Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Mill Reef may well have been "thrashed" by the Brigadier over one mile in the 2000 guineas Tony but he more than redeemed himself by winning both the Derby and the Arc de Triomphe.

As a son of Northern Dancer who is probably the greatest "sire of sires" in racing history it was no great surprise after his racing career that he would be pretty succesful at stud.

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I've just looked at Mill Reef's breeding and was shocked to find that there's not a drop of Northern Dancer to be found anywhere but I did notice Hyperion who was his mother's great-great grand-sire.

I could have sworn he was a Northern Dancer too  

Just seen your Edit Ralph.

AFAIC, he IS linked to Northern Dancer.

All that stuff I penned this morning was from memory (some parts still work occasionally), but I have now had to use google to check the Northern Dancer connection, as I thought the same - correctly as it happens.  

Mill Reef was out of Never Bend, by Nasrullah, by the great Nearco, & Nearco is the Grandsire of Nothern Dancer.  

So, not "a Notherrn Dancer" as such, but it still counts. IMO, of course.

As you were, then.

[tikay]

As a postscript to that, Mill Reef was named after a beautiful bay in Jamaica.

Some years later, when Mill Reef was by now a very successful sire, he begat another Derby winner, named, I believe (though I cannot easily find reference to it) after the headland in Jamaica that overlooks Mill Reef, Shirley Heights.

OK, enough horsey trivia, or His Tom-Ness will be tutting and chuntering.

[kukushkin88]

As a postscript to that, Mill Reef was named after a beautiful bay in Jamaica.

Some years later, when Mill Reef was by now a very successful sire, he begat another Derby winner, named, I believe (though I cannot easily find reference to it) after the headland in Jamaica that overlooks Mill Reef, Shirley Heights.

OK, enough horsey trivia, or His Tom-Ness will be tutting and chuntering.

Pretty sure Shirley Heights is in Antigua.

[tikay]

^^^^

You are absolutely correct, it is. As is Mill Reef, which I wrongly said was in Jamaica.

For some reason, I thought Antigua was actually part of Jamaica.

I'm deffo losing the plot.

PS - how did you know that Kuku, by knowledge of geography, or horses?

[kukushkin88]

^***

You are absolutely correct, it is. As is Mill Reef, which I wrongly said was in Jamaica.

For some reason, I thought Antigua was actually part of Jamaica.

I'm deffo losing the plot.

PS - how did you know that Kuku, by knowledge of geography, or horses?

I´ve spent a lot of time sailing in the Carribean. The name on the chart will have stuck in my head because I knew it was a Derby winner, so a bit of both I guess.

[Rod Paradise]

Sorry Tony -  as depressing one - Penn St Station, then and now (stolen off another forum).

Why?
 
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/incredibly-upsetting-pictures-of-penn-station-then?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=buzzfeed
 
The original Penn Station was completed in 1911. Considered to be one of the most impressive buildings in the world, it also housed the largest indoor space in New York City.
But, in 1950, Penn Station auctioned off their air rights and a plan for an office building and sports arena were put into place. In 1963, the building was demolished amid a flurry of protests and by 1968, Penn Station as you know it was finished.
Welcome to hell.
 
Then: Classical Greek Doric columns
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 
Now: 1D World
 
 
 

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Via: instagr.am
 
Then: The escalators
 
 
 

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Via: wirednewyork.com
 
Now: The escalators
 
 
 

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Via: instagr.am
 
Then: It was really nice
 
 
 

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Via: wirednewyork.com
 
Now: It really sucks
 
 
 

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Via: instagr.am
 
Then: The waiting room
 
 
 

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Via: wirednewyork.com
 
Now: Some dude passed out on the ground next to a sub
 
 
 

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Via: instagr.am
 
Then: Another view of the waiting room
 
 
 

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Via: wirednewyork.com
 
Now: Another dude passed out but this time on a bench
 
 
 

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Via: instagr.am
 
Then: A really nice hallway
 
 
 

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Via: wirednewyork.com
 
Now: Some dude passed out in a hallway
 
 
 

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Via: instagr.am
Then: A really pretty clock
 
 
 

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Via: wirednewyork.com
 
Now: A bunch of shitty wreaths
 
 
 

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Via: instagr.am
 
Then: This
 
 
 

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Via: wirednewyork.com
 
Now: This
 
 
 

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Via: gisele13
 
Then: The really pretty clock and the waiting room
 
 
 

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Source: Getty
 
Now: Big blue poles and lights that circle around them
 
 
 

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Via: flickr.com
 
Then: Crowds
 
 
 

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Source: Getty
 
Now: Crowds
 
 
 

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Via: instagr.am
 
Then: Light streaming in, reminiscent of heaven
 
 
 

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Now: Basically hell
 
 
 

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THE WORLD SUCKS. BYE.

