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08 Sep 22
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all the DG's in mourning.
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DG?
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GG's possibly...?
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Do u have a top ten for DG,s
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Hopefully people don’t get offended by what I’m about to say so apologies in advance but
Unlucky Trueshan looooooool it’s not fkin funny now is Alan. Anyways rip the Queen. |
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12 days of mourning
Presumably no football this weekend  |
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with the WC football cant afford a fortnight with no games
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The BHA will confirm plans for Saturday's fixtures and beyond in due course.
When King George VI died in 1952, all racing in Britain was cancelled until after his funeral nine days later. But it was February, with no Flat racing and only a few unimportant jumps meetings. The same had happened after the deaths of King George V in January 1936, King Edward VII in May 1910 (when Flat as well as jumps meetings had to be cancelled) and Queen Victoria in January 1901. In all four cases there was no racing in Britain between the monarch's death and the state funeral. ----------------- I am a Royalist - But ... We live in different times now - a vastly different world. Cannot bring the country to a standstill for days on end in this day and age.... It would now lose a lot of the public sympathy. |
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This is something that North Korea would do. Forced mourning.
The Queen would not have wanted this |
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Thank god for Ballinrobe & Compiegne
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Confirmed on donny website racing cancelled friday
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Donny off Friday on website
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All greyhound racing as well
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If we can't pause for a few days in respect for the Queen, what is a country for? Racing carried on when the Duke of Edinburgh died but he was not head of state.
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There is a difference between pausing and cancelling. I have no problem with racing having a few days off but why not during the funeral and not when horses have been entered and even taken to the track at a a large cost to owners and those that have travelled there.
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What purpose is served by canceling so many future events??? It's SENSELESS on every level.
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Agree Pro,country on it's knees and everything stops,when it comes to the queen i'm a royalist but it's no more than virtue signalling,to call Southwell off after 2 races is crazy.
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When Diana died,it was just the day of the funeral when everything was off,completely absurd if we all have a week off.
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Ribero you are right Virtue Signalling
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much respect to her. she lived a blameless life under incredible scrutiny.
but racing cannot afford it and the jelly wouldnt want it, at least thats what she told me. |
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wrong Ribero - i was ready to set off to Anfield to watch the toon when Dermot Murnaghan telt us all footy matches were cancelled on the Sunday morning after DI's death the night b4 - ended up going to the pics at Metrocentre and watched a gr8 film that had Ray Winstone and the guy outta Blur in it amongst othas - crime caper that i cant rememba name of just now but very gud film that i wudnt hav otherwise entertained
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Fair enough Smirnoff but after Sunday then pretty sure everything carried on,remember going racing several times and a minutes silence before racing.
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Just watching Man u,half time BT have a blank screen for 15 mins! Unless absolutely everything stops all the BHA have to do is say She loved her Racing etc etc and wouldn't have wanted it to stop which no doubt she wouldn't.
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i agree though Ribero - life goes on and i think personally they shud hav left tonights events to carry on as normal as a lot of costs involved etc etc to plenty people then take a day out -tomorrow- then return to normal until day of the funeral - just my own thoughts though and many will hav differing views
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I think it's unfair on racing tonight to abandon when it has already started only to see football kick off at 8pm.
I agree with sport off tomorrow and the day of the funeral. One thing the Queen stood for was getting on with life and with respect that it what we should do. |
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Maybe Man Utd and West Ham would liked to have postponed tonight's games, but UEFA said they had to go ahead.
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Possibly so.
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I wonder how many would still be "Royalists" if they knew what it actually stood for. Would people still be fawning over their treasured monarchy if they knew exactly how it was built?
13yold kid tragically loses life the other day>>> Everything carries on as normal. Old lady nearing 100 passes away>>> SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN. It just doesn't make sense. |
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The rest of the world will be calling us the bone idle Brits.
Any excuse to stop work. |
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Half the country's population is imported, what do they care for our monarch?
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Anyone know if the Leger is going ahead on Saturday?
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the queen was a great lady and all but seriously, cancelling the racing today and tomorrow?........im stunned.
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Re Doncaster tomorrow, I firmly believe that HM would be distraught at the LATE cancellation, knowing that there are dozens and more horses already stabled for tomorrows meeting having been driven up to 300 miles today at significant staff and fuel costs.
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70 years service and you want to get on with life, maybe it's just me getting it wrong, life has all factors living and mourning are the first two.
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Yep probably Carla - I just doubt that racing at Doncaster tomorrow lacks respect or impinges seriously on the great monarch's reputation. In fact, I'd go further, if she'd had room in her last words, she'd probably have said don't let them cancel the Leger!.
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Why should we have to suffer for their grief?
They must think they're Royalty or something. |
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ProSniper Joined: 08 May 14
Replies: 760808 Sep 22 21:17 I wonder how many would still be "Royalists" if they knew what it actually stood for. Would people still be fawning over their treasured monarchy if they knew exactly how it was built? im not a royalist and you dont know what it stands for. and it was not built. it evolved organically via political religious and and historical happenstance. and a few other things you do not understand. |
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must be amusing for crappen-the nation, at least some of it mourning the loss of a shape-shifting lizard. what fools we are.
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Rico-Dangleflaps 08 Sep 22 19:00
all the DG's in mourning. Manoleeds 08 Sep 22 19:29 DG? DeGenerates. |
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I'd cancel the entire weekend's horseracing and football programmes and other sports programmes too. The Queen was a figurehead of The UK for 70 years. The Queen conducted herself very well like no other head of state. And,she was not a politician either!
I think those bemoaning about the abandonment of horseracing for a day ought to re-evaluate their value and priority. |