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I didn’t even watch the Arc for goodness sake…..
ewww yuck
Disgusting
I can’t understand it…?…maybe i am turning away from the 4 legged animal or is it the dross day to day that is making me think the big race is just another race.
Anyone ever suffered from this illness?
I wanted to watch it but missed it due to the Ryder Cup!!
But flat racing sucks period. A corporate business that masquerades as a sport
The farmers NH is 10000000% better
Wait till Jumps season comes in, cheap horses, boring silks, horrible weather, distances you could fall asleep half way through, enormous fatals list, injured jockey after injured jockey, same horses, same names, through the form book away, horses winning by 40l etc, no stud prospects, poor prize money etc.
Bring it on!!
Compared to the flat where most of the top horses run only a few races before before rushed to stud.
Also with the jumps you get no:
Aidan O’Brien endlessly on his mobile phone
Frankie Dettori
All weather racing
Emma SpencerGive me the jumps anyday!!!!
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As Frankie Howerd would have put it: "Oh Pleeeazze!" This continual sniping between jumpers and flatters is tedious, even when leavened with (something like) jocular good humour.
It’s about as sensible as trying to prove a rich Beef Wellington is superior to an exquisite
Tarte au Citron
. It’s all a matter of taste. So why praise one by disparaging the other?
It’s been a rich and absorbing flat season. It will be a fascinating jumps season, with change in the air. No other country in the world, Ireland excepted, can offer such a varied racing feast. Celebrate it.
"Anyone sick to the teeth of Racing at the Moment"? Pfffttttt. No!!!
Nearly thirty years in, and the love affair has never been stronger. Still so much to learn, and so much of interest on a daily basis, for it not to captivate on some level or other.
Looking at backend turf Flat races halfway properly for the first time ever this time round has given me hours of entertainment just recently, ditto the various legs of the Crystal Challenge cross-country races in mainland Europe this summer; and it goes without saying that the days until the new pointing season are being chalked off with increasing relish (54 from today, as it happens).
It’s all good. As Pinza suggests, embrace it (whilst we still have it).
gc
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Spot on Pinza
vive la difference
indeed
Why anyone should choose the morning after last weekend’s racing – or last week’s racing infact – to loose off a volley of invective at the bruised old lady is beyond me
Splendid Newmarket and Arc meetings apart, just look at what else the Sunday offered: three NH meetings. That long-standing moreish
hors d’oeuvres
that whets the jumping man’s appetite
Something for everyone
Everything for someoneOh to be in England now that October is here
Wait till Jumps season comes in, cheap horses, boring silks, horrible weather, distances you could fall asleep half way through, enormous fatals list, injured jockey after injured jockey, same horses, same names, through the form book away, horses winning by 40l etc, no stud prospects, poor prize money etc.
I feel sick of it already, just the thought.
Bring on 2011 Guineas! proper stuff
Mincer.
Wait till Jumps season comes in, cheap horses, boring silks, horrible weather, distances you could fall asleep half way through, enormous fatals list, injured jockey after injured jockey, same horses, same names, through the form book away, horses winning by 40l etc, no stud prospects, poor prize money etc.
I feel sick of it already, just the thought.
Bring on 2011 Guineas! proper stuff
You are incurable! If the Jumps bothers your fragile conscience so much and there is no one on here as fragile as you,take up baking throughout the winter! you come across as a bit crusty round the edges! "through the form book away" Classic stuff from the one and only Mr W! This post could win something in a poll!
Absolutely compelling flat racing last weekend. Informative and intelligent coverage from RUK made it even better.
And so much to look forward to….
… superior to an exquisite
Tarte au Citron
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"….oh, the lemon pie, dear."
at 3:07 here:
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Wait till Jumps season comes in, cheap horses, boring silks, horrible weather, distances you could fall asleep half way through, enormous fatals list, injured jockey after injured jockey, same horses, same names, through the form book away, horses winning by 40l etc, no stud prospects, poor prize money etc.
I feel sick of it already, just the thought.
Bring on 2011 Guineas! proper stuff
You are incurable! If the Jumps bothers your fragile conscience so much and there is no one on here as fragile as you,take up baking throughout the winter! you come across as a bit crusty round the edges! "through the form book away" Classic stuff from the one and only Mr W! This post could win something in a poll!
Who cares what you think, you’re a troll.
I haven’t lost cash at all.A fter the Irish Champion Stakes i just felt flat with the whole thing.
I am lucking forward to Frankel…but really everything else has been boring dross to me.
Lucking forward to the NH i must admit
I am lucking forward to Frankel…but really everything else has been boring dross to me.
Oh dear dont build your hopes up too high,he might be the one who pushes you over the edge! I would understand if you were feeling so down because of Mr Happys,i mean Mr W"s morbid posts! thankfully i only have to say BOO and he soils himself!
As Frankie Howerd would have put it: "Oh Pleeeazze!" This continual sniping between jumpers and flatters is tedious, even when leavened with (something like) jocular good humour.
It’s about as sensible as trying to prove a rich Beef Wellington is superior to an exquisite
Tarte au Citron
. It’s all a matter of taste. So why praise one by disparaging the other?
It’s been a rich and absorbing flat season. It will be a fascinating jumps season, with change in the air. No other country in the world, Ireland excepted, can offer such a varied racing feast. Celebrate it.
Pinza, can I have smoked salmon, followed by the Beef Wellington and then the Tart au Citron washed down with a decent Rose and then a glass of vintage port and a nice mature Shropshire blue. Yummy!!!
Wait till Jumps season comes in, cheap horses, boring silks, horrible weather, distances you could fall asleep half way through, enormous fatals list, injured jockey after injured jockey, same horses, same names, through the form book away, horses winning by 40l etc, no stud prospects, poor prize money etc.
I feel sick of it already, just the thought.
Bring on 2011 Guineas! proper stuff
Hahaha!
I’ve never heard someone dis the jumps like that before. Hilarious! So you really don’t like the jumps?
Its great when the bumpers go hurdling and the hurdlers graduate to chasing. Can’t get over the fact I won’t see An Cathaoir Mór this season….
To the point though, I’m getting a bit like that too Wallace. Time for the Jumps to start in earnest! Although I think I need a break after the flat
Wait till Jumps season comes in, cheap horses, boring silks, horrible weather, distances you could fall asleep half way through, enormous fatals list, injured jockey after injured jockey, same horses, same names, through the form book away, horses winning by 40l etc, no stud prospects, poor prize money etc.
I feel sick of it already, just the thought.
Bring on 2011 Guineas! proper stuff
What does ‘through the form book away’ mean?
Anyway, the jumps are what racing is all about in the heart of a proper racing fan, IMO.
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Pinza, can I have smoked salmon, followed by the Beef Wellington and then the Tart au Citron washed down with a decent Rose and then a glass of vintage port and a nice mature Shropshire blue. Yummy!!!
You can indeed
bbobbell
. Simply walk into your nearest M&S Simply Foods – they do the lot!
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