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Constitution Hill & Sir Gino are different owners, they shouldn’t be running in different races just to benefit the trainer. One benefit of CH running in the Champion Hurdle, is that he more than likely would require a new jockey, I believe Cobden could be available.
Get him in the Champion Hurdle, that’s what he was bred for.Only 2 meetings in Britain this afternoon, both on Racing TV but the last two races at both meetings clashed leading to the races being shown in split screen. Thought the idea of these funny race times was to avoid such clashes and aren’t the BHA supposed to have a race co-ordinator? Why didn’t Chelmsford just get delayed by a couple of minutes? It’s not rocket science
If Racing TV had been covering Meydan on the main channel all 3 meetings would have been running at the same time.Several fallers and unseats today, thankfully no injuries to horses or jockeys and this was clear, quite quickly after the fall/unseat in nearly all cases. Not one replay of any fall/unseat which is becoming commonplace on ITV’s coverage these days. Maybe we should not bother to analyse why any horse fell or the jockey was unseated and pretend it just doesn’t happen.
If a course decides to close down a track why should they be allowed to transfer all their fixtures to another track of their choice? There is far too much racing as it is.
Time the BHA got their act together but wont hold my breath.“The joint highest priced winner in the history of British racing. Only two other horses have won at 300/1.”
The highest, the previous highest was Equinoctial 250/1 at Kelso. Those other two Tom Bull mentioned were in Ireland.
Looked a bit like Robin Wonder’s colours, although it was a different owner. Cattermole called it Blofeld during the race.
Brad produced his horse perfectly to win the race but was done by a better one.
Dreadful commentator and he thought he was fit to take over from Sir Peter. Always preferred it when they occasionally drafted in Peter Bromley when the voice was on holiday.Why doesn’t one of the presenters tell their viewers what’s the point of the jockeys silks being shown on screen during the race? They are just an unnecessary distraction. The speedometer and clock are also pointless. The only time the clock can be of any use is when the race has finished as you don’t know far they have gone during the race to evaluate the time during it.
I used to enjoy watching racing but can take or leave it now on the satellite channels with all this junk on screen and the IQ Data rubbish rammed down us.
Poster – Gamble
Flat Jockey – Ryan Moore
Flat Trainer – Willie Haggas
Broadcaster – John Hunt
Racecourse – Hexham
Journalist – Graham Dench
Villain – BHA“How many more lbs would the handicapper give to Vango had he won?”
If he had won on the nod rather than being beaten on the nod, he would have gone up 4lbs instead of going up 3lbs for finishing second.
“I wonder how Lester would have reacted to a Media Appearance course?”
I would imagine similar to Ryan Moore & Michael Stoute here and Andre Fabre in France.
Alice Plunkett came out with this great stat this morning – “Jonbon has not been fav in 3 out of his 24 runs, of those 3 he lost in 2” (Won one at 15/8 and second in the other two at 5/1 and 2/1)
Thanks for that gem Alice, look forward to many more.
“The horse racing fan has never had it so good but the amount of people that are uninterested in the product is evidenced by the coverage of our sport by the country’s daily newspaper’s”. It’s virtually non existent” you say.
That speaks for itself, the amount of people not interested in the sport despite the fantastic coverage on Racing TV for 30 quid a month
I was trying to be sarcastic Gladiateur, admittedly rather clumsily.
I see the 2 presenters tonight, Messrs Dunkley & Baker bottled discussing Constitution Hill, despite inviting emails on the subject and Anthony stating he had an opinion on the subject.
“Jesus what’s the love in for Cobden , he’s hardly Ruby , all I’ve heard since Sat is excuses , it’s the horse guys he’s lost his nerve , you can say what every you want he’s done”
Unfortunately the likes of McCoy, Dunwoody, Walsh, Geraghty, Francome, Scudamore, King and plenty of others have long since retired so we are stuck with the current bunch. Can’t see how De Boinville can ride the horse again, he’s lucky to have done as well as he has, due to being stable jockey to Henderson. Can’t be long before he retires surely?
I wouldn’t even entertain retiring the horse on what we know. Try a better jockey and see what happens.
If Racing TV had been covering Meydan on the main channel all 3 meetings would have been running at the same time.