Remove blog tag Horse Racing
article thumbnail

Get to know Leonna Mayor - Our interview with the Horse Racing Presenter

The Sporting

Horse Racing: Leonna Mayor joins us for a virtual chat in the spring sunshine. Sky Sports Racing & ITV Racing presenter and former jockey Leonna Mayor gets nostalgic with us in this special edition interview. Yes a good few years ago now I bought a really nice Tag Heuer watch. First memory of Horse Racing?

article thumbnail

Olympic Lens

Slow Chat PE

The modernists among us might find Olympic events such as race walking, dressage, shooting and fencing boring, and lacking in entertainment value. Spikeball was popular, so too was ‘tag’ Pickleball, cricket, futsal, orienteering, and tchoukball also received votes in my unofficial poll.

Sports 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Jimmy Cooney: Playing For Manager Branch Rickey

The Sporting

Hornsby would be reading the racing form during the meetings. Stud poker and horses were his gambling interests. The other was one I made in 1927 when Paul Waner lined out to me and I caught Lloyd Waner off second and tagged Clyde Barnhart coming down from first. He didn’t manage on Sundays.

article thumbnail

Richie Ashburn: Could This Hall of Fame Singles-Hitter Make The Team Today?

The Sporting

I used to spend a lot of time with him, helping shoe horses, grinding plow blades. Then they went into the farm machinery business when tractors replaced horses. You’re a lot tougher to tag ‘cause you’re using your arm to pick a spot and the fielder can’t just swipe. Read more baseball articles on our MLB blog

article thumbnail

A Virtual Tour of Football’s Most Iconic Goal Celebrations

The Sporting

Peter Beagrie The other goalscorers in this category are just pretenders to the throne (or pommel horse…), as one of the original high-flying flippers was tricky winger Peter Beagrie. Robbie Fowler Another game that often has pulses racing and tempers flaring is the Merseyside Derby. Read more on our football blog