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…accoring to Sporting Life someone had ten grand on Main Aim. Doctor, get the nausea pills, and quickly!
…he was too short to back on his ownio, which was I had him in in a multiple with Harbinger and Monsieur Chevalier.
I recently read Patrick Veitch’s book. Good quote in it that goes something like this: ‘Remember, you are betting on animals running across a field.’
I am suspicious of all this modernising, ‘how can we make racing more popular’ stuff – I’m 39, so not exactly in the tweed set – because one of the attractions of racing is that it hasn’t got a ‘contemporary’ feel, that it remains cheerfully immune to the marketing men and all the other drones who would make it as flashily offensive as premiership football (after seeing that violent moron Gerrard get bailed out by 12 Liverpool fans in the jury on Friday, I’ve had enough of football in Britain). It’s got style, rather than excess, as its chief aesthetic quality. Sure, there’s drunken chavs – the ones in top hats and the ones in leaisurewear – but by and large it’s hung on to a bit of tradition and in a country rapidly changing out of all recognition, that’s pleasant.
I hope the paper survives. The website, as I am sure has been well said on here, was buggered up ages ago. I didin’t use their site when it was free so I won’t be paying for it…
>>included a racecard & pork pie.
HA HA! For some reason that made me laugh. The comic properties of pork pies, I suppose.
Brighton Races is a nice afternoon if the weather’s good. The facilities are as ugly as sin, but that’s ‘modernising’ for you. The bar above the parade ring is nice enough and has an amazing view of the coast.Yes, it was very cheering. Brightened a day otherwise completely ruined by several savage demonstrations of racing’s ruling physical force: Sod’s Law.
Books that I have found informative are The Punter’s Friend by Jack Waterman and the Racing Post Guide to Betting on Horses. Both can bought off Amazon.
I don’t know that a really useful, realistic guide has actually been written. It would need to be very infromative, obviously, but also rather philosophical, given the nature of gambling on horses.
Nick
