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There should also be a "none of the above" option as none of them have the right credentials to run racing.
It will not be popular, but my choice would be somebody who is a dictator and has the ability to address the finances – he also has a racing connection as an owner – and although I don’t particularly like the guy as an individual he is what racing needs.
The name Michael O’Leary (or a strong businessman like him.
agreed Paul , none of the above would be good
I dont know about a dictator style businessman who is an owner or trainer , but it has to be someone who can persuade the Government to hand over the Tote , and then is able to dump the bookies , and set about self funding as soon as possible
Racing will then change pretty quickly
Ricky
There should also be a "none of the above" option as none of them have the right credentials to run racing.
You are probably right but it would have been a bit boring as "none of the above" would have won hard held.
Michael O’Leary???
Great idea – can imagine it now.
"Come racing for FREE" *
* (+£5 extra if you wear shoes, +£5 extra if you aren’t wearing a tie,
+£10 tax if you weigh over 8 stone
+£5 surcharge for every bet you place)No thank you. He has created one of the most loathsome companies operating in the world today. I couldn’t imagine a worse person to promote a "feel good" sport in the leisure industry.
Some hard-nosed thick-skinned businessman with a proven record of regenerating large, faltering businesses
And one with no prior knowledge of or particular interest in racing and/or no involvement in it as an owner
Stuart Rose of M&S springs to mind
Racing is a sport that likes to dignify itself by referring to itself as an ‘industry’ so let the ‘captains’ sort it out
Mass cuts, mass redundancies, whatever
Racing is today’s British Leyland
from the outside looking in
cast a cold eye
Where’s the option to vote for Glenn?
He’d get my vote, certainly above that lot anyway!
Definitely John McCririck. It would be even better for comedy than the current administration.
Worcs 5.40 Delayed to stop clashing with Ascot 5.35
Then run at exactly the same time as the Hamilton 5.50. Well done the BHA, what a bunch of ****s.
I’m not aware of the circumstances but I think you’re being a bit unfair, its not the BHA’s fault just bad luck that they can’t load horses in the stalls faster
I think it had something to do with ATR/Worcester Racecourse and nothing to do with the BHA.
Both Ascot and Worcester were being shown live on ATR so if the races went off together they would have had to go split screen, so Worcester (to the benefit of themselves and ATR no doubt) held their race back until Ascot had finished.
The 5:50 at Hamilton was shown on RUK, and with all due respect to that channel, both ATR and Worcester probably didn’t give two hoots if their race clashed with that.
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Another example of the gross stupidity which has dragged in low-grade midsummer jumping to foul up our major race days. Sigh….
Another example of the gross stupidity which has dragged in low-grade midsummer jumping to foul up our major race days. Sigh….
Not forgetting the low grade summer flat racing at Thirsk, Redcar etc. and what on earth were Kempton doing with one of their all weather evening meetings in Ascot week. Too much racing under both codes.
Another example of the gross stupidity which has dragged in low-grade midsummer jumping to foul up our major race days. Sigh….
I seem to remember us raking over these coals a few short weeks ago. I regarded such terms as "foul" in this context as too inflammatory at the time and still very much do – every race is important to someone.
Once more with feeling, it’s not the scheduling of any such meeting (the one this afternoon, lest it be forgotten, about which I and doubtless others like me was the most interested) that is the issue, but far more the (potentially) inadequate headways between each race at each meeting taking place.
It could not necessarily have been foreseen that the Worcester card would extend from the six to eight race card it became, thereby giving rise to the incident reported. With few strains on available daylight hours barely a week before Midsummer’s day, however, three meetings with universally 40-minute gaps between races would have stood better prospects of entirely peaceable, non-existing co-existing on the afternoon, and rendered both this post and the one that inspired it irrelevant.
HTH,
gc
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With prize money so poor the aim has to be where possible to maximise levy, races run at the same time don’t do this. There was 20 mins after the 5.50 at Hamilton till the next race so absolutely no excuse for allowing the clash.
It is quite a regular occurrence and if I was either Paul Roy or Nic Coward I would be livid every time it happens. I wonder whether either of them is even aware let alone cares about it keep happening.It makes sense why they’d have an evening meeting
at Kempton straight after Ascot. Bookies/Owners/Trainers and Jockeys
can get there quickly from Ascot.Punters would also be tempted by playing up their winnings or
chasing their losses, so would make the short journey.
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