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The law must’ve changed since you last looked, Meerkat.
There are several bookmakers open until eleven o’clock and even midnight in both my particular London Borough and in central London. The shop at which this attack took place is open until eleven; the same firm has another branch about 300 yards away which remains open until midnight, seven days per week.
Fine. You carry on interpreting things in your own (incorrect) way.
I really can’t be asked any more.
Once again, I am not raising Rishi’s ethnicity- you are.
My question is simply that, assuming that those in authority decided that they had to have a token non-white presenter on their coverage, how did they arrive on such a hapless one as Rishi? There are many more knowledgeable people than him whom I have met both in betting shops and at the races. Assuming that some of these people must’ve applied for the position, did Rishi only get the job due to his alleged closeness with Sir Michael Stoute?
That, not the colour of Rishi’s skin, was the point.
One of my local betting shop managers told me yesterday of an incident which happened last week.
A colleague of his was changing the football coupons when a customer attacked her, physically grabbing her and punching her. She had taken all the usual precautions of making sure that the coast was clear before leaving the counter area; her assailant was apparently watching from across the road and crossed over to attack her when he saw her emerge ftom the protected area. What had she done to merit this attack? Asked the customer to smoke his joint outside, not inside, the shop about half an hour earlier.
The incident took place at about ten to eleven at night, in a part of town which is deserted at that time of the evening. The question that needs to be asked is why is there any need for a betting shop in such a remote location to be open until eleven o’clock at night?
Indeed you could ask the same question about Tanya, Eddie. Or about Nick Luck. Or Graham Cunningham. However, this thread is about Rishi.
Happy to have got it wrong but what does it suggest then??
The point I was raising is that Rishi isn’t the best non-white candidate they could’ve employed. There are many people I have met in betting shops and at the racecourse who have far better racing knowledge than Rishi has so far displayed.
My main question was, essentially, how on Earth did he get the job?
Surely Istabraq shoul have been omitted from the poll?
The best flat horse O’Brien has had so far was Hawk Wing on talent alone, Excelebration on form or Galileo in terms of untapped potential.
As for the poster above who knows of any amount of ‘ethnic minorities’ in betting shops who ‘have forgotten more ……etc’ I would love to know what betting shops he goes into because the vast majority of people I overhear in betting shops regardless of their ethnicity are notable for their total ignorance about horse racing……they know plenty about throwing their money away but neither know or care about racing as a sport and but for betting wouldn’t go anywhere near it.
Ah, don’t you just love it when people put words which you didn’t say into your mouth?Are you Rishi in disguise?
Out of interest, does anybody know how Rishi landed a job in racing in the first place? Walk into just about any bookmakers’ in south London and you will meet both punters and staff from ethnic minorities who have forgotten more about racing than dear old Rishi will ever know. I could find at least a dozen more suitable candidates than him just from the betting shops I regularly visit.
Is there any truth to the rumour that he only got the job because he is friends with Sir Michael Stoute?
I’d love to see Lady Cecil continue with a permanent licence.
Next best option would be for Mike Marshall to take over.
I backed Libertarian @ 6/1 for the Leger. Expecting a "Yorkshire" trainer to go for it even if winning in Ireland. However, now bought by Godolphin and will be trained at Newmarket after the Irish Derby. Less likely to go to Donny now.
Yeah; it’s not as though Godolphin have supported the Leger over the last twenty-odd years or anything.
… moments after Cunningham had drawn attention to the horse’s ugly leg action and inability to cope with undulating tracks.
Did Cunningham mean courses like Ascot, Newmarket and The Curragh? The courses at which Chigun’s last three victories occurred?
If you’re going to have a form "expert", at least make sure he knows what he’s talking about.
Anyone remember El Cuite? A very talented horse who possessed massive potential but never quite hit the heights because of bad luck.
El Cuite was probably the one that got away.
I was at Sandown the day Shahrastani beat Henry’s colt Bonhomie in the Guardian Classic Trial. While there were some long faces in the Cecil camp after their charge had surrendered his unbeaten record to the subsequent dual Derby winner, I got chatting to a couple of the stable lads and they told me that there was a much better prospect in the yard.
Sir Henry liked his horses to finish upsides in their work but there were rare occasions when the riders were allowed to release the handbrake, just to see upon what kind of rare talent they were sitting. On one such occasion, a week or so before this trip to Esher in April 1986, a trio of Bonhomie, Faraway Dancer and El Cuite made their way up the Limekilns and, after half a mile or so, were asked to stretch a little more earnestly. El Cuite quickened in a heartbeat and soon put twelve or fifteen lengths between himself and his toiling companions. Here, surely, was the yard’s number one Derby hope. Sadly, he damaged a tendon shortly afterwards and didn’t reappear until later in the season, hacking up in a Newbury handicap and then winning Group One events in France and Italy.
Kept in training at four, with the Gold Cup his target, El Cuite lost his unbeaten record (he’d easily landed a maiden on his only start at two) when breaking down in the Jockey Club Stakes. He never raced again.
