Racing Post Again

Totally agree, Tommy.


Stopped buying it some years ago as I preferred to read the paper rather than the online version and never read the so called tipsters and a good few of the journalists as well.

got to go up cheltenham week surely ? ..all the people i know who go racing on a regular basis don't buy it  anymore .

I only read it for the form not interested in tips probably only PW/PK. All the news/running plans are available free everywhere. If less than three meetings on then I don't buy.
Windsor Knot. I queried your Cheltenham point, newsagent says soon?

For around 40 years I bought either the life the chron or the post everyday,now I would say I buy it average twice a week ,it’s a shame really .

now i dont know the economics of producing a newspaper but i'm puzzled as to why a daily  paper stuffed with pages of bookmaker advertising - which presumably they pay for - can cost a fiver !..unless the likes of pricewise and the rest are on footballer wages .

My guess is that bookmakers do not pay very much to advertise in the Racing Post. It is not as if they are competing with Sainsbury's and Ford for that prime centre page spot.

Add to that a low circulation and lots of journalists to pay, and there's your answer. And yes, while some people might be happy to drop the football coverage, there are others who'd expand the sport section and cut down what they see as equine bingo. Do punters need all that bloodstock coverage? No, but owners and breeders do.

So the Racing Post needs more writers and more colour printing on more pages of newsprint.

Jinnast
Windsor Knot
Ramruma
Agree 100% with all above points.

I suggest that maybe it isnt run very professionally by business minded folk. 
Balancing the books should be the priority and not by increasing the price.

Advertising revenue should be key, as should wage cutting , employee cutbacks (how many hacks does it require and on how much ?? it surely seems to be bloated and run on the old fleet street principles /old boys club /job for life) and a reduction in the cover price, which in turn should drive up sales, creating increased revenue.

Simples.
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get some pants on and rock up to the RP offices with your masterplan.

A publication riddled with simple errors on a daily basis. I ain't paying over a 5er to read such errors.

Slickster. I forgot about the errors.

Confirmed, the price of the Racing Post will increase by 30p per day from Monday.

thats a good idea ...on a traditionally ' thin  ' day of the paper . the words nail and coffin spring to mind .

Over a fiver to read what Mr Birch fancies anyone buying this old rubbish needs urgent medical attention

Feb 1, 2025 -- 8:34AM, windsor knot wrote:

thats a good idea ...on a traditionally ' thin

Had a pint of Guinness in my local last night, cost £5.50.

Still have the post delivered to the door except Monday and Tuesdays. Knocked a couple of days off last year due to the increases.

Not much value about these days.

adverts are very cheap if you sign up for a long time which is why some of them go on for years, as sporting index did(rip)

the writing is more like typing. lee d1ckhead is rubbish and hes the lead writer

not sure why its so expensive but they have all gone up markedly over recent years. times £4.00. not sure why rp so much more as the large majority of it is data that its systems update automatically and hardly need any human input. you can tell this by the number of times they leave 'databank' and other computer-speak on the page

got warned off nicking it this morn

Didn't go up today still £4.90.Paper shop still saying it was to go up today.Maybe they look in here.Must be waiting for Cheltenham.

I am a Racing x Football Outlook man £5.20 will probably go up to £5.50 before Cheltenham only comes out once a week Good Value  No but what is These days The paper is Thinner than Zola Budd in her Racing Days

Feb 3, 2025 -- 1:02PM, sevey wrote:

I am a Racing x Football Outlook man £5.20 will probably go up to £5.50 before Cheltenham only comes out once a week Good Value

Good luck finding anyone under 60 who remembers Zola Budd.

I'm under 60 and remember the barefoot South African Zola Budd who was representing GB.  Tripped up US sweetheart Mary Decker in the 3,000m final at the LA Olympics and got dq'd.  Wendy Sly for GB got silver, and I think the blonde Romanian Melinte won (all Eastern European women were on drugs back then imo)  so really should've been a GB gold.  There was an Eastern European boycott bar Romania.  All without looking at Wiki, so that might not be completely correct.  Ruined Budd's career.

It was Redgrave's first gold medal.  Alongside Andrew Holmes, who has since died from Well's disease, suspected to be caused by a lesion getting infected by rat's pee.

