Racing Post is so expensive now

Good luck Sunset Skye I feel like I own it myself.

They must feel that the paper was already at a level where the people still prepared to keep buying it wouldn't be that bothered about another price hike and that sticking the cost up won't lose them money.

Could be, but the other suggestion someone made was they are trying to push people towards the internet which appears reasonably priced AT THE MOMENT.

Surely that horse didn't cost much anyway. Has one of the worst pedigrees of any horse in training. I don't rate Lydia Richards but no trainer could win with that.

I'm sure that the tedious Steve Dennis could write a worthwhile article investigating the extortionate price we have to pay for reading his boring sht!

training fees the same for a sht horse as a good one barton as you know!

*that wasn't a dig in case that comes across wrong :)

That isn't strictly true as not all traners charge the same. Not that I know (or care) what the fees are for that particular yard.

Wasn't taken as a dig. I try not to buy bad horses. Sometimes you can still end up with a couple mind!

just looking at the horse in the paddock you could see it would probably be useless and 1 of the owners said it would be a good handicapper in 2 years time.

good luck with that project.

yes no point persevering with the useless ones imo. Find em a home and get something else

Two years of training fees to keep a horse that might win a 2 grand handicap hurdle off a mark of 80 not my idea of fun!

Home-bred

Breeder
    Nick Watts

First foal; dam remote third from two starts in points

PU    Sunset Skye 66/1
Andrew Glassonbury Lydia Richards 5-10-8     –     –     –     –    
Always last, not fluent, struggling 3rd, weakened 7th, tailed off when pulled up after 3 out

£1700 a yr...wowsas.

Be putting security Tags on the post in the Bookies

Andrex, £2 in Sainsbury, much cheaper bog roll

If it was £2 a day and £2.50 Sat i'd buy it.
Not bought it since it went up to £3. and don't miss it, i only bought it for pricewise, now they don't hold the prices anymore, there's no point for me.

Once Paul Haigh went there was no one else worth reading.

Gerald Delamere analysis of the big races was a must for me

Went racing a couple of weeks ago,first time I never bought a trade paper at the course in 40 odd years.

It’s a fair price given the info involved,
They’re the wisden of racing,somebody has to collate,store and produce the results history.

Anybody buying it does so for a specific reason,a card at a track that day,dog cards,breeding operations,etc etc.

It needs to service such a large breadth of information,hence the cost.

It seems expensive if you just want the card and form for 1 track that day.but what’s the alternative.

Maybe tracks could sell 4-5 page pamphlets printed off that morning from the post of just that days card,virtually no cost yet has all the info that days crowd want.

Once customers knew they could buy these day of the race post info.
They buy race cards for 3 quid and these are useless really.

A post racecard lifted from that days edition would sell well for 2 quid.if it was packaged .

It is a nightmare trying to look at the card from an 80page newspaper.

The men on the spot tipster that they employ have let me down so many times i dont even buy it on a Saturday anymore.The Newmarket and Lambourn guys continually tipping the wrong horse did it for me.

Very true about the price of racecards which I never saw the point of.

Pick your own acey,pretend it’s Christmas.

I do pick my own but sometimes when i was torn between a couple i would look to those guys for a wee bit of help and got nuthin zero zilch.

Been looking at a few of front covers recently - looks like another 'cheerleading' activity - pics of the Osbourne's celebrating as if they are just a 'lovely family' on the front cover...let's not mention 100s of their other 'efforts' in races of course...