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Proper racing is back. A good card today at Cheletenham with a couple of good winners in The New One and Court Minstrel and an equally good card for tomorrow. Bliss
I am not a flat man and prefer the jumps by far and I have to say I am sick to the back of teeth of hearing and reading about Frankel.
Yes an excellent horse and probably a freak but I cannot see how all the publicity will get people racing when the idea to get new people racing is to get them to have a bet and he starts at long odds on every time he runs.
Less flat and more jumps please.Proper racing is back. A good card today at Cheletenham with a couple of good winners in The New One and Court Minstrel and an equally good card for tomorrow. Bliss
I am not a flat man and prefer the jumps by far and I have to say I am sick to the back of teeth of hearing and reading about Frankel.
Yes an excellent horse and probably a freak but I cannot see how all the publicity will get people racing when the idea to get new people racing is to get them to have a bet and he starts at long odds on every time he runs.
Less flat and more jumps please.Have you not noticed the ticket sales recently for meetings where Frankel is running ?
He’s hardly driving people away !Coggy
I have no doubt he is not driving them away and people may go to see him but it would be interesting to see how many of those first timers come back or are they going just to say "I was there" in the future and never go racing again.
You could well be right.
However, I think that he has been great for raising the profile of racing generally.
Being a somewhat less than enthusiastic devotee of all weather racing, I too am now glad that NH racing is kicking back in.Great, here we go again with every winner being bout of the Nicholls or Henderson yard every day of the week at 5/4 or shorter and nothing trying until Cheltenham.
Don’t get me started over the Irish Sea where the Novices fail to raise a walk for 3/4 of the race, oh and how the All Weather season saves the fixture list during the winter every year.
The real "Champions Day" tomorrow is at Far Hills anyway. Too bad the NSA isn’t doing online streaming video this year.
http://www.nationalsteeplechase.com/wp- … atch15.pdf
Bonus: http://www.nationalsteeplechase.com/wp- … atch23.pdf
Just a month left of the fall jumps season
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