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I hope that, like me, you’ve all been enjoying the BBC coverage of ‘Ladies Day’. This, I must say, has been a terrific addition to the programme – the in-depth analysis and insight into a raggle-taggle bunch of bizarrely-dressed souls, possessing the IQ of a peanut is what it’s all about. Hopefully this can be extended to all of the 3 race meetings that the BBC will cover this year. Hang on, they already do it at one of the others anyway, don’t they?
You just knew the answer of…
"A horse, with 4 legs".
Was going to be the answer didn’t you.
I personally do find it cringeworthy.
One word – Pathetic!!
Why do we have to have all this Ladies Day rubbish? Just concentrate on the horses FFS.
PS! What a horrid looking bunch they were as well and thats after they’d made an effort. Glad I don’t have to see any of them first thing in the morning.
^ ^ ^ how offensive and patronising. Why shouldn’t they enjoy themselves at the races? some of you people….really.
Nobody (well me at least) is saying that they shouldn’t attend and enjoy. However, I’m not sure that dressing up as if you’re on a bad acid trip is a prerequisite and please don’t compound the mistake by displaying the inanity on screen.
^ ^ ^ how offensive and patronising. Why shouldn’t they enjoy themselves at the races? some of you people….really.
No reason at all we just shouldn’t have to watch it.
^ how strange. Yet one sees ugly shabbily dressed men every day in racing, they’re all over the place. Added to this we have the young 20 something’s wearing flat caps like old totters…christ.
The sad thing is the excellent racing on offer is wasted on them. Finished work at 2;45 and drove past Aintree and there were loads of people still going in. In what other sport would you turn up halfway through the day and spend the day not even watching it? It never used to be like this. Can’t we have our racing back please?
Have a Ladies Night for the May evening meeting.^ how strange. Yet one sees ugly shabbily dressed men every day in racing, they’re all over the place. Added to this we have the young 20 something’s wearing flat caps like old totters…christ.
Perhaps but the point is if we see them on TV they are there for a racing related reason.
These women were shown for no racing relevance whatsoever. That time the Beeb waste showing their "magazine content" could be far better spent on something race related.
…not in a professional capacity but of a more irreverent trivial kind. I see nothing wrong in that.
Life under the Taliban is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> that way, if you want it. Hamid Karzai for PM, right?
…not in a professional capacity but of a more irreverent trivial kind. I see nothing wrong in that.
Look, at the end of the day, we all know that most of them are a bunch of slappers, intent on getting as many Barcardi Breezers down their neck as possible. If I want to view that sort of ‘entertainment’ I can go into the local town centre on a Friday night. Please don’t bring the dross into my home under the guise of racing coverage!
I want to get rid of Gary Wil(t)shire.
A complete dinosaur – and that’s not a reference to his physique.
Look, at the end of the day, we all know that most of them are a bunch of slappers
Hold on a minute here…’a bunch of slappers’…?
It just groups of girls on a day out having a good time. And what better advert for racing than people simply enjoying themselves? It’s a few times a year and if you don’t like it there are plenty half empty midweek meetings to go to thoughout the summer…
…not in a professional capacity but of a more irreverent trivial kind. I see nothing wrong in that.
Look, at the end of the day, we all know that most of them are a bunch of slappers…
…is that what you think of all women then? sounds like it to me.
By the way, wasn’t your namesake a grey plodder who couldn’t win the Triumph hurdle? I seem to recall he cost me money. Might be mixing it up with The Grey Bomber.
Dave Nevison in his first book commented on how women didnt figure in the lives of many blokes who regularly bet on the horses. Some of the comments on this thread back that up (in style).
…is that what you think of all women then? sounds like it to me.
Not at all. Some of them never aspire to those dizzy heights.
To jog your less than perfect memory, The Grey Bomber was a useful juvenile hurdler, trained by Denys Smith and sired by Scallywag. He didn’t make it to the Triumph because he was electrocuted in a tragic freak accident, whilst on the gallops. I hope that he cost you an absolute packet.
Look, if people want to portray such garbage on the television, let them put a series on Bravo Channel – Tangoed Tarts Go Racing or, just to show that I’m not a misogynist, Lagered Louts Do Haydock. All I’m saying is that, when I’m trying to enjoy the racing in my own home, don’t make me get up and leave the room to avoid this drivel. Aside from the male presenters, some of whom you may find distasteful, I’m not aware that too many afternoons of TV racing coverage feature a focus on knuckleheads who’ve over indulged and can barely string a sentence together.
In terms of attending race meetings, midweek fixtures have long been a preference, purely to avoid the distasteful behaviour displayed (and in some instances encouraged by the racecourse) at major fixtures nowadays.
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