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Yes I did watch the video thanks moehat, made by activists.
Go on then, rather than just provide a link made by someone else, in your own words tell me how he would be dangerous?Richard, just because Musk has found a new way to try to influence people it is much the same thing Labour did try to influence people so quite why you are calling him out, and is hypocritical from you.
And it still does not answer why you think Reform are a threat, a threat to who?
moehat, so what is a racist and what proof do you have Nigel is one?
Richard, so it was quite okay then for Labour to send 100 of their people to try to interfere with democracy and the result of the election in America?
Sounds very hypocritical from you?moehat “ He terrifies me”.
Quite a statement. In what way does he terrify you? There must be specific’s?
I quickly saw the title of this thread and assumed Arkle comparison’s not the race were being made.
After the previous race, as the horse jumped the last and went away it fully reminded of Arkle.
This one will step up to three miles in time, be more of a beast, and become a legend at least par with Arkle.
With Coral’s
Trump 4/5.
Harris 11/10.
Close indeed. Suspect there may be many ‘recounts’!I do wonder if Dettori wasn’t such a big part of the day and worked out well for the scriptwriter, how the meeting would have been seen then?
Okay, great run by King of Steel, but………..
Pretty ordinary to me that the meeting did not set itself apart from others.I find Champion’s day a bit ‘odd in that there are all sorts of Champion’s races throughout the season.
At this time of year it feels like the flat season should be winding down after the Cesarewitch, with the November handicap drawing a close to the turf season.
Now, the focus should turn more to the jumps.
Champion’s day feels like one of those crackpot British Racing ideas, trying to over engineer something that does not need to be.
I still feel all these years later that my idea of making the Balmoral handicap into a national lottery sweepstake would increase interest for the day at least ten fold.
There, about 20 joe punter’s would each have won a million quid or more, and major charity’s received much needed funds.Even on here there were objection’s and no enthusiasm, so there it ended.
Shame as it may have made some of us willing to give this a go a ‘pretty penny’ to bring the idea to life, and also an opportunity to raise their name as a major fundraiser.
At this time, I don’t think so.
About half the country likes a gamble on the horses one way or another.
To me, racetracks looks full, people see it as a day out with improved facilities.
The only thing that couple spoil it now are interventions that are not needed. The BHA’s campaign to get more students in, people who have no money wasn’t thought out.
That’s the only danger I see is the people in power who can change things for change sake, and in the process ruin the product.
Absurd!
There should be a referendum on this!Joking aside, I feel more would welcome this change.
As you say Richard man has been at war for thousand’s of years, it’s like nature has put this destructive gene in our DNA, maybe to keep human numbers down.
With plagues, and various climate changes over the millenium’s etc, I think our mother nature has a lot more say in our life than we think.
I was reading that our Queen liked him, and apparently delayed their Christmas dinner for an hour when he had a Christmas day special.
I haven’t heard of him for years, and assumed wrongly he had already died.
But at his peak on his time on this earth, he was liked/loved by tens of millions.
Shame he just disappeared into relative obscurity, while other populars from yesteryear have been treasured until they passed.
Like others, certainly interested before the age of ten.
My Dad took us to Huntingdon in the sixties, and to other racetracks if we were near one while on holiday.
We didn’t go in the stands then, but could roam about and explore in the inner wide expanse most racecourses could offer.
Of course, a little bet was put on for us to add more interest to the day, but the day out was more than a raceday, it was a picnic, time for ball games, some great family time together.
The Grand National was the big day each year. In the seventies, my Dad started doing the ITV seven. He asked me and my brother to pick out two horses in each race, and along with his choices formed multiple races choices to a 1p EW stake.
The bet sometimes came to a whopping £2.64 if we chose quite different horses.
He did get all seven up one weekend which came to over £600.I am sure by a number of accounts, it was by being brought to the racecourse fuelled the interest which still exists today.
Made me laugh when I saw the BHA initiative to get more people interested in racing, so they targeted students, who have no money?!Earliest memories of horse racing.
Of course the Grand National.
Think it was a front running horse called Tipperwood who led the Scottish National, but was beaten by Young Ash Leaf around the home turn.
Watching a dog jump in the water at the water jump (may have been Newton Abbott), and came out covered in newts.
Picking an 8/1 winner called Damastown at Newmarket in the late sixties, maybe early seventies!
Watching black and white midweek ITV racing with John Rickman, and remember John Tyrell reading out the results, the ITV patent and sounding like he had one tooth in his mouth.
Pendil, who seemed to be on a lot and not against big fields. But oh the tones of O’Sullivan who didn’t used to say much early on, and did not need to.
Andy Turnell, who seemed to ride short rein like Pigott with his bum stuck up in the air.
Bula, Sea Pigeon, Birds Nest, Lanzarote, Comedy of Errors, Brigadier Gerard, Snow Knight, to name but a few.It felt like the race was just ‘get it out of the way’ on two accounts, the clash with the FA cup and the protesters, just the same as the National.
Who really won?
Not good for the second largest spectator sport in the country.The FA cup wasn’t great either.
Not a good day for our largest spectator sports.
