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01x04 - Shadow

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Follyfoot". Aired: 28 June 1971 – 15 September 1973.*
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Originally inspired by Monica Dickens' 1963 novel Cobbler's Dream (republished in 1995 as New Arrival at Follyfoot); she later wrote four further books in conjunction with the series—Follyfoot in 1971, Dora at Follyfoot in 1972, The Horses of Follyfoot in 1975, and Stranger at Follyfoot in 1976.

01x04 - Shadow

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never given too easily

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you

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oh

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there they go

don't look grand

i hate the hunt why because of the fox

of course

look that shadow

esther smith's new horse he's beautiful

doesn't he go

he bought him for steeple chasing

hurrying shadow's going to take off the

cups in the county

not like that he won't

you all right the brute i'll have his

expensive hideoff

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i'll teach you what

come on come on

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don't come back here

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oh no i'll never catch the hunch

they went uh that way

don't just stand there grinning go and

catch him

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he's been playing up all morning what

that horse needs is a good fashion

come on

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this morning

that's the squire's daughter you threw

in the muck

was you know

what do you think

but he seems to be fighting the bit all

the time you can tell by his head

he's beautiful not so beautiful if he

won't do what he's told

it's no good daddy he just does what he

wants to do when he wants to do it look

try using your hands less you see he's

not accepting the bit now use your legs

and not your hands

you got it come on girl try it again go

on

that horse cost me a lot of money

there's no good if isabelle can't ride

it

look at that

she's certainly not happy on him well

she should be happy she's my daughter

damn it

look colonel why don't you take the

horse and knock some sense into it

but i don't know about knocking well you

know what i mean get into shape

where will you take it well i'd like to

of course he's a fine animal but i have

about as much as i can handle to tell

you the truth i'm rather crowded out

with horses at the moment oh do take

shadow uncle well that's all very well

my girl but we could take him there's an

empty store next to germany and i'll

school him you will oh she could do it

all right but you're working all hours

as it is well i'll get up early five

o'clock

oh all right

we'll try for a month oh thank you you

won't regret it

it's a crack of dawn for you shadow

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i'm very proud of you and tomorrow we'll

try proper jumps with me on your back

hey old shadow would you like that

oh you're not good to me

if anybody ever tells you you're not as

pretty as dora

don't believe him

we'll store a plan anyway i'll put a

crack every morning i said all shadow in

it

oh that's what it's called yeah you want

to get some flesh on you keep the cold

out you want to get a bit off olaf

that's muscle that is boxer's muscle

book yeah

come on then

uh watch it

come on playing with fire right there go

on god i had the fingers

hey queensberry rules

you all right slug

cheers

yeah god bless

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oh help

morning slagger

morning slugger she says moaning slugger

still the middle of the night in it no

time for any young lady to be about

ain't respectable early to rise only

yeah i know makes a man alfie wealthy

and dead

oh slagger

you shouldn't have got up i can't have

you gallivanting about without something

warm inside you

you want to have a cup of tea thank you

slacker

how long is it going on boronia what

training shadow yeah

not long

not long at all as a matter of fact

i've got an idea

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now here's something i want to show you

it's called a bitless bridle a hackamore

see it's got no nasty steel bit to pull

it to your poor mouth

now this bottom strap it'll press on

your nose so that when i pull it you'll

know what i want you to do

all right

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good morning

can you help

did i wake you sorry i was trying to be

quiet sorry yes thanks can you get the

saddle yeah

i think it's going with shadow

touchwood not bad

you've been very mysterious

well

it's sort of our secret isn't it shadow

seems like it

do you want to see a couple of shafts

come and see him jump

all right then

isabelle was yanking his head about too

much i don't mean really cruel just

heavy-handed

typical of that hunk crowd oh you just

got a down on them dora it's not that

it's just all part of their

oh i don't know up guard's an atom

mentality

and shadow's got a soft mouth

extra soft some horses are like that

our shadow doing

softly softly catchy shadow

let's see how we go

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where you've been

right behind you

you want to put pedals on that thing go

faster

i've got this dodgy gearbox can i get a

new one

oh yeah

yeah and get a new bike while you're at

it

trying can't afford it can i

cost money pick up a new one for 30 quid

yeah

hello

blender's 30 quid

do what you heard

you've got plenty of money i haven't you

know besides find stuff for a thing like

that

it's cruelty to money

i wish i was in my bed it's the best

time is this for a burn up there's no

traffic on the road of course not anyone

with any sense is still in bed it was

great back there i was doing 90 coming

around scraggs ben

i'll pull the other leg mate that's 19.

yeah 90.

