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Great stuff Len. I was almost certainly there that day although i cant be 100% sure. I tried not to miss a meeting there both flat and jumps. Another snippet for everyone. There was a horse that ran in the race above that hit the headlines for a very sad reason. The horse was Grimsby Town...

:D Well done that man. I always worked along the lines of "if they were nice to me, i would be nice back". And the vast majority were and it was all very polite. But as the saying goes, "there is always one " !!! The number for the trading desk wasnt given out except mainly to trainers ...

He was as good as gold when i spoke to him but i do know that one or two of the lads were not overly keen on him. He had the hotline number thru to us on the trading desk and like i said, i never had a problem with him. But i do recall a couple of the lads having a whinge about him when he...

A useless bit of information for you. The last person to ask me for the fractions in my working days was the very same Peter O'Sullevan. And of course he got them. If i remember rightly it was 100/8. :)

This is way over my head. I havent got a clue what you are all talking about !!!!

Off topic i know but i have started a thread on Chit Chat which may possibly interest one or two people.

This is my first time posting on Chit Chat. I didnt even know it existed. I've had a quick look thru and i cant believe how many threads Ian has started. Or can i ????? :) Anyway, back to the thread title. I dont know how many of you read or collect racing books. Or whether you would...

All this latest chat isnt about certain winners so i think we should all get off his f*%&£$g thread !!!!! :)

I'm with reet on this one. It is just guesswork, total guesswork. "Each to their own" i always say, but i have never bothered with times, going allowances, sectionals etc etc and i have made a decent living out of this game. If it works for you - well done and i hope it continues. But it was...

You are correct in what you say mate and with you being very much one of the more knowledgeable ones on here, you understand how it all works (or doesnt :) ) But in reality, they are publishing the winners time for a 2m 1f and 100yds race whilst attaching a "slow by 21.94secs line which refers...

Definitely my last say on this, i have the tea to cook.:) The other thing about the RP results being so useless is that the winning times are obviously for the actual distance raced. But the advertised race distance is what is showing at the top. Now the vast majority of people on here will...

I have not had that pleasure mate. I imagine it would be memorable.

. My biggest takeaway from all of this is never getting you on a Twitter Spaces to have this rant out! Haha. I didnt even know what Twitter Spaces were. I had to Google it. I'm not one for (Un)social media these days and steer clear of them all. I'm just a miserable old git now who more or...

It does mate but just clicking on the RP results or clicking on the form (which is what the majority of punters will do) will only show the advertised race distance. I only ever check results on the BHA site if i need to know something.

My last say on this, it does wind me up. And i've banged on about it for years. If you look at the Racing Post results section for Market Rasen today, you will see that at the top of the result they give the "advertised race distance" not the actual distance they raced. They do this for all...

I've just gone thru my old notes and the corresponding meeting last year was just as bad as todays meeting. Apart from the first race last year which was "only" 174yds longer than advertised, the other five races were either 234yds longer or 276yds. And as i said earlier, i have seen a number...

Slim- It happens at every Market Rasen meeting and has done so for a number of years now. As far as i remember, they alternate moving the bend turning away from the stands for one meeting and then move the rails on the bend turning for home at the next meeting. I used to moan about it every...

Haha.... We ALL guess. We ALL wish we knew.

Quote "It was no surprise to see him dripping with the same condescension that defines punters of his type — the ones who think they’re smarter, sharper, and more knowledgeable than everyone else. As if they invented betting" Unfortunately mate, there are plenty of them around. And most of...

I thought Well Educated would go well. Down in grade after six runs in either class 3 or class 2 company and he's also 14lb lower than he was at this time last year. I put him in at 10's which is where he is at now. But the clueless guessers opened 20's in a place with the majority of them...