Gus Skinner

Horse Racing 🐎 (Off The Clock Partners/Commercium with @UrloxheyStables) & Football ⚽️ (@QPR) • 26

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@equinties ✅

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@equinties The newsletter did this…

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@JeffqprBudd @WEG0NEGHOST Higher pass completion percentage than Hayden last night btw… No idea why Morgan has caught some many strays after last night - one of the only starters that consistently looked to go forward.

[Steve Cook @SteveCook28]

After three years, the time has come to move on from QPR.

In my career, I have been fortunate to win promotions and enjoy successful campaigns in the Premier League. But ‘success’ is relative. And my time at Loftus Road really highlighted to me what fans want from you as their player. It isn’t always about winning leagues, achieving promotion. It’s about giving absolutely everything for their shirt, respecting the badge and respecting the fanbase.

If you do that, proper fans will have your back. I have always seen QPR as a proper football club with proper fans – my time at Loftus Road confirmed it.

It is far easier to be a fan when things are going well on the pitch. But it takes a special fanbase to stand with you during the hard times. We have had three tough battles at the wrong end of the table. On each occasion, the QPR fans turned up when we needed them, stood with us and successfully helped us across the line.

To be named Supporters’ Player of the Year in my first season is something I will always be proud of, and to captain the club was an honour.

As a player, you want to leave a club in a better state than when you arrived. I feel I achieved that with the help of all the coaches and team-mates I have worked with over the last three years.

As I move on to the next chapter of my career, I want to say a huge thank you to the owners, the board, the management, coaches, staff and the R’s fans.

It has been one hell of an adventure. We have had ups and downs but I have loved the journey.

QPR will always have a special place in my heart and I wish you nothing but success in the future.

[Gus Skinner @GusSkinner]

@QPR That half puts an end to the Paul Smyth debate…

[Racing Post @RacingPost]

"Racing cannot be seen to be facilitating tipster-influencers - they will leave nothing but a trail of destruction behind"

Read with Racing Post+ 👇

[Gus Skinner @GusSkinner]

Didn't work out at Cheltenham but we go again today.

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Selma De Vary is the absolute wheelbarrow job of the festival.

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Dividend run an absolute cracker there in 5th.

[Racing TV @RacingTV]

🔵 Ombudsman - too good in the Dubai Turf

[Dubai Racing Club @RacingDubai]

🗣️ "𝙃𝙚'𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧."

@UrloxheyStables Jamie Insole on G1 Dubai Turf contender DIVIDEND 🇬🇧

#DWC26

[Dubai Racing Club @RacingDubai]

Successful Carnival participant DIVIDEND 🇬🇧 goes through the paces on the dirt.

He runs in the G1 Dubai Turf.

#DWC26

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba

I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film

As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes

It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.

But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

[Gus Skinner @GusSkinner]

@abracing0 Dividend EW for the good people...

[Gus Skinner @GusSkinner]

@equinties Yes the fields have been competitive but the racing hasn’t been. The front running advantage on this ground being so strong actually makes for pretty boring racing…

[Gus Skinner @GusSkinner]

Selma De Vary is the absolute wheelbarrow job of the festival.

[At The Races @AtTheRaces]

Declared for the JCB Triumph Hurdle:

Apolon De Charnie
Berto Ramirez
Fantasy World
Forty Fifty
Indian River
Kai Lung
Lord Byron
Macho Man
Maestro Conti
Minella Academy
Minella Study
Mon Creuset
North Shore
One Horse Town
Proactif
Wolf Rayet
Highland Crystal
Noemie de La Vis
Selma de Vary
Tenter Le Tout

[Gus Skinner @GusSkinner]

Not often you have 285/1 on a Willie Mullins/Paul Townend runner in the Supreme at Cheltenham.

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@lucyhammond99 Dividend has been an absolute superstar out there.

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@ASymondsJourno X-Country course going?

[Gus Skinner @GusSkinner]

Champion Chase or nothing for Irish Panther.

[Road To Cheltenham @RoadCheltenham]

🐎 7 declared in the Arkle at the 2026 Cheltenham Festival:

HANSARD
JAX JUNIOR
KOPEK DES BORDES
LULAMBA
MAMBONUMBERFIVE
STEEL ALLY
KARGESE

[Gus Skinner @GusSkinner]

It seems that every day decisions are made that take football further away from what made fans enjoy it in the first place.

Reaching the play-offs will mean less now as if you finish 5th in the league, you'll now have to play 3 “finals” over 5 legs to get promoted...

[EFL @EFL]

From the 26/27 season, the #SkyBetChampionship Play-Offs will be expanded to six teams.

Read more: https://t.co/E8Njme9iOL

#EFL

[Gus Skinner @GusSkinner]

@Moray_Smith Completely agree. He'll probably go off a single figure price if Paul is jocked up on him. Punters will say they got the value backing at 12s and SP being 8/1 but in reality the horse should be 20/1+. Very poor punting anyone backing him.