i reached down the hill

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hello

hang on bad i'm broken down

oh you rotten bike you what are you hey

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hey

you've got a steeple chaser there

he's pretty good isn't he pretty good

he's great

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now that's interesting

thanks slugger you ever thought of doing

him scrambled

scrambled he says what's wrong with

fried every day look anyone who don't

like my cooking can do his own

anyway fried eggs

breakfast

ah that's all right slugging me on mate

me i'm so starving i gotta eat an horse

between two mattresses oh

wrong but you can always have a roller

i used to train on that raw eggs and

start

yeah sucks can i borrow the truck after

breakfast before i want to pick up my

bike

comps out on me where is it however by

nine acres in an edge

that's where the truck will finish up if

you drive it

here someone might pinch it oh somehow

do me to drive the truck yeah we don't

take all day there's work to be done

what about shadow then what about him

he's jumping well this morning how do

you know well i saw didn't i

why what is it national secret jump like

a champion didn't he yeah

who's she up to dora

not as far as i know if that always

jumps like that it's valuable worth

thousands

well he is worth thousands and he

certainly is a jumper i was supposed to

be but not everyone knows he is

i'll craft the old doranos

and craft the old steve

and now uh

clever old ron hey

hey listen steve

why don't we buy him

shadow yeah he's worth thousands not if

he can't jump

he can jump can't he oh yeah but nobody

knows that except us i thought i'd say

look the squire said if he wasn't cured

he'd set her for what he'd forget right

yeah so if we describe they're going to

say uh

400 quid we could do the squire a favor

take shadow off his hands yeah and then

what

we'll sell him of course as a jumper

make a few bob you can make a few

bob-robin banks only troubles it's

against the law let's get it up shall we

just a thought

it's a winner

do you think so

yep

or winnie's 400 quid

i knew just the chap

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we couldn't sell it

that'd be crazy

but there might be a way there might be

a way

you reckon you could borrow the horse

for a couple of hours easy yeah we might

be in the moment

now listen

i've got to see her jumping of course

okay uh tomorrow morning five o'clock

o'clock

oh long she better be good that's

one all

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yeah

might be able to make a lot of money

think sir

now you two are gonna have to put some

bets on for me

i'm not allowed to bet on the courses

against the rules so

i'll give you a couple hundred quid you

put a bet on here a bit on there along

the course couple hundred i'm not

messing about you know do this job right

about bars for this afternoon that gap

line would be a couple of thousand two

thousand

on the course

mr aston smith's groom

mr aston smith's asked me to come out

this afternoon pick up shadow

ah we'll be sending over our sparks

we're entering shadow for 4 30 race at

point point

you're still there it's just uh one of

the a*s is playing up

so it feels afternoon about 3 30 sir

racer thank you very much sir bye

rio sir

but why does he want shadow back to

enter him for the 4 30. i told you but

he's nowhere near ready yet but they

could ruin everything

cheer up look i'll ask the colonel if we

can go to the races just to watch eh i

don't want to go

not now

oh dora

shadow does belong to old esteem smith

you know it is his horse

he's not ready he's dora he'll have that

girl pulling on his mouth again

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well the hot rod got us here yeah i

thought you said it was busted

got it fixed didn't i where do you get

30 quid from oh i uh

i've done this fella a favor oh we some

favor

should i go down the paddock and watch

them settle up no that's all right mate

i've i've got to do this fella another

favor see you later

yeah

the executive would like to thank mrs

wensley and sun for their generosity in

sponsoring the main race of the

afternoon the wednesday cup the

wednesday cup is the third race on the

program this afternoon

hello steve

in the interest of the public it is

aren't you riding this afternoon no i

just rode over we haven't got anything

that can really jump but against this

field

how's shadow oh he's fine

your father's coming over about three

o'clock to pick him up time for the 4

30. but daddy's in london

your groom phoned who berkshire i

suppose so

he phoned this morning but berkshire has

been with me all morning exercising the

horses

anyhow if daddy was ending shadow he'd

have told me

are you sure

i'm sure

that's funny

steve steve

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where shadow what's happened

gone they came and took him about half

an hour ago

something going on at that point to

point

i think shadow's been stolen

but why

there's only one way to find out in

there

here are the runners and riders for the

next race first number five

please come out let's run it takes me

new gearbox in it

that's what i said 20 to win shadow

is it my fault of this

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orders

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we're

is

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kids k*ll the two leaders as i look back

and see mr striker having another go

with shadow but he's having quite a job

there to get shattered to go into this

fence and his fish hunters are still the

leaders we go back with the leaders from

nature's gifted to a street then comes

to the conquest and shadows still having

nothing to do with this whatsoever as

the others have gone right away

and the leading three of them followed

by tudor conquest income cream caramel

as i look back the last one

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so one woman asked you got there dora

you can't tell shadow you have to ask

softly softly catchy shadow

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is

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dreams

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