The Flat

[droffats]

Is anyone else as underwhelmed as me about the flat. I cannot get any enthusiasm for this weekends Guineas and it seems all rather hum drum and boring.
Roll on October and the jumps again with the great Festuvals starting in November with Cheltenham and Newbury and finishing again with Punchestown

[Cav]

Tremendous time of the year for all, bar the national hunt bellyaching crew.

Today over 220k on offer at Ascot on a midweek afternoon, fascinating Guineas coming up, Chester next week, Dante on the way, soon be Epsom, then roll into the great festivals of the high summer.

Colour, glamour, excitement and variety.

What more do we want.

Do you like that Masar for the Guineas, droffats?

[Marginal Value]

I am a fan of both flat and jumps, but the flat has always been closest to my heart. But I have to admit to a groan of disappointment after seeing the Ascot card for today. Six races, but the last is an OK apprentice handicap – we need apprentice races. But for the other five race races I am surprised that so many trainers and owners turn their backs on £206,000 of prize money; there is an average of just six runners per race. Why do owners not want to have runners at Ascot at a time of year when many of the big hitters are saving their best horses for the Summer? Where are the (good but not grand) trainers with initiative who want to advertise themselves with horses in “Black Type” races at the country’s top track? I suppose it is not surprising that some race courses have to host pop concerts when the racing fraternity cannot support their own sport. Perhaps we will see an evening floodlit FA Cup semi-final on the lawn in front of Ascot’s grandstand sometime in the next few years.

I would be happy for Charlie Appleby’s Masar to win, but even happier if Elarqam proves up to the task.

[DBRDBR]

I agree. I’ll be back here in October.

[befair]

Agree, checking out until October

[greenasgrass]

I quite like the summer jumping evwn if the superstars are in their fields at home. There are sone decent staying handicaps in England through the summer (American is running tomorrow along with the last of the other winter horses and the start of the good ground horses)
Paul Nicholls often gives youngsters a go over fences before they go out in the field and so do some others.
The Irish summer jumps racing is fun to watch at some pretty courses and there are decent horses to follow over the next couple of months all building towards Galway and the rich handicaps there (Balko des Flos won the Plate last year for example).
All against a backdrop of trees in leaf and sometimes even the sunshine

[TheGun]

Pretty pathetic to go to the effort to make this post tbh.

[Jonibake]

Idiotic thread. Perhaps we should call this Thejumpsforum then?

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[Degaussed]

Is there much point in being a jumps racing fan if you don’t spend half your time moaning about the flat?

[Nathan Hughes]

It’s a mystery really
the best way I can sum it up is
Flat and jumps is both horse racing
Liverpool and Atletico Madrid are both football teams
one gets slaughtered for having a shaky defence yet play brilliant attacking football, can score goals for fun
the other gets slaughtered for having a brilliant yet boring defence and sucks the life out of a game
Both sides pick up wins and get the results done, just different styles

Clearly in this case
Liverpool are the Flat of horse racing
Atletico are the the jumps

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