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PETITION TO THE RACING POST - SIGN BELOW
PETITION TO THE RACING POST - SIGN BELOW
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We all seem to be in agreement,CUTH with exception of the lunatic,Leif the Brainless
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I’m ok with change.
Just get rid of empty space,return corporate colours on selected bookies,make horse,jockey,trainer. Same bold ink. Them 3 are wrong, Moving spotlight to top of page,maybe,that’s fine,helps punters read it first, Better to read that than just look at a list of horse names, They’re guiding you to an assessment of the race,rather than just a list of runners,no problem. |
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With the older - better - format, you could eyeball the runners, trainers, jockeys, course form, distance form, headgear, days since last run, tips, and the last six races at a glance : no noise. No distractions.
On that first pass alone you would begin to form an initial impression of the likely contenders, how competitive the race was, who the likely favourites were, and so on. I would do this with both the current odds and tissue forecast turned off. Questions would then arise : POST SOVIET CRIMEA hasn't raced for 262 days ; has it ever won fresh ? Let's go and look. Prescott's AN ANT is sporting blinkers for the first time ; has it won before with aids ? Let's see. Point is, it worked. Now, they seem to be catering for people who wish to be spoon fed by relying on the opinion of an 'expert', and providing a bigger platform for the bookies. |
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Well, it's a business they're running when all is said and done, and profit is king.
Maybe p*ssing off a lot of knowledgeable subscribers in order attract the occasional punter who's a bit clueless will generate more money, but surely the optimal business strategy is to have a website, app - whatever - which appeals to both.  |
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Spoon feeding and promoting bookies ,fine. Let them do it,,people want it.
It gets people interested,then they might look for themselves. Just more compact,better italics,corporate colours,unless the bookies are happy being in a ladbrokes world. |
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Just a tiny point. The boxes they’ve put the horses in,rent even joined,there’s a space gap between them,more wasted space.
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Aren’t ,not rent
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There are plenty of other websites out there where you can access the form for free : Sp*rting Life, A* the Races, T*meform, the various bookies, etc.
But, people still ponied up to use the RP site. They subscribed. Why ? Because it was the most user friendly. Now, they risk losing those very people to a cohort who could just as easily access form for free elsewhere. Does the Racing Post think those occasional punters will prefer their site to all the others ? Is it that the Spotlights and 'Verdict' in the RP are better than Timefirms on the SL website ? Well, even if they are, would those occasional punters realise that ? Of course not. And as far as the Spotlight comments go, I've lost count of the times the 'expert' has referred to a filly as 'he' or 'his', i.e. THIS FEMALE HORSE : 'disappointing on his [sic] seasonal reappearance at Windsor 14 days ago, and he [sic] will need to settle better on this rise in trip'. Who are they trying to appeal to ? If it's the occasional punter, I think they may be on a hiding to nothing since none of them will be subscribing anyway. |
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paper working fine
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And,you can see lifetime form and watch replays from it,Busy
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Paper's all well and good if you want truncated form lines.
But anyway, if the paper was good enough, why bother with a website ? |
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uptheirons
I'm salivating at the prospect of an away trip to Lincoln's LNER stadium this coming season - not... . |
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The Paper version is for Dinosaurs and cannot possibly compete with the Online version however much they have slaughtered the Site
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They update the post.
Yet still print the full results pages in the weekender,every week.only 20 pages some weeks. I wonder if anyone studies form by looking at these. You need 2 houses to store the results section,28 years.no sign of them stopping it.itscrazy. Mobile phones and the internet invented since they started it. Love to know how many people in Britain has got every section 100% divorced,given run out of space in loft,garage,spare bedrooms. |
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no interest in replays
never seen a dinosaur in the paper and dont get the allusion. too much is digital and audio-visual and online and most of it is poisonous garbage |
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Just crash all horse racing form websites and let people go back to what we did before the internet.
