The exact date when a copy of the Racing Post breaks the £5 barrier

will it survive until then...cost of living crisis,,,food,heating or £35 a week for the thoughts of Mottershead,Kerr,Birch,Playle et al?

I think it's £6 for shop copies at the weekend.

Anyone know what the Newsagents take out of the £4.20 is?

Used to be fairly uniform at around 21% per copy Newspapers - and around 30% for Magazines (of whom sales have declined dramatically)

- But those percentages have now changed, with individual Titles setting their own percentages, some as low as 10% (but that is the lower extreme) - National Newspapers most probably still at around 20% - Local/Regional newspapers (Newsquest - now 15%)

Wholesaler used to get 8 - 10%.

"whom", onlooker?

Thanks onlooker.

Coming off the press, so to speak, at about £3.36/copy.

Cannot imagine them making much setting total costs against sales t/o.

even money whether theres any paper copy at all by then as it could be digital only, as many shops now are

flag of goats 10 May 22 15:40 
14th March 2023 is my prediction, and cheap at half the price


nonsensical saying surley...cheap at twice the price i can fathom that out.

Cheap at half the price is a well-known expression that is a sarcastic way of saying expensive.

Cheap at twice the price is a well-known expression that means cheap.

Rico don't do sarcasm

Who gives a sh1t? The paper is not what it used to be. It's a piece of sh1t now - a waste of a scarce natural resource. Nothing but a mouthpiece for bookies; spouting dross and anti-affordability checks but condoning their paymasters continued bet restriction and closure of recreational accounts.

Disingenuous and sickening to the core. Absolutely sh1t paper with no credibility or integrity. Filth!.

I used buy it regular but its gone too dear there days, constantly increasing the cost of the paper is reducing the amount of people who can afford it each time.

Well said,lmpossible.

Loadsa RP mini print outs available wiv the riders and runners freely available wivout all the otha garbage in it free of charge at recent festival - at least at train station as well as free scarves etc for for certain runners if thats your thing and i bet the jockey club were well pleased with that seeing as it wud hav stopped many people being ripped off by anutha 5er by buying their programme once there the same sort of programmes that were available at Warwick and Stratford the previous two days at £2 and £3 a go -anyone paying near a 5er a day these days for RP has either got too much muny or is just set in their ways imo - not a patch on the paper it was in 90s or early 2000s

Serious racing journalists in those days...Paul Haigh,Alistair Down,Mel Collier to name but a few..now they've got a"senior racing journalist"more suited to the pages of Good Housekeeping or Woman's Own...

There was only one ever real racing paper.....

THE SPORTING LIFE!!!

I agree with impossible.

Agree with Steve...Sporting Life.

I think imp has gone way over the top.I mean we get the online cards and form for nothing zero,so what idiot is going to pay nearly a fiver for it.

I think they should start charging for the online content that we get,we are spoilt rotten but dont appreciate it.

Not forgetting Sir Clement Freud of course and his observations.

The new racing post digital screen form now in the bookies looks like its nearly the final nail

Impossible is 100% right. Bookies propaganda rag.

Used to buy it but not any more as it tends to put you off horses and sometimes to many to pick the wheat from the chaff

Nowt you can't find online elsewhere acey. Sporting life website has all this info.

'acey', I may be a little ott about the Racing Post. But, their editorial and contents are absolute sh1t. I do not think anyone can deny that, can you? Its former editor ran the paper into a spiral decline, then jumped before he was pushed; the present one maybe younger and enthusiastic but clueless, and wrapped-up in his paymasters colours head-to-toe.

If one is a horseracing fan and the only paper on offer is the Racing Post anyone with a smidgeon of intelligence can deduce one is very hard done by, why? The Racing Post is sh1t, absolutely sh1t! In the old days when I went passing a supermarket any captivating headline on this paper would induce me to get a copy at the kiosk. But, now the Racing Post is not even fit for wrapping fish n chips. It's full of their paymasters promotion diarrhoea; they pedal problem gambling, period.

The Sporting Life? That was far, far superior. I remember when living in Turnham Green I'd occasionally drive to Marble Arch and get one about midnight to read at bedtime esp the big meets on saturday eg Kneller (Ebor); Ekbalco (Fighting 5th); etc.

I think there's one thing everyone would not want to be seen or associated with. For me it's the Racing Post - not even for free. It promotes gambling - incessant and plentiful betting tips. I firmly believe the Racing Post is complicit to the represent staggering high level of problem gambling and addicts.

I'd challenge the present regime at the Racing Post to refute that, or print a lengthy defence.

The Racing Post is sh1t, absolutely sh1t! In the old days when I went passing a supermarket any captivating headline on this paper would induce me to get a copy at the kiosk. But, now the Racing Post is not even fit for wrapping fish n chips. It's full of their paymasters promotion diarrhoea; they pedal problem gambling, period.

Brilliant

Knellers victory was midweek impossible and still one of my fav winning bets - backed it quite short ew b4hand and then pressed up on the day when it drifted oncourse . But i do agree wiv wot you hav said - no comparison to SL

I'm not a prolific punter but do like the antepost wagers on prestigious races - Flat and NH. What the Racing Post has become is akin to a piece of art being sh1te on; sh1t and lazy journalism; sh1t content gathering; sh1t interview. It's unrecognisable to the horseracing papers I used to get almost daily.

Once again I'd challenge the present Racing Post regime to rebut my opinions.

Well said impossible.

I've only ever read the post for the form. What else would you spend £4.20 on. Sporting life was different gear however in its day. Broadsheet in the true sense of the word.

excelled itself today. according to the post we are racing at aintree hamilton and newbury today, with stats supplied for them. apparently the flying ginge is napped in the 3.00 at york. i raced to lay it for all money, but of course its yet another ****-up.

does anyone have the paper copy nowadays? so pleased im able to nick it.

Can’t see it going up in price again. When the government bring in affordability checks. They will limit punters to 100 a month. So the post will cost 140 a month. So should see a reduction in price. Something to read given you won’t be allowed a bet at least.

On a serious note. Goes up 10 every march before chelt.

So 2027 10th march.