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Dear reader,
It is with great sadness I must announce that following Thursday's edition the Racing Post will be temporarily suspending publication. Unfortunately, with racing in Britain and Ireland halted, betting shops closed, and our governments urging everyone to stay at home as much as possible to slow the spread of the coronavirus, we have been left with no other choice.
Recent events have had an unfathomable impact on our world. We have seen harrowing pictures of overcrowded hospitals and overwhelmed medical professionals in other countries, and in Britain and Ireland we are bracing ourselves for similar scenes, while hoping the extensive measures announced thus far will forestall them.
Sport and betting pale into insignificance when weighed against such terrible events, but we hope in these difficult last two weeks we have provided our readers with the information they need to understand what is happening, and some welcome distraction from the unrelenting news about Covid-19's spread. In particular, I hope we have helped keep those employed in racing and facing difficult financial times ahead informed about the support available to them.
I am also incredibly proud of the work done by the Racing Post team during this crisis. From dozens of makeshift home offices, they have produced every word on every page you have read over recent days. Sadly, some of our team are being temporarily stood down, utilising the job retention scheme announced by the government, until the paper returns.
I know many of you will share our enormous disappointment that this is the last edition of the Racing Post for a while. However, we will continue to publish on racingpost.com and on the Racing Post mobile app, ensuring that racing professionals, punters and fans of the sport are informed and entertained for however long this shutdown might last. Racing might be suspended, but we know your passion for the sport and need for accurate information continues. We're still here to serve you.
At some point in the coming weeks or months, when the worst of this disease has passed, horseracing will resume. When racing is back, the Racing Post newspaper will be back as well, filled with all the wit, wisdom, data and analysis that you expect from us.
It is important in these dark days to remember that better times will come again. In Thursday's edition, our writers have picked out the stars of the sport who will keep them looking forward in the weeks to come. We can't wait to see them, and we can't wait to see you again too.
In the meantime, I wish all our readers the very best. Please do continue to join us online, but above all: stay safe, stay healthy and stay home.
With best wishes,
Tom Kerr
Editor
It is with great sadness I must announce that following Thursday's edition the Racing Post will be temporarily suspending publication. Unfortunately, with racing in Britain and Ireland halted, betting shops closed, and our governments urging everyone to stay at home as much as possible to slow the spread of the coronavirus, we have been left with no other choice.
Recent events have had an unfathomable impact on our world. We have seen harrowing pictures of overcrowded hospitals and overwhelmed medical professionals in other countries, and in Britain and Ireland we are bracing ourselves for similar scenes, while hoping the extensive measures announced thus far will forestall them.
Sport and betting pale into insignificance when weighed against such terrible events, but we hope in these difficult last two weeks we have provided our readers with the information they need to understand what is happening, and some welcome distraction from the unrelenting news about Covid-19's spread. In particular, I hope we have helped keep those employed in racing and facing difficult financial times ahead informed about the support available to them.
I am also incredibly proud of the work done by the Racing Post team during this crisis. From dozens of makeshift home offices, they have produced every word on every page you have read over recent days. Sadly, some of our team are being temporarily stood down, utilising the job retention scheme announced by the government, until the paper returns.
I know many of you will share our enormous disappointment that this is the last edition of the Racing Post for a while. However, we will continue to publish on racingpost.com and on the Racing Post mobile app, ensuring that racing professionals, punters and fans of the sport are informed and entertained for however long this shutdown might last. Racing might be suspended, but we know your passion for the sport and need for accurate information continues. We're still here to serve you.
At some point in the coming weeks or months, when the worst of this disease has passed, horseracing will resume. When racing is back, the Racing Post newspaper will be back as well, filled with all the wit, wisdom, data and analysis that you expect from us.
It is important in these dark days to remember that better times will come again. In Thursday's edition, our writers have picked out the stars of the sport who will keep them looking forward in the weeks to come. We can't wait to see them, and we can't wait to see you again too.
In the meantime, I wish all our readers the very best. Please do continue to join us online, but above all: stay safe, stay healthy and stay home.
With best wishes,
Tom Kerr
Editor
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When racing resumes, leave 99.9% of the useless gravy train cowards at home where they deserve to be and charge £1 per copy.
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i stopped subscribing to the website about 6 months ago, so slow way too many bookie ads anyway whats the point in a daily paper if no sport on A BIT POINTLESS!!
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well said
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What else could they do. The correct decision.
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Deptford says it ... £1 a copy will gain more readers than the current price structure
Pity we can't resurrect the Racing Chronicle |
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Only one paper needs resurrecting and that is obviously the Sporting Life.