Buy last season's form book - whether by Raceform or Ti*eform - the Weekender each Wednesday for the last seven days' form, and then the Sporting Life or RP each day when you fancied a punt. Laboriously write out each horse's form line, from the form book and Weekender, and then decide the race is too competitive for a bet. By which time you had no time for further form study because you had to : a) go to work, or b) go to bed at a reasonable hour for work the next day, or c) simply have time to do anything else. We're not asking much : the previous RP site was fine. Please put it back to how it was, or even offer us the chance to pay for it as an alternative option to the current shower of sh*t. We shouldn't have to, in the same way you shouldn't have to pay more for so-called organic veg', meaning veg' that isn't sprayed with sh*te, but we get the world's gone to sh*te anyway and just want to be able to study the form like we did before with no hassle. |
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congrats getting organic veg into this
organic or not you can keep it. dont eat plants |
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Ah.
Fair point, Busy. |
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SELECTION BOX TIP COUNT...There was someone on here that missed and needed the tip count next to every horse on ONE scrolling webpage...like it was before the RP mangled it ....here you go this is what you need.......https://www.horseracing.net/racecards
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PS Racing Post bring that tip count back on the whole meeting scroll pages and you will be nearly forgiven...the tips were irrelevant,. but it was a fantastic market indicator 24 hours before a race.and clicking on every race on a bank holiday or Saturday is a massive time waste
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In 2 years. We will all just lump on spotlights selection with ladbrokes. And everyone will be happy.
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Well, after the best part of 40 years, I have accessed the Racing Post for the last time.
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Coincidental story running onthe Racing Post website............'I had to sit in my office because I had tears in my eyes' - the most unforgettable stories in Racing Post history, as chosen by the editors....he must have just looked at the new website!
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That the person in charge of this abomination is the Mr Bean lookalike,Keith The Nerd Melrose shows which way it will go
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HA HA that leif dude is something else...if he studied at night school he could better himself to be a moron....he actually thinks clicking and opening a different Java tab 500 times...is progress over ONE self contained rapid data assimilation webpage
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Signed.
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Signed.If I print card every horse is named 2x. red run red run,aldaniti aldaniti etc.Appreciate if anyone on here can tell me whats wrong.How I can resolve this problem.At the moment I will jut stop betting on horses until its resolved.
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Is anybody else having problem accessing the info on pedigree, sales stats etc info when clicking on the relevant tabs.
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This is as close as 90% to the old site... lets hope they don't meddle with it ....its far far superior... on ONE scrolling webpage when you click on all races on meeting ...you have ALL horse comments, the tip count,ratings prices etc..https://www.horseracing.net/racecards
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https://x.com/SimonHolt3/status/2059534472236646683?s=20
Post See new posts Conversation Simon Holt @SimonHolt3 @racingpost A mess…. |
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https://x.com/brodders_be/status/2059589607767908501?s=20
Ian @brodders_be Has @ThomasKerrRP or anyone at the @RacingPost made any comment whatsoever on the universal dislike and basic lack of usability of the new website? |
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A frickin abomination. Signed.
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Earlier this week I sent by post a printout of this thread, along with a covering letter summarising the issues to Tom Kerr and Mark Renshaw (CEO of the RP).
I'll report what, if anything, I hear back. |
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Thank you for your efforts Wadders. Appreciate it.
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Yes. Thank you.
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“I know a lot of people at the racing post who use it, who work there, and they’re a bit embarrassed by this, but in all of these things, they’re not going to roll back the site, to admit failure.”
Tony Calvin – Racing Room discussion 56.17 – 64.00 https://youtu.be/Ih8eF0Mp-7E?si=JV6R5FYOHokwfku8&t=3377 |
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does anybody use the Timeform site at £30pm and how it compares to the RP site at £29.99?
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It's basically not fit for purpose now. It would have been awful even if they rolled it out in the depths of Winter, but to do so during the height of the Flat season is unforgivable
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I agree
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Considering how much more money is wagered on the jumps compared with the flat, thank God this fiasco has occurred now.
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