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Exactly mate ! Why do "bookmakers" want to take horse racing bets and make 3 or 4% when they can fill their shops and websites with FOBTS and casino games ? :(

Agree with everything you say Ian. For me, football is king as far as the young ones betting but sadly i think the casinos arent too far behind. Here is something i heard just last week whilst the good lady and I were having a coffee. The two young lads behind us were discussing their woes and...

Is horse racing still an entry point into betting ??? I just dont see that any more. Football and, as you say, the cancerous casino type games seem to be the draw now if my experience is anything to go by. I wish it were so but i just cant see it any more. I worked for a "big name" bookmaker...

I cant see any keyboard warriors on this thread nor can i see anyone promoting themselves as a saviour of all things racing. What i can see is a few people who have obviously been around racing for many years who have differing opinions on how racing is run.

Good stuff Mr Whatoxo and thank you for your (long) reply :) And what sort of world would we live in if we all thought the same and had no difference of opinion whatsoever. The few examples i gave were just off the top of my head. i suppose if i had googled the BHA i could have listed a lot...

It cant just be me ! This is obviously one for the oldies (the maturer of us :rolleyes:), but every time i see the name of the new chairman of the BHA (whenever he decides to bother to start the job) Lord Allen, i immediately think of Ray Alan and Lord Charles. You can see where i am coming...

It is now 9.44 and as of one minute ago there were only four horses declared for the race although there is a bit of time for others to join in. But this is looking like a non event as far as i am concerned but i will be keeping an eye out for it in the future.

My final say on this mate, it is getting depressing. I had some notes that i've just got out regarding last years turnover figures and the first quarter of this years. Turnover fell by nearly 7% when compared to the 2023 total and it was down over 16% compared with the figure from two years...

In this day and age, and in the financial climate in which we live, a return to betting tax would be an absolute disaster. It would be yet another nail in the coffin of racing and we are already into the second box of nails.

No idea mate but i suppose they have to make their money somehow because they will never make it by top notch journalism and definitely not by calling out any of their paymasters, the bookmakers.

Thank you barjon, i do love a bit of interraction. Lets face it, thats what forums are all about. First of all, cheerful chappie - maybe. Although dont ask the missus. But i would say i am a realist. As for the BHA, there is plenty of room for improvement because you cant go any further...

Spot on !!! The "bookmakers" of today (and i use the word "bookmakers" very loosely) dont give a flying f**k about horse racing. It is an evil that they must put up with. It is a necessary evil. It is too time consuming. It takes up too much manpower and therefore man hours. And that...

With reference to the title of the thread, i would argue that the stupidity of the BHA has no limits. They are the most incompetent (dis)organisation on this tiny planet of ours. Racing will continue its long, slow painful death whilst this bunch amateur idiots remain in charge. Off the top of...

:LOL: If only !!!

:) Thats how the game works mate, you know that. I timed another of hers exactly right the week before but of course, unfortunately, it doesnt always work like that. I time them wrong more often than right for whatever reason but that is just part and parcel of backing horses. We all get some...

:) A very pleasing result. "The day" had come. The ground was right, the trip was right, the mark was right, the track suited. And most important of all, the delivery of WD40 to release the handbrake had arrived and everything was set to relieve the fraudsters of a wedge of cash. No need to...

Good morning mate, I dont follow them per se. And i dont follow them as much as i used to. As i have said in the past, and as many people know, some trainers are fairly easy to read and others are downright impossible. I found Sir Micky quite easy to suss and his modus operandi was tried and...

I remember talking to Ian Davies about Murray Dodd a week or two ago. The young lad has just won again on Prince De Juilley in the first at Warwick and looks a very capable jock. Good luck to him.

Totally agree mate. Obviously there will be plenty like us, just as there will be plenty who like it on a Saturday. Opinions eh ? :) But Derby day years ago when it was on a Wednesday was basically an unofficial Bank Holiday. People took the day off in their masses. It was a big thing then...

I'm not so sure that would work but i have to agree with you about the Wednesday. It was a stand out fixture then but these days it usually gets lost in a football tournament or whatever. We will probably both (and many more on here) remember the MASSIVE crowds that covered the whole course...