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Monday 8 March – 12.00 – 1.00pm – BBC Radio 4
Morrisons stop stocking biodiesel; increase in sales of home brewing kits; a look at disaster appeals; interview with chief executive of NHS Salford about budget cuts to Primary Care Trusts;Regards your first question, this is something that our Integrity Team have now started to do since the appointment of Mark Blackman as our Raceday Ingetrity coordinator. Some interesting thoughs of his on our blogs section:
http://www.britishhorseracing.com/goracing/blogs/integrity.aspInteresting article. Thanks for the heads up.
Prior to every meeting in Victoria, the stewards are given a 45-minute ‘race pace’ briefing by their equivalent of one of our handicappers… That level of briefing does not take place in Britain, and to be fair, with the volume of racing that is centrally governed here, it would require a huge investment in resources to do it.
I’m surprised about this in two senses. Firstly, that it’s not done already and, secondly, the claim that it would take huge investment to do it.
Timeform’s In-Play Race Cards used to carry a pace map [other form services may be available
], so presumably it wouldn’t be that expensive, and there are so many ex-Timeform handicappers on the BHA team these days the expertise required should already be in house.At least if they move all the Group 1 races to Saturday Her Maj can take the first 4 days of Royal Ascot off. She’s getting on now you know.
RFC promised us a regular programme of new initiatives to maintain the momentum that the likes of the decimal odds fiasco created. Astonishingly that seems to have been considered a success because it got non-racing media talking about the sport. Never mind that the coverage was proof that all publicity is not good publicity.
If the RP report
http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-ra … 85306/top/
is really all there was to the latest rip-roaring instalment then we’ll soon be hearing about plans to put extra mayo in the prawn sandwiches.My sentiments towards Racing For Change are like those I have towards Portsmouth. At the start I wished them well and admired their pluck in difficult circumstances, but now I realise that it’s better for the long-term health of the sport if they are put out of their misery soon.
Comparing them to the latest Timeform Global Rankings
http://www.timeform.com/display_article … nkings.asp
it appears as though the level of these ratings is roughly 4-5 lb lower than Timeform for the colts but only 2-3 lb lower for the fillies.Somebody that understands these things can now educate the rest of us by explaining why.
Thanks in advance.
Two interesting and innovative race planning ideas get through in a week.
Is Ruth Quinn off work?
Sorry, I don’t have the time or inclination to read 8 pages of postings but I thought this was a good debunking of RFC by a ‘racing outsider’.
Some doubters may argue that racing has other factors that militate against it attracting youngsters, such as the fact it occurs out of doors and often during daylight, but Racing For Change has done its research and drawn its conclusions. We can only hope that other sports have the sense to follow in its trendy hoofmarks. Football, for example. The average supporter attending Premier League matches these days is aged 44. For many years we have believed that this is because of the rising price of admission. If Racing For Change are to be believed, however, it may simply be that younger people are put off by football’s arcane time‑keeping system, baffled by a game that lasts 90 minutes and is divided into two 45-minute periods when it could, and should, be streamlined into a youth‑friendly 10-by-10-minute format.
Full article here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/20 … ry-pearsonI think the problem with this sort of programme is how attractive it would be for spectators.
I don’t think Southwell survives on the basis of the number of people passing through the turnstiles.
This programme fills a need for trainers and bookmakers and, like others above, I commend the BHA for trying something innovative.
Whilst we’re on the subject, I’d also beseech the BHA to consider laying on some all-hunter chase meetings immediately upon widespread resumption of jumps racing if the cold snap extends much past the February 1st start of the hunter season.
Well I’ll beseech it to cancel all the hunter chases scheduled for the rest of the season and replace them with worthwhile and interesting races, like some of those we’ve lost over recent weeks. I don’t suppose I’m leading a crusade on that one though.
[Have we got ying and yang emoticons?
]There seems to be an implication in this thread [and certainly in Greg Wood’s uncharacteristically flimsy article for which he should be thoroughly ashamed] that Arkle’s rating is an historical "clanger" that Timeform is lumbered with.
Pru will correct me if I’m wrong, but the contemporary Timeform rating for Arkle was something like 220. 212 is the reviewed ‘definitive’ Timeform rating.
The idea that modern handicapping techniques must inevitably come to a different conclusion is a bogus one.
The idea that Phil Smith’s handicapping techniques will come to a different conclusion is, of course, entirely correct. Having shot his mouth off at the National Weights lunch he won’t be ordering a slice of humble pie for pudding.
Reet’s reet.
Entries today, weights tomorrow, final decs Wednesday. All the other jumps decs are made the day before racing as usual.
Excuse my ignorance but would the presence of the said nuts have affected the result!
If a gelding operation had no effect it wouldn’t exist. Whether it has a predictable effect is a different matter, and is irrelevant to my point.
The effects of first-time headgear are also unpredictable, and if this is declared and not worn then the horse would be prevented from running.
I would say that the two are equivalent. If a horse has been declared to run as a colt/horse it should be barred from running or subsequently disqualified if it is actually a gelding. A £100 fine is not proportionate to the offence.
No idea – sounds like nothing more than you taking a bit of hearsay as gospel to me. Unless you could substantiate your claims in anyway, of course….
I know that one firm’s press releases stopped appearing when they scaled down their advertising and I have an e-mail from the man himself saying that appearing in a Pricewise table is linked to the amount of general advertising the firm undertakes.
I’m not judging whether either policy is right or wrong, but it’s not much of a stretch to think Paul might have substantiation to his point that he can’t share for commercial reasons.
It’s interesting that newspaper sales have perked up since the members’ area was launched, because there’s no evidence of that in the ABC figures.
put in perspective its 50p a week more or 90p with weekends
Congratulation sir! It’s a while since I’ve seen that splendidly fatuous argument given an airing. You’ll be happy for them to put it up another 10p every Saturday then.
The RP on Saturday will now be 26% more expensive than it was 3 years ago, against an RPI for the same period of 7.6%.
Hardly anyone thinks it’s as good a product as it was then, and most think it’s worse .
Do anyone really think it will see out another 10 years?
You should have put this in Bruce Millington’s Q&A.
I’d say you’d be wanting a week in Tramore.
Of the 64,317 copies that were sold on average in June 2009, 55,992 were sold in the UK, 7,850 in Ireland and 475 elsewhere. ‘Elsewhere’ gets the main edition, so whether it arrives before racing is anyone’s guess. [Time for someone from the Post to step in.]
Make sure you book the first week of June. The World Cup starts on the 11th.
I’ve had a look at the website, but can’t see jack about it.
Chasers & Hurdlers
Price
£70
Availability
Published annually on the second Saturday in October and available direct from Timeform or from selected agents.
Annoyed at the XC getting a 12.05 start in December, somebody must have done this who has no common sense whatsoever.
Quite. They should have made it the last race so those who care can stay and the rest of us can get off early.
There’s no point in making a change that pleases nobody.
], so presumably it wouldn’t be that expensive, and there are so many ex-Timeform handicappers on the BHA team these days the expertise required should already be in house.
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