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quite right too. the greys only hcap is a great sight to watch and we mustn’t let connections put their horse in another hcap on the same card for fear of reducing the potential field for the big race. i will never get tired of seeing the wall of grey horses bolt up past the stands and even knowing how crap it sounds saying "i’m on the grey one", will probably say it again
btw, tdk, it is based on ability – the ability to be grey
i thought everybody knew that the tractor that rakes the polytrack is 8 traps wide so while he has to go rouond twice to get all 12 traps the middle 4 get done twice – obvious really
just seen add on atr
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give it a google<br>
i’m astounded that the people involved in spending years putting the case together are allowed to post here under EC’s and others monikers – how else would they KNOW it will fail ? you may all be startled come next year when when/if he gets banged to rights and shuffles off quietly – you haven’t the faintest clue whether he is innocent or guilty you are just guessing in the dark. do we let bank robbers walk the street until they are proven guilty ? – no. and kf can earn a fortune from riding around the world if he wishes or by many other means given his status as a jockey (ex), which the other 2 couldn’t which is why they get the compo, as well as the fact they are licensed here.
i for one will be queueing up at southwark crown court at 5 in the morning next year and hoping i don’t get thrown out for laughing too much – i’ll try to get back here and post updates by 7 each day
i wish kempton was on today – have you seen the chepstow card today – only a russian roulette playing person with 1 day to live and too much money to spend would play that card.
trouble is these narrow minded all-weather racing haters are so narrow minded they can see no further than or around their patently incorrect bias
about a millionth of what kf should end up – that option is not there either – storm in a tea cup surrounding mr o’neill by the knee-jerk soap-box-slimbing tree-hugger crowd, imo ;)
bloke goes to the doctor’s and says "doc, i’m worried i might have this bird flu thing", doc says "why, what’s wrong with you ?", bloke says "i’m having trouble parking my car and i can’t throw things"
UK drugs firm GlaxoSmithKline believes it has developed a vaccine for the H5N1 deadly strain of avian flu that may be capable of being mass produced by 2007. <br>The vaccine has proved effective at two doses of 3.8 micrograms during clinical trials in Belgium, the BBC’s business editor Robert Peston has learned.
It is the size of the dose that is highly significant, Glaxo explained.
Firms want the smallest effective dose so that they can get the maximum number of shots out of a quantity of vaccine.
Glaxo said that governments could order the vaccine for delivery and stockpiling in early 2007.
Phew, thank christ for that, I was struggling to save up the dough for the private flight on the next space shuttle to take me away from this next impending plague that would make this planet uninhabitable – looks like we might all make it after all
tool being the operative word, imo. not so sure about jocular references to stabbing these days but maybe i’ve just had a bad attack of early-morning new labour pc-liberality, or whatever
i suppose we will have to get used to those narrow minded people who will never (or will they ?) accept aw racing, using every opportunity to criticse it. everyone is entitled to their own opinions of course but it would be more reasonable if these people also criticised the other racing of lower quality that goes on, brighton, bath, southwell, poor quality jumps racing, etc, but no, these people cannot be that consistent. kempton is still a great venue for spectators imo and to say 90 rated handicaps at kempton are the equivalent of sellers and claimers elsewhere is utter tosh. i ignore brighton and similar racing these days and have no interest in the sheer lottery of some of the terrible quality jumps, bumper and amateur or apprentice races that go on but that doesn’t mean i’d ever be so vitriolic in criticising it just because i don’t like it because i know some people probably do.
exactly, let’s scrap brighton, southwell, bath, folkestone, musselburgh and everywhere else with races with less than 5k prize money and while we’re at it, every race course with less punter facilities than kempton, except that would be most race courses – good god according to latest figures the money being bet and the numbers going racing are constantly increasing but no, let’s kill anything we don’t personally like, i’m sure all owners, trainers, jockeys and all else in racing would agree wholeheartedly with you, not.
not so sure about that clivex, preference from the dam side can e v informative too. i remember a discussion on here re a maiden race a while ago and i pointed out that while the sire stats showed no particular preference either in the sire race career or its hundred (too many?) of offspring, it had won on soft, the dam had won her only race on soft and the dams 4 other offspring all showed a preference for soft. problem being of course when a dam has no other offspring to compare but you can compare siblings going upwards – not sure i have any conclusion here but definitely v interesting and worth looking at for unraced maidens, imo
lingfields reply hits the nail on the head i think, in todays internet age where anyone with an internet pc can see the racecards and ton’s more form than could ever be published in the paper (ok you may miss the odd article but most of the paper is there and a whiole lot more) all for nil cost and you don’t even have to leave your bed to pay the nothing if you have wireless. i’m sure the rp being the only paper of it’s sort for so long has a loyal following that will continue i would be interested to see their sales figures for the past 3 years to date, for example, just to see if the ever rapidly increasing percentage of households getting online is having an effect. these 2 things make it immensely difficult for anyone to break into this rp dominated market and i would not be surprised if the sportsman becomes an unviable financial proposition but i do agree competition and choice is good but it’s just hard to steal market shares from market leaders in specialised markets. and before anyone says anything i know wireless broadband internet isn’t free but the number of households using this is snowballing and it’s not specifically for the rp, it just means people can access the rp, sl and all other racing sites without trudging down the shops in the rain and shelling out cash (more cash than you’d pay for wireless broadband access, actually so it would make financial sense to stop buying the paper and just get online)
fantastic, mountain out of a molehill, an upset jockey does something he shouldn’t have and throws his head at the horse that is playing up, barely touches it though nobody but him knows if he meant to barely touch it or not and, ban him, for a long time – but whatever, other jockeys who have been charged with serious fraud against racing and there is sufficenient evidence to arrest them and take them to court should apparently be allowed to ply their trade as they are innocent until proven guilty – utter tosh, as mr o’neill to my knowledge has not been convicted of anything either
