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Just looking through their Cheltenham articles:
1. Six trainers to have in your corner during the Cheltenham Festival
Now, that’s a good one. Recommending the likes of Elliott, W P Mullins, Henderson, Nicholls, De Bromhead and NTD as the ones to follow.
2. Truly Supreme: five victories that started the festival with a bang
All horses mentioned ran in the new millennium with Brave Inca the “oldest” one going back to 2004.
Hey, if you need a bang then think of Montelado in the 1993 Supreme or Arctic Kinsman at 50/1 in 1994.
Those were REAL bangs. And I’m just talking about the days when I got started. I’m sure that many of you have witnessed a lot more “bangs” in the past 40-50 years.3. Who should be the banker in your Cheltenham Festival accumulator?
Another piece of classic with Paisley Park as the longest priced horse of the banker quintet at 5-4….
Come on, are you trying to win some lunch money or what?Journalism in general has become juvenile and childish. Across all sectors but in particular sport and politics
Couldn’t agree more. The bloodstock section usually consists of hailing some long-established ‘sire sensation’, rather than pulling the data apart for a bit of original thought. Unoriginal, lazy and dull.
Now they have gone for five jockeys to follow and no surprises there!!
I do think that anybody with a modicum of racing knowledge could write these articles.
I prefer somebody with a bit more insight and views coming from left field rather than being asked to read the obvious!!Laziness and lack of imagination but then again that is a description of the youth of today (God I sound old)
Journalism today has to pander to the thick, uneducated, vile and frankly ignorant people of this awful country now. Using words of more than one syllable, or referring to people that Joe Thick in Wetherspoons hasn’t heard of, is considered ‘elite’ now.
If any of the six trainers to follow hadn’t been the obvious ones, no doubt Joe Thick and his* online mate trolls would be swarming all over twitter, facebook etc to tell anyone who would listen that the writer was a nonce and a paedo for not including Elliott/Mullins etc.
*it’s invariably a man who does this.
Laziness and lack of imagination but then again that is a description of the youth of today (God I sound old)
You don’t sound old Raymo, not at all. It’s a fact that the youth of today is not being educated the way school children were educated some 40-50 years ago. Spelling is no longer an issue nowadays with computers and smartphones taking over the auto correction function. And with the internet already full of pictures and ideas, I guess it’s easier to steal rather than creating an own idea.
Another highlight article by the RP’s youth department can be found online:
From Istabraq to Buveur D’Air: JP McManus’s six best horses down the years
No Synchronised, no Wichita Lineman and no Don’t Push It among the best six???
Come on, kids. Grow up….
The basic website info is getting increasingly amateurish too. Can take an hour or more to update results and even then there are sometimes howling errors or omissions with prices, distances or even identifying the right horse as winner! Can only assume there’s been some sort of cost cutting exercise organised by an accountant with no interest in or understanding of what racing audiences need. Seems like a recipe for disaster in the long term
It’s probably being run on a shoestring.
I wouldn’t blame the young journalists, they are probably being paid peanuts, have little or no prior experience and are thus having to learn on the job.
Bobby is correct there. Very much dictated by budget, but you can’t blame the guys hired and given a chance.
It’s the overall management and strategy at the top you have to question.
Why would you pay for members section when it’s all just as bad
All comers, all ground, all beaten
“Why would you pay for members section when it’s all just as bad
“A fool and his money…
See my recent thread:
Now I’m thinking, especially reading Jack’s post, that the huge price rise is to offset unprofitability and that the RP is in trouble. Ripping off loyal customers and slipping standards of journalism will only hasten its end.
from the most-recent filed accounts, to 31 December 2017:
“There will be a renewed focus on automation, efficiency and cost reduction to further drive profitability”
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03387163/filing-history
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