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    Chris Cook

    Disappointing that he has been let go by the guardian, who want to concentrate less on horse racing. Always struck me as one of the decent ones out there.

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    Just reading it on Twitter.

    He was almost the last sane/insighftul/worthwhile mainstream print racing-journalist out there.

    All that’s left is Millington and his coterie of graduate wankers and school-children, who’d pass-out with a fuc*king nose-bleed if they ever had a fiver Yankee on.
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    He will have his own podcast soon
    Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done

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    Excellent writer, he won't be away for long.

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    Disappointing news indeed. One of the few proper journalists still covering racing.

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    The Guardian has far more important things to be writing about like the 56 genders...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slim View Post
    The Guardian has far more important things to be writing about like the 56 genders...
    64 you bigot!

    You're cancelled.
    All comers, all grounds, all beaten!

    This perfect mix of poetry and destruction.

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    I think this would have been a bigger deal 15 years ago. You know when you're driving to work in the morning and always pass old fellas walking to the corner shop for their newspaper? This is the last generation, the baby boomers, who will do that. Jumps racing might be slowly dying but it will still outlive newspapers.

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    Its disappointing because as he was writing for a non racing publication he could write about things you wouldn't be able or allowed cover in a racing publication, Sheikh Mo being the obvious example

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grasshopper View Post
    Just reading it on Twitter.

    He was almost the last sane/insighftul/worthwhile mainstream print racing-journalist out there.

    All that’s left is Millington and his coterie of graduate wankers and school-children, who’d pass-out with a fuc*king nose-bleed if they ever had a fiver Yankee on.
    the post should be straight on the phone to him but i won't hold my breath for all the reasons you've given

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    Quote Originally Posted by Euronymous View Post
    I think this would have been a bigger deal 15 years ago. You know when you're driving to work in the morning and always pass old fellas walking to the corner shop for their newspaper? This is the last generation, the baby boomers, who will do that. Jumps racing might be slowly dying but it will still outlive newspapers.
    A Depressing thought

    It will see out my time anyway
    Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done

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    Sorry that your thread was hijacked, Chris Cook. But being a proper journalist you probably appreciate the irony of it being taken over by a big news story .

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    Quote Originally Posted by JamesRB View Post
    the post should be straight on the phone to him but i won't hold my breath for all the reasons you've given
    looks like they've signed him up

    pleased for him

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    As long as they let him write and not just become another silent promoter of (insert preferred betting firm here..................).
    "And still they gazed and still the wonder grew. That one small head could carry all he knew.

    And that small head knew that Impaire Et Passe would win the Champion Hurdle."

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