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Years ago a lot of jumps races were sponsored by Edinburgh Woollen Mill…….I guess they probably made the tweed clothing that racing folk were fond of
They owned a lot of horses, too.
One of my favourite races was the H & T Walker Gold Cup, which is now the Amlin 1965 Chase. It used to be a limited handicap for second season chasers and some very good ones won it, too; I recall one vintage edition in which Very Promising slammed Buck House. It’s a shame that the race is now an open Grade One, instead of the natural target for those just out of novice status which it once was.
However,
I do think it is wrong that a horse short of top class has still got a good race named after him, where as there are outstanding Champions with nothing.I take it that you hate the Rapid Lad Handicap at Beverley, then?
Depends, I imagine, on whether the identity of the six Easter Saturday fixtures was already confirmed in the 2014 fixture list before the Good Friday meeting was rubber-stamped.
The 2014 fixture list wasn’t announced until 10th October, so there would have been plenty of time to juggle the rest of the Easter weekend’s meetings and keep Good Friday free.
…nor anyone talking about it.
Exactly. This is the sort of story the press ought to cover but won’t.
All of those professions you list (with the exception of stable staff), Lingfield, provide essential services. Is it vital to look after addicts on roulette machines?
Would you Adam and Eve it? One of the major bookies (I won’t mention them by name but you could shave in the reflection off their boss’s head) is planning to open on Christmas Day! Bets won’t be able to be taken over the counter, as the licence doesn’t allow for that, but- hoorah!- FOBTs are licensed to operate 365 days per year, so staff will have to forego their turkey in order to babysit the needy and greedy and watch the roulette wheel spinning on the big day itself.
In other news, one of their rivals (they think they’re wacky and irreverent, but actually they’re tacky and irrelevant) is having their Christmas party next week. Staff have been invited to drink and dance until 3am…. but are still expected to report for duty four hours later. Couldn’t they have delayed opening until 10am on one day only? Or is the rush of FOBT customers on Tuesday mornings that important to their business model?
A nice easy one: which subsequent winner of Ascot’s King George made a winning début at the rewarding odds of 50-1?
It’s a new card for a new racing day on Good Friday
Which is exactly the point I was trying to make. There is no need for it on Good Friday; the card could easily have been held on Easter Saturday.
Gentildonna? Deep Impact’s second Japan Cup winner but also his first; his first Horse Of The Year in Japan, too.
I can well remember Broadsword tipping up at the last in what is now the Aintree Hurdle in 1982. He was just about to swoop past Pollardstown and Daring Run at the time; my weekly £1 bet went down with Peter Scudamore that day.
Their website page about the finals day doesn’t make it clear either way.
Funny; their website doesn’t explain why Finals Day couldn’t be held on a Saturday, either.
Nicky Henderson has had his say on the subject. You have to agree with him, and with the posters above: the current situation is a joke.
Today’s a wonderful day for National Hunt aficionados. Six belting events at Fakenham, while the flat boys have to put up with twenty three low-grade races on synthetic surfaces. Isn’t that what the jumps season is all about?
