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Why can’t standard colours be attached to the racecard number? In terms of recognition, that must be the best thing to do. Personally I find it increasingly difficult to differentiate silks currently in use in big fields.
Betting offices around the country could ring to the punters’ cries of ‘come on the 2 horse!’
Excellent! Just like they do in Virtual Racing, which is of course the future anyway for the betting shops – cleaner, quicker and with a guaranteed rake-off!
Tuffers
, I didn’t know you you were an apostle of
Die Neue Sachlichkeit
. You have hit upon an example of pure
function without aesthetics
which would have warmed the heart (had he had one) of George Grosz.
Excellent! Just like they do in Virtual Racing, which is of course the future anyway for the betting shops – cleaner, quicker and with a guaranteed rake-off!
I hadn’t thought of that – I think we’ve hit upon a surefire winner!
So if you’re going back through the archive to watch the career of a great horse (e.g. Frankel), you have to know what his racecard number was for each race to be able to follow him on the film – great idea, not!
AP
So if you’re going back through the archive to watch the career of a great horse (e.g. Frankel), you have to know what his racecard number was for each race to be able to follow him on the film – great idea, not!
AP
C’mon, AP, how difficult is that? Besides, horses change ownership all the time so it happens now anyway.
Come on everyone, have a little imagination and creativity!
Nothing wrong with the competition, it’s an interesting little diversion which highlights the clolourful aspect of racing silks. I don’t think anyone is suggesting that we have wholsesale change here (although the winning silks will be worn in a race at, where else, Ascot.)
I’m looking forward to seeing the winning result (although I’m also looking forward to getting out more!)
http://dmtrk.net/H84-FFTD-782EBFAXF7/cr.aspx
Are they actually going to be used in a race or are the jockeys just going to parade in them? I look forward to Hayley Turner giving us a twirl.
I quite like some of those designs & some are no more odd than the silks we currently use.
What struck me most though was the linked website & that the silks are going to be exhibited. It’s an ambitious aim & while I think it’s highly unlikely that any of the fashion set are going to become racegoers you never know.
Maybe they should use the winning designs during the Shergar Cup. After all, when people are already moaning, give them something to REALLY moan about!
The effluent being pumped through the speakers for Canford Cliffs’s triumphal return to the enclosure on Saturday made it sound as if the hooded hordes of orcs were about to descend from the Burghclere Hills in order to burn and eat the luckless animal.
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Come on everyone, have a little imagination and creativity!
Your sense of irony, Corm, is a tonic as ever – if there’s one thing TRF does
not
lack it’s those two qualities, least of all on this thread!
Yet
"imagination"
and
"creativity"
are exactly what these frivolous, camp, ugly and inutile costume designs do not show; and I for one refuse to patronise the children who came up with them with pats on the head or sweet smiles of bogus encouragement.
These kids are entering a hard, gleaming, unforgiving world; and they are much better served by a bit of plain talking about where they’re falling short, than by soothing condescension. I’ve plain talked to the blogger a bit, too…
I wish some of you would take off your cack tinted spectacles once in a while.
The Jessica Hall & Henry Griffin designs wouldn’t look out of place on a racecourse. The Henry Griffin designs in particular aren’t wildly different to the sort of thing you might see in US racing.
You could have three of those ‘slot machine lemons’ in a race & if they finish in a line you get your 10p back.
‘The horse in third only needs two nudges & he gets a free spin.’
Why can’t standard colours be attached to the racecard number? In terms of recognition, that must be the best thing to do. Personally I find it increasingly difficult to differentiate silks currently in use in big fields.
Betting offices around the country could ring to the punters’ cries of ‘come on the 2 horse!’
Edit: I did, of course, mean
stall
number rather than racecard number. The commentator could then preface the replay for posterity with something like ‘and look out for Frankel coming out of trap 3’
A Gimick?
Yes it would seem so, but good luck to these hard working and talented Students and I look forward to seeing the winning designs at Ascot.
I wish some of you would take off your cack tinted spectacles once in a while.
The Jessica Hall & Henry Griffin designs wouldn’t look out of place on a racecourse. The Henry Griffin designs in particular aren’t wildly different to the sort of thing you might see in US racing.
You could have three of those ‘slot machine lemons’ in a race & if they finish in a line you get your 10p back.
‘The horse in third only needs two nudges & he gets a free spin.’
That sounds like a winner. If two melons are involved in a photo finish, it gets you a free photo session with Jordan
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good luck to these hard working and talented Students and I look forward to seeing the winning designs at Ascot.
And I look forward to seeing you
wearing
the ghastly things,
Pompete
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As
Corm
says, I am indeed deuced hard to please. You see, I read
Zen and the Art of Motor-Cycle Maintenance
when young, and know that when it comes to
Art
and
Quality
there can be no compromise, and no quarter given!
Absolutely nothing here from the
St Martins’ College of Fart and Resign
(as it’s known in the trade) can compare with the
chaste simplicity of the Godolphin Blue
; the ever-fashionable stark contrast of Lord Derby’s
black, white cap, white button
; or the Aga’s
dark green, scarlet epaulettes
.
Pure class, all of them. Not a shred of vulgarity or pert whimsy. As Wordsworth might have whispered when he saw Eclipse first, the rest nowhere, proudly carrying the red-jacket-black-cap of William Wildman:
"Earth hath not anything to show more fair"
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The Henry Griffin designs in particular aren’t wildly different to the sort of thing you might see in US racing.
You could have three of those ‘slot machine lemons’ in a race & if they finish in a line you get your 10p back.
‘The horse in third only needs two nudges & he gets a free spin.’
Good point,
Anthony
. Of course the great thing about those naff American racing silks is that they are so rapidly obscured (and improved) by the flying clods of wet mud.
I like your idea about the slot machine lemons, though. And if you got two melons … but no. We seem to be edging a little too close to my idea about Lady Jocks in the Altogether.
Deftly replacing my brown-tinted spectacles….
Oliver Mayes: what is the point of jockeys silks spelling out the word “furlong” when the riders are in a particular order? Hope there is not a finish with the F U …. and two others in a photo finish.
Maelle Bataille: They are jockeys, small adults, not four year old school children!
Ksenia Fedorova: Nice try, might work, at least they might stand out enough to be recognisable from the stands.
Jessica Hall & Ella De Weijer: Four are interesting, “Wishbone, Horseshoe, Old Boot and Shooting Star”; but the rest just won’t stand out enough.
Ricky Lai & Frankie Leong: The colours will just blend in to the background.
Rachel Sale & Sophie Gate: Too fussy.
Krista Radoeva: Too fussy.
Zarah Malik: Again too fussy and will blend in to the background.
Clare Malseed: Too loud.
Yoomi Song: At least there is a horsey theme, quite like some of them. Did I just say that?
Eva Vestmann: One or two ok, but similar to old colours. White cross on green background very similar to the Cross Of Lorraine, white on blue similar to a chevron; yellow spot / sun fine. But the vast majority too fussy.
Henry Griffin: Not a bad effort at all, all that’s been done for some (lemon, orange) is just put a couple of niples or small star or on to colours already in use. May be a small change was the idea. But would the lemon look good in any other colour than yellow?
Hyemi Na: Not visible enough.
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