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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?
Like the entire team, she does spend most of the Saturday morning in production meetings…
Can anybody else spot where they’re going wrong?
I think sentiment is blinding a LOT of people.
Blinded? How?
Running a stable is essentially about having an eye for horses and good management and planning skills. Whilst I’m sure that Mike Marshall is capable of performing these jobs, there can be little doubt that Lady Cecil is more than able to run her stables.
Great news that Lady Cecil has applied to continue at Warren Place next year. I’m sure that I’m not alone in wishing her every success.
