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“What’s happened to the Premier Racedays and no other meetings between 2 and 4? Typical of the way the sport is run.
Can’t forget when Racing UK went split screen with the climax of The Ebor and the start of a selling hurdle at Cartmel one year.
Racing TV managed to improve on that today by going the entire Ebor split screen with a micky mouse hurdle at Killarney.”
Racing TV managed to get the nap up again today, the entire Ebor in split screen, this time with a mediocre beginners chase at Killarney. You can’t see what’s happening in either race properly. At least they managed to get the climax of the beginners chase in full screen. Pathetic!
An even bigger farce emerges from the day. 4 jockeys suspended for a total of 32 days for whip offences, including top jockey on the day Hugh Bowman getting 12 days and Karis Teetan getting 8 days for being one over the limit
That should encourage top jockeys from around the world to compete in the event.Think Hannon feels he should have won both his last 2 races. Maybe he would have done with better rides. Haatem also received a poor ride last time. The common factor, the jockey.
The more cutaways racecourses have, the better. If they’d had one for the King George it would have stopped that nonsense from Continuous during the race.
They’ve had a permanent cutaway at Dundalk for a few years now and it’s made a big difference.Angus and his IQ Data told us that Field of Gold still ran well and you needed a low number in the Stewards Cup, as did Page Fuller.
He never comes back after the event to tell how wrong he and his IQ Data have been, he just ploughs on with it day after day as though it is the Golden Highway.
Just how profitable is all this data?
Agree about Cornelius, thought he was very ignorant interrupting all the time. Maybe Nick Luck wouldn’t have allowed him to get away with it.Well done RedRum77, a worthy winner and to Nathan for your great efforts in running the competition.
G 4.20 Isaac Newton
T 2.15 Zeus Olynpios
T 5.15 Insuspense
D 5.20 Ishe Worth AgambleRes
D 4.10 Mayday Malone
N 4.00 Roman Centurion
G 1.55 Duraji
G 2.30 WaardahChamberlin – “Qirat 150/1 will be a terrible result for some bookmakers”
What a numpty!
“If only Kieran Shoemark had ridden Quirat, would have made the interview with Gosden very interesting”
Doubt very much Qirat would have won if Shoemark had ridden him.
An absolute disgrace that the trainer and jockey of Continuous weren’t called in to explain the running and riding of the horse.
It looked as there was good case of spoiling tactics being used, it left a nasty taste in the mouth.
The BHA head of stewarding, Shaun Parker was in charge at Ascot today, he should hang his head in shame. They can count the number of strokes a weak female jockey can administer with a foam stick to disqualify both the horse and jockey but are incapable of even having an enquiry into possible spoiling tactics in one of the biggest races of the season.It doesn’t matter how much some people win, they don’t mind bending the rules or even “cheating” to win even more.
As it happens I think the finishing order would have been the same without the spoiling tactics but that’s not the point.
A 4.10 Calandagan
A 4.10 Jan Brueghel
A 3.35 Sisyphean
Y 3.20 Bona FortunaRes
Y 2.00 Alzahir
A 3.00 Northern Express
A 1.40 Flowerhead
A 3.35 Cosi BelloChapman should surely have played his joker in the 6.40 where he had the first and second fav.
2 premier meetings on Saturday including the King George yet 2 other meetings throughout the afternoon at Chester & Newcastle. The prize money at Newcastle is pathetic. The Beeswing 5 grand to the winner lol and a race there 5 minutes after the scheduled start of the King George.
How hopeless are the BHA allowing racecourses to get away with this nonsense?C 3.40 Minnie Hauk
N 2.57 Regional
M 3.12 Ballysax Hank
D 5.15 Fletchers FlightRes
M 2.40 Moon Chime
N 1.50 Rashabar
M 2.05 Benvoy
N 2.25 Wonder LegendAnte-post betting is insignificant these days, even bookmakers will tell you that. In the National the money bet on it ante-post is miniscule compared to the day of the race market, so not a factor.
Even though I backed him why should Rough Quest have been 17lbs well in after finishing second in the Gold Cup?It is fairer all round if all horses in all races run off their current marks, I’ve yet to hear a good reason why they shouldn’t.
Other horses may have run if More Thunder hadn’t and/or he was running off his correct mark. The betting would have been more open although I don’t think an extra 3lbs would have stopped them from running him. He would have still been fav but a little bit bigger price, running just 3 weeks after his previous race. He may not have won though.
