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First we have the rehabilitate all the jockeys and trainers that get banned for cheating and now wh have this woman on to promote the sport…
[b:174wddc3]Jodie Kidd axed by M&S over cocaine claimsBy [/b:174wddc3]KATIE NICHOLL
Last updated at 00:24 24 September 2007Comments (0) Add to My Stories Supermodel Jodie Kidd has been dropped from a lucrative advertising campaign with High Street giant Marks & Spencer over her drugs-fixing scandal.
The 28-year-old supermodel, who was reportedly caught selling cocaine to undercover reporters, has yet to be told that her £250,000 contract with the store to advertise its credit card and financial services will not be renewed.
Jodie was one of the company’s high-profile signings along with Myleene Klass, Twiggy, Erin O’Connor and Lizzie Jagger.
But the store confirmed it would no longer be using her for any campaigns ? with one source saying: "M&S doesn’t do drugs. Period."Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar … z0vCmDI814
Don’t believe anything you read in the newspapers. Especially the Daily Mail.
Annoyingly, the Metro newspaper has twice this week had a photo of a pretty girl from Goodwood in the main news that’s three times the size of the ‘report’ of the actual racing in the sports section.
I think the NOTW actually had a video and they did her up like a kipper. The point I was making is WTF do C4 think they are doing having someone like this on to promote the sport.
I think the NOTW actually had a video and they did her up like a kipper. The point I was making is WTF do C4 think they are doing having someone like this on to promote the sport.
Fair point although I’d imagine Channel 4 look at her as a ‘horsey’ sort of person.
I think Channel 4 are doing well to have anyone on to promote the sport. The print media too often stick to the lines of ‘here’s a pretty lady at Ascot in a big hat oh & by the way they also have horse racing.’
I’d better stop myself. This is the racing forum & not the ‘why I hate the newspapers’ forum!
Goodwood isn’t Ascot as regards fashion. C4 just trying to ape the BBC Ascot coverage.
Anyone know Goodwood attendances this year as was told it was empty.
From yesterday’s Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop … -race.html
I liked her at Goodwood this week, I thought she brought some style and poise to the occasion, and she certainly knows how to dress. I hope they make more use of her in future.
I like her. Did anyone see her on Who Do You think You Are? Has the gift that a lot of people from the higher eschelons of society have of getting on with people from all walks of life without being patronising.
Goodwood isn’t Ascot as regards fashion. C4 just trying to ape the BBC Ascot coverage.
Anyone know Goodwood attendances this year as was told it was empty.
2010 ATTENDANCE UP AT GLORIOUS GOODWOOD
2010 2009 +/-
Tuesday 13,003 13,767 -764 (-5.5%)
Wednesday 16,705 15,530 +1,175 (+7.7%)
Thursday 20,607 19,414 +1,193 (+6.1%)
Friday 20,784 20,209 +575 (+2.8%)
Saturday 21,533 22,031 -498 (-2.3%)
92,632 90,951 +1,681 (+1.8%)
nevermind jodie kidd , what was matt dawson doing on the there , the idiots guide to horse racing i think it was meant to be . cant stand the bloke
Goodwood to combine Tuesday and Saturday in 2011 to create “a more Glorious Goodwood”.“Don’t think of it as a four day Glorious Goodwood”, said Adam Waterworth, the new Chief Executive at Goodwood Racecourse. “Think of it as a Glorious five days, but squeezed into four!”
Attendance figures show that Tuesday is the least attended day of the meeting – despite staging the famous Gordon Stakes, the Betfair Lennox Cup and the historic Molecomb Stakes, most notably won by Hotbee at 100/1 in 1985.
The new head honcho on the Richmond estate is adamant that the change is key. “Racing on Tuesday is clearly an anachronism embedded in olden times, so creating a unique Tuesday-Saturday hybrid next year is a modern and radical solution – something we’re good at here at Goodwood. We’re passionate about radicalism on the south coast, as you know.”
“Plenty of major racing innovations started here at Goodwood,” Waterworth boasts. “Starting flags, PA commentary, overhead shots from Zeppelins, popular musical entertainment, admission fees which track Premier League prices, repeat Ladies Days, changing historic race names to accomodate commercial partners, and selective watering to help racing suits the needs of our primary customers, the bookmakers – all of this started here at Goodwood, Rod Fabricius told me. We’re proud of that.”
Waterworth escorts me through a series of brightly coloured spreadsheets.
“We’re hoping those 13,000 people who attended Tuesday this year would now come on the Saturday,” he says. “Added to the 21,000 who came this year at the weekend, we’ll be expecting an attendance of 34,000 at least. Possibly more. It’s simple logic, isn’t it. Sometimes you have to cut to the chase and make the big decisions, but this is simple maths – the decision makes itself. 34,000 is better than 21,000 is bigger than 13,000. We can’t wait for next year now.”
Despite overall attendance increasing, a trend reported at other courses throughout the country in the face of the worst recession since the thirteenth century, Waterworth won’t be resting on his laurels.
“We want to stage horse racing when people can attend. We’ve been in touch with Rod Street at Racing For Change and he’s for it. In fact, he’s over the moon.”
Waterworth’s plan is advanced and well structured. “By adding the Lennox and the Gordon to the Saturday card, morphing the Molecomb into the penultimate Nursery handicap and moving the apprentice handicap back to our Cocked Hat meeting, we’ve created a new improved spectacle for our customers – in essence a “Super TueSaturday, which, if you think about it, is an entirely new concept in the calendar!”
You can read the full article – and a musical contribution from Sea mus and his Singing Hosepipe on…
VG Max
I thought this Jodie Kidd cocaine business was years ago? I can’t see why anyone would wish to make an issue out of it.
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Extremely enjoyable, Max.
Yet having heard Lord March on Radio 4’s
PM
news programme yesterday evening, only two days on from his beloved festival, less of a parody than we might have hoped. This particularly ignoble lord was loud in favour of racehorse championships
("in Formula 1 we get the cars out every couple of weeks, and racehorses should be exactly the same")
as well as Branding
("there’s some excellent product out there, but Racing needs to capitalize on it")
and Marketing
("we need to innovate. Racing is stuck in the 19th century")
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And so forth and so on. My one
(ignoble)
thought after hearing this particularly imbecile son-and-heir, was that maybe Branding ought to start at home. I’ll volunteer to heat the irons…
Cheers chaps. I had a nightmare about 3.30 last night in which I was getting married and afterward, I couldn’t get back to sleep!!
Pinza, I can’t believe Lord March but then I can. Goodwood are actually innovators with little regard for tradition and Lord March seems to be on the same boat as all the marketeers surrounding racing’s camp like Custer’s demented cavalry.
Why can’t they see that tradition is a currency with its own value and that there isn’t THAT much wrong with the sport?
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