Racing Post new site.

To be fair Grass you missed (or may have been bored by this point);

- Update on Coney Island (Lexus the target for those that haven't seen it)
- Story about WTD giving up riding to take out a trainer license
- Chris McGrath winning the horseracing writer of the year for the third time. Though in your defence I imagine you'd have stopped reading after the opening "Racing Post Bloodstock..."
- Hannon doing his best to acquire Nicky's "Needle" moniker. Another flat story
- Townend looking forward to Douvan ride - quell surprise FFS (and front page too)
- Build up to the Hong Kong & Pegasus World cups - Though can see why you wouldn't give a rat's ar5e there.

Admittedly it wasn't the best of editions - and some of that can be read on the website for free - but it is a Tuesday with racing at Southwell, Lingfield and Wolves.
 
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wilsonl said:
To be fair Grass you missed (or may have been bored by this point);

- Update on Coney Island (Lexus the target for those that haven't seen it) - saw this, and noted it
- Story about WTD giving up riding to take out a trainer license - couldn't give a toss
- Chris McGrath winning the horseracing writer of the year for the third time. Though in your defence I imagine you'd have stopped reading after the opening "Racing Post Bloodstock..." - couldn't give a fu*ck
- Hannon doing his best to acquire Nicky's "Needle" moniker. Another flat story - seriously couldn't give a fu*ck
- Townend looking forward to Douvan ride - quell surprise FFS (and front page too) - read on web last night
- Build up to the Hong Kong & Pegasus World cups - Though can see why you wouldn't give a rat's ar5e there. - seriously, seriosuly couldn't give a fu*ck

Admittedly it wasn't the best of editions - and some of that can be read on the website for free - but it is a Tuesday with racing at Southwell, Lingfield and Wolves.
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The Coney bit was the only scrap of interest in the entire rag. Even Townend's stuff was a page-and-a-half of nothing.

The rest of it is utter, utter, utter, utter bollocks.
 
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There are exceptions, such as the Monday Jury section and the odd opportunity for Segal to f*ck up the ante post price on that long range selection you've been mulling over but I grant you, in the main it's pretty tepid stuff outside of the weekend and big meetings.

If I didn't spend an hour of my day on the train I wouldn't bother myself.
 
Even the Monday Jury strikes me as a waste of space.

It's also a bit disconcerting seeing what's happening in bookies' shops these days.

I'm an infrequent visitor but now that I use pubic transport as often as I can I find myself killing time between bus/train connections by going into nearby ones to catch a swatch at the RP.

Bookies are clearly only interested in feeding off gambling addicts. I know of a place where a Ladbokes and Hills are opposite each other. I had 10 minutes to kill waiting for a bus so went into Ladbrokes. No RP anywhere in view, just the wall cards but the form pages weren't pinned up, just the cards. Puggies everywhere.

Across the road, fair play to Hills. They had the wall cards and form plus the RP on its little lectern for all to see. When I sat down I was even offered a tea/coffee, which I politely declined as I didn't want to pish myself on the bus on the way into Glasgow.

But puggies everywhere again and kid-on cartoon racing on the TV screens. Not only that but a commentary to go with it as if it were a real race.

And punters urging on whatever they'd backed!

And one sad case crumpling up his betting slip and throwing it to the ground in disgust, shouting, on realising what had won, "Awfurfuxake! Ah backed yon fuckinbastert last time oot anaw!"

Sad, mad, bad.
 
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Grasshopper said:
The Coney bit was the only scrap of interest in the entire rag. Even Townend's stuff was a page-and-a-half of nothing.

The rest of it is utter, utter, utter, utter bollocks.
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Bloody hell grassy get off the fence for a change and tell us what you thought about it :)
 
Desert Orchid said:
But puggies everywhere again and kid-on cartoon racing on the TV screens. Not only that but a commentary to go with it as if it were a real race.
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I went into a bookies for the first time in years in order to watch the Ladbrokes Trophy last weekend and was struck by the cartoon racing - IIRC when it started it was used to fill up points in the day before the racing started but now apparently a race every 5 minutes is no longer considered sufficient for the purposes of turpinry.
 
They're running a series of great resurrections. Presumably getting in some practice for when they do one on themselves in 10 years time, assuming they last that long.
 
Anybody else finding that this pile of shite has now become completely unusable ?

There appears to be a 30 second or so refresh, where the page freezes, upon clicking on any hyperlink. I thought it was just on my iPad but it's the same on the laptop regardless of whatever browser I use.

They must have so many pop ups and/or adverts being blocked that the pop up blocker is working overtime and there's no chance I'm turning it off.
 
Lee.
Try this;

Mark Nelson (Racing Post)

Mar 31, 12:30 BST

Dear Mr D
Thank you for your email.

We are sorry to hear of the problem you are experiencing when using the Racing Post website.

We are not aware of any general issue so could we please ask you to clear the cache and cookies from within your Internet browser settings, as this may provide a resolution. The following link will assist you with this if you're not already familiar with the procedure; https://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser's-Cookies

Once completed please return to the Racing Post website by typing www.racingpost.com into the address bar, rather than using a search engine or favourites link. Hopefully this will resolve the problem for you.

We hope this information is helpful.

Kind regards,
Mark Nelson
Racing Post Customer Services


It worked for me, though it did wipe out some stored user names & passwords along with the process
 
wilsonl said:
Anybody else finding that this pile of shite has now become completely unusable ?

There appears to be a 30 second or so refresh, where the page freezes, upon clicking on any hyperlink. I thought it was just on my iPad but it's the same on the laptop regardless of whatever browser I use.

They must have so many pop ups and/or adverts being blocked that the pop up blocker is working overtime and there's no chance I'm turning it off.
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I'm certainly finding it less user friendly every week including some very irritating changes to the form pages. The crappy shite version of oddschecker that its now become and I find it completely unusable direct to the website from a samsung phone.
 
Ironically enough its the first time in ages i've actually got it to work at speed and i mean 12 months..:rolleyes:
 
reet hard said:
Lee.
Try this;

Mark Nelson (Racing Post)

Mar 31, 12:30 BST

Dear Mr D
Thank you for your email.

We are sorry to hear of the problem you are experiencing when using the Racing Post website.

We are not aware of any general issue so could we please ask you to clear the cache and cookies from within your Internet browser settings, as this may provide a resolution. The following link will assist you with this if you're not already familiar with the procedure; https://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser's-Cookies

Once completed please return to the Racing Post website by typing www.racingpost.com into the address bar, rather than using a search engine or favourites link. Hopefully this will resolve the problem for you.

We hope this information is helpful.

Kind regards,
Mark Nelson
Racing Post Customer Services


It worked for me, though it did wipe out some stored user names & passwords along with the process
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Thanks Reet. That actually did the trick although annoyingly on the mobile version of Safari you can't elect what pages to wipe browsing history and cookies for so it had to be a clear all approach, which I didn't really want to do but hey-ho at least the RP site is now more responsive.

It does beg the question of just how much cr@p is the site writing to my browsing history if it can become so unusable when other web sites were completely unaffected prior to my clean up.

Anyhow, thanks again. I'm at least okay for now.
 
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