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People who can’t grasp that horses are not robots and whine through their pockets when something doesn’t work out for them. Stick to virtual racing.
And second the drunk thing; that’s one of the reasons I’ve not been to the Festival in years.
Racing programmes that waste too much time focusing on the spectators- Royal Ascot is of course most guilty of this- I detest the fashion pieces taking time away from looking at the horses in the pre-parade ring. But Channel 4 keep taking in the folk kicking about the stands too!
Second, Third , Fourth Colours etc of owners that are indistinguishable from each other.
In last year’s King George we were told to look out for markings on the horses’ noses to tell the main two protagonists apart! Yesterday, we had a terrestrial race at the Cheltenham festival where not even the commentator, who’d probably swotted up for hours, could tell you if the jolly had made a mistake or a nigh identically garbed horse.
Do racing folk not understand the concept of the away kit? The idea is that it’s a completely different colour to make it easily distinguishable.
Racecourses judges, some bust a gut to announce the result without calling a photo and others like the clown at Cheltenham yesterday think it’s good fun to have dramatic pause before announcing the result. Both have got it wrong in my view and one of the newer judges, Di Clark does the job how it should be done imo.
It seems like judges and starters are just allowed to do what they want by the BHA, a judge last year had Cattermole and some women in his box before he had announced the result
Yeats stated…..a judge last year had Cattermole and some women in his box before he had announced the result
AC/DC? Everyone to their own thing, I say. Whatever turns you on.
The phasing out of traditional race titles.
For example, the ‘Grade 1 joebloggsbookies.com Novice Chase’ (registered as the Pendil Novices Chase) etc. Why the ‘Grade 1 joebloggsbookies.com Pendil Novices Chase’ couldn’t work is beyond me.
And the complete removal of a long standing race title to make some tosser of a sponsor happy. Such as tomorrow’s STAYER’S Hurdle.
World Hurdle?
Ugly sponsor logos on fences. It’s okay if it’s a horse feed or the name of a racetrack or something, but garish colors and ads for things like car insurance remind me of NASCAR.
Five live chit chat during the race ,does my nut.
Seconded.
Add me to the Lee McKenzie "not so keen" camp.Gets far too excited for my liking.
Disagree. It’s a pity he’s not doing the Radio 5 racecalling anymore, a class or several above the garrulous old women (Cornelia, Joan and Lucy) that make the R5 commentaries so cringeworthy these days.
Second, Third , Fourth Colours etc of owners that are indistinguishable from each other.
In last year’s King George we were told to look out for markings on the horses’ noses to tell the main two protagonists apart! Yesterday, we had a terrestrial race at the Cheltenham festival where not even the commentator, who’d probably swotted up for hours, could tell you if the jolly had made a mistake or a nigh identically garbed horse.
Do racing folk not understand the concept of the away kit? The idea is that it’s a completely different colour to make it easily distinguishable.
It would be handy to take on the french coloured sash idea.
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No full body shot pictures of horses in their profile on the Racing Post.
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No full body shot pictures of horses in their profile on the Racing Post.
Contrariwise, I thought it was pretty silly of Racing UK to show slow-mo close-ups of all the
jockeys’ faces
before the World Hurdle. It would have made more sense to show us the horses, or failing that a more backward part of the riders. A jockey’s facial features are not the most recognisable part of his or her anatomy during a race.
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