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In reply to: Ka Ying Rising
Up there with Frankel , beats allcomers , traveled to OZ and beat horses that would give Asfoora windburn as they breezed past , and just made Satono Reve look like he was glued to floor without breaking sweat , . Horses are not machines , but he is .
Romantic Warrior goes in a hour , hope old Royal Champion gives him a decent race .
In reply to: Ka Ying Rising
He’s just made Satono Reve, who was arguably unlucky not to win last year’s Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, look like a selling plater. This horse is different class – I can remember great sprinters like Moorestyle, Habibti and Dayjur and I would put Ka Ying Rising ahead of all of them.
In reply to: Thistle Ask
Racing Post: Thistle Ask was leading the field when he made a mistake at the seventh fence and unseated Harry Skelton. He was found to have fractured his shoulder when assessed on course by vets and could not be saved.
I actually thought he’d injured his back or pelvis as he seemed to plough through the fence’s structure with his hind legs – though I quickly turned my head away when I realised he was badly injured …
In reply to: A New Start With Starmer
As another underling goes under the bus,
I think it’s worth mentioning, again, what Starmer said during the Labour leadership contest.
‘I had 8,000 staff’ (as DPP) ‘when they made mistakes, I carried the can, I never turned on my staff, you should never turn on your staff’.
good luck to allIn reply to: Football Focus
A pity Cowdenbeath are no longer in the Scottish League. A quick check shows the are languishing in 11th place in the Lowland League.
I think Stenhousemuir was where Highland Toffee was made. Which was delicious but dreadful for the teeth. It must have kept Scottish dentists in profitable work for years.
Third Lanark were one of the Glasgow teams in the shadow of The Old Firm. I don’t know if they drew any support from Lanark itself.
I had always assumed Lanark was a small track with midweek fixtures, so interesting to see it had a Saturday afternoon card.
In reply to: 5.35 at Perth
Poor mistake. On first sight it looks like the other horse won. But if you check the mirror image and look closer it becomes pretty obvious Fiskardo has won.
I’m afraid the judge just wanted to get home for his tea and made a hasty decision.
Wouldn’t be happy if you’d backed the winner.
Topic: 5.35 at Perth
How did this happen?!?
Two Mickey Bowen runners flash past the post together, one with its head up and the other’s down and the judge calls the result within 60 seconds. But he calls it the wrong way.
The photo finish operator eventually raises the alarm but only after the weighed in announcement has been made which means that although the official result is changed, punters who backed the real winner are not entitled to a pay out.
If you view the photo finish still you can see that the horse with the head up has won but it is difficult to see which horse has its heads up. However on the freeze frame it is easy to see that Fiskardo on the near side is the horse with the raised mane.
A really poor mistake to make.
13:13 Sandown – Made U Blush **NAP**
14:20 Sandown – Doyen Quest
15:30 Sandown – Road to Home *NB*Reserves
16:35 Doncaster – Maximum Velocity
17:10 Doncaster – Lunar Melody
18:15 Doncaster – Rockin’ The BoatIn reply to: University degrees
Skipped Uni, went straight to a job in financial services. In late 70s as insurance co.s moved their admin HQs out of London, Bristol benefitted.
Jobs, jobs, jobs thru late 70s and into 80s, as insurance co.s took on 16 year olds and 18 year olds in droves thru each Summer and trained us up. Jobs with benefits and a real paternal instinct from banks and insurance co.s.I attended a grammer school and most fellow pupils went to Uni – not that i kept in touch with many of them post-school, but i know from other pals that only a few really ‘made it’ after Uni. Others ended up no better off than those of us who went into employment after 6th form.
No regrets from me about missing out on Uni.
Today? Well, if you aint academic then go out and get an apprenticeship in engineering, plumbing & heating, electrician and similar. Crikey, today’s plumbers or sparkies are as well-off as yesterday’s teachers. Around here a plumber/heating engineer or a sparkie earn anything from £75k to £100k per annum.
In reply to: Dan Skelton.
Agree ERL. It has already been an incredible season for the Skelton team and will be even more so if they break the £5 million barrier.
I have mixed feelings about the way Skeltons manage to get their horses so well handicapped but I suppose they can’t really be blamed for gaming a system which allows them to get away with it.
