USEFUL WEBSITES
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Don’t forget to check out Choc’s
impending rides, very useful if you wish to watch or record his races, or if
you are contemplating attending a fixture. Racing Post website: Choc’s statistics: www.racingpost.com/horses/jockey_home.sd?jockey_id=14002 Alan King’s statistics: www.racingpost.com/horses/trainer_home.sd?trainer_id=13928 Alternatively, try the Attheraces site. Choc: www.attheraces.com/form.aspx?id=1000939&ref=formjockey&dte=2008-12-02&refsite=&type=J&view=entries Alan King: www.attheraces.com/form.aspx?id=1000340&ref=formtrainer&dte=2008-12-14&refsite=&type=T&view=entries |
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Choc is now on Twitter, so check out his latest
tweets: http://twitter.com/Choc_Thornton |
Also,
there are regular messages on his 'Choc Thornton' Kempton
Park's face of Jump racing Facebook page:
http://en-gb.facebook.com/chocthornton |
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Unfortunately Choc’s
own website www.chocthornton.com
no longer exists, having become too expensive to maintain. But I hope you had the opportunity to see
the photos and read his blog before the website’s demise. |
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Keep up to date with the current Jump Jockeys
Championship. www.thepja.co.uk/champ_jump.aspx |
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Up to the minute racing information and form
guides, plus, once registered, free viewing of past races which were shown on
the Attheraces satellite channel. |
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The Racing Post website. |
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Choc’s boss, trainer Alan
King’s website. And check out Alan’s ‘Latest
News’ page too. |
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Find out all about Choc’s
2008 charity haircut, and also the NagWAG diaries
written by Choc’s wife, Meally,
where she provides a personal insight into the racing scene and supporting
Choc. www.eclipsemagazine.co.uk/index.php |
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Love the Races is a website site set up in
conjunction with Racing For Change. |
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Website for newspaper publications in the
Gloucestershire area - The Citizen, Gloucestershire Echo, The Forester, and
Stroud Life. Unfortunately Choc no longer submits a weekly Turf Scene column
to the publication, but you will still find an occasional news item, and also
trainer Martin Keighley’s regular column.
www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/ |
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Here’s the link to Soccer X’s ‘Weighed In’ online Chat Show, and
check out the site for a number of trainer and jockey interviews. http://www.soccerx.co.uk/weighedinWR1.htm |
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Find out about the latest stewards enquiries – just
in case Choc has incurred the wrath of the stewards! www.britishhorseracing.com/inside_horseracing/about/whatwedo/disciplinary/stewardsEnquiries.asp And enquiries into why horses ran badly too: |
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I enjoy reading the blog of trainer, Martin
Keighley. Occasionally Choc will get a
mention, and it’s interesting to follow the progress of Martin’s horses too! And, if
you take a look at the site ‘banner’, and the picture gallery too, you’ll see
Choc riding out (he’s wearing a black t-shirt with a logo on it). Click on the images to enlarge them. Thank you Martin for drawing my attention
to these. www.martinkeighleyracing.com/Martins_blog.php Martin’s
race entries too: www.attheraces.com/form.aspx?id=1048320&ref=formtrainer&dte=2009-03-17&refsite=&type=T&view=entries |
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Choc sometimes rides horses for the Jenny and
Mark Pitman Racing Club (news and pictures): http://www.jennyandmarkpitmanracingclub.com/news.html |
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Trainer, Richard Lee’s, website. Sometimes there are photos of Choc with
Richard’s horses at the races, or schooling at home. |
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The Life site has lots of photos of Choc, it is well worth a look through their numerous pages
of stock images. Just start at page 1 and progress through the
numbered pages: http://www.life.com/search/?type=images&q0=robert+thornton&page=1 Here’s one of Choc arriving at
the Memorial Service for trainer David Nicholson in September 2006:
http://www.life.com/image/71948503 |
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Another
Racing photography site is SDPhotos: http://www.sdphotos.co.uk/horse-racing-photographs.asp |
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Photographs of Choc’s
1000th winner, Towcester 28 March 2011, Graftonwood 1 & Graftonwood 2 The Graftonwood
website: http://www.graftonwood.co.uk/pages/events-list.php |
