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Agree entirely.<br>The yard has great financial backing but has its fair share of expensive disappointing types.<br>The acid test will be if the yard can consistently compete with Pipe, Nicholls, Hobbs etc , especially in the big races
See he is in at Windsor tomorrow , newly gelded with first time blinkers and Spencer up.<br>Pedicted SP 12/1 sixth best.<br>Good luck!
A legitimate view Sal.<br>I’m not part of the horsey set, just follow racing.<br>Is there such thing as a soft fall for over half a tonne of horseflesh travelling at say 3o mph or so?<br>Why is remounting banned in 3 day eventing? What`s the difference?
CHIC ran very wide under a French jockey in Ireland last time behind Attraction.<br>Very short at 9/4 for HQ today.<br>Dennis has just bismarked it!
This 2 year old filly has been on the go since mid April.<br>Looked to me as if she’d cried enough for now
A potential rival has fallen by the wayside with Paul Nicholls`s Strong Flow being retired due to a knee injury
Concur that horses from relatively small and unfashionable stables can go off at inflated prices.<br>However worries in this case must be-<br>-15 weeks off with a leg injury<br>-Major doubts he will stay (connections also fearing rain)<br>-good enough for group 1?
Don’t start me off on one of my pet topics!.<br>Obviously the pari-mutuel monopoly subsides admission fees in France and attendances are not huge anyway.<br>Forumites connected with the betting industry will doubtless tell us how good the bookies in the UK are for freedom of customer choice and competition.<br>However for those of us who follow the game, enjoy the spectacle and only have a small punt racing is IMO way overpriced in the UK.<br>At my local track admission is £14 minimum plus racecard plus beer at £3 per pint plus any food plus any bets. This pricing is unchanged to watch mid-winter, banded, AW, matinee dross!<br>Good to see that the Ascot meetings transferred to Newbury and HQ got dismal turnouts.Perhaps the highly paid racecourse PR and marketing people will get the message!
On the basis of this season’s form there had to be doubts as to whether RR had trained on.<br>She was suited by race conditions at Hamilton.<br>I’d be wary.
According to Radio 5 Live the attendance at Market Rasen yesterday was higher than that at HQ.<br>Furthermore Radio 5 reckon that today’s attendance at HQ is well down on yesterday`s- not many punters in the ring.<br>On a sunny but windy day, potential racegoers obviously kept their £14-£22 admission fees in their pockets and went elsewhere.<br>Can’t really blame them.Lacklustre fare today with weak Group Races.<br>Leo wins the Royal Lodge spiking the reputations of the Tabor/Stoute and Godolphin runners.33/1 for the 2000 Guineas seems about right.<br>A humdrum sprint won at 20/1 by a horse useful some years ago for Hannon,since gelded and  running in  first time blinds (group sprinters this year only h’cap class).<br>Highspot was the 8 year old Mubtaker at odds on beating a hurdler and plodders who would be better off facing 12 flights of hurdles.<br>Uninspiring <br>
(Edited by Lingfield at 10:05 pm on Sep. 25, 2005)
Think posters have got off the original point of this thread.<br>The state of the going won`t have any influence on the disappointing attendance!
It was a respectable effort on only his second race in about a year having been thrown into a Grade 1 chase at Lingfield prior to today.However it is a long way from a novice chase at Market Rasen in receipt of 8lb from the second to the festival.Odds unchanged at 20/1 for Gold Cup.Also made a few mistakes.Hope will be that he comes out sound, improves for the race and is suited by a more galloping track.  <br>
(Edited by Lingfield at 10:21 pm on Sep. 24, 2005)
True that the jockeys choose where to ride, especially at Newmarket with its wide open spaces.Was it at Newbury that Fallon nicked a fillies race by racing alone on the stands side?<br>However at some tracks the draw can dictate where you end up racing e.g. Beverley and Chester.<br>
Agree entirely.<br>A surfeit of racing planned for HQ inevitably meant that potential racegoers ,with limited expenditure available, voted with their feet.<br>Interesting that although attendances are reportedly up overall, gates for these transferred meetings from Ascot are disappointing. I still believe that going racing is an expensive afternoon out and more imaginative marketing and offers would bring racegoers in.Look at the problems top flight football is having at the moment – expensive and predictable product ,practised by overpaid prima donnas, out of reach of the general public and sold out to TV equals empty seats.<br>Also concur about the going. Different types of going on different parts of the track have been a feature at Newbury and elsewhere. York`s state of the ground, including for the transferred Royal meeting is a disgrace.
(Edited by Lingfield at 10:00 pm on Sep. 24, 2005)
