10 things you hate about horseracing

I was going to…..back it

I should have had more on……said the moron….

Punters blaming the jockey for every beaten fav as opposed to realizing they just may have backed the wrong horse.

Oli Bell.
Chamberlin.
And they're enough to be going on with.

Off course bookmakers x 8

Jockeys not pulling up (NH) when horse is obviously tired with no chance of placing

Exchange Bots

Missing out obstacles due to the sun. Change the race times or move the obstacles. The sun has risen and set at the same time on any given date for 10,000 years and more.
Races late off. Any horse not at the start 5 minutes before the off fined, only 2 attempts to load before being withdrawn.That would soon sort it.
not sure why bookmakers should not base their prices on the exchanges. They have always based them on weight of money either in the shops, on course or from their credit customers. What is the difference?

Trainers that can't train horses to run consistently. So Twiston-Davies and V. Williams over NH, (thank god M. Johnson has retired!).
The last 30secs of an Irish race commentary by that commentator.
Low class races all weather racing.

Irish handicaps (I don't bet in them) Pure Sirloin rated 30 on RPR last twice when at 20/1 and 66/1. Won today at 7/1! If they can cheat the British handicapper they can cheat the Irish one.

Storm Alert, I agree about the Irish commentator. He sounds as if he has a mouthful of treacle.

Stall handlers pushing, shoving, lifting a class 6 rag for 5 minutes to get in in the starting stalls, with a hood over its head and the jockey pulling its tail forward, that is running in blinkers, that has never/will never win a race. Horse clearly not up for it, and sadly the owner(s)/trainer(s) put it up.
BHA always promoting welfare, but they allow this to go on day after day.

I'm not a woke by any means, just a caring person. Maybe someone with better knowledge will say that the horse is not suffering, but, whatever, it does not look good, and, furthermore, I don't understand what an owner(s) get out of it, especially with what it must be costing them every week/month.

All done in the best interests of providing betting fodder for the bookmaking industry lol

Kate Harrington being allowed to speak on Tv, ditto Josh Apiafi on the other channel. Any longer than 30 minutes between races. Trainers whose horses won't go into the stalls. Jumps missed due to low winter sun the worst thing of all if you've backed a good jumper. All jockeys who won't ride out for a place. Jamie Spencer full stop. Jockeys who go wide losing ground. Jockeys who get half lengthed at a fence then horse duly makes a mistake more often than not. Trainers who don't have their horses fit first time.

Posters who believe everything that's bad in racing only happens in Ireland

When I am at the track and a horse is fatally injured. Always brings a tear to my eye and puts a downer on the whole day for me and always has done. It's bad enough seeing it on the tele....but being there is so much worse.
Yes I know it is part of the sport and the vast majority have a wonderful life up to that point... but it doesn't make it any easier for me to accept. It goes without saying any seriously injured jockey as well.

STEWARDS - Especially in the UK. I suspect some are corrupt and at best there is no consistency!
How many times have we seen the second horse absolutely mugged by the 'winner' and gets to keep the race because the distance was more that a short head.
At best most of them are amateur idiots.

STEWARDS - Especially in the UK. I suspect some are corrupt and at best there is no consistency!
How many times have we seen the second horse absolutely mugged by the 'winner' and gets to keep the race because the distance was more that a short head.
At best most of them are amateur idiots.

Minimal or no variation between on-course bookmakers' prices. Ridiculous prices for junk food on racecourses.

Trainers who have obviously not bothered to train a horse to enter stalls, then entering their horse into a race where it will need to go into a stall simply and safely...potentially cruel as well as negligent. Linked, why nothing is ever done to fine or chastise the trainer for this problem.

Pissed twats who cheer when a horse falls

Pissed twats who cheer when a horse falls

Trainers who send an unfit horse to run….

Jockeys holding horses up so far back thinking they are on Pegasus.

Jockeys holding horses up then complaining there was no pace.

Ugly birds working the bars, I remember when they were all as fit as fcuk.

Or worse, trainers who run a horse in a race at Perth where it finishes clearly distressed after a close fought finish, then travel it down to Ludlow overnight where it runs the next day, incredibly, and it breaks down.  A champion trainer did that way back in the late eighties.  Disgusting.

DG if you drink more that starts to happen...

