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Rishi Persad

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@RishiPersad1
Rishi Persad
5 years
Just observed Aidan O’Brien walking out of the racecourse to the car park at Ascot. Could hardly take a step without a request for a photo or autograph. Did every single one and all with a smile, looking almost embarrassed with all the fuss.
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@RishiPersad1
Rishi Persad
3 years
My entire time being involved in racing, female riders even competing in the National has been a ‘thing’. Rachael Blackmore has finally put an end to that today. Privilege to be Aintree today.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
The actions of Gordon Elliott and Rob James are palpably abhorrent and have been rightly condemned. But surely as compassionate beings we should now be asking what is in our power to make things better & does that not include helping the offenders learn from their mistakes?
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@RishiPersad1
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4 months
Ronnie O’Sullivan is incredible. The best snooker player in the world at the age of 48. As good a sports star as there is and maybe as there has ever been.
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Rishi Persad
1 year
Don’t wish to generalise but today’s animal rights protesters don’t appear to actually care about animals and certainly know zero about caring for horses obviously. On a brighter note, well done to all concerned with Corach Rambler!
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@RishiPersad1
Rishi Persad
3 years
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who tuned in to watch the recent #INDvENG Test series. It was a privilege to host the coverage on @Channel4 and a joy to work with the team @sunsetandvine - maybe we can do it again one day....
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Rishi Persad
3 years
To say I am very excited about being part of this is an understatement. But I also recognise it is a privilege. See you on Friday at 3.45am on @C4Sport #INDvsENG
@C4Press
Channel 4 Press
3 years
🏏 Howzat! We’re thrilled to announce the return of Test cricket to @Channel4 with live coverage of the four match Test series between @BCCI & @englandcricket ! 🏏
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Rishi Persad
9 months
Thanks very much to the teams ⁦ @RacingTV ⁩ & ⁦ @itvracing ⁩ for 5 great days ⁦ @Goodwood_Races ⁩ - terrific spirit during a challenging week weather wise. I enjoyed being there.
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Ends his career feeling like a winner. #tigerroll #hero
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Rishi Persad
3 years
One of the most memorable Derby meetings ever for me. Snowfall in the Oaks, Pyledriver and Martin Dwyer in the C Cup, Corazon Espinado for Simon Dow, the old boy Oh This Is Us and Adam Kirby on Adayar. Racing had a great couple of days and it was a joy and privilege to be there.
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@RishiPersad1
Rishi Persad
2 years
Lester Piggott. The best jockey and one of the most iconic sport stars to have ever lived. RIP.
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Rishi Persad
4 years
Roger Federer 38. Serena Williams 38. Tiger Woods 44. Frankie Dettori 49. I now believe I am closing in on my physical peak.
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@RishiPersad1
Rishi Persad
3 years
One for my Irish friends. Enjoy.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Some people loved it, some people liked it, some didn’t care for it, but after five days of Royal @Ascot just wanted to say thank you to the team behind the scenes @itvracing who worked incredibly hard to bring you coverage of one of the best sporting events in the world.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
They’ve brought it home. Team gold for GB in Eventing.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Thank you to everyone who has sent a message to say that they have enjoyed the return of Test cricket to @Channel4 it is massively appreciated and I hope that your enjoyment continues tomorrow - back on air at the same time for Joe Root to resume his innings.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Genuinely moved and somewhat overwhelmed by the lovely messages of support and congratulations - thank you all very much. I hope the next few weeks will be fun for everyone, especially those tuning in to @channel4 for #INDvsENG
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Please tell me that some of you are watching the cricket on @Channel4 ....
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Rishi Persad
3 years
What a moment for Oliver Townend, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen.
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Rishi Persad
1 year
A big thank you to the superb ⁦ @TVG ⁩ ⁦ @FanDuelTV ⁩ team for being such great hosts during ⁦ @BreedersCup ⁩ week. Loved ⁦⁦ @keeneland ⁩ & all things Kentucky especially the Bourbon, plus a host of unforgettable racing memories from the past 2 days.
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Took the kids out for a bite to eat after the Opening Show. They’re always on their phones! ⁦ @meg_nicholls11 ⁩ ⁦ @olibellracing
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Rishi Persad
2 years
One last American style brunch feast. What is it that kids say these days? Rate my brunch?
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Rishi Persad
5 years
Right now, sport fans around the world are lucky to have legends of their respective fields to enjoy - Woods, Federer, Nadal, Messi, Ronaldo - and for what it’s worth, I would definitely add Dettori to that list.
