Discussion / Debate - Horse Racing

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[Roger Green]

Knowing the people behind the Great Leighs development, it is clearly their intention to have the best non turf racing in western europe. This will include providing top facilities.....full marks to Wolverhampton...Saturday night is a cracking good night out, with excellent restaurants, bars, toilets etc.

[nedster]

Come on guys we've got a thread here that if used properley can "beat" those evil bookies let's pool our resources and try and get this thread running too it's true potential.....................

[sportking]

From the sun

Punters' pal ... John McCririck
HE’S off. And it’s madness. From now until October, TV’s King Of Racing John McCririck will come under starter’s orders only four times on Saturdays.
Quite why racing’s most popular entertainer is being forced off the air is a tale that Dick Francis could have woven into a novel.
The big question in racing is: Who nobbled John?
To get to the truth I have held my own steward’s inquiry.
First up is Andrew Thompson, head of sport at C4 and John McCririck’s employer on The Morning Line, the Saturday morning TV racing show.
Thompson has told John that he is being stood down not because he is no good or getting past it but because he is too popular, too good at his job and denying the limelight to others.
Now the plot thickens.
McCririck’s sometimes coarse but always clever mouth has been much in demand from Celebrity Big Brother bosses and daytime telly shows in need of some shock jockery.
He has twice been kicked off afternoon ITV shows for playing up to his role as a pantomime woman-baiter.
Alan Titchmarsh threw him off for saying Ingrid Tarrant was useless in bed, although the only reason he was invited on the show was so he could be kicked off it.
And now step forward the boss of ITV daytime telly, Alison Sharman, a right-on supporter of women’s rights.
By coincidence she is married to Andrew Thompson, the C4 chief who has axed McCririck. Far be it from me to suggest that Ms Sharman has been whispering in her hubby’s ear about getting rid of that fat chauvinist pig John McCririck. But if she had, wouldn’t it be terrible hypocrisy since he has been invited on to her ITV daytime shows purely to perform as the politically incorrect stage baddie?
Punters
Thompson’s explanation for dropping John from 18 Saturday shows this year is preposterous.
It’s like Alex Ferguson saying he won’t play Ronaldo any more because he’s too popular with the fans.
It’s a decision that makes no commercial sense either. McCririck is still being paid despite not working.
Love him or loathe him, McCririck is big box office for racing.
I saw him in the Newmarket crowd on Saturday, with punters clamouring around him demanding pictures and autographs. Many were women.
John is being replaced on The Morning Line by Tom Lee. A nice lad, but, in the words of The Sun’s immortal Claude Duval, it’s like replacing the champion jockey with a seven-pound claimer.
This business is more than just a spat at C4. Senior racing folk are baffled by it. McCririck pulls custom into bookies and racecourses.
He is a powerful voice on behalf of the small punter and unafraid of upsetting racing’s great and good.
There are fears that there are secret plans to put him out to grass for good later this year.
It mustn’t happen.

[jamiess09]

I remember an article a few weeks back that as a part off the Betfair one million bonus next winter the Aintree Grand National will be the fourth leg.. Paul Nicholls, David Pipe and Alan King were all really excited about the prospect and were keen to get it the go ahead.. Can anybody confirm.. Because looking at the National betting Denmans 16/1 would look very tasty then..

[The Eagle]

I read that they hated it! Any horse that won any of the other races would mean them carrying a nigh impossible weight in the national

[Tugsy]

Hi everyone,

I have just received a letter from a Simon Foreman detailing his "Winning Systems Formula".

Just wondering if anybody here has come accross this Simon foreman.

Is it worth a follow up or should I just bin it ?

Thanks

(Apologies if I have posted this in the wrong place !!)

[thewish]

Tugsy,
just bin it, it will save you in the long run

Cheers
Wish
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