I backed my nap which won


And ended up losing a monkey……ffs

Fat bookies.

Bookmakers and bots.

i hate racecourses that never have a Watch,Clock,Chronometer,or Sundial,

Bookmaker sponsored trainers, Skelton and his Ladbrokes Barbour springs to mind.

Agreed Slippy
Most unedifying.

Horses running loose causing some lengthy delays whilst chasers perform semaphore without the flags

How did Skelton get on with his court case, the one where the owner felt he had been diddled into selling a good horse cheaply to a Dan friend?

The Shergar Cup.

1. Matt Chapman
2. Matt Chapman
3. Matt Chapman
4. Matt Chapman
5. Matt Chapman
6. Matt Chapman
7. Matt Chapman
8. Matt Chapman
9. Boom
10. Yeee Haaa

Watching live stream of races from certain tracks and going into final furlong/approaching final flight thinking my selection has half a chance only to glance at the exchange market where my nag is 999/1

Interviewing winners whilst still on the horse/course, poxy ITV!!!

TM

Stables with runners and comments like  , only of interest if the money comes.
The gravy train media passengers saying feck all about the failures in racing.
The Pitman's Derby run on a beach.
The watering down of the festival.
The pony sized Aintree fences.
Pathetic limitation on bets online(some much worse than others).
The Opening Line .....hapless.
ITV showing earlier races....and giving the result , instead of showing the last couple of furlongs with commentary.
Racing Leagues.
And of course Affordability terrorism.

The prices on the rails.

You get better prices on the tote or online.

Largely agree six but we wouldn't have had Trueshan last year.

Noe of us have to watch all racing so just tune out the bits you dislike. There are plenty of irritations of course and I share many of them but at the end of the day we are not forced to watch.

I agree Gravy.  It;s naff and they should discontinue it.

betting a horse for a place and realising a furlong or so out that my jockey is a lot less bothered about being placed than I am

I can't see this interviewing nonsense ending any time soon. They even insisted on an interview with Sir Andy Murray at 4am after nearly 6 hours on court. If you don't do your interview in football, athletics (mixed zone nonsense) and tennis you can be thrown out of the competition. Racing is going the same way. All to do with TV producers and sponsors. I would watch just as much racing if the only sound all afternoon was the racecourse commentary and if they spent more time showing the horses walking round the paddock and galloping to post it would improve my enjoyment no end. If a sportsperson chooses to never say a single word in public, why should that affect his chances of being a champion?

2 things, the giggling with the pundits after the result, especially if youv'e done your ball-ocks, and when a commentator said the leader is drawring away, what school did he go to. cheers.

6. Jockeys/trainers fixing races......NAP !!!!

Derek Thompson irritating as feck and past sell by

1. The Racing Blogger
2. No minimum bet law
3. The appalling customer experience when going racing currently
4. The current status quo in National Hunt racing, turning antepost betting on Cheltenham/jumps racing into a farce
5. The Racing Blogger
6. Too much all weather racing
7. Racing's unwillingness to evolve with the times and innovate
8. The state of the racing calendar
9. Prize money
10. Did I mention the Racing Blogger?

Good old Thommo!

Can’t understand the dislike of the Irish race caller.

Fake sound of horses' hooves in a race is quite annoying when you know it's actually a recording of a buffalo stampede.

Straight out of The Searchers. 

Chapman boring on and on and on about the effing whip.

coys • January 22, 2023 11:49 AM GMT
1. Matt Chapman
2. Matt Chapman
3. Matt Chapman
4. Matt Chapman
5. Matt Chapman
6. Matt Chapman
7. Matt Chapman
8. Matt Chapman
9. Boom
10. Yeee Haaa

Post of the year contender.

The bloke is as irritating as hell and quite frankly as thick as pig sh!T. Comparing overuse of the whip to soon having to ban tackling in football between 2 willing competitors.

They shoot horses don't they?

What a shame they don't shoot horse racing presenters.

Drinks companies losing all interest in sponsoring races - so now it’s only ever the Betfair this, or the PP that, instead of the Mackeson,  the Hennessy, the Black and White Whisky, the Whitbread and Piper Champagne Gold Cup!

…and the Schweppes and the Martell Cup. Any others?

I like how fixing races is merely number six in OP's list!

I like how fixing races is merely number six in OP's list!

