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i was at aintree yesterday and thought the cheering when the horse was unseated and the booing of the horse when it came back past the stands riderless was out of order and very distasteful to me.i found it ironic that the same people where cheering home a horse owned by sir alex ferguson at liverpool and can only conclude these people only crawl out from under a stone once a year thankfully.
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Sc*mbags
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very poor sports (imo)
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correct should of heckled the jock and gave the horse a carrot .
horses have feelings ....imo |
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Racing for Change will only bring more of this disgusting breed of punter to meetings if it succeeds.
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Happens everywhere to be fair Scarecrow...
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"Liverpool Day" yesterday, celebrating everything great about Scousers. Oh well, at least it's Ladies's Day today :)
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Racing For Change eh!...sums it all up to me...these courses do not have a clue - was listening to Radio 5 on way home yesterday (whi9lst stuck in M4 / M25 traffic grrr) and they had the PR of Aintree on and she did not know about horse racing!...and they think this Marketing Degree people will know how to get the "right" people back into horse racing - all they do is attract clueless yobs to get**ed at the races and do not seem to care about anything as long as the numbers are on the up!
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kauto fans. i did feel justified in my comments that the horse is useless away from cheltenham and turned out quickly
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Scousers, on the whole, are an unpleasant inbreed. Tragic as certain events were in the 1980's, literally p!ssing on opposition supporters at a football match was a significant catalyst.
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Was there yesterday. The locals may have cheered home What A Friend but they didn't half boo when Fergie appeared on the big screen at the presentation.
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parked ouside a house near aintree yester ....mad scouse women comes out the semi and chases me up the street ..you cant park here my husband is at hospital today with the car and has just been registered disabled ....were waiting on the lines being painted ..........made me chuckle ....could have parked a stretch limmo in the space .
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tatie you are correct it was cringeworthy and just shows the combined knowledge of these people who probably did not even know that fergie was involved as a owner of the winner,that says it all for me.
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Racecourses are full of punters only here for the beer and a giggle.
I rarely go to the busy tracks,stick to places like Ripon,Thirsk,Beverley where you get real racing people. |
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yes bnb its laughable i had a similar experience myself :) with the people i was with but i blame the racecourse myself for not making it easier for race goers to find parking.
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I thought this thread was going to be about the connections going to the well once to often...
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Tatie Baron is right, the crowd booed like fk when they found out it was A Ferguson getting the prize.
Otherwise not a bad crowd at all, imo. Btw, I was glad that IC 's race was over; he should not have been running and should have been pulled up early, as it was clear he was only hurting himself the more it went on. A lot of tired animals yesterday. |
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when we got back too car it was rather tightly hemmed in .crowd of women standing in the garden .... fat bloke leaning against wall drinking a can of lager ..
they took one look at my wife and said " were just getting the keys pet " |
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Surprised it didn't have it's saddle nicked.
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Imagine Rafa turning up at an event in Manchester...........would the man u fans fly in to heckle him.
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theres no man u fans in manchester
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there all from hammersmith
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sean rua i agree the crowd where mainly fine to be fair i just thought in this specific case they where out of order and would have still cheered if the horse had fell and hurt itself,i also agree the horse should probably not run and the betting in the days b4 told all as to its chance.
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breadnbutter, does your missus look dangerous iyo ?
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scarecrow - quality aftertiiming there mate
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Scarecrow,
I understand your point, but perhaps i'm getting too hardenened to the fact that modern drunken folk don't seem to care about fk all that's important. Obviously, I'm too old for the modern way of life, but, to me, places like Ascot and Newmarket are far worse than Aintree. Cheltenham is getting fkn awful year by year, but that's mostly at the Festival. "Off Peak" most of these places are reasonably tolerable from a crowd point of view. Security bstrds and rip-off prices remain an issue, imo. Leapardstown is a good example of the right way to stage racing, imo. |
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I came back from Aintree hospital yesterday to find someone had had the cheek to park in my disabled parking bay outside my semi detatched ... I wouldn't mind but it was clearly waiting for the lines to be painted and I told the Mrs to watch out for the people avoiding the parking charges at the race course .... I had a right nightmare trying to park my stretch Limo (automatic obviously with my disability) in the space he'd left X-( ... I made sure he'd have trouble getrting his Nissan Micra out of the gap I left him ;)
Luckily when he came back later I'd had a beer (medicinal of course) and was too p155ed to care anymore ...... does make you wonder though ......how people can be so disrepectful :| |