New Posts For Thread: Racing League : We all know its pointless, now proved its a farcehttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farceTonight Rae Guest has a runner in the last for The East team, its off 8st 2lbs and there are only 2 jockeys who can do the weight or within the 3lb rules who are registered for the team, Hayley Turner is riding elsewhere so that leaves him Luke MorriInnovation? I'd call it lack of foresight and not knowing what the consumers want. Others might be less courteous...arrogance perhaps. The extra money could have been better targeted to mitigate this spiral decline in horseracing.Economics? I study ehttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farce?post_id=562514735#562514735Innovation? I'd call it lack of foresight and not knowing what the consumers want. Others might be less courteous...arrogance perhaps. The extra money could have been better targeted to mitigate this spiral decline in horseracing.Economics? I study eFri, 02 Sep 2022 12:54:47 -0500Great philosophy impossible,stop innovation,ban extra money the sport would not otherwise see? Simple to ignore the team format and concentrate on the races as a punting entity.Can see why you are a Truss fan though as you clearly have no understandihttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farce?post_id=562513679#562513679Great philosophy impossible,stop innovation,ban extra money the sport would not otherwise see? Simple to ignore the team format and concentrate on the races as a punting entity.Can see why you are a Truss fan though as you clearly have no understandiFri, 02 Sep 2022 07:39:58 -0500Is it any coincidence the prizes on offer in the Racing League are significantly higher than those that are not? Is it any coincidence the sponsors are bookies? Is it also any coincidence these races are on terrestrial tv, and not just confined to hohttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farce?post_id=562513655#562513655Is it any coincidence the prizes on offer in the Racing League are significantly higher than those that are not? Is it any coincidence the sponsors are bookies? Is it also any coincidence these races are on terrestrial tv, and not just confined to hoFri, 02 Sep 2022 07:32:53 -0500Possibly some from eastern Europe but the main change is that more are from the middle east, Pakistan and India which are not affected by Brexit.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farce?post_id=562513617#562513617Possibly some from eastern Europe but the main change is that more are from the middle east, Pakistan and India which are not affected by Brexit.Fri, 02 Sep 2022 07:20:57 -0500Of course sageform we both know the main problem here is that bookmakers do not put enough back into the sport which is not something that France has to worry about. Have we lost a number of stable staff since Brexit I wonder?https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farce?post_id=562513557#562513557Of course sageform we both know the main problem here is that bookmakers do not put enough back into the sport which is not something that France has to worry about. Have we lost a number of stable staff since Brexit I wonder?Fri, 02 Sep 2022 06:58:50 -0500That is one solution but it would mean much higher training fees and then less horses in training at all levels. We have already seen an exodus to France and Ireland to find cheaper training fees and/or more prize money. The shortage of staff is justhttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farce?post_id=562513541#562513541That is one solution but it would mean much higher training fees and then less horses in training at all levels. We have already seen an exodus to France and Ireland to find cheaper training fees and/or more prize money. The shortage of staff is justFri, 02 Sep 2022 06:50:35 -0500The better class of horses already have decent prize money compared with the lower classes yet the largest fields remain in Class 6 races as that has the majority of horses in training. If there is a shortage of stable staff then perhaps an increasehttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farce?post_id=562513503#562513503The better class of horses already have decent prize money compared with the lower classes yet the largest fields remain in Class 6 races as that has the majority of horses in training. If there is a shortage of stable staff then perhaps an increaseFri, 02 Sep 2022 06:40:07 -0500lost jobs where Sparrow? There is a severe shortage of stable staff which will get worse and on course staff are mainly casual. If you mean bookmakers then I don't see that going down from 4 meetings to 3 would mean many redundancies there. I don'thttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farce?post_id=562513401#562513401lost jobs where Sparrow? There is a severe shortage of stable staff which will get worse and on course staff are mainly casual. If you mean bookmakers then I don't see that going down from 4 meetings to 3 would mean many redundancies there. I don'tFri, 02 Sep 2022 06:11:09 -0500A full meeting of higher class handicaps is not something I would ever bother with but other people might enjoy it and that is all that matters. One thing I would never want to see is a reduction of meetings which apart from anything else would causehttps://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farce?post_id=562513379#562513379A full meeting of higher class handicaps is not something I would ever bother with but other people might enjoy it and that is all that matters. One thing I would never want to see is a reduction of meetings which apart from anything else would causeFri, 02 Sep 2022 06:04:54 -0500Sh1t racing?They're 50K races,would'nt be out of place on any Saturday card.https://community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31772559/racing-league-we-all-know-its-pointless-now-proved-its-a-farce?post_id=562513369#562513369Sh1t racing?They're 50K races,would'nt be out of place on any Saturday card.Fri, 02 Sep 2022 05:59:17 -0500