10 meetings during afternoon

*along

I know that's not the exact analogy, but you get the drift

It's not about the horse racing.  It's all about how much money they can squeeze from the paying public.  Some of those race meetings today will be charging a fortune on gate admission and then the price for food & drink when they get the paying public in.

new abacus required stu..theres 11.

yeh, I was meaning the ones that ended mid-afternoon

11 in total

Indeed Kriskin - I used to go to boxing day at Wetherby in the past. Because it's a traditional thing people keep paying for these meetings.

It's not really any different from most sports events. I was at the rugby the other week and it was £21 for 2 cans of magners and a can of Guinness, food was also extortionate.same as golf, football, concerts, festivals.
Not saying it's right but racing imo isn't the worse.

As a racing gambler, the biggest question is how to approach a day like today...

Far too much a day like this for me with just too many distractions. I shall probably only bother with Wolverhampton and maybe a couple of hurdle races.

If not careful you try to bite off too much on day like today yep.

stu 26 Dec 24 11:07 
yeh, I was meaning the ones that ended mid-afternoon

all 11 do.

Only bet will be Kientzheim 3.05 Kempton,I’ll just enjoy the ones i can watch.

Everyone's off..people want to go racing..it gets dark @ 4...that is all.

wolves finishes 5.40 rico

11 meetings one day a year and someones on about there being too much racing.

away and knit yersel a fkng cardigan ffs ...

I'm deleting all Sedgefield and Fontwell from my gruss quick pick list which is also now followed by Aintree on account of not being able to see s0d all....so I'm narrowing it down nicely.

they run faster if you can see them ??

add Market Rasen to the above, ther will be none left at this rate.

and Wincanton

stu 26 Dec 24 12:21 
wolves finishes 5.40 rico


isnt that this afternoon?

And Leopardstown out.....fog everywhere

It would help if we didn't have this Happy Valley stuff.

Not sure why we were debating it, but it certainly isn't mid-afternoon

Op, it used to be 12 UK & 3 Ire not so long ago.

I just covered Kempton & Aintree.

That was plenty enough, for me anyway.

It’s the first Boxing Day I haven’t had a horse bet. Watching the races and results I’m glad I didn’t.

Dec 26, 2024 -- 1:49PM, sparrow wrote:

It would help if we didn't have this Happy Valley stuff.

dreadful on a normal wednesday never mind today

Bournemouth playing Palace on Amazon now.

0-0 after 51 minutes. I'd be happy with a point t.b.h.

COYP.

A clean sheet and a point away to a bang in form Bournemouth side is not to be sniffed at. Well done the Eagles.

Was a layet  at Kempton Today.
Lost 5/1.

Happy  bloody  Xmas.

Ronnie.

Op, it used to be 12 UK & 3 Ire not so long ago.

Mad that really, at least in terms of us bothering to bet here - noticed a few of the markets were extremely thin today, which is not surprising given competition for possible races to be focusing on at any point!