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That’s what I thought when I watched a few races this afternoon. What’s the point of half this rubbish? It must just be training in public. I’m starting to think there should only be racing a couple of days a week because most of this crap is an insult.
One or two of my old favourites turned out at Sedgefield. Not everyone’s cup of tea admittedly, but some of us enjoy it.
By the way Plenipotnetiary, I’ll bet if the cup was 99% full you would still say it was 1% empty! I can’t say I envy you in the morning, it must be such a dreadful trial getting out of bed to face this ghastly world…
Rob
That’s what I thought when I watched a few races this afternoon. What’s the point of half this rubbish? It must just be training in public. I’m starting to think there should only be racing a couple of days a week because most of this crap is an insult.
I like watching jumps racing, even when most of the races, especially midweek, are often very moderate. The spectacle of the jumping, including the thrills and spills, will always make a National Hunt race worth watching, for me, no matter how low grade the runners.
Certainly couldn’t always say this for moderate Flat racing but I can happily watch moderate all-weather races.
I like watching the At The Races coverage even when the races are often poor quality. I certainly wouldn’t call it an insult to the viewer. I’m not that bothered if the fields are small.
Most courses are worth watching for different reasons, such as places like Hexham and Fontwell, where the natural features of the courses are of interest. I like watching Irish jumps racing for the same reason, as many of them are in picturesque settings.[b:rqc9hc9i]IS THAT IT?[/b:rqc9hc9i][/color:rqc9hc9i], Yep, ‘fraid so.[/color:rqc9hc9i]
No surprise someone wants to have a moan. 4 and 5 horse races all over the joint yesterday , Nicky Henderson 7 out of 7 then 2 good things fall on their backsides and the day had only just started. Had better days myself
I’d rather watch this afternoons jumping than endless events on the sandpits on the flat.
Granted it wasnt the greatest fare on offer but it beats most of the all weather stuff.
Just a personal opinion though, and each to their own.That’s what I thought when I watched a few races this afternoon. What’s the point of half this rubbish? It must just be training in public. I’m starting to think there should only be racing a couple of days a week because most of this crap is an insult.
An insult to who? Not everybody is lucky enough to have the quality horses or the finances of the Smiths/Stewarts etc. There is room in racing for the ‘little guy’ who scrubs along with just a handful of moderate/poor horses, just a case of being restricted to the smaller meetings. I personally have more respect for these grafters. Surely every man can dream.
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I certainly don’t watch races at Southwell. I think the place should be bulldozed. Absolutely painful-to-watch-*****.
As for the rest; yes, some days you do get good lower grade jumps and it can be very enjoyable and reflects the origins of the sport very well.
However, I like a price and I like a race. I don’t like titchy price Henderson and Nicholls horses that you’d have to put in a seven timer – which, because this is the most intensely annoying gambling medium ever devised, only come up when you haven’t thought of doing it – to get anywhere with.
I get tired of wading through the form of horses that can’t win bar a mass debacle and just waste everyone’s time, I get tired of evaluating handicapped-up-to-the-hilt horses, of fall and unseat at the first or the last, of finding a value and then seeing the peculiar start-too-late style of race riding that is already developing due to the whip rules. It’s all just got a bit too hard and too annoying. It’s not so much the fault of the ‘little men’ as the scum bookie and the idiots who run things.
It’s the like when you hear the Tote bloke extolling the Scoop6 as a ‘good bet’, you just want to yell a jeering obscenity. Give punters an effing break!Can’t comment on the quality of the racing at Southwell, but have to object to the mention of ‘having the place bulldozed’. Really like the place. Provided a [much needed due to the extreme weather] an all bumper card the other year. Only been there a few times but certainly wouldn’t discourage anyone from going there.
Southwell is strategically probably the most important track in the country since it offers an awful lot of hitherto failing horses a genuine second chance to succeed at another discipline.
(Too little use is made of it at the other ability end also, as we have the blood here.)
I certainly don’t watch races at Southwell. I think the place should be bulldozed. Absolutely painful-to-watch-*****.
Pleni
If you used your noddle you would realise it’s one of the easiest places make a profit. Just put a line through form from elsewhere and concentrate on Southwell form.
You could bulldoze Newmarket and Epsom and I wouldn’t miss them, but I do know that the overwhelming majority on here would be horrified at the prospect.
Rob
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