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I work as a racing groom for Jonjo O’Neill in the Cotswolds. Through my Overthestabledoor website, I aim to portray lots of racing people. Please take a look.

Temple Guiting, England
Joined July 2020
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31 years ago this week DUBLIN FLYER & @bpowell13 win The Mackeson Gold Cup @CheltenhamRaces @hdalyracing
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All well and good, but on the flip side, social media accounts that ghoulishly report deaths, tacitly attributing blame to those involved with no thoughts of nuance about the situation, actively discourage people from reporting deaths. It might be worth you thinking on that point
I wish more trainers announced the death of their horses and the Racing Post reported on them like J Boyle did, that's real transparency, which can't be questioned Some are very happy to portray a 'rose tinted glasses' view here on SM of their horses & yards, conning the public
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🗣️"It was so much fun, it's a brilliant charity" Ben Pauling and Dolly Maude reflect on participating in Racing Come Dancing for Racing Welfare 🕺🪩 @AlicePlunkett | @benpauling1
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Lovely scenes with Passing Diamond 💎 @BenHaslamRacing | @richiemclernon
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OTD 1992 Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Tipping Tim (Carl Llewellyn) won the Mackeson Gold Cup by 7L as the 11/2 fav from the 1991 winner Another Coral (Richard Dunwoody) with 1989 Champion Hurdle shock winner Beech Road (Richard Guest) a short-head away in 3rd. 🏇#RacingMemories
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The best Paddy Power Gold Cup winner 🖤🤍
📅 November 15, 2008 📍 @cheltenhamraces The day the Commander stamped his authority! Imperial Commander - all class in the 2008 @paddypower Gold Cup for @NigelTwistonDav and @PaddyBrennan81 😍 #RacingTVFlashback
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This brought back memories. I went four years after this video!
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Diamond Grace game winner in a close finish for the Mares Handicap Hurdle ridden by Jonjo O'Neill Jr @JJONeillJnr trained by Team Jonjo & AJ O'Neill @oneill_racing Great to speak to the legend Jonjo Snr afterwards. #DiamondGrace returned with a slight cut. Hope everything good.
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Yesterday a trainer who admitted deliberately misleading the BHA with a doctored email was fined £2,000, with her licence ban suspended. Last month a champion trainer was fined £1,100 after his runner at the Cheltenham Festival had an undeclared prohibited substance in its body. A stable employee who took £1,950 for inside information got two years out of the sport. Who does the rulebook actually bite? #BritishRacing #horseracing @PJAOfficial @RacingPost
A stable employee paid £1,950 for inside information: two years out of the sport. A trainer found to have misled the BHA over a £42,033 payment: a £6,000 fine. Does the BHA penalise everyone equally, or does it depend on who you are? Are jockeys, trainers, and racecourses treated proportionately, or is there a hierarchy and underlying bias from the BHA in its governance of the sport? #BritishRacing #horseracing @BHAHorseracing @RacehorseOwners @NTFnews @PJAOfficial
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Jesus Christ 🙈🙈🙈 I know they have rules but 2,000 fine and license revoked for 5 month (suspended for two years) is shocking!!
Harriet Dickin has been fined £2,000 and received a suspended withdrawal of her training licence after admitting lying to the BHA about an email sent with the intention of avoiding an £80 raceday fine 🔗 racingpost.com/news/people/t…
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11th November, 2026 💜❤️ We remember the animals who served beside soldiers - loyal, brave, and silent heroes I SPOKE TO YOU IN WHISPERS by Neil Andrew I spoke to you in whispers As shells made the ground beneath us quake We both trembled in that crater A toxic muddy bloody lake I spoke to you and pulled your ears To try and quell your fearful eye As bullets whizzed through the raindrops And we watched the men around us die I spoke to you in stable tones A quiet tranquil voice At least I volunteered to fight You didn't get to make the choice I spoke to you of old times Perhaps you went before the plough And pulled the haycart from the meadow Far from where we're dying now I spoke to you of grooming Of when the ploughman made you shine Not the shrapnel wounds and bleeding flanks Mane filled with mud and wire and grime I spoke to you of courage As gas filled the Flanders air Watched you struggle in the mud Harness acting like a snare I spoke to you of peaceful fields Grazing beneath a setting sun Time to rest your torn and tired body Your working day is done #LestWeForget 💜❤️
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True. 😁
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Tom O’Brien on the day he brought the curtain down on an excellent race-riding career in April 2023. A father and a husband as as well as a jockey, our sincere condolences to all of Tom’s family and friends
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Welcome to the 50th Hunger Games 🐦‍🔥
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"He was a positive force in everything he did" @zoeybirdracing and @LynchySSR paid tribute to Tom O'Brien ahead of our action from @BangorRaces...
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💔 Terribly sad to read news that Tom O'Brien has passed away after his battle with cancer. He rode 1,070 winners during his career before retiring from the saddle in 2023. Thoughts are very much with his family and friends.
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