Martin Bates

Eat, drink, gamble, love and be merry.

Oh, and I repost to listen/watch/read later, not because I'm endorsing it or believe it

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@idcar123 @MoonmanMUFC @RacingPost God forbid we retain an interest in the past

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@LifeMathMoney @disclosetv Why don't you do the same then?

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@oldspeak_books Oh shit, a real person in parliament. Get rid and replace her with an egotistical paedo in a suit asap

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@RoadCheltenham A punter's legend

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@CaljMo @RoadCheltenham @WilliamHill Interesting view this far out, and a year from handing GDC his arse...care to elaborate?

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@horseart1 A Study of State Man

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

A study of State Man...an underrated horse

[Caroline Cook @horseart1]

COMPETITION TIME
To have a chance of winning one of my new prints, simply like my post, repost and comment with your choice.

I have a large range of these little prints on my website and my Etsy Shop. Lots old favourites and current champions. Ideal gifts for racing fans.

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@elonmusknews30 👍🏼

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@NintendoUK Hi, I need support for my Nintendo Switch account but I can't find any way of contacting you. The website goes into a loop of FAQ's but no form or email address. Please help!

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@Brink_Thinker Yes

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@Prophecy_App @disclosetv *does

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@rwmufc20 @RoadCheltenham *have

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@zakadarr @RoadCheltenham 🤣 and all your posts are your own yeah??

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@NUCLRGOLF @goodgood_golf The rum

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@RacingPost Frankel without a doubt for me

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@GazMaddo @cheesemelts88 @RoadCheltenham @nickluck He's got to make it there first

[Martin Bates @davepearce99]

@benshango01 @RoadCheltenham Means Garlic will be better value then!

[Racing Post @RacingPost]

Martin McLoughlin, who owned Abuffalosoldier as part of the Mahler & The Wailers syndicate, wrote to the Racing Post

🗣 "Sunday was just about the worst day in 54 years of my life. When he soared over the last and galloped up the hill I have never felt more alive. It was pure elation. Racing takes you to places that life in general doesn't with its highs and lows.

"We were bouncing around in the stands and it was the best moment. That's what racing can do and I want to convey that to people. This sport gives people a livelihood and a living.

"You accept the risk there will be horrible days and sadly we've landed on one, but this sport is magical and it employs thousands of people who love these horses and give their lives for them.

"He entered the race in the best of health and the post-mortem showed he had an aortic rupture. He literally gave his everything and more, but this couldn't have been seen before the race.

"Everyone involved has been fantastic because it was a horrible situation. The BHA's vet confirmed the cause of death, Ian Renton [Cheltenham managing director] was at Warren's on Monday and the racecourse staff on the day took us aside and looked after us."

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

If Keir Starmer had said before the election that he would remove the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners, add inheritance to family farms, council tax & energy price increases, raise university tuition fees, plaster mass-scale solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland despite huge local community objections, spaff £22bn of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines, give £3bn a year of taxpayers’ money to Ukraine, pledge a 20% cut in meat & dairy and get exposed for receiving over £100,000 worth of freebies - he almost certainly wouldn’t have won. He duped the electorate. An utterly shameless display of snake oil political salesmanship. And still he lectures all of us in that gratingly sanctimonious manner of his like we are all somehow the problem here.