Irish Sunday Racing Thread

[Generous1991]

Why single out JP? How healthy is it to have races with half a dozen of the runners from the same stable? Or the runners day in and day out that are running for the purpose of lowering their handicap mark? Or the runners that are running short of fitness (often announced as such - after the race, of course)? Or the runners that are running over the wrong distance in the interest of their opening handicap mark? Or………you name it.

I didn't take this post as whataboutery ... more as making the point that these criticisms of JP are criticisms of the game, at least of the game as widely played by many people.

 

[an capall]

Now that's some data.

And in other news. There has been shock and outrage at the revelation that two carriers fly 80% of the people off the island. More to come in later bulletins.

 

[mellows45]

I don't see it as a healthy situation that 63% 66% of the prize money in Ireland going through 5% of the yards that run horses there.

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I don't understand what you're getting at with this graph. Obviously trainers who run more horses will make more than the others. The goal shouldn't be to achieve an equal-ish split in prize money or to limit the amount of horses a trainer can run.

As an aside, in my opinion Irish NH is in a far better state than the UK's. They were talking about the supposedly poor state of Irish racing on ITV the other day (

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009985943722201418

) which I thought was hilarious. We generally have bigger field sizes, less bloated calendars and a higher quality of horse.

 

[Slim]

Alice Plunkett

Please make this stop. f%*& my life.

 

[LUKE]

I'd say there is absolutely nobody in Irish racing who cares what Alice Plunkett says or thinks.

 

[Slim]

I'd say there is absolutely nobody in Irish racing who cares what Alice Plunkett says or thinks.

She's a disease.