alicia Kearns MP @aliciakearns]

The UK *nominated* Iran to join this committee.

Why @Ed_Miliband? Is this what you shook hands over?

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Sir Jim Ratcliffe will one day have to explain why Manchester United didn’t follow Michael Carrick’s recommendation of the four players he felt the club needed in the summer window – Elliot Anderson, Lewis Hall, Morgan Rogers and, fourth on the list, Mateus Fernandes. Were debt repayments restricting their buying power? Was it simply because United felt the fees were too much for them?

In the case of Fernandes, United certainly felt Spurs overpaid for the midfielder from relegated West Ham - £85m for a player West Ham bought from Southampton a year earlier for £38m. But everyone knew the market was inflated and those were the fees being demanded – and commanded – for such young talent, especially in a World Cup summer.

Anderson went for £114m, Rogers for £115m. Hall (overlooked for World Cup) could probably have been got for £60m+ before he committed to Newcastle United. Anderson would have transformed United's midfield - certainly more than the £150m spent on Andrey Santos, Carlos Baleba and Youri Tielemans. Hall was the obvious choice to fill the problem position of left-back with Luke Shaw injured and 31.

There used to be a time when Manchester United would go for “best in class” players, even if that meant chunky fees. Not now. That has to change. Mauricio Pochettino will certainly expect Ratcliffe and Jason Wilcox to think bigger in the transfer market - more befitting of a club United's size. Carrick, understanding the challenge United faced in the summer, wanted United to buy properly. They didn't.

An indication of the way ahead will be whether Mauricio Pochettino's title is head coach or manager (and driving recruitment like Arteta, Emery). #MUFC

[History of Horse Racing @horsevault]

Pinza

[Victor Rocha @VictorRocha1]

Let's take a moment to marvel at the ass-whoopin' Judge McMahon gave Novig and the CFTC yesterday. Just brutal. Novig won't survive when prediction markets lose sport betting. I hope Sydney Sweeney got paid upfront.

[Ed Grimshaw @mindmodeller]

Yesterday a trainer who admitted deliberately misleading the BHA with a doctored email was fined £2,000, with her licence ban suspended. Last month a champion trainer was fined £1,100 after his runner at the Cheltenham Festival had an undeclared prohibited substance in its body.

A stable employee who took £1,950 for inside information got two years out of the sport.

Who does the rulebook actually bite?

#BritishRacing #horseracing @PJAOfficial @RacingPost

[Patrick Weaver @WeaverRacing]

@RuaTrindade Pebbles, bless her.
A year later I was working in the same office as Sue Montgomery who gave dad the prize.

[Tony Coleman @RuaTrindade]

Favourite anecdote with Marcos Lemos was when in Oct ’83 The Times published his obituary - which he read over breakfast before heading to Tattersalls. Got a few funny looks, by all accounts. Transpired The Thunderer had confused another Greek shipping magnet with similar name.

[Uncle Ernie: Still following the gee-gees @UncleErniesTips]

That could have worked out better.🥴

[Phil Bull Bsc🏇 @MrTimeform]

😂😂😂

[Juju bloke @Jujubloke]

🚨𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly informed the Portuguese Football Federation that despite already retiring from international football, he wants to remain available for one special duty.

He wants to be called up for Portugal matches and stay on the bench until the team wins a penalty. He would then come onto the pitch specifically to take the penalty before being substituted immediately afterwards.

Ronaldo reportedly believes he can still help Portugal with his penalty-taking ability, even after retiring from international football.

[Phil Bull Bsc🏇 @MrTimeform]

😂😂😂

[Martin @quevega]

William Hill on Longmoor Lane closed down, excited to see Gails or an indy coffee shop open up in it's place.

[Owen Johnson @OwenJohnson4]

@brodders_be As my dad said to me yesterday think he said the jockey Billy Newes was passing on information and got found out but the trainer Jeremy Tree stuck up for him. Like you say he certainly won't be the first and not the last to do it.

[Ian @brodders_be]

Huge sympathy for Graham. Poor guy was in one of the most underpaid positions in the country, working for an entitled trainer who's already wealthy through family. Literally every stable has people passing on info - I heard a jockey on the phone to someone the other day giving them a rundown on a horse's chances. It's everywhere but of course, the one who pays a price is the one who can't afford to.

[JBT @UtdJBT]

De Ligt watching the next manager get appointed and sacked without playing a single game under him

[Ed Grimshaw @mindmodeller]

A stable employee paid £1,950 for inside information: two years out of the sport. A trainer found to have misled the BHA over a £42,033 payment: a £6,000 fine.

Does the BHA penalise everyone equally, or does it depend on who you are? Are jockeys, trainers, and racecourses treated proportionately, or is there a hierarchy and underlying bias from the BHA in its governance of the sport?

#BritishRacing #horseracing @BHAHorseracing @RacehorseOwners @NTFnews @PJAOfficial

[corach @corachsamason]

Real world schizzle comes to racing.
https://t.co/15UDhCJt3B

[Phil Bull Bsc🏇 @MrTimeform]

@AndyL47721930 https://t.co/3ZRLgeS96S

[Phil Bull Bsc🏇 @MrTimeform]

@LawrenceWadey @AnaglogsDaughtr @RacingPost @NRandonFactor Probably the most perfectly executed mega gambles of post war British flat racing @HeathHouseNkt @Rixbets #Pasternak #GrahamRock #RIP

[Phil Bull Bsc🏇 @MrTimeform]

Great read🐴
https://t.co/6zqvyHUZ8T

[🇾🇪 @ManUtdHeritage]

Andy Gray’s suggestion for the next United manager leaves Richard Keys speechless (2018) #MUFC