50 would be around the cut off for that, I remember Zola Budd and fortunately nowhere near 60 yet! I also remember watching 'Bolero' live.

& Thompson. The olympics was of course massive in those days, only London has come close post the 1980's, for obvious reasons. Didn't even watch any of Paris! I might watch Trump's though ;)

Mary Decker was allegedly on drugs like many US athletes in the LA Olympics. Including the sainted Carl Lewis. The US athletics federation decided to ignore the USADA drug authorities.
Quite right too.
Why destroy the dream..
Decker was a colossal drama queen.
She was not tripped by Zola.
She spent the race side by side with the Brit/Saffer in what looked liked a blatant attempt of intimidation. She got her just desserts when she fell flat on her erse and cut Budd's bare feet with her no doubt sharpened American running spikes.
She cried like an entitled 'mean girl' who missed out on the vote for home-coming-queen.
Nuts to her.

At some point,they ll have to decide on a more streamlined paper.
96 pages on a busy Saturday,is crazy,
Appealing to everyone,from foreign racing,greyhounds,every sport,breeding,the form for every meeting,the signposts pages,then all the articles,race analysis,the days before reviews,every result.

Jack of all trades masters of none maybe.


Breeding maybe could go to a supplement every week.full results every week.

If go racing,got to memorise page numbers of tracks,try finding the meeting in the wind.

Outlook and weekender must surely be combined.

Is their anyone in Britain who still collects the result section,has anyone got every edition,in binders ,their wife’s must love them.

Does anyone study form by hand using them.half the weekender is results,

Not to mention whoever prices up the Horse racing markets are a country mile out to when the race goes off.

Ha Ramruna , dont qualify but was dpoing the East Grinstead X-Country way back in the day and they started mens race after womens , came through a mud patch and who shot past me going the other way .....Zola Budd !

Racing Post online recently restricted free form to five most recent runs. If you wanted further back form you had to log in agreeing to accept their offers etc. When I tried to access the site after a couple of days I was asked to rejoin giving address/password etc. which I did and got access. Today after going through all the afore routine I can't get access. Jockeypedia yesterday morning advised on another thread to go to irishracing.com for free form. This site is very good and has everything I need free. It is also easy to read and navigate.

I had no problem logging in today although it's a poorly programmed site with no indication that you're not logged in.

It also seems to have got quite a bit slower to load up pages since including the need to log in. Probably going through an inefficient login check with each click.

No problems at all here, just remember to log in each time.

RACING COMPOST

It also seems to have got quite a bit slower to load up pages since including the need to log in.

So it's not just on my machine then. That spinning clock you now get when you click on a horse's name is so aggravating. You lose your train of thought. Sometimes I find myself forgetting why it was that I was looking up that particular horse's form.

Same on the loading front dropped a notch. Site was so fecked for a long long time hope we're not heading in that direction again

Bought it today, 1st since Saturday,newsagent says it went up (£5.20) yesterday.

Basic economics
Price goes up, demand comes down
Price goes down, demand goes up

Say they sell 50k copies a day at 5.20
Drop the price to 3.00 a day, they would have to sell 100k copies a day to increase income, without taking into account the extra cost of printing more copies

Might be worth a trial, but I would surprised if they could achieve that

Quite pleased with myself
Just guessed at the circulation in my post above, subsequently googled it and figures of 50k to 60k  per day

lads

the online subscription is really great value, no brainer.

Post seems to sell it's data to a variety of customers and have been reluctant for years to expand their own searchable database. Must be a commercial decision but its very frustrating as a second service provider has to be paid. On the plus side, their pedigrees, almost 40 years of form, sales and stallion date is invaluable to me. Costs far less for an online subscription and the pdf of the daily paper.

Don't think much of the criticism here is balanced and I suspect if we lost the paper it would help presage a serious decline in the public's interest and support over the sport.

Give me a Johnny Dineen over a slickster any day.

The Racing Post is a sh1t paper otherwise a price rise is no major obstacle to buying. In the late 80's on a friday night I'd drive from Turnham Green to Marble Arch to get the early edition of the Sporting Life for Saturday.

you were the 1st chasing fast pics, you get get it picked up/delivered by one of Williams  drone,s  today

There you go Racing x Football Outlook £ 5.90 / 6.90 Euros for our Friends in the Irish Republic Kick on