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Baaeed today, Stradivarius yesterday, Stoutey’s Desert Crown the day before, Emily Upjohn…it’s been an enjoyable week already! Love racing.
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Rishi Persad
11 months
I doubt anyone has posted a photo of Frankie doing a flying dismount at Epsom today, so here you go…
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Ronnie O’Sullivan - the best snooker player of all time and one of the best British sportsman of all time. And he can hug his defeated opponent longer than anyone else I’ve ever seen.
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Rishi Persad
1 year
Interesting to hear Barry Hearn preparing to take civil action against the protester who threw orange powder over the table at the World Snooker Championship…..
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Back home after a summer of sport that ended with @Tokyo2020 - It’s been such a privilege to have been at so many memorable sporting events. And thank you for all the lovely messages over the past two months. They are all hugely appreciated.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Hope those of you watching #INDvsENG on @Channel4 are enjoying it. Just wanted to give you a heads up to look out for a blast from the past joining us at tea...
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Rishi Persad
1 month
Morning walk with my boys…
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Rishi Persad
5 years
No surprise the best tribute to Big Mac comes from the one person who knew him best -
@RacingPost
Racing Post
5 years
Jenny McCririck: 'John put on a pantomime act. We all know that. He made a living out of it and people liked it, but deep down he was a very private person and he cared about people'
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Dashel Drasher is a tremendous racehorse.
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Rishi Persad
5 years
What a hero of a horse. Un De Sceaux. #giant
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Rishi Persad
2 months
Obviously there was lots of noise around the Cheltenham Festival, some good some bad, but the horses never let us down. It was a privilege to be there for @itvracing to see the Gold Cup champ defend his crown, plus the arrival of a fair few stars of the future #horsesaretheheroes
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Rishi Persad
4 years
Frankie back in the Godolphin blue for the first time in 8 years.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Very excited about being back at the races for the first time since June and being part of the ⁦ @itvracing ⁩ team again. All my friends on the team are really excited to see me too.
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Rishi Persad
5 years
An incredible year of sport already - Tiger Roll, Tiger Woods, the two comebacks in the Champs League semis, Djokovic & Fed today and that final at Lords. Maybe something special at Portrush next week...
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Rishi Persad
1 year
My goodness. Today might be one of the greatest days of sport. Cheltenham, I thank you.
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Rishi Persad
1 year
One of the best things about being lucky enough to be working ⁦ @yorkracecourse ⁩ with ⁦ @itvracing ⁩ is breakfast at Robinson’s on Bishopthorpe Road. Magnificent.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
For once @MCYeeehaaa is the hero - protecting myself and John Gosden as the heavens opened.
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Rishi Persad
2 years
The PM claims no knowledge of the parties, yet he knows they followed the rules.
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Rishi Persad
11 months
He’s something else. Love him or loathe him the game will be poorer when he’s gone #Frankie
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Touch of class from @Archie_Watson to congratulate Wes Ward after stewards enquiry. Feel for him but clearly an absolute gent.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Thank you for the messages of support for my interview with @joshapiafi which understandably has also provoked negative & unkind responses as well. To those people I say you have no right to tell me how I should feel about my own experiences. And indeed...1/2
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Thank you for all the lovely messages during the past two weeks @Wimbledon it was a pleasure and a huge privilege to be back there for @BBCSport this year. Now to enjoy the football - bring it home Gareth.
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Rishi Persad
2 years
What a thrill it was to watch Desert Crown win a 6th Derby for Sir Michael Stoute. A joy to work with the @itvracing team and thank you very much for the kind words expressed about the tribute to Lester Piggott. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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Rishi Persad
2 months
A fun night to close out day 1 of the Festival with some of the best people in the business….
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Sam Twiston-Davies giving Bristol a heartfelt pat down the neck after that heroic effort at Haydock got me.
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Rishi Persad
5 years
@francescacumani ⁩ has bagged the best seat on the flight home. #luckygirl
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Rishi Persad
5 years
Betfair Hurdle and Denman Chase added to Saturday’s Ascot Card. Should be fun this weekend.
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Rishi Persad
5 years
First experience of @KelsoRacecourse today and it was terrific - a charming racecourse and friendly people. Recommend a visit if you’ve not been. Special mention of Jane Miller for her Grade 1 quality sultana cake. Moist, light and moreish. Kelso ❤️
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Rishi Persad
6 months
Here is something to be proud of in racing - there are good people ready to provide help and support when it’s needed the most. Hopefully this is at least some comfort for Graham and his family in the toughest of times.
