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Can’t help but feel sorry for long-standing raceday presenter Anthony Kemp who clearly has been told to dump things down by the clueless lot at JCR
The fact that JCR executives want The King George at Aintree shows how clueless they are when it comes to racing and explains the mess they have made of things in recent years
Just to illustrate how valuable racecourse land is in the south east,Ascots two car parks at the east end of the high street 5a & 6 have been sold for development.
“Ascot gardens” might prove to be an ideal place for the racing enthusiast although where that leaves car parking at The Royal Meeting I don’t knowCan imagine the English trainers are looking forward to seeing all these top Irish horses having hard races on bottomless ground 5 weeks out from The Festival
Was there nobody at Wetherby with a brain cell that could have held their race for 2 minutes? Or is it because they didn’t get a phone call from the BHA who didn’t think of it either?
Re:Red Rum Chase Aintree have no respect for tradition as was shown by moving the Aintree Hurdle away from national day despite it being there since it inception and turning its historic winners enclosure into a bar.
Terrible from ITV today,couldn’t be bothered to send anyone to Kempton even though it was the principal meeting and took the race tech pictures from there so could cut away from the injured horses.
Given this invades lot have no interest in the racing anyway can’t they go there tonight and still enjoy the alcohol and cocaine?
This Sandown Saturday along with February one used to be a fabulous days racing when the hurdle course going didn’t seem so different from the chase course as it does now
It profitable because of the media rights from all those sand pit meetings.surprised the JCR bean counters haven’t been looking at Sandown that sits on even more valuable land,needs updating and apart from a few days has poor attendance
As good a King George as we’ve had for a while and ITV could only be bothered to show 4 horses beforehand
Noticed a few padded hurdles falling to the ground after being barely touched at Ascot yesterday,has the directive gone out to the loosen them up?
Absolutely right Cork All Star,JCR want rid partly because nobody goes but nobody goes because of what JCR did to Kempton.
For me the managed decline started in the mid 90s when they removed the old parade ring with its two tiered viewing and “refurbished “ the main stand leaving Miriam Francome memorably describing it as like being at Tesco’s
