INTERNET ARTICLES – OLD & NEW
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Here are a number of Choc
related articles I’ve found on the internet: I found
this article dated 23 January 2010 entitled ‘Robert Thornton looking to
recover lost ground after lull in stable fortunes’ written by Alan Lee,
Racing Correspondent of The Times, when searching for further news regarding Choc’s wellbeing following his terrible fall at Leicester
in late January 2010. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/racing/article6998674.ece 10 Daring
Jump Jockeys – Aintree 2009 and a very cute picture of Choc! Top Jockey
Backs Novice Riders – article (plus picture) regarding Choc’s
sponsorship of two up and coming point-to-point riders – Gemma
Tutty and Tom Cheesman. www.jumping4fun.co.uk/jff/latest/news_national Choc’s pre-Grand National 2009 article from the Daily
Mail Another
article from the Daily Mail – Choc gives his tips prior to the 2009
Cheltenham Festival An article from the Irish Tribune dated 29 March
2009 – asking whatever happened to the 3 contenders they’ve pictured from the
2000 Grand National – Paul Carberry aboard Bobbyjo; Ruby Walsh aboard Papillon;
and Choc aboard Torduff Express! www.tribune.ie/sport/article/2009/mar/29/whatever-happened-to-the-2000-aintree-grand-nation/ There’s a
lovely photo of Choc accompanying this Daily Mail article published on 13
November 2008. The
picture must have been taken as part of Eclipse magazine’s Marks and Spencer
promotion as Choc is wearing the same outfit (and looks scrummy!) www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-1084306/Life-sweet-smooth-talking-Thornton.html A
newsletter item about Choc from Lycetts, his
sponsor. Check out page 18 (10 of 13). http://www.lycetts.co.uk/bin/pdf/original_pdf_file/lycettsnewsletter08.pdf Grand
National winning amateur jockey and journalist, Marcus Armytage,
wrote an article about Choc’s friend and ex-jockey
Ollie McPhail (February 2008). Choc gets a mention, hence the link. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/2292129/Ollie-McPhail-puts-heat-on-non-triers.html The
Jackdaws Castle ‘kaolin treatment’ was also mentioned in Richard Johnson’s
biography. HOT CHOC
interview by Peter Thomas from 07 December 2007. The IJF
No. 3 Autumn 2007 Newletter, see page 7 for an
article about Choc’s charity haircut in 2007. http://www.ijf.org.uk/2008/01_images/page_graphics/ijfnews07web.pdf Psychology
experiments about preferences for faces includes research on which jockey
looks most like a champion and, of course, Choc is pictured along with 39 other
jockeys (from January 2007). http://www.faceresearch.org/totesport This is an
interview which appeared around the time of the Cheltenham Open Meeting in
2006 – but it’s very interesting and, as usual, Choc looks very cute in the
accompanying photographs! This is a
scan of my paper copy of this article, because it originally existed on Choc’s website which, of course, has now been
discontinued. Robert Thornton – Best of British – Cheltenham Open
2006.pdf Another
racing diary entry by Marcus Armytage (December
2005), this time writing about ex-trainer now author Charlie Brooks, where
Choc gets a mention: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/2369337/Racing-diary-Brooks-ditched.html Here is a ‘fashion’
article, from the Telegraph newspaper, published in February 2005. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/style/3338014/Racing-silks-and-hot-favourites.html And
pictures relating to the article (although the first picture is labelled
incorrectly as Carl Llewellyn!) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionpicturegalleries/3338039/.html?image=3 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionpicturegalleries/3338039/.html An article
by Will Buckley from The Observer published on Sunday 14 March 2004. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2004/mar/14/horseracing.cheltenhamfestival2004 An article
from The Times, published in January 2004. www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/racing/article1101939.ece An item
looking forward to the 111th running of the Pardubicka,
at Pardubice, on 14 October 2001 in which Choc took part. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/3013324/Supreme-test-awaits-Charm.html Prior to the
following year’s race, Marcus Armytage reported: The last British jockey to attempt the
race was Robert Thornton, who was last seen disappearing into the roots of a
hedge accompanied by a muffled expletive. Czech TV, not unlike Panorama, had
secretly wired the fence for sound. And I’ve
re-located this article from way back in February 2002! http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200202/ai_n9034838/ This is an
even older article, dating back to 14 March 1999 – Riders locked in Folklore
(referring to the young Richard Johnson, and even younger Choc). http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/racing-riders-locked-in-folklore-1080576.html |
