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Jim McGrath’s major putsch against the “Champions Day” initiative has just been reported at length on BBC Radio 4’s PM programme. The RFC gorillas who responded to his criticisms did not sound at all convincing.
Apologies to anyone who already knew about this new initiative – I certainly didn’t and there may be others who are interested.
Jim McGrath & two other complete nobodies heading up the campaign. Five pages of ‘news’ consisting of opinions from a bunch of other nobodies.
A web publisher unfamiliar with the idea of paragraphs, spacing, layout & readability. I’m sure some of the contributors have interesting things to say but I can’t pick them out because it’s all squashed together in a stream of conciousness.
The sort of loaded questionnaire that would make a Tory pollster blush with envy. It’s one thing asking people if they ‘HAVE WORRIES ABOUT’ Champions Day, quite another to ask how much they worry & specifically what those worries are.
I have worries about getting run over, but not enough that they stop me from crossing the road.
Well done Jim. You’ve managed to make the BHA look like a professional outfit.
Horse racing deserves better than Racing For Change; it deserves better than ‘horseracingdeservesbetter’
Laura Thompson fans won’t be happy with your description of the great prose stylist as a nobody, Anthony.
Luckily, swooning Thompsonites will be partly assuaged and pacified by a rare glamour shot from her catwalk days.
Signed and joined.
Jim McGrath & two other complete nobodies heading up the campaign. Five pages of ‘news’ consisting of opinions from a bunch of other nobodies.
A web publisher unfamiliar with the idea of paragraphs spacing, layout & readability. I’m sure some of the contributors have interesting things to say but I can’t pick them out because it’s all squashed together in a stream of conciousness.
The sort of loaded questionnaire that would make a Tory pollster blush with envy. It’s one thing asking people if they ‘HAVE WORRIES ABOUT’ Champions Day quite another to ask how much they worry & specifically what those worries are.
I have worries about getting run over but not enough that they stop me from crossing the road.
Well done Jim. You’ve managed to make the BHA look like a professional outfit.
Horse racing deserves better than Racing For Change it deserves better than ‘horseracingdeservesbetter’This is a copy of the post above but written in the style of the Horse Racing Deserves Better news pages. Just so you know what to expect if you venture onto the site itself. (Only they go on for quite a bit longer than I have and in a bigger font)
I’m not sure Anthony that the layout of their site is particular grounds for dismissing their views (also dismissing them as ‘nobodies’ is hardly charitable or relevant – is it only ‘somebodies’ who are permitted to campaign in this way?).
Personally I am very much against the moving of the Champion Stakes to Ascot, I think it was Apracing who made the point about its value as a unique test at Group 1 level, a unique test that has now been lost, so in that respect I have a sympathetic view of the campaign.
However, I share the concerns about the value of the poll on their site, I’m not sure how that will be particularly informative. I’m also not sure how the changes in any way suggest the BHA isn’t doing “the best for the horse”. ‘The horse’ doesn’t care if it races at Ascot or Newmarket, or whether the Dewhurst and Middle Park are run on the same day or not, in much the same way as it doesn’t care if it wins a seller at Catterick or the Derby.
Anyway – I’ve emailed ‘Racing Deserves Better’ tonight and invited them to contribute to this thread.
Anyway – I’ve emailed ‘Racing Deserves Better’ tonight and invited them to contribute to this thread.
I’ll get my ‘readers’ out then.
Presentation of information is VERY important. If it’s difficult to read, people just aren’t going to bother.
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I think you’re right Anthony about the web design. Poor stuff. A pity – spoiling the ship for a ha’pporth of tar.
The important thing, though, is that somebody with a bit of clout is
doing
something. Jonathan Learmonth, by the way, is the guy who saved the
Queen Alexandra Stakes
at Royal Ascot from the chop a few years back.
Anthony , you need to engage brain before opening your big trap , look at the big picture for once in your life , and ask yourself a simple question , does the overall theme of the site , its purpose . deserve merit , deserve consideration ….or will you just go ahead and slag it off anyway
I guess you must have a brain the size of a pea ….
Ricky
Anthony , you need to engage brain before opening your big trap , look at the big picture for once in your life , and ask yourself a simple question , does the overall theme of the site , its purpose . deserve merit , deserve consideration ….or will you just go ahead and slag it off anyway
I guess you must have a brain the size of a pea ….
Ricky
Ricky, seriously. It’s POINTLESS having a website, a forum, a newspaper, anything if it’s unreadable.
I don’t agree with Jim McGrath about Champions Day but he does have a bit of sense sometimes & could easily persuade me otherwise but I’m not wading through that spiel in the manner that it’s being presented.
You’re familiar with a racecard I take it. They’re well laid out, informative and make the best use of the space available.
If they were presented like this:
2.15Wolverhampton1FrankelFDettoriAged3form111112PawanAged12AnnStokellform0000003DesertOrchidAged34APMcCoyForm111231 etc etc
they’d be useless & you’d end up backing Quixhall Crosset.
Anthony,
I was expecting to find war and peace un-formatted, its only a couple of paragraphs.
Why don’t you cut and paste it into something more readable and forward it to them Via E-mail. They may be grateful, and it would be constructive.
Get a grip Anthony, they are unpaid amateurs. Better to have good intent and poor presentation that the glossy bollocks from racing for change.
Get a grip Anthony, they are unpaid amateurs. Better to have good intent and poor presentation that the glossy bollocks from racing for change.
Good grief. Let me explain this one more time:
Horse Racing Deserves Better are trying to convince people that Champions Day is a bad idea & convince the racing authorities that people are against it.
Poor presentation… it doesn’t matter what comes after that. No-one is going to read it.
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Poor presentation… it doesn’t matter what comes after that. No-one is going to read it.
You know I agree with you about the presentation. But you’re wrong that nobody’s reading it. Plenty of signatories, and plenty of comments too.
Sometimes substance is strong enough to win out over style. In 4th Century Rome all the glamour, money and power was with the sophisticated Pagan leaders. The Christians were an unattractive, badly-led bunch of no-hopers with nothing but one, strong idea (and little skill at articulating it.)
The strong idea won.
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Pinza
Even by your loquacious standards, comparing Jimbo with Jesus Christ might just be a little over the top?
More power to his elbow, though it’s hardly been well publicised. The last time I looked, they only had 640 signatories, and we’ve seen much better supported internet campaigns fall on stony ground before.- Total Posts 17716
Pinza
Even by your loquacious standards, comparing Jimbo with Jesus Christ might just be a little over the top?
More power to his elbow, though it’s hardly been well publicised.
The last time I looked, they only had 640 signatories, and we’ve seen much better supported internet campaigns fall on stony ground before.
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