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What about the yearlings that come through the ring and they look like 2-y-o’s. They may have plenty of muscle but the bones have not properly developed
What top owner and trainer bothered to sent a horse to the post?
At least four of the animals to post have won on firm/ good-firm ground.
Surely there are good heavy going horses at this distance?
Does the sponsor get a good deal in racing?
Racing has opted for quantity – not quality over the past decade.
Some 20-years ago owners and trainers were were bemoaning about poor prize money in this country. They wanted change and change they had.
More racing, all weather racing, jump and flat season lasting all the year round. All that equaled poorer prize money – which went against what they were moaning about.
Public opinion FORCED changes in the Grand National and the use of the whip. How long till public opinion FORCES 2-y-0’s an extra few months to mature?
Would it not be better for the racing industry to make changes be fore public opinion FORCES these changes?
Is a few extra months too much to ask for the animal the industry claims to love?
The way the industry is plummeting donwards at the moment it would not surprise me to hear that all wether racing will be having its first 2-y-o race on 1st January.
OK, horses are still developing at three but I feel that it is time the racing industry took more account of the welfare of the horse and should start with the 2-year-olds.
I know I will be shot down by the following statement but I feel that there should be no 2-y-o races till the end of Jun/July, let these babies, and that is what they are, get a little sun on their backs and be that little bit older before their racing career begins. Aso only 5/6 furlong races during their two-year-old career.
Yes, a radical change, a really radical change and probably too much for the racing world to take in. Most of you will be spluttering in your pints of Guinness / gin and tonics but if the horse has to be put first, and it will have to be put first eventually, then their will have to be big changes made.
Here we have Bell’s Ocean running at Nmk today, the thrid time in fifteen days. Ok she won today but is that not an auful lot to put an animal through so young?
After all she is only around 780 days left her mother’s womb.
I don’t find that jockeys of today seem to have the same appeal as jockeys of the past.
Chastisement for breaking the rules in racing is little more than a slap on the wrist.
If a jockey is found guilty for this sort of incident or over use of the whip, the horse should be disqualified.
I know there will be a lot who don’t agree with this – but we have to have to punish those who break the rules.
I did say I was not speaking of having a classic animal trained in Scotland but the animals that most Scottish owners will have it would do no harm to have them trained north of the border. Easier for the owners to see them on the gallops and the odd trip south if they were good enough would not surely inconvenience most animals. And maybe owners, trainers, northern racetracks should do more to get a better quality of racing in the north. we should not be resigned to letting the south get all its own way.
A lot of talk here about the Scottish Champion Hurdle…
The only prestige about this race is the name.
Does not take a super horse to win this event and fields are usually on the small side
Ken I started off betting in sixpences as well.
In my thirty-years betting I studied the form-book intensely and never had a bet unless I felt there was a good chance of getting a return.
I stopped betting in 1990 for several reasons.
1… I was becoming successful with other interests in my life so as I did not have time to study the form book as much as I would have liked.. I was not going to throw my money away. When I stopped I was well in front and still have not touched some of that money even yet. The decision to switched interests was the right one because I have become very successful in other areas.
2… I was becoming concerned about how above board racing was.
3… I was becoming increasing concerned about the welfare of the racehorse.
Is L Lungo cutting back of his own free will or because owners are not sending horses too him?
Lenny seems to have went the way of linda Perret.
Ken you seem to have to have a bet – when I was betting I only did so when I felt that I had a good chance of getting a return.
No racing is better than sub standard aw-racing.
We should all write to Wm Hill HQ and tell them that if this turns out to be 100% accurate then we will never have a bet with their company again.
A costly white elephant.
We don’t need any more AW tracks.
When they came in the standard of racing plummeted
