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“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.At least all profits go back to horse racing, which can’t be ignored with prize money being so **** poor.
As the Irish lads said Nico’s only riding good horses like CH because he’s the stable jockey not because of his ability and talent. There have been many better jockeys over the years, he’s pretty average for me.
People forget how poor Nico looked at Aintree. I can’t see how anyone could have any confidence if Nico rides him again. Get a better jockey on (Harry Cobden) and see what happens.Said as much last season but completely agree they need to try a different pair of hands on the reins and would go for Cobden.
“Three jumps fixtures and two all weather meetings on a Monday in November. :wacko:”
They do even better on Wednesday and it’s not a one off, two jumps meetings but three all weather (all with 9 races) and throw in another all weather at Dundalk. The leaders of this sport have a lot to answer for. The BHA will always be the villains of the year for me.
“A very average evening card at Kempton tonight – but RTV deems it necessary to have 6 pundits on duty. :wacko:”
Dire stuff from them – And they keep telling us “All profits go back to horse racing”
The guy in the corner giving all the numbers out is enough to bore anyone to tears.
As someone said the other day, far too many ex jockeys on racing coverage on tv.
