Peter Appleton

Racehorse fan ownerbreeding @peterappleton58bluesky.social

[TDN @theTDN]

GOLDEN VEKOMA 🏆 Winner of G3 Saudi Derby
Sired by Vekoma (@spendthriftfarm)

O: Mohammed Ahmad Ali Alsubousi
B: @woodsedgefarmky (KY)
T: @HARMASHRACING
J: Connor Beasley

"We are up against the best here and for us to do it in the Derby, you know this is what dreams are made of."

Recap via @EquinealTDN: https://t.co/xdjuzcGQDj

#TheSaudiCup

[Darley in Europe @DarleyEurope]

🇬🇧 #TripleTime – Frankel’s best miling son from a family that can’t stop winning at Royal Ascot! 🎩

His blue hen dam Reem Three is also the grandam of two G1 winners at the Royal meeting in 2024 with Rosallion (St James’s Palace) and Inisherin (Commonwealth Cup) 🥇

[Boyle Bloodstock @BoyleBloodstock]

A lovely bit of work this morning around Meydan for ‘Smoothie’ ahead of his race tomorrow night!

@BERacingLtd @RacingDubai

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I am incandescent with rage right now. I feel sick to the stomach. A US Vice President stood today on the soil of where so many Americans gave their lives to defeat fascism in Europe. He delivered a disgraceful speech that spat on their graves. Not that we should expect any different, given his boss skipped visiting the graves of fallen Americans in Europe for fear of getting his hair wet. The same man who called the same fallen heroes suckers and losers.

As a Brit that loves America and the American people, I am deeply disturbed at the insults delivered by a man who once described Donald Trump as an “idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

How times have changed. Vance is now part of the most authoritarian administration in American history. An administration actively seeking to deny bodily autonomy to women. An administration pursuing the same mass deportation of immigrants that Europe witnessed in 1930s Germany. Vance is a man that his own president doesn’t even see as his successor.

He came to Europe to vomit his Christo-fascist bile on leaders from the UK and across Europe, in what appears to be a retribution tour designed to assert American power.

The U.S. are to my knowledge the only NATO country to have invoked Article 5 of the NATO charter after 9/11. We, his European allies, met that call with no questions asked. We sent thousands of soldiers to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight a war on the false premise of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns’. We did this despite millions of our own citizens protesting in the streets of our cities.

Our military stood shoulder to shoulder with his military and we, like many Americans, stood to salute our fallen young men and women returning home day after day. I have tears in my eyes as I write this, thinking of them and their loved ones. Our brave men and women willingly gave their all and far too many made the ultimate sacrifice in support of an American led war.

For the record, 6000 Ukrainian solders server alongside American soldiers in Iraq. This, despite Ukraine not being a member of NATO. In 1994 upon signing the Budapest Memorandum they gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security assurances from the US and the UK. These were then reneged upon in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. They were told ‘An assurance is not a guarantee’.

Now, despite their friendship and their brave sacrifice on the battlefields of Ukraine, the President of the United States has decided to abandon them and hand a victory to an indicted war criminal, who illegally invaded the sovereign territory of a US ally. An ally who’s soldiers had previously lost their lives supporting America in its war on terror.

SHAME ON HIM. Shame on the man who dodged the draft and never served a day in defense of his nation. He is a coward and I would gladly call him that to his face. To all those Americans on social media currently posting vile insults to those who have always been there for America, I say, democracy is bigger than you, as you sit anonymously behind your phones posting poison.

America might have the most powerful army on the planet, but remember, that same army fled from Saigon after being handed their ass by a bunch of peasant rice farmers, armed with grenades made from discarded US coke cans. Ukraine have been to the Russian army what the Vietnamese were to you and we salute them.

You might want to throw Ukraine under the bus while stealing there mineral deposits, BUT EUROPE WILL NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. I know for sure that the UK will not abandon the Ukrainian people. Our aid to GDP contribution already exceeds that of the US as does Poland, Germany Finland and others.

The U.S. is no longer a reliable ally and if need be, we will stand with Ukraine without America.

As for your pathetic tariffs, do your worst. You will soon have no friends but thugs and autocrats, so I’m sure Wun Dum Fuc will be right at home.

