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Articles the Racing Post put behind a paywall that you'd want paying to read....

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I'm hoping this could be an amusing thread.

Lee Mottershead reporting on going racing from around the world is my starter for ten.

Apparently he's in Bulgaria today - I hope he enjoys it so much he decides to retire with immediate effect and stay there.

I'm all about wishing others long-term happiness.
 
The rare times there's anything I want to read I just go & quickly scan the paper version in the coop or bookies down the road, even rarer for me to think it was worth the effort
 
Very good, Walsworth, but thr general idea was to post about real, not fictional, articles.

Like the latest instalment of Globetrotters in Madrid. 😂
 
"Mayhem in the Mediterranean" and what Chris Cook thinks about the Shergar Cup are just two items I am grateful to the RP for denying free access to today.
 
During the pandemic i remember emailing them and giving them a bollocking for putting covid related news behind a paywall

We all needed to know what was going on ffs, fair play they stopped doing it after that

Now it's all about how racing is fukced and there's an existential threat to it, gotta pay to read it though and few people know what's going on

Agree on Mottershead btw, he'd be perfect for womens football
 
Well, I’ve always enjoyed seeking out various outposts of horse racing. It can be enjoyable.

Not all racing coverage has to be laser-focused on where to find the next winner.
 
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Japanese ace Danon ready to take York and bookies by storm

Danon Decile:
backed from 16-1 to as low as 7-2 for next week’s Juddmonte International

Scott Burton

The trainer of Danon Decile believes he has the leading Japanese challenger exactly where he wants him after he was backed into no bigger than 9-2 from 16-1 for the £1.25 million Juddmonte International at York.

An impressive winner of the Dubai Sheema Classic at the expense of King George winner Calandagan and Rebel’s Romance in April, Danon Decile has also landed Japan’s Derby, the Tokyo Yushun.

His trainer Shogo Yasuda has to his name, the son of Epiphaneia is ready to show his class over the 1m2½f of the International tomorrow week, an impression confirmed by a tour of the Knavesmire on Sunday.
“It is quite a long journey but....

BLAH BLAH BLAH...

Near the end of the article:

“I don’t think there is any one horse to beat,” said Yasuda. “And I don’t really care that people are paying more attention to him or if the odds are coming down, that’s not my business.”
 
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Having worked there (1988-1994) I'd say in my opinion it was never as good as the rose-tinted like to recall, but it did have some very professional people on board.

Ex-Timeform Graham Dench, and my old RFO bosses Frank Carter and Ron Cox spearheaded a strong Spotlight team, Adrian Cook as their main tipster "Diomed" was equally thorough and they had a very strong office production staff.

Names most won't know like Francis Kelly (production editor), Alan Byrne (who was actually a proper news journalist) as News Editor, later Editor, Chris Smith, an outstanding page designer who also later became editor and Chief Sub-Editor Peter Hilton were all top notch and every bit as good as their mainstream Fleet Street contemporaries I later worked with.

In its present guise the RP has been literally years behind the curve on key existential issues for the sport, it's so dependant on big bookmaker advertising it utterly fails to campaign for punters and on the rare occasions I've listened to a minute or two of their broadcasts they seem excruciatingly self indulgent and light weight - they almost make RUK, ATR and ITV Racing look like they possess gravitas (which they don't) and that is some feat.
 
Self indulgent is the word. The old Sunday forum on atr was a brilliant show with the likes of Pete Thomas and Julian muscat hugely informative and entertaining. Can't watch the racing post podcast. By far the worst of the main racing podcasts. Imho of course.
 
Nick Luck On Sunday has made horse racing coverage worse. One man’s vanity project, sponsored by some towel heads, now gets all the “exclusives,” breaks shit no one cares about, pushes a whole host of spoofers, and calls out nothing. Least we forget, he never interrupted a trainer stating on air that he sat on 16-year-old girls’ beds at night after a few gin and tonics.
 

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