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thing is …he’s all they have…without Irish racing its just dross mostly …what will they do when they eventually lose it
Even I will admit it was dross today. A maiden handicap where the runners had raced 68 times between them without winning. The eventual winner only passed the post first because he kept plodding on at one pace. Ive never seen a slower winner! All the rest were running up and down on the spot. It was godawful stuff! But the owner was happy, so hey ho. Even he admitted that it must have been a terrible race for his nag to win.
Fair Enough ….thing is though , some folks will watch that and enjoy it somehow …so I keep telling myself …but it must have been bad for you to say that !!!
I can hardly believe you agree with me for once
In all honesty I dont watch any AW , its Jump only …I will be giving the flat season the heave ho this year …I am so bored with all the good stuff crammed into a Saturday …whilst the rest of the week is pretty mundane !!!
I’m not a big flat racing fan either. I much prefer the jumps. More drama! I know some people may think me an idiot, but I prefer the AW dross to the summer turf stuff where all the owners have sheikh before their name and the horses are trained by Aiden O’Brien. I love to see the ordinary folk win. It means so much to small owners and trainers, and that’s what gives me a thrill. I got as much pleasure out of the Tatling winning his final race as I did watching the awesome Frankel at Ascot. So yeah, it was fun watching Southwell today, but I’m happy to admit it’s dross. I just think theres a place for dross.
Where would all those happy owners go if it wasn’t for the AW.?It’s not Mullins fault that he has got so many cracking horses and owners to fund them. Irish racing is certainly not all about him and the likes of Gordon Elliot, Henry de brom head andj Jess harrington ensure we get cracking racing in Ireland. Atrs cove rage is great and Garry Obrien and Kevin Blake are a delight to listen to. IMHO of course.
If ATR encouraged the Irish authorities to improve their race commentaries the whole thing might be a bit more engaging
I thoroughly agree with Burroughill the winter All Weather gives a big chance for lesser lights to shine. Without it some trainers and a training centre as historic and successful, in the past, like Epsom, would be struggling to survive.
The Atr Irish commentators are generally pretty accurate, with some obvious exceptions, but lack the modern practice of giving viewers an in-running "heads up" such as cap or sleeve colours or mentions of sheepskin noseband etc.
I think a new commentary style would add hugely to viewer enjoyment of Irish racing especially as the fields are often large and on the GB side of the Irish Sea, owners’ colours, apart from the big battalion owners, are not so familiar.
(All this is off the thread topic apart from the fact that Mr Mullins’ powerful owners’ colours are at least usually easy to spot!)I prefer the AW to the summer turf stuff […] I love to see the ordinary folk win. It means so much to small owners and trainers, and that’s what gives me a thrill. I got as much pleasure out of the Tatling winning his final race as I did watching the awesome Frankel at Ascot.
1000 x THIS, and it is of course no less applicable to other modes of racing.
Wins in Point-to-Points and hunter chases for the Barbers and Laceys of that particular world are expected outcomes and integral to their business. Wins for the likes of Mark Hughes, who fits training Special Portrait around his work as a Cumbrian binman, are joyous gifts each appreciated by this smallest of small-time operators as much as the last.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Thank you GC!
Racing needs and loves its characters. You can’t get attached to superstar horses who run half a dozen times and then are retired to stud, impressive though they are. It’s all too much about the money.
You need the Gingearmy and the Prestons and people like that. You need the Tatling, General Tufto and Mad Moose.
Anyone who is only in racing for the betting is missing a whole lot of fun!Well done that lady…that will teach me to scream dross a lot less
!!!agree with your sentiments totally , its a perpective I will be taking into account when I get mad at the non stop rubbish being presented to punters to bet on
Still I dont expect it will change any day soon , and if some folks are actually enjoying it , without betting or losing cash on it , then go for it …and why not
God Its Rubbish though
. I got as much pleasure out of the Tatling winning his final race as I did watching the awesome Frankel at Ascot. So yeah, it was fun watching Southwell today, but I’m happy to admit it’s dross. I just think theres a place for dross.
Where would all those happy owners go if it wasn’t for the AW.?It seems I’m not alone! At a loose end this evening I’ve been trawling through the archives, and who should I find as Hero of the Year 2011, but my old friend The Tatling!
Grand!
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