[Joanna Grabowska @Jo_Grabowska]

Happy #FoalFriday ! Welcome first baby at
@StudElwick
, my favourite mare #Bespangled gave a birth to a very brave colt by one of my favourite stallion too #Pinatubo

@rpbloodstock
@TheTBA_GB
@DarleyEurope

[John Berry @JohnWathenBerry]

@racingoncourse @RacingPost @ThomasKerrRP The PRA has 1 sole aim: to increase prize money by persuading tracks which put a small % of their income into prize money to increase that %. It’s laudable. I’m a member. It is not trying to gain anything for its members. If it can raise some money, that it is to pay its costs …

[Michael Dods Racing @mdodsracing]

We are all delighted to see our apprentice Rhys Elliott back on the gallops this moring for the first time since suffering multiple injuries in a fall at @NewcastleRaces last October. Welcome back Rhys!
https://t.co/QfVzlWQgrg

[Middle East Racing @MiddleEastRace]

"The horses are thriving at the moment!"

Connor Beasley leads the jockey's championship on 23 winners and is looking forward to some exciting young horses for the back-end of the season!

@RacingDubai | @connorbeasley9 | #DubaiCarnival

[Boyle Bloodstock @BoyleBloodstock]

ONESMOOTHOPERATOR has safely arrived in Dubai 🇦🇪 ahead of a Winter campaign in the Middle East.

We are very happy with how he has travelled over and he has eaten up well this morning.

Stay tuned for more updates!
@BERacingLtd @RacingDubai

[Imperium Sales @ImperiumSales]

A wonderful way to end the sales year. Thank you to everyone who supported us and to our fantastic team. See you all in 2025 🙏 @Tattersalls1766 🎥

[Tattersalls @Tattersalls1766]

Winner of the Gr.2 Duke Of York Stakes, defeating Highfield Princess into second, star sprinter Azure Blue is set to be offered by @ImperiumSales in the #SceptreSessions at the #TattsDecember Mares Sale.

Pedigree ➡️ https://t.co/vcJaUVB5J2

[Peter Appleton @AppletonPeterA]

Well done Paul , top jock , top bloke and a good guy , plenty more to come . Peter and Linda

[Paul Mulrennan @PMulrennan]

Delighted to get 💯 winners this year courtesy of @edwalkerracing thank you to all those who have supported me to get to that milestone

[Peter Appleton @AppletonPeterA]

@Tattersalls1766 Top Man Mick always helpful at the sales bought a lovely Dandy Man filly this year Mick was looking after . 👍🐎

[Tattersalls @Tattersalls1766]

How does Mick O'Dwyer describe himself in three words?

"A humble guy, honest, and I speak my opinion." 🤣

The sales stalwart is next up in #BeyondTheBridle.

[Claudia McDougall @cj_mcdougall]

Shrewd bit of buying by @DPAppleton 👌🏼

£65,000 @Tattersalls1766 HIT buy,
nets $300,000 for his connections in the G3 Geelong Cup today.

Next stop Flemington! 👏🏼

[Peter Appleton @AppletonPeterA]

@AtTheRaces @AllThingsEquine @Jacobwebb9622 @hayleyjanemoore @plumptonraces Well done important to move forward on these developments , please also remember to involve people who have access needs ,their carers and families in the race day experience and not isolate physically or socially on race days good stuff @Jacobwebb9622

[Peter Appleton @AppletonPeterA]

He is a top guy @Jacobwebb9622 developing accessibility at racecourses , sales premises and is so important yet receives so little publicity please note @RacingPost @Tattersalls1766 @Goffs1866 @BHAHorseracing @RacehorseOwners @TheRCA

[Alex Embiricos @1placidman]

What a complete privilege to have met @Jacobwebb9622 earlier this year & to have been @plumptonraces first day of the new season witnessing all the work gone into accessibility & making a day racing better for everyone. Thank you @hayleyjanemoore @AtTheRaces for highlighting

[Alex Embiricos @1placidman]

What a complete privilege to have met @Jacobwebb9622 earlier this year & to have been @plumptonraces first day of the new season witnessing all the work gone into accessibility & making a day racing better for everyone. Thank you @hayleyjanemoore @AtTheRaces for highlighting

[Peter Appleton @AppletonPeterA]

@guy_oc @varianstable @StudHesmonds @sumbe_fr @SilvDSousa @Tattersalls1766 Great stuff Guy he’s a superstar well done to you