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Wouldn’t be much good closing with a race that decided the jockeys championship seeing the last race is not on C4.
Presumably you’re not joining the folk who will be paying an admission fee at Doncaster today?
Forgive me if I get the Dubai Arabs mixed up but I believe the AlMactoom family is who Godolphin is.The Princess, I believe races in the deep green color with the red cap.So there has been some small effort to widen the field.
You’re either pissed, clueless or a combination of both.
A fantastic day of racing at Newmarket today, particularly for those who are capable of looking beyond the boredom that both Ballydoyle and Godolphin bring to the sport!
Exactly my point. Not a great return on their investment is it? Hardly likely to set the bloodstock world on fire.
As for the other lot it seems to be a case of let’s see how many darts, purchased via our ill-gotten gains, we can throw at the dartboard before one hits the bulls eye.
If that constitutes excitement, bring back Cliff Thorburn.
Exactly why is it brilliant?
The Ballydoyle scattergun approach that makes Clive Brittain look astute?
Godolphin’s perpetual purchase and ruinisation of good horses?
Wonderful stuff!!
Late season the going at Ascot can often be testing. Which trainer would risk a top class horse on such ground when the Breeders Cup meeting is imminent?
Exactly what will the British Champions Series achieve? Unless possession of the title proves capable of significantly enhancing the stud value of a horse, the answer is very little.
This ‘initiative’ represents no more than an ill-conceived tinkering with the structure of the race programme, or pattern, and will do little to address the issues that racing in this country faces.
In the context of the BCS and Champions’ Day the requirement, surely, should have been for a thorough review from season start to end of an outdated series of Group races that sits ill at ease with the structure of racing on an international basis. By all means do away with tradition but only if the course of action will benefit the greater good of the sport.
Racing for Change – changing racing for the sake of it.
Harry Findlay is to racing what George Best was to football,what Hurricane Higgins was to Snooker,
What a complete and utter load of bollocks – you should be banned from posting to the forum for uttering such sh*t!
I like Harry, says it how it is
Like him so long as it’s not your money that he’s taking with his loveable, cheeky chappie routine? His Mum would love you!
Why doesn’t the loud-mouthed, self-publicising little mummy’s boy p**s off and stick to betting on tennis. Racing doesn’t
need
sh*ts like you.
Go Nic!
Are you, by any chance, related to Montague Rhodes James of Canon Alberics Scrapbook fame? I think we should be told.
Feast or famine.
Why on earth the need for 6 flat meetings tomorrow (Friday)? The whole lot, from the number of meetings per day, through to where, geographically, meetings are held on a given day and right down to the structure of individual racecards, in terms of the distances being raced over, is a complete shambles.
Please release the chimpanzees from the ‘planning’ room, admit the experiment was a mistake and exercise some rational thought.
It’s a Racing for Change initiative.
Next year, the Cheltenham Gold Cup meeting will be held in August with Royal Ascot, hosting all the Classics plus the Champion Stakes, switched to February.
If Aidan O’Brien’s quotes regarding SSB’s speed at home are to be believed, then the rest of the field won’t see him for dust. Or was this particular piece of work run on a downhill gradient steeper than Epsom’s 5, with a tail wind and a 3 stone rider on board?
SSB dominated the Golden Jubilee and returned a relatively slow time. In the hope that we see a stronger pace at Newmarket, I’ll be looking to oppose him with something from the pool of horses that were beaten in the GJ, with Kingsgate Native thrown into the mix, ground and draw on the day taken into account.
Some great jumpers mentioned here, rightly so. For me, though, this really was a golden era on the flat. Aside from the obvious greats at the start of the decade we had the likes of Grundy, Bustino, Dahlia, Allez France, Pawneese, Flying Water, Lianga, Rose Bowl, Sagaro, Le Moss, Youth, Wollow, Trepan, Alleged, The Minstrel, even the handicappers of that era had a magical quality; the list goes on.
Aside from the horses, we had Shoemaker riding Hawaiian Sound in the Derby, the introduction of Steve Cauthen, Piggott, Eddery, Carson – fantastic stuff!
Had Saturday’s afternoon meetings been spread across the weekend, it seems probable that the number of attendees would have been similar. Would the amount spent on the LCDs of booze and betting have been the same? Perhaps not.
Saturday did, however, represent an opportunity missed. Staging Haydock in the afternoon and Chester in the evening would have allowed coach and stag parties to attend both meetings, thereby swelling the coffers even more. The only requirement is for both courses to reach a sensible agreement on the last and first race times of the respective meetings, not too difficult I’m sure.
Perhaps there are more fundamental issues, rather than the appearance of saddlecloths, decimal odds and the transfer of the Champion Stakes, to consider. There’s only one way to settle this…..
