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Must admit I think the innovations are completely pointless, but I still think it’s good value at £1.70 – £1.90 and will happily continue to buy it every day.
Great paper, the RP. Love it. It’ll be here in twenty five years, ne’er mind ten.
The growth of the Internet appears to have spawned an awful lot of skinflints, innit. Tenpence? I’ll bet half you lot thought Mars Bars were
loads
bigger when we were kids.
Well done the Post. Enjoyable innovations today.
Hi Bruce.
Great post.
Cheers.
Or that your eyes were bigger then your belly back then?
Blackbeard to conquer the World
If Mars Bars and packeted sweets in general are not smaller it must be the packets that are getting bigger.
I never bother with the racing post, their website is a big enough wind up, but for what it’s worth my Daily Telegraph went up 10p last week and is now £1.oo per day and £1.80 on a Saturday. Don’t know what price the Sunday Telegraph is as I never buy it. This could be an all round increase that papers put in at certain times each year. it could be just inflation.
I notice the silks are on the other side of the runners now, should have had the numbers on the left hand side of the silks not the right imo like on the Betfair cards
Personally I think it is great value for money. Just think what the horseracing world would be like without it.
I noticed a few changes yesterday and they are quite useful. I would hope a gradual re-arranging of the pages will happen over the next few weeks – do everything at once and people can get confused. I think the best layout would be all the overall stats (signposts,trainers etc) at the start, then each race fully contiguous – card, stats, history, form. All this in the middle of the paper to pull-out, with the features at the start of the paper and the rest (dogs, results etc) at the end.
perhaps a GOOD competitor might have survived
But for a few problems that were none of the racing team’s making, it almost certainly would have.
gc
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perhaps a GOOD competitor might have survived
But for a few problems that were none of the racing team’s making, it almost certainly would have.
gc
In my experience that is the problem with most firms/companies in racing – the people on the front line know what they’re doing and those at the very top….
The website is not carrying the cards from Auteuil today – as per fecking usual – nor does it carry the results from yesterday’s races at the same track. It does, however, carry the runners for some back-end Group 1 in Italy that no-one gives a toss about.
If Bruce Millington is looking in – please get this sorted out. It’s an absolute joke that the website does not carry the card for the best meeting of the day, by far, or the results from the best meeting held yesterday.
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Who has got the card then!
Sportinglife – NOPE
Attheraces – NOPEAdmin change the title, clearly a biased constructed view which isn’t needed.
http://www2.france-galop.com/fgweb/doma … drier.aspx
Here you go.
Mr Wilson – I’m well aware that the card isn’t carried elsewhere – but that’s hardly the sodding point, is it?
The Racing Post is the acknowledged horse-racing trade paper – and it’s website holds the same position online. If the Post website can carry the field for an Italian Group 1 run in November, then it should be able to carry the card for the premier Jumps meeting of France’s autumn season. There is
no
excuse not to carry it.
And I’m more than familiar with the france-galop website, as it’s the only place you
can
get a list of runners for French races.
So thanks for the help, but I was already well ahead of you.
Well, stone me, as Tony Hancock used to say. Who’d have thought it, eh?
But perhaps we shouldn’t be too hard on Mr Millington and his merry band of xenophobes.
Yes, France may be one of only 3 countries in the world where jump racing is of any significance, but, remember that in in non-Anglophone countries like France, many of the people who take part in racing are of swarthy appearance and prone to eating garlic. Some of them even refuse to speak English. And we can’t be doing with any of that sort of nonsense, can we?
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