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10 things you hate about horseracing
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Largely agree six but we wouldn't have had Trueshan last year.
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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.
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I agree Gravy. It;s naff and they should discontinue it.
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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
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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?
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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.
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6. Jockeys/trainers fixing races......NAP !!!!
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Derek Thompson irritating as feck and past sell by
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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? |
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Good old Thommo!
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Can’t understand the dislike of the Irish race caller.
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Fake sound of horses' hooves in a race is quite annoying when you know it's actually a recording of a buffalo stampede.
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Straight out of The Searchers.
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Chapman boring on and on and on about the effing whip.
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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. |
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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. |
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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!
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…and the Schweppes and the Martell Cup. Any others?
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I like how fixing races is merely number six in OP's list!
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I like how fixing races is merely number six in OP's list!
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I like how fixing races is merely number six in OP's list!
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I like how fixing races is merely number six in OP's list!
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I like how fixing races is merely number six in OP's list!
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didn't Seagram win the Seagram Grand National?
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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 |
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Shergar Cup
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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. |
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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  |
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PS - I have a hunch that post will disappear shortly
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