Totally different class. |
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Aye the Sporting Life was the best ...
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I wish I had a copy of - "the Racing Chronicle" - geordie1956 .....
It would be worth a fortune - as there has never been such a newspaper. I do, however, have a final copy of the - Sporting Chronicle.  But, to put matters into perspective - The 'Sportin Chron'- was a dreadful racing paper - The Form display in particular being AWFUL.  ------- When the Sporting Life became available throughout the WHOLE Country - in the early/mid-1970s - having only circulated in the South and parts of the Midlands up to then ... that was the beginning of the end for the Chron - who up to that time had a Northern and monopoly. The Sporting Chron tried to expand circulation into the South, to counter the Life now being available in the North - and that was financial suicide for the Chron, with additional printing and distribution expense - and also exposing the deficiencies of the Chron as a racing paper compared to the Sporting Life. Rather like the Racing Post not having a contender nowadays. |
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On its return I would prefer just the days horse race cards, leave all the other stats facts and reports out
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sparrow 25 Mar 20 19:00
Only one paper needs resurrecting and that is obviously the Sporting Life. Totally different class. Totally agree. |
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No matter what your thoughts are of the racing post we are in very sad times
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Why was the Sporting Life so great?
In the depths of winter in its latter years the paper often only consisted of 12 pages. |
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its What old people do saxon
 The sportsman newspaper was never given a chance |
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the sunday sport has become a shocking omission from our shelves in latter times
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i liked the sportsman.
especially that they only really had one set of tipsters, namely the 4 horsemen. They would come up with one selection for a race and that was it. I mean, the racing post has more tipsters than runners in your average handicap hurdle. Makes me sick when they boast about tipping a 14/1 winner when they probably had a dozen tipsters putting their opinion forward. |
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One of the complaints about the paper thelatarps was the form layout which if given a chance they could have changed or people got use to it,even back then there was the usual negative comments on this forum I thought it had a lot of good points and was at least an alternative to the post.
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anybody have any idea if the rp weekender and rfo are still published. the editor is a good friend of mine ,actually spoke to him today but he never mentioned it,
very sad times at the moment, stay safe Ronnie. |
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They are not pausing subs like RUK
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Can’t help you with your questions Ronnie but you stay safe also
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assume weekender and rfo suspended too
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ronnie
The weekender was published today. |
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And RFo on Tuesday Not Worth a Carrot
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looked at twitter for rfo- jeremy chapmans comments suggest all 3 suspended.
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When I first got interested in racing I remember buying a weekly magazine called 'The Racehorse' .I recall it as having a small number of pages, but packed with interesting articles and excellent tips.
Never found a better racing publication |
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yeah foxy, remember the form layout. Bit of a nightmare i suppose. It was just a bit different to the Post. I remember David Pipe saying that the old man couldnt have the racing post at any price. Owing to the form layout being so different to that of the sporting life.
A very subjective thing form layout, obviously. |
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Without checking how long ago do you think the sportsman was ?
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foxy
never looked but I would thought about 18 years ago. one of the reporters used to borrow my timeform prospectus. regards Ronnie. he went on to become Jamie spencers agent when he won the top jockey. terrible tipster. |
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Foxy
Andrew Sheraton was the guy was very pally with Jack Ramsden Ronnie. |
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When you sail your boat dependent on bookmaker sponsorship, if and when the rats jump ship you are sunk.
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Not as long as 18 years Ronnie
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I wish you could still get the prospectus ronnie
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remember the sportsman was around 2006, 2007 if memory serves.
Utd beat chelsea to the league. Andy Gray was a columnist and i think he tipped it.. |
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Foxy
wont be far off. Ronnie. |
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It was 2006
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foxy
thought it was longer but you are correct lasted for 7 months regards Ronnie. |
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i remember when i rung up RPOST to complain about the website being slow, the reply was weve had no other complaints and could you use another search engine like mozilla or opera because it doesnt work so well in chrome, i liked the analyis in horse form but as it took so long to load sometimes and then other times form would be missing i gave up, even at 50p a day for the website it wasnt worth it, they have to find another form of funding and less crap on the site
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Stopped the Racing Post after Chelters because of the ridiculous price increase.I had a racing paper every day for 55 years.Enjoyed Ian Carnaby and Steve Palmer on the Sunday edition but they were stopped.It was always on the card that they were trying to drive people to take the online edition.With the betting shops closed a large share of their market disappeared.I doubt there will be a printed edition again.
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like everything else moving online, soon be able to get my weekly supermarket shop from my hologram projector thing like they use in star trek
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Rather sad if it seizes
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