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I agree with yeats. Too much racing is concentrated on Saturdays- holding a top-class meeting on a weekday is a good move and hardly an insurmountable problem for those who really want to attend.
Wonder if IMG will be keeping the, ahem, poetry in the Cheltenham programmes.
That and the pointless musical interludes. We don’t need to see misty early morning skies and racegoers drinking, set to music. What we
do
need to see are horses in the paddock and on their way to the start.
Who wrote the following, about what and whom?
"There is no earthly point in our staging championship races when the supposed champions, though admittedly fit and well, do not contest them. It makes a mockery of a universally approved system."
I was tempted to say our very own andyod, talking about Frankel and Sir Henry Cecil. The problem is that that quotation is far too eloquent to be from him.
Must be a case of more is better I guess. Unfortunately, that’s rarely been the result at C4 racing.
Indeed, BlackGold. Sometimes, less is more.
Am I alone in yearning for the old days? Peter O’ Sullevan commentating and Julian Wilson doing everything else. Simple, uncluttered and enjoyable. Why do we need so many people to do what was previously done infinitely better by two?
Shame that Two Rockers didn’t have an Albert Bartlett entry….
Yeah. Who’d have thought that a horse which has won a point and twice won over 21 furlongs in the mud at Towcester might stay three miles.
Seeing that most hurdlers at the course are bought off the flat, as opposed to being bred for jumping, this seems a sensible move.
However, the extrapolation of any figures for falls over the new hurdles should be treated with the utmost caution.
…. he seemed a little off the mark with his racing knowledge
Alice Plunkett makes me want to pack in racing.Why have racing presenters who lack racing knowledge?
And, on the second point, Graham Cunningham has the same effect on me. Made out of cardboard (even Jim McGrath looked animated next to him at Kempton today), dull as ditchwater, repetitive as a scratched record and completely clueless to boot- according to him, Ruby Walsh was "obviously" going to make the running on Irish Saint today.How did this numpty land the job? I’d rather listen to Thommo’s banal offerings than put up with Cunningham’s pseudo-intellectual piffle.
Again, goodfellow, while your two selections were both very good steeplechasers they weren’t the Duke’s best. Barton Bank was shaping up to be one of the all-time greats until his back injuries and sinus problems caught up with him after his mishaps in the 1994 Charlie Hall and King George.
Sorry, goodfellow, but Mighty Mogul wasn’t even the best hurdler in his yard, let alone one of the best of all time.
Gold River, winner of the 1981 Arc as well as the Prix Royal-Oak and Prix du Cadran.
PS: your puppies have probably long been named by now, but I’ve only just joined the forum.
I was there for both Lydian and Mill On The Floss, so remember the delays.
Here’s my question: complete the sequence
Ostrya
Catalpa
???But I suppose the argument is that addictive gamblers would simply move onto another outlet…
Indeed they would; that’s why virtual racing should be banned, too.
Problem gamblers tend to be after the quick fix and both FOBTs and virtual racing satisfy this need: no thought or work is required- the punter simply picks a number and bets on it.
In my extensive experience, both as a customer and as a betting shop manager, such punters would give up completely if they only had real sports upon which to bet, as actually thinking and working out an event is simply too much effort.
Ta VtC.
What is the connection between the following horses?
Lydian
Mill on the Floss
Young SenorAll three refused to enter the stalls in Epsom classics: Lydian in the 1981 Derby, Mill On The Floss the ’86 Oaks and Young Buster the ’92 Derby.
