Suddenly I get why Cheltenham isn't the same

It's a plot by the Racing Post to make us pay them to read the form.

Unless the prize money and the affordability checks change very soon, there will be very few chasers trained in England in 5 years time.

i used to go on a regular basis back in the day...but no more

even getting to think i dont want to watch it anymore aftr at least 40years of addiction

its gone

I've been mad on it for donkeys years but a strange 'so what' feeling has emerged in recent years.

sounds like the male menopause.

They shouldn't have allowed those Frenchies play in England last night. The cheek.

You’d have to be an idiot to know **** all about Irish horses given the ease of access to video form.

All threads on Betfair forum end in insult - an unchanging rule.

every irish race shown on rtv so we subscribers know plenty though it may well not help

every irish race shown on rtv so we subscribers know plenty though it may well not help

If racing was worried about its carbon footprint it should be moved to Ireland.

Attended yesterday and today.

Not overly impressed anymore, too many of these hashtag, banter lad types. Bl00dy yobs, drunk of cats pizz.

Think tomorrow is an awful card and should go back to 3 days. I've never missed a festival since 1987 but next year? Not so sure.

Only going tomorrow
Forced too
Wun the tickets in a RAFFLE!!!

Smallest EVER festival  crowd shop has been desperate.
Ronnie.

One bet over a ton today.
Ronnie

Who was that on Ronnie?

was at Portman Park, more chance.

Too much hype these days, pundits talking over each other,mostly talking nonsense, no balance.

And tomorrow's card a complete pin job. If you get one winner you'll have done well.

first 2 days the races have been free to air dramatic sporting entertainment. be grateful.

there’s no need to be grateful though, bookies need that free exposure the most to pull in the bets from the public masses.

i love watching golf and horse racing on tv. golf has been taken away unless i subscribe hundreds of pounds to sky. im grateful i still have the top class racing to watch every week.

Too many idiots turning up at Cheltenham/ Aintree etc. The "pound on the nose" merchants in their £30 shiny suits swilling ale from plastic "glasses", remembering when Frankie Dettori won the Grand National on Desert Orchid at Ascot!

It's a bit like all sporting events/concerts since Covid. As soon as everything got back to 'normal' everyone wanted to be at everything. Even the bands/singers who can barely stand anymore have been selling out everywhere. The younger generation want to be seen at everything and posting it on Facebook,  older generations got a fright and are in the 'life is short' mode and are making up for lost time. Racing is ahead of the rest in the inevitable collapse of all this. The other sporting events and concerts will no doubt start to see the decline of punters soon, as the greed of pricing will eventually dawn on customers across the board.

Kids stay at home, dont get a property of their own = more available cash. Middle aged up to their hock in debt, CC's prioritise their football season ticket, Sky etc over horses. Older generation find it difficult with so many young drunks on course and when they see the price of the rail fare...dont get me started! = Festival numbers down

Everything is an Economic choice in life

42,000 yesterday, 66,000 on same day 3 yrs ago
42,000 would be the right amount to get around d,drinks,food toilets etc
that's 25,000 tkt sales short at around d a 100 quid a pop and bookies,bars,food outlets losing 25,000 customers ,having seen  a few vids of hell hole on earth beni,with 200/300 sat outside 50 pubs,beni doing their best to bring punters back on course next yr

Im ambivalent towards the GC tomorrow. Wheres the UK trainers? Maybe the entry cost of a horse is putting UK owners off putting the horses in the race. The rest is probably down to a decline of a sport (probably wont exist in 50 years from now, at least not in its current shape) and the rise of betting on other sports (football in particular) and put this together with an economic downturn at the moment.

When I went racing as a youth I wanted to see Silver Buck, Night Nurse, Warning, Sea Pigeon, Kris, Shergar, Dancing Brave etc. Not sure the young kids have any affinity with the horses in the main. More interested in the amber nectar

Only going tomorrow
Forced too
Wun the tickets in a RAFFLE!!!

how does that mean you're forced to go ?  raffle organisers sending the lads round to frogmarch you into a van

you won the tickets, so you're fkng going. 

get in the van.

jesus
just seen a video from chelt betting ring and best mate stand as horses go down to the start for the bumpers, and seriously there's more people at sedgy on a wet Tues afternoon,chelt must be worried

every race half-full of horses owned by billionaires after tax-breaks - hard for people to relate to