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as per topic heading in my opion the races are wasted on those hoo raa henry types that could not give a toss for racing as for trying to attract this type of person to the races you have more chance of frankel winning the champion hurdle!!! i might be doing a diservice because i am a nh fan but do like the flat i am sure you wouldnt see the type of person in the middle of winter!
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Yes but Cliffo what would i do with my 4 morning suits??? Not too many places to wear them here!
lend me one got a wedding to go to next week hope your a big size mind hee hee hope your well
as per topic heading in my opion the races are wasted on those hoo raa henry types that could not give a toss for racing as for trying to attract this type of person to the races you have more chance of frankel winning the champion hurdle!!! i might be doing a diservice because i am a nh fan but do like the flat i am sure you wouldnt see the type of person in the middle of winter!
You have clearly never been to Royal Ascot then?
The overwhelming majority of racegoers at the Royal Meeting are anything but Hooray Henry types.
I take your point about most of the racegoers not caring about the racing but, sadly, that can be said about far too many race meetings.
I have always contended they could run three legged donkey races at Chester and they would still fill the place out.
A sad fact of life I’m afraid.
The Plebeians’ relationship with the ennobled, aristocratic and monied is a strange juxtaposed mixture of fawning doff-yer-cap-tug-yer-forelock – witness the transmogrification of the Cecil trickle into a Sir Henry gusher – and the rather unpleasant dismissal of them, which can only come from the insecure ‘who know their place’, as Toffs and Hooray-Henrys
Presumably this denigration is intended as a counter to the polar opposite dismissal of all the unmonied as Chavs and Scum-from-the-Slum
For chrissakes, there are good bad and indifferent in all walks of life and in all ‘social strata’. Treat all as equals and judge as individuals
Dukes and Dustmen: all the same to me. If I like ’em I do, if I don’t I don’t
There will always be two types of racegoer (and I know you could categorise into further sub-groups).
Those with a genuine interest in racing which extends beyond the periphery, and those for whom racing is a social day out where the racing is the means to an end rather than end in itself.
Both can, and need to, co-exist quite happily as has been the case for centuries.
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