Lovely Jubbly

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Anyone who has a passing knowledge of the highly acclaimed BBC comedy series ‘Only Fools and Horses’ will be well aware of Del Boy’s catchphrase “Lovely Jubbly”, a phrase which according to the Oxford English dictionary is “used to express delight or approval.” It’s a catchphrase well suited to his loveable ‘ducking and diving’ persona and ever present efforts to make it big. That part of his personality is perhaps event more present in the other (well in truth he has a few!) equally well known catchphrase of his “This time next year we’ll be millionaires!”.

This is a theme that runs through the series like words through a stick of rock, the constant push to make it big come what may, and to ‘improve your lot’ through whatever means are at your disposal. It should be no surprise then that there are a few casino themed episodes such as ‘A Losing Steak’ from Sesies 2 (a comedic take on ‘A Winning Streak’) in which Del plays a game of high stakes poker with the narcissistic Boycie. Or course nowadays we’d be more likely to be drawn towards online baccarat real money, but this show was largely set in the pre-internet age.  And who can forget the hilarious scene where Del and Rodney were at the casino until late into the night, only to open the doors and realise they were in the broad daylight. So many funny scenes in this, the most successful UK comedy show of all time.

In our own way, whether at a race track or in a local casino, we all know a few characters like those in Only Fools and Horses. Whether it’s the wheeler dealer Del Boy types, the gormless yet caring Rodney, everybody’s mate Densil or too snooty by half Boycie, the list of these archetypes goes on. I suppose we all try to create a certain image, but some people really are one offs and aren’t meant to fit in. Larger than life types that always bring a smile to your face, or always have a scheme or an idea to make it big. Well, I’m certainly cheering them all on, for the day they do! Nowadays, as stated, we’d all more likely to be found playing online casino like casinosnz , but even online casino sites now more and more reflect real life and so I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before we’ll all virtually bumping into larger than life characters. At least we don’t have to worry about social distancing with that one!

 

Burrough Hill Lad

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Owned by Stan Riley and trained by Jenny Pitman, in Lambourn, Berkshire, Burrough Hill Lad is probably best remembered for winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1984 with all the enthusiasm of a successful www.usrealmoney-casinos.com gambler. However, despite a career blighted by injury – he was a late withdrawal from the Cheltenham Gold in 1985 and 1986, when ante-post favourite – the Richboy gelding won seventeen of his twenty-seven steeplechases and nearly £200,000 in prize money. Indeed, Burrough Hill Lad was awarded a Timeform Annual Rating of 184, placing him co-eighth, alongside Moscow Flyer and Long Run, in the list of highest-rated steeplechasers since the early Sixties.

Named after Burrough-on-the-Hill, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, where his owner was born and raised, Burrough Hill Lad first rose to prominence when winning the Grade One Mildmay Novices’ Chase at Aintree, as a six-year-old, in April, 1982. In December, 1983, despite being ridden at 3lb overweight by John Francome, he won the Welsh National at Chepstow in impressive fashion. Further success, under Francome, in the Anthony Mildmay, Peter Cazalet Memorial Chase and the Gainsborough Chase, both at Sandown, confirmed his status as a bona fide contender for the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

However, in the Cheltenham Gold Cup itself, Francome was retained to ride Brown Chamberlin, owned by Sheikh Ali Abu Khamsin and trained by Fred Winter, so Burrough Hill Lad was reunited with his former jockey Phil Tuck, or as the French might put it meilleur casino en ligne francais. Nevertheless, Burrough Hill Lad beat Brown Chamberlin by three lengths, making Jenny Pitman the first woman to train the winner of the ‘Blue Riband’ event.

The following autumn, Burrough Hill Lad returned to action in the form of his life. He beat Wayward Lad by ten lengths in the Grade Two Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby and Canny Danny, who was receiving 21lb, by four lengths in the Hennessy Gold Cup – now the Ladbrokes Trophy – at Newbury, before scraping home by a short head from Combs Ditch in the King George VI at Kempton. Burrough Hill Lad won the Gainsborough Chase at Sandown twice more, in 1985 and 1986, but never ran in the Cheltenham Gold Cup again.

Generous

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Owned by Prince Fahd Salman, in whose distinctive dark green silks he raced, and trained by Paul Cole at Whatcombe Estate, on the Berkshire Downs, Generous is best remembered for winning the Derby at Epsom in 1991. However, the son of Caerleon won six of his eleven races between 1990 and 1991 and over £1.1 million in total prize money; he was awarded a Timeform Annual Rating of 139, placing him co-fourteenth on the all-time list, alongside Arrogate, Pappa Fourway and Reference Point.

Generous won three of his six starts as a juvenile, like someone with beginners luck on usa casino online, most notably when springing a 50/1 surprise in the Group One Dewhurst Stakes, over seven furlongs, at Newmarket in October, 1990. After an interrupted preparation, due to a self-inflicted overreach injury, Generous reappeared in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, without a preparatory race. Sent off at 11/1 joint-fourth choice in the betting market, Generous was outpaced just after halfway, but stayed on well in the closing stages to finish fourth, a respectful eight-and-a-half lengths behind the winner, Mystiko.

Generous was immediately stepped up to a mile-and-a-half, in the Derby at Epsom, and his regular partner Richard Quinn was replaced, at the insistence of Fahd Salman, by Alan Munro. At Epsom, Generous showed vastly improved form, demonstrating the old adage ‘fourth in the Guineas, first in the Derby’ by spreadeagling the field, which again included Mystiko, to win by five lengths and seven lengths at odds of 9/1.

Less than a month later, Generous headed to the Curragh for the Irish Derby, in which he made short work of the Prix du Jockey Club-winner Suave Dancer, taking the lead a mile from home and running on well to win by three lengths, with the confidence of someone winning big on real money online poker. Consequently, back on home soil, for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot a month later, he was sent off at odds-on for his first attempt against his elders. He justified favouritism with consummate ease, quickening clear in the closing stages to beat the dual Group One-winning four-year-old Sanglamore by a record seven lengths. Generous’ racing career ended on a low note, when pulling too hard for his own good and finishing well beaten in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp, but his earlier exploits made him British Horse of the Year for 1991.