@IJF_official
Injured Jockeys Fund
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A message from our @IJF_official President @AP_McCoy and Vice-President, Jack Berry.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Lovely touch from Joe Fanning’s colleagues 👇🏽
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Rishi Persad
1 month
To everyone who voted, thank you.
@netmnp
Bernie
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@RishiPersad1 Frame it. Twitter polls never lie.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Vicky and the team ⁦ @WetherbyRaces ⁩ treating Mick Fitz to two lovely breakfasts. #hungry
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Rishi Persad
5 years
Happy retirement to the 2015 Gold Cup hero Coneygree.
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Incredibly lucky to get the chance to speak to an emotional Sir Mark Prescott just after Alpinista’s Arc win. Huge amount of warmth and appreciation for all involved with the great grey mare. A privilege to be at Longchamp today.
@itvracing
ITV Racing
2 years
🗣 'I'm lucky, lucky to get a good one at this time in my career.' The crowning glory on an incredible career for Sir Mark Prescott 👑 #ITVRacing | @RishiPersad1
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Oh Lostintranslation. So good to see you back my friend. ❤️
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Rishi Persad
1 year
Ready to spend the next 6 hrs with ⁦ @AngusMcNae ⁩ and Ruby Walsh on set ⁦ @RacingDubai ⁩ World Cup and it should be a day/night to remember ⁦ @RacingTV ⁩ ⁦ @itvracing ⁩ ⁦ @nickluck ⁩ ⁦ @Franmberry ⁩ ⁦ @_tomstanley_ ⁩ ⁦ @Nick__lightfoot
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Rishi Persad
3 years
How lovely that so many of you are awake to watch #INDvENG on @Channel4 Thanks for the messages - feels like we are in a little club...
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2 years
You cannot beat this place for atmosphere.
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Rishi Persad
6 years
Enable, Sea of Class, Lah Ti Dar, Poets Word, Crystal Ocean, Cracksman. Please all turn up for the Arc. Thank you.
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Rishi Persad
4 years
Bryson DeChambeau has got a 9-iron with his second to the par 5. I’m still trying to work out whether this is a good or bad thing for golf.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Hope as many of you as possible can join us on @Channel4 at 3.40 am tomorrow for the start of the 2nd test between #INDvsENG_2021 - @ejrainfordbrent and Sir Andrew Strauss will be in the studio to set the scene for the day’s play.
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Rishi Persad
10 months
Incredible men’s final. Alcaraz is tremendous and a future great, but Djokovic’s post match interview was evidence that he has a touch of class - racket smashing aside - and he remains a champion.
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Rishi Persad
4 months
Joe Anderson might have just produced one of the greatest rides ever!
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Rishi Persad
6 years
Harriet Tucker dislocated her shoulder and put it back in herself on the run-in! Extraordinary.
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Rishi Persad
18 days
Thank you to @BarstewardsThe for having me on their pod. I obviously don’t have all the answers but enjoyed the unadulterated passionate racing chat with three guys who genuinely care deeply about the sport.
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Thank you so much to all of my talented colleagues on @TVG both in front and behind the camera and the @BreedersCup team for their extremely kind hospitality over the past week @DelMarRacing - I’m a little sad it’s all over, but I will enjoy reflecting on some incredible racing.
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Rishi Persad
1 year
Grateful for the opportunity to make a positive impact on racing.
@RacingGrants
Racing Foundation
1 year
The Racing Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of broadcaster @RishiPersad1 to its Board of Trustees. 🗞:
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Rishi Persad
3 years
I know it’s Grand National day but I love the little 12-year-old speedster Duke Of Firenze who has just won for the 12th time, at Lingfield, on his 108th start. #starsofthesport
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Rishi Persad
3 years
I would ask you to examine the experiences that you have had that now shape the prejudices and feelings you bring to the discussion. Perhaps if we can start to understand ourselves better, we can then appreciate others with more compassion.