[Royal Flush]

You copied the post so i don't feel so bad, what a terrible post...

[RED-DOG]

[tikay]

Sorry Tony -  as depressing one - Penn St Station, then and now (stolen off another forum).

Why?
 
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/incredibly-upsetting-pictures-of-penn-station-then?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=buzzfeed
 
The original Penn Station was completed in 1911. Considered to be one of the most impressive buildings in the world, it also housed the largest indoor space in New York City.
But, in 1950, Penn Station auctioned off their air rights and a plan for an office building and sports arena were put into place. In 1963, the building was demolished amid a flurry of protests and by 1968, Penn Station as you know it was finished.
Welcome to hell.
 
Then: Classical Greek Doric columns
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 
[ 
Then: The escalators
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 
  
Then: It was really nice
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 

 
Then: The waiting room
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 

 
Then: Another view of the waiting room
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 

Then: A really nice hallway
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 


 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 

 
Then: This
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 
 
Then: The really pretty clock and the waiting room
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Source: Getty
 

 
Then: Crowds
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Source: Getty
 

 
Then: Light streaming in, reminiscent of heaven
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

 

Wow, just wow, thanks Rod.

Those photos of the original Penn Street are absolutely breathtaking.

Railway Termini are often referred to as cathedrals, & those photos show why, they are nothing short of magnificent.

If I am not mistaken, that grand staircase featured in a famous gangster film, a pram with a bairn in it was tumbling down those stairs, no?

On a much smaller & less grand scale, the railway station in St Petersburg is part modelled on the Penn St shopping arcade, as is, believe it or not, the little arcade in Leeds Station, where all the coffee stalls are.

Tremendous set of photos, thank you.

[tikay]

This may not be Penn St, but it's not a bad effort for a rural town in Yorkshire.

Grade 1 Listed, no less, & none other than Betjeman & Pevsner raved over it, as possibly the most splendid railway station in Great Britain.

In Huddersfield, of all places.

Click to see full-size image.

[tikay]

Not sure who the statesque gentleman in the foreground of that photo is, but he bears a striking resemblance to Sir Harold Wilson who was a Huddersfield lad I seem to recall, before he went all Scilly.

[tentwowilldo]

Sorry Tony -  as depressing one - Penn St Station, then and now (stolen off another forum).

Why?
 
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/incredibly-upsetting-pictures-of-penn-station-then?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=buzzfeed
 
The original Penn Station was completed in 1911. Considered to be one of the most impressive buildings in the world, it also housed the largest indoor space in New York City.
But, in 1950, Penn Station auctioned off their air rights and a plan for an office building and sports arena were put into place. In 1963, the building was demolished amid a flurry of protests and by 1968, Penn Station as you know it was finished.
Welcome to hell.
 
Then: Classical Greek Doric columns
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 
[ 
Then: The escalators
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 
  
Then: It was really nice
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 

 
Then: The waiting room
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 

 
Then: Another view of the waiting room
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 

Then: A really nice hallway
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 


 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 

 
Then: This
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Via: wirednewyork.com
 
 
Then: The really pretty clock and the waiting room
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Source: Getty
 

 
Then: Crowds
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

Source: Getty
 

 
Then: Light streaming in, reminiscent of heaven
 
 
 

Click to see full-size image.

 

Wow, just wow, thanks Rod.

Those photos of the original Penn Street are absolutely breathtaking.

Railway Termini are often referred to as cathedrals, & those photos show why, they are nothing short of magnificent.

If I am not mistaken, that grand staircase featured in a famous gangster film, a pram with a bairn in it was tumbling down those stairs, no? The film was The Untouchables, it was about Elliot Ness the man who caught Al Capone

On a much smaller & less grand scale, the railway station in St Petersburg is part modelled on the Penn St shopping arcade, as is, believe it or not, the little arcade in Leeds Station, where all the coffee stalls are.

Tremendous set of photos, thank you.

[tikay]

Ahh yes, thanks, The Untouchables.

[Kev B]

This may not be Penn St, but it's not a bad effort for a rural town in Yorkshire.

Grade 1 Listed, no less, & none other than Betjeman & Pevsner raved over it, as possibly the most splendid railway station in Great Britain.

In Huddersfield, of all places.

Click to see full-size image.

A beaultiful building Tikay, immediately made me think of this other cracker on O'Connell street.

[tikay]

Thanks Kev.

Is that the Post Office in Dublin?

Can't be many finer Post Offices in these Isles than that.