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I’m sure I saw something about "celebrity" teams somewhere, which made my blood run cold.
There was reasoning that noone outside racing knew anyone except Frankie Dettori. Well why is that? Because the sport doesn’t market itself properly.
Racing seems to be gifted with funny, articulate and even attractive participants who put most footballers in the shade. There’s a sniff of scandal for the gossip rags, but at the same time it can be a hard job requiring real dedication for not much reward.
Surely you’d rather your daughters had Sam Thomas as a pin-up than Ashley Cole?
I saw the celebrity suggestion too Roseblossom and my heart sank. Instead of trying to market racing to the under 25s as "cool" why not concentrate on getting people with money and a passing interest in sport and the outdoors? Dare I say it the 30 to 90 age bracket who make up about 80% of the population and see how racing does from there? A 40 year old these days still has another 40 years in them, other businesses would kill to have 40 year customers, why not racecourses?
Then racing wouldn’t have to alienate it’s core support on the offchance they might attract some people who aren’t old enough to shave.Signed
Seven Towers
Aged 33 and one quarter.There is a picture in todays RP page 5.
Pictured at the BHA annual review are Paul Roy with Jeremy Kyle and three betting shop managers of the year.Why are betting shop managers of the year allowed to attend this event. Do the bookmakers own the BHA?
I’ve changed my mind about Jeremy Kyle as a person since I heard of his interest in racing but for goodness sake, get him off the RFC stage as soon as possible.
For 99% of the population Jeremy Kyle = Jeremy Kyle Show = Scallies.
Even though I am 28 & got into racing as an under 25 I agree with the poster who said RFC should look elsewhere for new punters.
I think people in that age group like to be able to follow something but they also have short attention spans. You can’t expect jumps horses to run every week, it’s very difficult to promote horses as ‘stars’ when they only appear in public once in a while.
It also occured to me today that when you pay to get in a day’s racing you get 40 minutes of actual action at most with large gaps in between. Ten minutes tops for the flat. I think there should be ‘something to do’ between races that isn’t just drinking.
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How could you trust someone to organise an ‘End Of Season Championship’ when they’re not even capable of organising when the season ends?
I’ve changed my mind about Jeremy Kyle as a person since I heard of his interest in racing but for goodness sake, get him off the RFC stage as soon as possible.
For 99% of the population Jeremy Kyle = Jeremy Kyle Show = Scallies.
How and why? He’s still a cruel, nasty man who’s made a living off shouting at those, who, for some reason or another, are on his show and don’t work usually, but he tells them occasionally to get off his stage and get a job. Yeah, Jeremy and these are the sort of people who boost your viewing figures – the jobless broadcasting to the viewing jobless or sick if they’re watching at 9:25 am each day to keep you in a job. It’s a comedy programme for people like me. There’s nothing like, "guess what, he was lying." Lie Detector and DNA results are the best imo.
This RFC lark is thoroughly boring me though. They’re changing nothing that might help those who enjoy the sport currently or participate in the sport currently. How long before they might tell us that NH Racing affects the image of racing, and should be scrapped in favour of more Flat racing because it’s image is hindering the sport? I wouldn’t be surprised what they come up with. Shorter races, knock out heats on the day. Anything is possible now these mentally deluded people have been let loose on us.
Dear BHA,
Please don’t do a European Breeders Cup.
Your parents sold racing down the river in 1961. The next generation destroyed the oldest classic horse race in the world, the Derby, in 1994.
Please don’t do this. Honestly, just don’t.
Silvoir, please tell that nasty young man at R4C that he’s a donk. Thanks.
There is Dubai, Hong Kong, Australia abd Japan all waiting to offer races which my million dollar horse can run in. Attractive, sexy races with multi-million dollar prize money, strong stewarding, masses of racegoers and a spectrum of owners and national interests.
Then there is the country who invented Championship Racing in 1984. Anyone remember Teleprompter? Tolemeo? Bold Arrangement? Anyone remember the United States?
Tell me there has ever been a better race that the one between the Iron Horse and Tiznow? You can’t, I know. No point bothering to think.
And the great thing is that we can go and play in their magnificent tournament for millions of dollars and never-to-be-forgotten glory whenever we want. Why spoil that for the sake of a young mans brainstorm.
Honestly. Move the Gold Cup to a Saturday but please, none of that flat earth society stuff where the world begins and ends with Europe. I couldn’t cope with the shame.
Love
Max
Sounds like ’40s advertising copy for the latest Enid Blyton
‘Five Go Off To The Races’ colloquially known as ‘Julian And Dick Do Their Dough’
"Alas, and alackaday, my pick in the final leg of the Scoop 6 appears to have been nobbled, Julian!"
"Horrors, Dick! Who would perpetrate such a ghastly deed?"
"I’ll wager the gypsies did it."
"Me too! It must have been those typically shabby looking coves we saw in the stabling block carrying a phial of sodium bicarbonate. Let’s go and snitch on them to the raceday manager."
"Excellent deduction, Julian. Calloo, callay!"
"Indeed, what a frabjous adventure this has turned out to be. Fancy a ginger beer and butterfly cake, Dick?"
"At Ascot’s prices, I fear I must decline".
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what is very strange is the plan to end the jumps championships at the festival…on the one hand they say that they cant end on national day as they would get lost in the "national hype" but then want to them to finish on gold cup day.
if that was the case this year,whos going to be worried about who the champion jockey/trainer is when you have the kauto/denman showdown?
it also seems harsh on the great festival at aintree is not part of the main season and as for the sandown finale,well thats gone off the radar.
A new idea on when the season should finish, and in particular where, seems to be dreamed up on a near-annual basis. This time last year, the prevailing wisdom as reported in all the broadsheets was to move the Sandown finale to Cheltenham;
http://betting.betfair.com/horse-racing … 80209.html
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Dear BHA,
Please don’t do a European Breeders Cup.
Your parents sold racing down the river in 1961. The next generation destroyed the oldest classic horse race in the world, the Derby, in 1994.
Please don’t do this. Honestly, just don’t.
Silvoir, please tell that nasty young man at R4C that he’s a donk. Thanks.
There is Dubai, Hong Kong, Australia abd Japan all waiting to offer races which my million dollar horse can run in. Attractive, sexy races with multi-million dollar prize money, strong stewarding, masses of racegoers and a spectrum of owners and national interests.
Then there is the country who invented Championship Racing in 1984. Anyone remember Teleprompter? Tolemeo? Bold Arrangement? Anyone remember the United States?
Tell me there has ever been a better race that the one between the Iron Horse and Tiznow? You can’t, I know. No point bothering to think.
And the great thing is that we can go and play in their magnificent tournament for millions of dollars and never-to-be-forgotten glory whenever we want. Why spoil that for the sake of a young mans brainstorm.
Honestly. Move the Gold Cup to a Saturday but please, none of that flat earth society stuff where the world begins and ends with Europe. I couldn’t cope with the shame.
Love
Max
Thank you. Most US fans (and track owners) would absolutely freak out if the European contingent didn’t
participate in the Breeders’ Cup. For one thing, we can’t rely on the quality of the American turf divisions. Nor could we fill a "Marathon" with top-level horses. Racing is a global sport, and we ought to think globally.- Total Posts 17716
Think globally? The Breeders Cup? LMAO. It might be global if there were regular runners from Australia, Japan etc. It sure isn’t global now.
Enhance the product you have instead of making stupid changes for the sake of change. The more championships the less champions competing. You can only spread a "global" product so thinly.
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