Mullins will continue to dominate Cheltenham for a while yet but I doubt he will even think about the Championship again if Skelton maintains this sort of standard.
At least Henderson had two Cheltenham winners but Nicholls looks to be miles off the pace now. He might slip even further behind now he is losing his prime asset to McManus.
I noticed Jonathan Burke has split from Feargal O’Brien. It made me wonder if he might take over at Ditcheat.
In reply to: Sandown Mile 2026
Field of Gold is an interesting horse. He made his reputation in races against his own age group, but if you look back now at the Irish 2000 Gns and the St James Palace, the horses he beat have done nothing to boost the form of those races.
As soon as FoG came up against older horses, he got beaten. Excuses were made for Goodwood and Ascot, but perhaps the reality is that he isn’t really a superstar, just the best of a moderate bunch of 3yo milers.
We’ll learn a lot more about him at Sandown, where the daft conditions allow a Classic winner to run with no penalty, while Zeus Olympios gets a 3lb penalty for winning a weak Group 2.
In reply to: University degrees
Is the problem that there aren’t apprenticeships and that, as a service industry nation there isn’t the work for craftspeople anyway? I think that universities like Nottingham Trent that have close links with industry are good. I remember years ago chatting to an American guy and was horrified when he told me how much debt he was in because of uni fees. When my kids were at uni student loans didn’t have to be paid off with a huge interest rate; that suddenly ( and with very little publicity or notification) ended when my son had left uni. We made sure neither of them started life with a huge debt. If my son gained anything from university it was the friends he made there. For a couple of years after they graduated they all travelled round Europe by train each summer and they still meet up. They seem to share a real bond. Ditto my ex who is still very close to his best friends from uni. Two of them live in Bristol and one of them sadly has dementia and the other one, who lives nearby is supporting him. I wish I’d been encouraged to go to uni when it was free to go to; even though I was quite academic no one seemed to suggest to me that I could do so.
In reply to: Claudia Winkleman
Agreed Matron all four of those most worthy and can I please add
Keith Lemon 🫤Someone who also drives me mad is the globe hopping mumper…
Jane Mcdonald😱
She must have shares in Channel 5.
Why are we interested that she is going Pole to Pole, (is she searching for Michael Palin)? Then she’s cruising around the World and discovering the Caribbean before getting lost in Japan and lately she’s in Nashhville.
I vaguely remember her as a cabaret act on the documentary The Cruise who made a few albums…how has she managed to morph into the female version of Alan Wicker. 
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...In reply to: Big Races Existing Threads
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Cheltenham Gold CupJust a reminder/heads up, as per the recent Forum Changes threads, we’ll keep this section for threads dedicated to Big Races only
***Also can we PLEASE, PLEASE, pretty PLEASE, stop putting up Prices that are long gone.
For example, Antepost Prices put up conveniently once Final Decs have been confirmed.
Also, can we stop coming on to a thread and saying you backed the winner, when you had every opportunity to come on to the thread and say you’d backed it beforehand
I’m getting “bombarded” with complaints, and getting tired of it.
Nearly two years I’ve been asking, and if anything it’s getting worse. Posts will be getting deleted or amended if it continues
Any threads for Meetings, Undercards, Races which are Class 4 and below, related markets etc, will move automatically to the Betting Forum below. Exception currently made for Punchestown Festival.
Any Duplicate threads are a “straight delete” now too, even if the duplicate thread has several replies. There were five last month
In reply to: Darren’s Sports bets thread 2026
In reply to: Claudia Winkleman
Alexander Armstrong made a lovely series on Ch4 called perfect pub walks. He took over from Bill Bailey. I would have thought that, of the two of them I would have preferred the Bill Bailey series but the Armstrong one was imo much better. Didn’t realise he was the voice of Dangermouse…
In reply to: They’re Only Making Plans For Nigel
Not so sure about English cigars, though
Wills Whiffs were made in Bristol and Hamlet cigars in Cardiff. Both of them pretty rough compared to the genuine article from Cuba ‘hand rolled on a peasant girl’s thigh’. Not keen on them either, the cigars that is.
Player’s No.6 and Craven ‘A’ were more my sort of thing. Nige would be proud of me
I vaguely remember her as a cabaret act on the documentary The Cruise who made a few albums…how has she managed to morph into the female version of Alan Wicker. 
