Oneway RSM Racing Club

Mark Fletcher, known to all as Fletch, wrote the following in the Leeds office newsletter of RSM Robson Rhodes, who sponsor the Oneway RSM Racing Club:

"You may have seen an item on the Homepage notice board recently about Bold Diktator, one of the two horses owned by the Oneway RSM Racing Club.

Bill Dascombe, a recently retired RSM Robson Rhodes partner, established the club and his son, Tom, trains the horses at his yard in Lambourn. Tom has had a brilliantly successful start to his career, and Bold Diktator has been a major factor in that success, winning his first three races since being bought by the club last year. The picture shows some of the members of the club, including Graham Nunns and Mark Fletcher, up on the gallops watching the horses going through their paces.

Unfortunately, instead of watching Bold Diktator gallop majestically past, they saw him throw his rider and speed off in the opposite direction, followed by a worried trainer in a 4x4. He returned none the worse for his escape but certainly didn't need any more exercise that day, so the members never did see him working.

Proof of his success can be seen in the other picture, as he wins at Wolverhampton on 10 February. His latest run was less successful though as he finished well down the field, his chances ruined by a collision with a chasing horse, in which he lost a shoe and sustained a cut leg. Now fit again, he will soon be ready to start his hurdling career, which is what he was originally bought to do. The club's other horse, probably going to be called Miss Calculate (specially chosen as relevant to a club for accountants), is a two year old filly who will start her career in the summer. Anyone interested in finding out more about the club should have a chat with Mark or Graham. As the sadly unfit Mark said, "the cost is less than a gym membership but a great deal more enjoyable!".

So this is a reminder that anyone can join the Club for a once off joining fee of £500 plus a standing order payment of £40 per month thereafter, with nothing else to pay. If you join in March, for example, you share in any prize money from 1 April onwards. Those who joined before 1 December 2006 have already earned close to £400 each in prize money and sponsorship fees (as Bold Diktator won three of his first four races) and there are many many months to go and a two year old to run for the Club from mid-summer. Come on in, the water's lovely. A cheque for £500 payable to Oneway RSM Racing Club and sent to Tom is all you need to do to join.

Bold Diktator is entered to run at Lingfield on Saturday 23 March 2007. We hope he gets a run.