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Punters are the plankton that underpin the whole horse racing eco system but are shat on and given least consideration for, and when they are it's only because the comfy existence of others is threatened

He certainly came across as a tw&t on the vid podcast after the thing on X.

Well previously only 1 horse has ran in the Ebor race itself and gone on to the following Breeders Cup Turf, that was in 2010, it hadn't won the Ebor but it did win the Breeders Cup Turf. Ethical Diamond now makes that two attempts and two wins. As for other races in the Ebor meeting, there's...

Currently getting pissed as a pudding on som very smooth neat Don Julio tequila (that I got free :-) ), gonna try it with some red bull to see if I can focus. Hmmm these are the courses the Breeders Cup Turf has ran at since 2000. SANTA ANITA (USA) CHURCHILL...

I don't fancy Djelo on ratings in the Charlie Hall but I'm not betting in that race anyway. However it's plus re pointer/trial races is that it won Newbury Denman Chase Stakes 2m 7f 86y Grade2 in Feb, and since 2000, 15 runners have gone from that to the following Charlie Hall and 3 (20%) have...

Would be interesting to review her chase wins in Nov re point 2

Yonks ago, to try and get an indicative view of if some races are run 'less true', I looked at the strike rate of the top OR by class, I seem to remember it was only the very top and very bottom that showed any noticeable deviation from the avg. Think I'll have another look at that. Cos of...

One man's meat.....

I agree with Slim , talking about getting 4/1 on something he sees as 11/4 in a good 4 months time doesn't fill one with confidence re what his output is going to be like, if he saw something being evens then ok. Cheltenham is just one meeting and probably some of the most analysed races all...

Gimmicks smack of cluelessness and/or desperation and/or avoiding the obvious issues. Prize money is one thing to encourage more people to own horses, ytd median prize money in UK has been £8362 where as in IRE it has been £9711, a 16% increase, however the UK has held approx 3.5 times as many...

enjoyed that the cheltehham gold cup is a moderate pointer/trial race for the charlie hall but you'd have to be a total dobbin to view the charlie hall as a pointer to the cheltenham gold cup, well in the last 25 years anyway.

Been talking about the tote elsewhere, below shows how bad the tote win single odds were on avg compared to isp had become, the new owners took over from Freds at the end of 2019 and are now tracking isp. Freds had the tote from 2011. Shows during the Fred years that he robbed it blind so that...

Well it's about tv coverage, good and bad, and I think we're focusing on the bad a bit much, which is natural I suppose.

Well if not grateful , bitch and complain less cos they show lots of races and you can ignore the between race slaver packed with the same superlatives every week. I have a bigger gripe with some of the camera angles shown in the final couple of furlongs sometimes. They might have visual appeal...

As tv is about getting max bums on seats in front of the tv, I think we should be at grateful for the level of coverage & just mute the parts 'not to individual tastes'. Because the median level of understanding as a whole is different to regulars on racing forums

Blurgh the closest I got was 3rd, the winner Tomodachi Kokoroe was 5th on my online card, the first 3 home were all in my top 5 out of 14 runners

Now we are into the Hong Kong racing season I'm having a look at the 845 Sha Tin - Premier Bowl (Group 2 Handicap) (3yo+) (Course A) (Turf) 3yo+ : Prize Money £308230.45 I have current fav Helios Express clear top on my card , then Packing Hermod 2nd top, so I will be going with those but more...

Even for the Nov meeting rooms are typically a good 3x the price they are the week before or after. So I wouldn't like to think what the markup is for the festival. So it's not just the course milking people.

The 'discussion' going on about Cheltenham made me think about some of the bollocks I've seen touted as part of the "Cheltenham Trail". So what do the real hard numbers say when you year by year, since 2000, cross reference runners going from the trial race to any of Cheltenham Festival races...

What about the "Just Back F*cking Winners Challenge Cup" ?