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These days there is Betfair Form too…
I wouldn’t know for sure, but it is possible that with the paper version making such profits, the website has been able to be run for the last few years as a loss leader.
I for one would be very annoyed if they did start charging for many of the things on there.
Some of you might think its value, but for the usual racing fan, that isn’t that much of a betting man (usually small stakes) it is awful.
Most people use media (mostly the Racing Post) to get into racing, if they start charging for site usage, it will deter people from the sport, imo.
We pay enough to get into race meeting etc without having to pay for getting form on the internet. They charge enough for the newspaper, which keeps rising.
Horse Racing is something i enjoy but in England it is too expensive to follow that closely.
I recently returned from the US where i went to Santa Anita, and for their biggest days racing in the entire year i was amazed that general admission (Tatts to you and i) was just $5, Club house $8.50 and Turf Club (members) $20!!!!! Their race cards only $2.25 and the DRF $3, i think.
In France it is just the same……..
Why do WE have to pay through the roof for a sport we love to follow? Because a select few are always willing to pay these stupid costs, pushing the smaller fans away.
Adding anymore costs to the RP website, no matter how good it is would be unforgiving imo. I didn’t see that the site needed improving from the last upgrade.
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I doubt very much that the RP website is run at a loss.<br>Google’s advertising revenue for their latest quarter is greater than UK television advertising draws in a year, and they hardly bought Youtube ($I.65 bn) to lose money. <br>Whoever owns the RP in the future, they will probably have to think very carefully before charging for access to their website as we, the public, wouldn’t be wanting to pay to read their adverts and they, the business, wouldn’t want to be alienating a lot of advertisers, many of whom also keep the newspaper in profit.<br>Also, apart from other sites already mentioned as alternatives, Superform racing form is available free on the Wiliam Hill website at the click of a mouse.
Think they should let you have the preferance to get rid of that annoying blue square price box they should let all RUK subscribers should have free use of the video form, other than thats it’s a thumbs up from me.
I’ve just seen all of the free stuff on the Betfair site .. I wont need RP anymore .. still messing around with pdf’s though.
Just tangential, but I don’t think it’s worth it’s own thread.
I’ve been pleasantly baffled by the Daily Mirror’s Saturday racing pull-out. I mean it gives all sorts of snippets of information about racing all over the world, and other insteresting stuff too.
The Mirror has really gone downhill since WWII, particularly with the advent of Cap’n Bob, and it’s now more like a comic for youngsters, full of Coronation St and low-ranking celebs famous for being famous.
But I find it astonishing that they take the trouble to cover racing news world-wide and write as if they take us for adults. A bit like finding a tome of high-falutin’ literature inside a comic.
Racing Post’s new tipping line up
Monday – Mark Winstanley
Tuesday – Simon Rowlands
Wednesday – Mel Collier
Thursday – Richard Austen
Friday – Graham Cunningham
Saturday – James Willoughby
Sunday – Tom Segal<i>Mondays child is fair of face,
Tuesdays child is full of grace,
Wednesdays child is full of woe,
Thursdays child has far to go,
Fridays child is loving and giving,
Saturdays child works hard for his living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay. </i>Yes – the picture of Ann Stokell in my paper has got me all "inspired" this morning Gus.
An easy to keep new years resolution
"I will continue not to pay over 700 euro a year for this toss"
Mondays – child fair of face? Tuesdays child – full of grace?
No hang on a minute … Back to the drawing board
TDK,
I reckon Bob Geldof foresaw this lineup –
" Tell me why, I don’t like Mondays" !
AP
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