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Had to laugh last night when I went on the new RP site.
I forgot to log in and found that RP betting forecasts are now PPV also via the members only section.
And what has happened to the video quality on the racing replays? When they first switched to the new site it was good quality video, now it’s a pixelated mess. There used to be a button you could choose between low quality and high quality video – what happened to that. I now seem stuck with 56k quality video on a broadband connection.
Yeats and Septimus to clash in the Ascot Gold Cup.
Sadly, with the connections they have it’ll probably never happen.
Just settled down to study New Years Day’s racing, and was surprised to find on the racecards that all runners at Cheltenham are having their first run of the season!
Did the RP just get the local primary school’s computer club to put this joke of a new site together?
I wonder if the abundance of wind operations Nicholl’s has had done on his runners before this season is having an affect?
I noted at the start of the season that he had made a point of giving a much larger number in his care wind-ops than usual – seemingly some kind of experiment.
Most of his runners have gone well first time out this season, but it’s been apparent to me over the past couple of months that those runners having their second start have been running well below form.
Perhaps the first run back after a wind-op has done some deeper damage and this has been transpiring on their second start – like the runners after the op hadn’t had long enough to recover/convalece?
Just a theory of mine (would love to see a list of which horses have had the wind-op this season).
The point is no one else mentions the ride being what you make it out to be……only the would be experts on here are the ones complaining about it.
I defy anyone to show me ONE newspaper article, another forum or anything that indicates something was amiss aprt from the rubbish written on here.
Fist,
Did you ever stop to think about why you didn’t find any newspaper articles critical of the ride on L’Ami? I’ll give you a clue – the owner. JP McManus is treated by many, especially in the journalism field as the ‘messiah’ of jumps racing. He is considered as a hero in many parts. The former JCB driver who worked his way up to multi-millionaire – *** after having to have his Mum bail him out after he did his entire betting bank when he first started as a pro-gambler – in part from touches on his horses – he is revered by many. The suck-up type journalists (of which they are the majority – the exception being the wonderful Lydia Hislop) are not going to question the dubious running of one of his runners, in a race where his other runner – favourite by the way, landed a string of large bets. (I wonder whose bets they were?
)They are not going to want to bring controversy the way of their idol.
I used to respect Mr. McManus a lot. But after this race, he has gone down an awful lot in my estimation. I didn’t have a bet in the race (I wouldn’t bet in mickey mouse races like that personally) but many punters would have done, and they would have thought they were betting in good faith. But it was clear to even a blind man that the way the race was run, that those punters weren’t betting in good faith.
Someone had already decided what the result of that race was going to be before the tapes went up. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out who that was.
But if I told you right now Fists, that the world was not flat, you would go into a 20 page thread to tell me how it actually was flat. I think you have an inferiority complex and that is why on every thread you post on you go on and on and on and on trying to back up whatever point you have plucked out of thin air, to make you feel better about yourself, even if it ends up making you look like an idiot
Wake up and smell the coffee.
By the way, there were plenty of posts on the Betfair forum – you asked for proof of newspaper articles or similar suggestions on other forums – about the dubiousness of the ride on L’Ami, but many were pulled by the Betfair police. (Note what I said about suck-ups not wanting to court controversy over there hero, or have to take on a libel suit).
*** Sourced from ‘The High Rollers of The Turf’, by Raymond Smith
(An excellent book, if you haven’t read it).
Ten Plus,
Click on the ‘News’ tab on the top left hand corner (next to Cards and Results), then when you get that page up (after the Flash/crop circle finally decides it’s finished doing a pretty dance) you’ll find a ‘Reports’ tab on the right hand side of the screen somewhere on the list including ‘Top Stories’, ‘Latest Stories’ etc.
Be warned, it is in no way as comprehensive as it used to be.
The other problem I have found, is that some days the ‘Reports’ link/tab is there, and then other days it isn’t (like nothing happened that day?).
New RP site still a shambles. I hope they’ve shelved plans to start charging for the site anytime soon, until they have it working to 100%, otherwise I see the RP sinking quicker than the BBC’s racing coverage!
you just can’t turn on a tap and always expect to get water………
The point is Fist, that he didn’t appear to ‘turn the tap on’ until the race was virtually over!
And lets not even get into the ‘curious’ pull L’Ami recieved just before the final flight (as Garde Champetre went on).
It seemed an odd sale to me at the time – a 3yo who’d placed in 2 derbys, and had appeared to improve when dropped back to 10f at the back end of his 3yo season. He appeared to have plenty of scope to improve as a 4yo over 10f as well.
But like you say, they had so many horses for this season (especially at around that trip).
Anyway, kudos to his new connections.
I’ve just watched this race, and it stunk.
It’s crying out for one of those ‘fill in the caption’ competitions, with the blank speech bubbles above the jockeys on the freeze frame of them chatting before the last.
JT: "Aren’t you supposed to go on now?"
NC: "Yes. And remember, don’t ride out too vigourously or use your whip until I’m past the finishing line!"
Allegedly, alledgedly….
Anyone know if these races will be shown live online anywhere (I can’t get ATR TV coverage on Sunday morning)?
Do you have the latest version of media player (and/or the latest updates for media player)?
I’m no expert, but may be worth checking out. I’m sure I had the same problem earlier in the year when I updated to IE7, and I think that is how I fixed it.
Duke of marmalade, i knew 2yrs ago this horse would win over 11/2m.
I don’t see how him winning over 1 1/2 miles (from that superstar Papal Bull) makes him horse of the year over Raven’s Pass and Zarkava.
Anyway, his best form was over 1 1/4 miles.
Apparently, they have spent the best part of 10 million quid on this shambles of a new website…
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-racing-post-to-invest-10million-gbp-for-online-expansion/
E-mail from one seriously p****d off racing fan destined for the Racing Post.
Same here!
Am I the only person who thinks the new site looks awful (and is awkward to navigate)?
I’d happily pay 10 (like it used to be before it went ‘free’) or 15 quid a month for the current site, but to make all these uneccessary changes in looks and navigation, and then charge for (parts of) it seems madness.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
She was very impressive yesterday no doubt about it,but so was the owners other good filly shawanda,and she could finish no better than midfield.This filly has a very tough task to win the arc and i doubt very much if she will do it.
I believe Shawanda injured her pelvis in the Arc. Was then bought by Godolphin, and never raced again.
So hard to know for sure just how good she could have been against the colts.
