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scarecrow
09 Apr 10 12:18
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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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Report Graeme83 April 9, 2010 12:18 PM BST
Sc*mbags
Report Virgin April 9, 2010 12:19 PM BST
very poor sports (imo)
Report breadnbutter April 9, 2010 12:19 PM BST
correct should of heckled the jock and gave the horse a carrot .

horses have feelings ....imo
Report coffeedodger April 9, 2010 12:22 PM BST
Racing for Change will only bring more of this disgusting breed of punter to meetings if it succeeds.
Report Aviboyd April 9, 2010 12:23 PM BST
Happens everywhere to be fair Scarecrow...
Report joe39 April 9, 2010 12:23 PM BST
"Liverpool Day" yesterday, celebrating everything great about Scousers. Oh well, at least it's Ladies's Day today :)
Report Princess Purple Guitar April 9, 2010 12:23 PM BST
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!
Report dananders April 9, 2010 12:25 PM BST
kauto fans. i did feel justified in my comments that the horse is useless away from cheltenham and turned out quickly
Report coffeedodger April 9, 2010 12:27 PM BST
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.
Report Tatie Baron April 9, 2010 12:40 PM BST
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.
Report breadnbutter April 9, 2010 12:40 PM BST
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 .
Report scarecrow April 9, 2010 12:43 PM BST
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.
Report knavesmire007 April 9, 2010 12:43 PM BST
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.
Report scarecrow April 9, 2010 12:45 PM BST
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.
Report cj180 April 9, 2010 12:45 PM BST
I thought this thread was going to be about the connections going to the well once to often...
Report sean rua April 9, 2010 12:46 PM BST
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.
Report breadnbutter April 9, 2010 12:47 PM BST
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 "
Report Ekbalco April 9, 2010 12:48 PM BST
Surprised it didn't have it's saddle nicked.
Report GANT007 April 9, 2010 12:49 PM BST
Imagine Rafa turning up at an event in Manchester...........would the man u fans fly in to heckle him.
Report dananders April 9, 2010 12:49 PM BST
theres no man u fans in manchester
Report dananders April 9, 2010 12:49 PM BST
there all from hammersmith
Report scarecrow April 9, 2010 12:51 PM BST
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.
Report saddo April 9, 2010 12:54 PM BST
breadnbutter, does your missus look dangerous iyo ?
Report Great Whyte April 9, 2010 12:55 PM BST
scarecrow - quality aftertiiming there mate
Report sean rua April 9, 2010 12:58 PM BST
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.
Report Virgin April 9, 2010 1:02 PM BST
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 :|
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