The Racing Rant Thread

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Not sure if we have one of these, but it's purpose is to centralise the ranting or venting of anger on anything to do with racing.
Our target is 100 valid rants. A valid rant is one I award
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I'll start.

1. The Racing Post's obsession with the offspring of Frankel. Galileo hoovers up Group Ones like a Spanish factory trawler over a shoal of mackerel and gets a passing glance. A Frankel filly wins a maiden at Leicester and it's the second coming. I'm calling this the 'Brooklyn Beckhamisation' of racing and it must stop - NOW!


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Frankel - your input is valued, but I am the only one that has authority to award a symbol. Consider this a yellow card.
 
Uneducated bullshit spouted by so called pundits about betting. For example "the favourite's a short price so I'm going to look for some value elsewhere" - like a bigger price automatically equates to value.
 
Could probably fill a couple of pages on this thread myself.

The lengths ATR will go to to stop viewers having a sight of the horses before they go in the stalls (seems especially prevalent when the race is for un-exposed horses). God forbid that a punter might get a clue that he/she could use to get the better of the 'bookmaker'.
 
Not a single racing pundit on Ch4 challenge Mullins/Ricci on the Vautour "it's the Gold Cup or nothing" debacle!



Love him or hate him, Chapman would have done.
 
Every - and I mean every - single thing about the Racing Post and all those associated with it, with the sole exception of their form database.

Shitty Low-Def pictures on ATR. 20th-Century nonsense.

The Flat season. I just don't get how anyone can care.
 
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Poor race reading. RP especially guilty here. Lost count of the number of times I've seen comments like no extra from 2 out when the horse has clouted the fence or been badly hampered but there's no mention of this in the in running comments at all.


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Stable staff being given a poxy photo frame EVERY time for their prize no matter how big the race! Why can't they have a scaled down version of the owner's trophy as the trainer & jockey often get? When I was in the US, the winning groom for the Kentucky Derby got a brand new truck for a year! (great sponsorship opportunity for a car dealership too!)
 
As a middle aged miserable **** I could also fill the 100 easily as well

Here’s a few:

British racing folk (especially NH trainers) saying "the last day" (fine if you’re Irish)
£2.70 for the Racing Post at a weekend
website "upgrades"
lack of a NH break after Punchestown/Whitbread day
 
The experience of going racing spoiled by:

· Grossly expensive admission charges
· Courses pandering to the lad/ette element, selling a day out to them as an excuse for getting dressed up like they were going to My Big Fat Wedding
· Not being able to get about the course in peace for said pished lad/ettes
· Cramped odds with on-course bookmakers
· Grossly expensive food at catering outlets
 
The paucity of even half decent midweek NH racing during the winter months, notwithstanding the Christmas period.

Pricewise. Nothing against the man personally I should add.
 
As an avid non-buyer of the RP, and an avid non-watcher of terrestrial racing coverage, is Pricewise still relevant?

Does the Pricewise horse still shift markedly on a Saturday, once it's in the public domain? Serious question.

The lack of imagination in Jumps race-planning is another irritant of mine, though I would say it falls short of the 'rant' criteria.
 
Not all of the time like it used to Grass but it can still have a profound effect.

The market will normally correct itself near the off but what grates is the reaction of the bookies who start cutting the horses in expectation of the plunge. Granted this is coupled with punters trying to predict what he'll put up and nick a price but regardless, the whole concept is bollox, outdated and annoys the feck out of me.

You only have to look at Oddschecker around 7:00 pm to get a fair indication of what he'll be putting up.
 
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Could probably fill a couple of pages on this thread myself.

The lengths ATR will go to to stop viewers having a sight of the horses before they go in the stalls (seems especially prevalent when the race is for un-exposed horses). God forbid that a punter might get a clue that he/she could use to get the better of the 'bookmaker'.
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