I like how fixing races is merely number six in OP's list!

I like how fixing races is merely number six in OP's list!

I like how fixing races is merely number six in OP's list!

didn't Seagram win the Seagram Grand National?

1. How the TOTE has been progressively ruined as an attractive betting proposition


2. NOT HAVING THE TV CAMERA IN LINE WITH THE FINISHING LINE - THERE IS SIMPLY NO EXCUSE FOR THIS - IN A SPORT WHERE THE FINISHING LINE IS THE DEFINITION POINT IT SURELY CANT BE BEYOND THE WIT OF MAN TO GET THE TV CAMERA IN LINE SO PUNTERS CAN GET A DECENT VIEW OF WHAT IS CROSSING THE LINE - THE NUMBER OF TRACKS WHERE THE CAMERA ANGLE IS SKEWED IS PLAIN DISGRACEFUL

Shergar Cup

In no particular order:

1)Non-triers

2) Vast amounts of low-grade racing (which is ALWAYS to the bookies' advantage) relative to the odd week or Saturday of good stuff which is too much to get a handle on.

3) The fact that you can never get anywhere with it, it's always attritional losses destroying winning streaks. Every season, flat or jumps, has a sweet spot followed by everything going tits up.

4)Sod's law. I can't think of any other betting medium which is so bent out of shape by sod's law (and that's without pricing in skullduggery).

5) The pretence that there is no dark, negative side to racing.

6) How the punter is shat on all the way down the line.

7) When horses are killed. It makes me feel rather ashamed.

8) The mass deception of training in public.

9) Races that aren't races, just play-acting like Saturday wrestling.

10) The sheer sod-the-public, could-not-give-a-toss attitude of most racecourses towards punters' needs.

626 is spot on with this observation - "ITV showing earlier races....and giving the result, instead
of showing the last couple of furlongs with commentary"

That'd be far too sensible a suggestion which would please EVERY viewer/enthusiast, so there's
no fcukin' chance of that - it's been happening for decades and I've emailed to complain, but as
ever, NOTHING changes...and besides, those extra 30 seconds which could be allotted to an earlier
race is gonna compromise the time quota of the totally unnecessary Spúnkett to name but one.

Also, when the judge is set to announce the result (usually for a place) and the gób**** presenters
talk over the loud speaker...and then don't tell us what we were struggling to hear - infuriating!


However, when it comes to the racing industry, we have to stand in awe at what is undoubtedly the
undisputed Olympiad, heavyweight champion of everything negative in the sport...the disgusting,
greedy, ignorant, greasy, parasitic, disingenuous RACING POST & their thick as pigshít, double-digit IQ
journalists

Just how the fcuk have these bástards managed to 'stumble' upon a monopoly in this industry?
And then DEMAND subscriptions for basic information that should be readily available online?

We used to have The Sporting Chronicle & The Sporting Life and although being a breath of fresh air
when the RP first appeared in 1986 (I've still got the first three editions) it's been a rapid decline
and more noticeable since the advent of the internet which should've made things much better - it almost
seems conspiratorial...like a well executed internecine plan.

I cannot stand it that these chancers are reporting on basic news that demand payment and consequently
they have negatively impacted on my interest in the game That's akin to Sky's boxing coverage
which has taken the sport away from the average working man.

My mate actually subscribes to these fcukers to help with his studying and there's still plenty
of basic stuff he can't access (even an opinion piece by one of their 'star performers' like Lord Farquaad)
'cos they want even more money!

I'm not the slightest bit interested in the views of their so called journalists (or more appropriately
presstitutes) but it seems fraudulent to charge for many articles - how has this been allowed to digress
in this manner?

Maybe I've got too many splinters in my árse by sitting on the fence too much...as I evidently have
difficulty expressing my feelings towards these vermin.


PS - why is the ATR website so poor and ineptly designed?
Unfortunately, being conversant with the workings of the RP website makes it my reluctant first choice...a
bit like continuing to use a bookmaker's website due to familiarity of the site's access/navigation - I don't
think I'd be alone on that score.

PPS - that thread I saw on here about a winner returned 20/1 SP yet its Bumfair SP was just over 16/1.
That had me apoplectic with rage...seeeething!
The game's finished and won't exist in 50 years or so, after we're all gone

PS - I have a hunch that post will disappear shortly