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What’s wrong with Tanya? I think she’s great.
McCririck amuses me – I like the **** he hands out to people.
Balding in the parade ring and the previous two with the bookies and it will be very good.
In my opinion Nick Luck is bored with racing and wants to be like Piers Morgan or doing politics.
I think they should get Mark Winstanley on terrestrial TV. Another one who amuses me.
I like Alistair Down’s approach but I fear some shiny little tv exec will off him. Francome and McGrath are like two blokes you’d dodge in the bar at the races. they sound bored with it all.
Tommo has enthusiasm, which is a saving grace in my book.
What’s wrong with Chapman? I find him amusing when he takes the piss a bit. The game needs it.
The punter is up against so many things. Principally concealed information. When was the last time a jockey or a trainer said on tv or in the post: yeah, he’s gonna win so I’d back him if I were you?
The only trainer I can ever remember doing that was Paul Nicholls in his column a few years ago.The decision to stop broadcasting racing was made collectively in the hours after last year’s Grand National. At the top of tiers upon tiers of ‘management’ at the BBC there are people on extraordinary salaries, who live in North London and are left-wing in that Post Blair Mandelson way of having almost pop star wealth but reading the Guardian and believing in ‘social democracy’ (as long as they get to live in Dartmouth Park away from all the graffiti, skunk and stabbings).
Yes, I have no written proof, but I can assure each and every one of you that last April they all thought more or less the same thing: ‘what have we got here: sport of kings; poor dumb animals being whipped; stuffy old sport we’re not interested in; queen mother liked it; not edgy; youth not interested; virtually no non-white people involved (BBC types don’t visit betting shops); tweed; Harriet Harman doesn’t like it; ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS HATE IT (must be bad, then) we’ll look good at North London dinner parties if we stop showing it.
‘OK Let’s stop showing it.’This is a huge nail in the coffin of the British Turf. Make no mistake. Channel 5 next; then cable.
At least there aren’t any conspiracy theorists on here driven by irrational political agendas.
Politicians of any hue, and those who express strong political opinions, should be lined up against the wall and shot!
Just because I criticise the left you should not think that I am a swivelled-eyed rightwing maniac. Everyone in this country has been trained by pop culture to do this but it’s an intellectually incoherent thing to do.
Let’s unpack what you are saying: Conspiracy theory? I dislike conspiracy theories but let us understand what they are: they offer radically different explanations about major episodes in history: man didn’t land on the moon; Mossad was responsible for 9/11; the world is run by lizards in disguise etc.
My saying that the BBC wanted to get rid of racing because it doesn’t suit its political agenda is hardly radical: it is a matter of public record (the BBC’s own controllers, some of its presenters and its own internal inquiry have all concluded it is institutionally biased to a metropolitan liberal-left consensus, an agenda which is a zillion miles away from racing and most of its fans. What I was offering was an opinion based on established fact. Conspiracy theories don’t do that, there isn’t a shred of evidence to suggest the world is run by lizards, but there is more than a shred of evidence as to why the BBC wanted shot of racing.
Is Sir Peter O’Sullevan a conspiracy theorist when he said in yesterday’s Post that there was ‘no will’ to keep racing at the BBC?
Incidentally, I found it funny in Lee Mottershead’s comment peice when he said ‘racing has kicked away the BBC’ Other way round, old son, other way round.
Reading what the Channel Four bloke said made me wonder if maybe some good could come out of the disaster. A really fresh approach may help turn the sport round. I mean poker really took off among the young in the past decade. Maybe horses will.The decision to stop broadcasting racing was made collectively in the hours after last year’s Grand National. At the top of tiers upon tiers of ‘management’ at the BBC there are people on extraordinary salaries, who live in North London and are left-wing in that Post Blair Mandelson way of having almost pop star wealth but reading the Guardian and believing in ‘social democracy’ (as long as they get to live in Dartmouth Park away from all the graffiti, skunk and stabbings).
Yes, I have no written proof, but I can assure each and every one of you that last April they all thought more or less the same thing: ‘what have we got here: sport of kings; poor dumb animals being whipped; stuffy old sport we’re not interested in; queen mother liked it; not edgy; youth not interested; virtually no non-white people involved (BBC types don’t visit betting shops); tweed; Harriet Harman doesn’t like it; ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS HATE IT (must be bad, then) we’ll look good at North London dinner parties if we stop showing it.
‘OK Let’s stop showing it.’This is a huge nail in the coffin of the British Turf. Make no mistake. Channel 5 next; then cable.
No not sick of it all.
Superb racing today.
Big Bucks was a joy to behold.
Riverside Theatre against Albertas Run was a superb race.
Then there was Sir Des Champs who could well be the best chaser around and could well win next years Gold Cup.
Brilliant racing and tomorrow to come.I backed AP on AR. It was a good race and I didn’t mind being beaten but what niggled me was that any race round chelt where a horse i’ve backed runs the way Riverside Theatre did all the way round you KNOW it’s ******* but of course here it didn’t work like that.
No not sick of it all.
Superb racing today.
Big Bucks was a joy to behold.
Riverside Theatre against Albertas Run was a superb race.
Then there was Sir Des Champs who could well be the best chaser around and could well win next years Gold Cup.
Brilliant racing and tomorrow to come.I backed AP on AR. It was a good race and I didn’t mind being beaten but what niggled me was that any race round chelt where a horse i’ve backed runs the way Riverside Theatre did all the way round you KNOW it’s ******* but of course here it didn’t work like that.
OH VERY VERY DEAR. SAY IT AIN’T SO.
Another wheel off the wagon for racing. In ten years it’ll be on Channel 5. . . you have been warned.
Clare Balding is the best presenter, it won’t be TOO unbearable if she goes to 4. But the bloody adverts…
Troll? TROLL?
Is anyone who ever reports, note the word reports, anything that doesn’t put a good spin on racing, a troll?
Don’t shoot the messenger.
Concerned for you Prof.
Don’t you waste those brilliant brain cells on worrying about me, ginge. I’m good as gold. I’ve had fallers, a death, and seconditis. I *happened* to find myself thinking: I could have done with finale day today.
Tomorrow could turn it round if Burton Port or Midnight Chase go in. Maybe I’ll find the winner of the grand annual – i did last year at 55/1.Good quote though wasn’t it?
Never get advice like that on the morrrrnin’ line now do we. Funny old thing that now, isn’t it?
I’m just a normal human being, you see Ginge. Three days is enough I feel (and only a small percentage of races have justified the hype). I’ve had three winners but didn’t have enough on them as is the way. Would have done but haven’t – couldn’t – have been confident about any decent priced horse except rock on ruby. Yes yes, this because I’m rubbish and you’re brilliant (haven’t checked your tip column yet this week though).
I bet the bloke who had thirty grand on grand crus is not doing a jig now!
Good quote though wasn’t it? (will have to remember it when receiving future lectures on the transparency of racing).
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Hurricane Fly – whatever he runs in he … erIs it just me or do you find it shallow that the Post goes on and on about the stars of the sport but when two well-known names are killed they put the story out of the way on page 20?
You’re not missing out on anything Miss Woodford. It’s nothing more than a transparent tactic employed by the right to use pseudo intellectualisms to mask the fact that their arguments typically reek of a severe inferiority complex.
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Marxists were really rather named by themselves, dear. I encounter far more pseudo-intellectual talk in the left-wing media than the right. You only have to look how many Pseuds Corner entries in Private Eye come from the Guardian and how many come from the Daily Mail*
Answer: a lot and virtually none.
:shock: You lost me at "crypto-Marxists"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxists
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics … -interview
