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One trick of ‘writers’ (ahem) like this moron that has for years now truly p***ed me off to blood-boiling levels is the fact that they lump equestrian and racing professionals in with moronic city dwelling tossers out for a jolly not knowing what the f*** they’re watching and make it sound like every weigh-anchored socialite or suit-wearing male tart there was a staunch racing supporter or indeed involved in the sport.
Sadly we can’t stop morons like that attending race meetings any more than the Daily Mail can stop educated people slating pathetic sensationalist crap like this article!
Bloody furious about it, if you couldn’t tell. Who is this brain dead excuse for a ‘writer’ anyway? I have no idea who this woman is, despite the fact that she clearly considers her opinion to be of earth shattering importance.
Stilvi – the issue of whether people have too much to drink while socialising at a race meeting has little or nothing to do with the welfare of horses.
She’s adopted a ‘throw as much mud at the wall and see what sticks’ approach. IMO she’d have been better served concentrating on one or two if the issues she raised and then doing some proper research.The fact that she wears leggings was a given.
The MoS have lost more readers than any other Sunday newspaper since October 2006. Nearly 200,000 readers have stopped buying: (even the doomed Sunday Express isn’t losing readers at that rate).
Employing humourless gorgons like Ms Jones (and her stinky leggings) to scribble pointless hatchet jobs like this one is hardly likely to reverse the trend.
Ah, they have published one negative comment…
No I don’t agree with Liz. Surely they are doing as much as possible to make the course safe. Year on year you see the improvements being made. There are more humans killed by cars every year, end of story.
– Mary, Enniskillen
Judged by the way she looks i bet she never gets shagged.
I do and no doubt many agree that their are some people out in the world who treat animals like shite and do deserve to be named,shamed and castigated from people in the real world.
As for saying about finding beer bottles and drunk people unfortunatley this is Liverpool and to my knowledge they do not have a small sweet sherry and talk about the latest in the world of fashion.
As for cheering horses who fall, yes it can be a daft thing to do but in the heat of the moment punters want horses to fall as it gives their chance a better chance of winning but for myself i have never cheered even if mine has benefitted from it.
This woman needs to get from out of her own backside and live a little.
I’m sure it was Liz Jones who featured in Private Eye for writing about her £600 leggings repeatedly in her column.
How does one get to spend even a tenth of that figure on leggings? Three quid on most market stalls, or no more than £8 in New Look, surely.
Like most material in the Mail, the Jones article constitutes factual distortion on a catastrophic scale. Not without reason did someone think to invent that Daily Mail Headlines Generator (the one that spits out random headlines such as “Do single mothers impregnate farmers?” or “The unions hurt Britain’s swans”, etc.). Not without reason is it as disturbing as it is amusing.
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The most disagreeable part of that article, for me, was when she said that the crowd were cheering when horses fell during the race, and specifically laughed at Mckelvey when he broke his back.
It’s true that at the races, you do sometimes hear people shouting ‘fall!’ when a horse is coming to the last fence; usually it’s those who are too naive to realise the possibly-fatal consequences of a horse falling or because they wrongly think it’s funny to shout it. But this isn’t what she means: she suggests that the crowd is full of bloodthirsty sadists who want to see horses die (it’s likened to bear-baiting and dog-fighting). Aintree is described as if it’s a noisy, disorientating, threatening Hell. It’s not quite that bad.
Re: £600 leggings. Liz Jones regularly shows off about her Mercedes and her countryside mansion too. She’s a snob, and much of that article (i.e., outlined above) is seemingly a product of her snobbery.. and knowing nothing about the subject whatsoever.
she has a face like a melted wellington
I don’t think criticising her looks will do our credibility (as the opposing voice) any favours; but that really made me laugh.
I replied over 5 hours ago & still not appeared, guess the Mail doesn’t believe in democracy & two sides to every story, pathetic.
I tried to post but kept getting an endless series of number/letter identifiers to fill in.
I tried not to laugh at ‘melted wellington’ also but failed.
Have sent this letter to the Editor, as they are not showing any of our views on their web site.
May be if you feel as strongly as I do, we should boycott the Mail Newspapers.Obviously racing does have some problems and there are questions to answer but this was a disgraceful piece of one sided journalism by the author.
Liz Jones obviously went to Aintree without an open mind. Otherwise she would not have gone with Dene Stansall of Animal Aid. Not as said, a reputable organisation but trouble makers. British Police stop trouble makers from causing trouble, which was why this individual was refused entry. Trouble makers often need to be restrained which was probably why this man and his daughter were the previous day. So this 14 year old is instigating legal action. Is this to do with her injuries? Or is it just possible Dene is trying to use his 14 year old child for publicity purposes? An unbiased reporter may have pointed this out. Presumably she was not with Mr. Dene the previous day when this incident happened. If I turn up with a terrorist I would expect the police / security to keep an eye on me, just as I would if turning up with an “animal activistâ€Value Is Everything
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