This, of course, means persuading Francophone nations not to be seduced like fickle Parisians into adoptingknacky English words and phrases like "supercool", "la fashion victim" and "Les Avengers".

TRISTAN Davidson was the jockey to follow in Saturday's Cumberland fixture at Aspatria as he recorded the second four-timer of his career on the Victor Thompson-trained geldings Tommysteel,Knacky Lad, Senor Alco and Red Myst.

It's a knack, and you get to exercise thisknacky part of your brain.

The other ten entries are headed by stable companionsKnacky Lad and Missing You, the former aiming to recapture the form shown when two lengths second in Ireland last April.

They haveknacky forwards and Pat Tobin took his chance very well.

It is aknacky little tool and when I rode it down to the bar for lunch the other day, the whole bar turned out to applaud and also, I must add, to burst themselves laughing.