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become a local preacher on the Barrowford
W
hen our minister approached me with the invitation to
. replied: "None of us are, Joe. I can tell you this, that if you wait until you do feel good enough the task will never
Methodist Circuit, I told him that I did not feel adequate for such a calling. He smiled, and
Primitive
begin.'1, lie was right. After over 60 years
of preaching, I still feel my unworthi ness. I owe a great deal to the efforts of the Christian writers and teachers and to my abiding companion, the Holy Spirit. Over the years, I have found prayer
THE Swan Syndicate’s Ribble Princess, CAPTAIN Harry Bariow (third from the left) with ridden by Johnny Carroll, leads the field
‘D a f f ’ i d e a g e t s t h i s l a w
SOME sons will do anything for their mothers, even if it
means breaking the lawl A 50-year-old Clitheroe man was
caught early on Sunday morning picking daffodils from a grass verge in Accrington Road, Whalley. Under questioning from the arrest
ing officer, PC Sutton, the floral thief confessed he was on his way home from a night shift and had forgotten
mentioned on the radio. Not wanting to let his dear mum
down, he thought the daffs would make amends for his oversight. The flowers, of course, already belonged to the public and the man was arrested for his crime of the
heart. PC Sutton eventually let him off
with a caution, but not before giving
and top jockeys Kevin Darley and Johnny Carroll (230o98/2/3) IT 'SA R UM d o • * ^ * q i q u i r k y
b r e a k e r a g o o d t i c k i n g o f f \ happenings it was Mother’s Day until it was
him a stiff talking to. "I told him to get his hands in his
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FOR FURTHER DETAILS ,
hen the land lord at one of my locals
told me this week marked the opening of the flat season, I thought he was talking about some sort of sea sonal bonanza at the
estate agents. Silly me - talking to
self-confessed "nags" nut, Captain Harry Barlow,
licensee of Whalley’s Swan Hotel, I should ; have realised he was talk
ing about matters equine. I could never understand the attraction of watch ing a pack of four-legged beasts running around a track in the middle dis tance. As a football fan, surely watching 22 men trying to kick a spherical object between two posts
made more sense. The good captain decid
ed he was going to make a convert out of me, an obvi ous heathen, to the "Sport of Kings" by taking me on a pilgrimage to the North Yorkshire stable, in which the Swan Hotel racing syn dicate's horses are housed. Su it was tha t I found myself zooming off in the Captain's BMW through the Dales with three other syndicate members at the unheard of time (for a reporter) of 6-30 a.m. Once I had come around a little bit, I began to try to familiarise myself with rac ing parlance. Brian, a retired tax inspector and lifelong horse enthusiast, informed me that a handi cap was not a race for dis abled ponies, as I had first thought, and I learned what a "claimer" was; at least I think I did. A few miles past the rac
I horses." As we rolled up at the stables, a friendly bespectacled Irishman wearing a red baseball hat was on hand to greet us. This was trainer Richard Fahey, who owns the stable and whose house we were ushered into for a much- needed coffee. Barely had a drop
ing mecca of Thirsk, we came to the village of But- terwick, described by the Captain as consisting of "four houses and 50 race-
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Harry on the sport of kings W
RIBBLG PET is a horse that licks all comers, on and off the track. Stable hand Wendy • Carter gets a special greeting from the friendly thoroughbred. (230398/2/10)
oughbreds, being put through their paces on the training track by top jock eys Johnny Carroll and Kevin Darley. The Captain and his
cohorts could barely con tain their excitement; they
appeared to be straining at the bit more than their horses werel We jumped out of the truck and waited in reverential silence by the woodchip track. After a few moments there was a dis tant thudding and the sev eral owners present raised their binoculars simultane ously to catch the first glimpse of their pride and joy in full flight. The noise rose like thunder as two muscle-bound horses majestically flew past, like a pair of Pegasuses on the wing. It was pure poetry in
motion. I asked Richard Fahey
touched our lips before we were dashing off again in a Land-Rover to see Ribble Princess and Ribble Assembly, two of the Swan Hotel syndicate's thor-
what he looked for in a good horse. "It sounds sim ple, but I like to see a horse that walks well. My father- in-law told me: 'If it can walk, then it can
gallop.It's got to have good limbs, I mean, you wouldn’t buy a Ferrari with bald tyres would you?” he replied. Anyone doubting the wis dom of these words should bear in mind that Richard's
father-in-law happens to be race-horse training legend, Peter Eastby. Richard, an ex-jockey himself, has notched up over 100 win ners in his career as a train er, so he knows what he is talking about. Later, learning about the
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He does, however, some times tire of the travelling. . Not surprising really, when ■
you consider jockeys like.> Johnny and Kevin travel, on average 60,000 miles a- flat season, and in those seven months they will enter over 700 races.
intricacies of rearing thor oughbreds, I was intro duced to the two men who ride them; Kevin Darley and Johnny Carroll, the Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton of the racing world. Both are highly accom plished in the sport - Kevin was presented with an award for recognition of his outstanding record in flat racing at the "Lester Awards" on Saturday, the sport's equivalent of the Oscars. Johnny had just returned from a successful close season's racing in Dubai. I asked them both if old hands like themselves still got a "buzz " from opening day. "Definitely," replied Johnny, "a lot of two-year-olds are out on the track for the first time and nobody knows what each other's horse is capa ble of until the race starts. It really is an exciting time of the year." Kevin added: "There's a real edge to the beginning of the season."
• After several excursions . between the stables and the * track, meeting owners and . their magnificent horses, i t ' was time to go. I was impressed by the sheer. beauty of the horses and , the Captain and his crews' enthusiasm had rubbed off on me. I t may well be a racing •
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cert that you will find me at Chester or Doncaster.; next season, screaming., myself hoarse over one of, the Swan syndicate’s hors es. Especially as I will be', armed with "hot" insider tips from Kevin Darley, Johnny Carroll and Richard Fahey, as well as the good Captain. Who knows, by the end of the, season, I could be a mil- ', lionaire with my own set of ■ champion racehorses. It is an odds on (un)certainty, if
ever there was one. For Capt. Barlow’s "ones
to watch for" during the coming season, see our
sports pages.
pocket next time. There is a serious point to be made here, if everyone went round taking flowers, the world would be a lot duller place to live in. The flowers certainly brighten up my day," said PC Sutton. So would-be petal pinchers beware,
a spell in a cell is certainly no bed of roses.
come to us as we follow our supernat ural religion.
We have to experience these things _
to become as natural to me as breath- ing. Thoughts coming to mind become part of my prayers. ■ Additional thoughts come to
amplify and clarify my prayers, mak ing spiritual conversation. These come as gifts from God to those who have prayerfully entered his King dom of relationships. These are part of the supernatural experience that
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for ourselves, but the joy of discovery makes all the difference to our lives. When we have a divine discontent
: am a sinful person,?
but-He.never leaves.
ment with our spiritual lives, it is spiritual consciousness of the moving of God in our lives, and should give us cause to rejoice in His concern for us. When we realise, wo may actually pray: "Depart from me.O Lord, for I
Joe Stansficld
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