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Super week @Ascot and a pleasure to work with a terrific @itvracing team. Nature Strip, Baeed, Inspiral, Moore, O’Brien, Tudhope, Buick, McDonald and Jane Chapple-Hyam just some of the stars for me. Hope you enjoyed watching.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Here comes Pumpkin and Charlotte for the medal ceremony. He looks darn chuffed with himself! ❤️
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Rishi Persad
6 months
Sure there’ll be lots of plaudits for Frankie and rightly so, but what a gutsy effort from King of Steel. This year’s three year olds aren’t that bad.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Might be my favourite sporting celebration of 2020 👇🏽
@WHR
World Horse Racing
3 years
Yes, @james_fanshawe it really did happen. 💛💜 The team behind @BreedersCup Filly & Mare Turf winner AUDARYA carry her home. #BC20 @keenelandracing
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Strange to see such a lukewarm reception for Baeed on here. Is it a racing thing, a Twitter thing, or are we mainly cynical these days?
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Rishi Persad
5 years
Mesmerising -
@hvgoenka
Harsh Goenka
5 years
6 year old Eli Mikal Khan, a leg-spinner from Quetta has recently received praise from Shane Warne. What a bowler !
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2 years
Very privileged to meet the Clarke family after they sold their Sea The stars foal for €270k - lovely people and so happy for them. @Goffs1866
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Charlotte Dujardin wins bronze in the Individual Final and has now won more medals than any female British athlete at the Olympic Games.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
GB’s Ben Maher is the Gold Medal winner in Individual Showjumping. Explosion W his amazing equine partner. @Tokyo2020
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Rishi Persad
2 years
@itvracing Please delete this. 🙏🏽
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Rishi Persad
3 years
On this day in 04’ the mighty Kauto made his British debut
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Rishi Persad
4 years
Love all on her own at the end of the Oaks.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
And what a ride from Bryony Frost at Down Royal.
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Rishi Persad
5 years
Enjoying a little pre-race down time with my new best bud ⁦ @oismurphy ⁩ - sorry ⁦ @MCYeeehaaa
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Sir M Stoute with a live Derby shot. Good times.
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Rishi Persad
1 month
Ready to go for the 2024 Dubai World Cup with ⁦ @AngusMcNae ⁩ & ⁦ @MDoutthesaddle
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Rishi Persad
7 years
Hope this photo shows that the snap @Hayleyturner123 posted yesterday was cleverly cropped! But at least we all had a good laugh.
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Rishi Persad
6 months
Well done @MickApplebyUK and @TomMarquand - executing a plan to perfection with little Big Evs.
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Still got it #Dettori
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Rishi Persad
5 years
Absolutely brilliant race. Hats off to Enable, a champion in every respect and Crystal Ocean has hopefully ended any debate as to whether he deserves to be mentioned in the highest echelons.
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Rishi Persad
3 years
Looking forward to the start of the 3rd Test tomorrow morning. Sir Andrew Strauss and Sir Alistair Cook will be in the studio. Hope you can join us at 8.30 am on @Channel4 #INDvENG - might be a day/night belter..
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Well done to Cam Smith. He was incredible, but I’d say the love for Rory grows deeper. He is a class act on and off the course and in victory and defeat. Thank you St Andrews for a great week.
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Rishi Persad
2 years
Is everyone else’s Twitter being hounded by some chap purporting to be a ‘Matthew Rogers’ and claiming to be the greatest tipster known to man?
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Rishi Persad
1 year
Two 147s, the greatest Crucible comeback, the emergence of a young star and a little orange powder. My time at this years World Snooker Champs is over and what a privilege it has been. The Queen of the Crucible, Hazel Irvine, will see it through to the end. Tk u @BBCSnooker
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Rishi Persad
4 years
Some of the comments below this are depressing. But for those with an open mind, hear the passion and emotion in his voice.
@SkyCricket
Sky Sports Cricket
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"Until we educate the entire human race, this thing will not stop." Michael Holding delivers a powerful message, explaining why #BlackLivesMatter .
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Rishi Persad
6 years
Coming to the end of day 2 at Royal Ascot and wanted to salute Sir Michael Stoute. As a kid I was not ashamed to say, the sight of W R Swinburn & M R Stoute next to a runner on a racecard was all the form I needed. Privileged to see the Bajan Knight’s Royal Ascot record today.
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Rishi Persad
4 years
Lots of great performances at Ascot this week, but Frankie Dettori remains the main man. Find it incredible to think he will turn 50 this year. #hopeforallofus
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Rishi Persad
3 months
A very enjoyable breakfast this morning in the company of Michael ‘Muis’ Roberts, recalling the likes of Mtoto, Indian Skimmer and Sabrehill. He trains the favourite for the WSB Cape Town Met - See It Again. ⁦ @caperacing1 ⁩ ⁦ @WorldPool
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