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Was the Luke Comer news deliberately put out in the middle of discussing the Leger, so they wouldn’t have long to talk about it?
Obvious from Ed’s comment on the Friday that the King and Queen were going to be there.
Did Ed put the royal couple’s safety at more risk by his comment?Of all the times I saw the Queen at Newbury, I don’t remember it once being announced the day before.
Value Is EverythingI believe Ed broke the news regarding Comer on Friday and as Yeats stated the rest of the pundits stood there dumbfounded, it was bizarre. Whilst they happened to be talking about the Leger they still had all of Saturday’s programme to chew the cud over it. I think he was just itching to say it and chose an odd moment to do so.
The things I want most in life are the things that I can't win.
Some of the monarch’s engagements for the week ahead are published in the newspapers and on the Royal Family’s website. I very much doubt Chamberlin is going to find himself in the Tower.
Gary O’Brien and Jane Mangan on duty at Listowel for RTV today. That means some punditry worth hearing.
I really wish they’d change the intro to ITV Racing. Oh, and to make it worse, they opened the show with bloomin’ bagpipes 😵
I have on record then start about half an hour through so you can whizz through the start and any other drivel.
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All 7 afternoon meetings on RTV this afternoon. 5 in Britain and 2 in Ireland.
An afternoon of split screens awaits…
Thanks for the link Louise.
“A time when concerns were being raised over animal welfare and the sport.”
A bit worrying to read that in an Irish newspaper. What are the alleged welfare issues? But the “and the sport” bit is particularly worrying, implying the sport is a concern in itself.
“They would then ‘post three or four stories of them enjoying the day — show the food, drink, horses, fun with friends and live music’.
Nice to see the food and drink was considered a more important story than the horses!
I’m not aware of any specific ‘concerns’, CAS, but we have similar debates to the ones that you have in UK. With the financial support that it receives from the govt (budget Oct), HRI probably have to be seen to be doing something.
My impression of that article is that it was a slow day in the newsroom and the journo decided to make a FOI request to see if he could dig up some dirt.
It’s no secret that HRI receives public funding- this has been debated in the Dáil:
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-11-30/20/ and AFAIK there is no scandal about hiding the sums involved or anything like that. It’s not really news that bodies which receive public funding spend some of it on marketing, either- the North/South electricity interconnector, for example, was marketed at us quite energetically by SONI, the company in charge of the project on this side of the border, despite the fact that we’re getting it whether we like it or not.“Portion of marketing budget spent on influencers” is rather of the ****BREAKING NEWS***POPE ADMITS TO BEING CATHOLIC***** variety. My family’s single-site, traditional business that has been on the high street of a Northern Irish market town for well over 100 years does tiktok videos and uses influencers for promotion. Big woop.
No scandal there so the journo explained the influencers’ briefs. Celeb stylist to talk about style. Sports star used to physio , exercise plans and medical input in his career talks about physio, exercise plans and veterinary input in racing yards. Mmm…sounds like sensible marketing to me.
“Rob Kearney was asked to promote a Flat meeting even though he bought a jumps horse” seems to be the height of of the hard hitting investigative journalism in the article. That would be a slightly better “gotcha” if The Very Man hadn’t run in the Irish Ces the very day the article was released.So much of a non-story that they had to put “amid welfare concerns” in the title for clickbait and repeat it in the body of the article. No further discussion of the welfare concerns- “Gordy sat on a dead horse two years ago” lacking recency and the actual welfare concerns- some of his horses ending up in a scummy abattoir and the even scummier Mahon creature’s case weren’t newsy enough to achieve the coverage that the sitting on a dead horse photo got.
It’s just pretty meh journalism, I guess he’d done his FOI request and decided he’d better make some sort of story out of it as the deadline for the column inches to be filled was looming and he probably just wanted to go home for the weekend and play golf.
Dear ITV Racing , it’s Champions day , I know Frankie is retiring but FFS can we please concentrate on the day
Thankfully the circus is now over.
The things I want most in life are the things that I can't win.
I hope so , sadly having to listen to the AMO racing fella now …. he makes my skin crawl
That is the downside of King Of Steel winning, his owner.
The things I want most in life are the things that I can't win.
Why is it some great horse s are owned by total a*seholes, thank God for JP and the late Trevor Hemmings , watch the first few minutes of the below , 2min 30 gets me eveytime , these people are sadly getting fewer in the game
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