Trainers being paid for on course interviews

Offering £10 per minute is the cheapskate route.

Trainers accepting £10/m need to look at themselves in the mirror.

It should all either be 'expected' of the trainers - after all the exposure is the cheapest advertising they can get - or they should get a serious payment for it. It might make some more willing to talk.

Then again, how many tell the truth in these interviews so why pay them to lie.

Having said all that, I've no idea what the background story to this is so I might be taking shite-talking to new levels.
 
From what I can gather trainers aren't asking to be paid directly, but for the money to go into a collective fund which assists trainers in much the same way the fund for jockeys (who are already paid for interviews does).

Both the PR and the reporting for/of this has been poor.

I don't actually care - far too many give too much credence to what they hear on TV and I never listen to any of it.

They could stop interviewing literally all of them and just show continuous actual live racing action and I not only wouldn't but would actively prefer it.
 
Blame Lester Piggot he was the first racing celebrity to ask how much???

Don't know why the fuck you lot are moaning about it. It's part of the entertainment business and part of how celebrities earn a living.

Whe should they not be paid?........those compnies interviewing them are making planty
 
Few on here have proper respect for trainers,yet they're the ones educating,placing,,and generally getting the horse fit to race,and the hub where work riders,grooms,jockeys etc report their findings,so probably know most about individual horses in their charge.
However, they're unlikely to know the fitness and capability of all their opposition,so pre-race utterings aren't likelly to point to winners, but post-race interviews occasionally reveal insights in the euphoria or disappointment of the immediate reaction
to the result are often worth noting,imo.


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One side of me understands the trainer point of view cos I certainly don't work for nothing so wouldn't add to their program for free.

But how often do they or the presenters say anything worth listening to.
Trainers will just serve their own agenda & most of the time presenters just regurgitate the same platitudes over and over.
Hence barring the in race commentary I tend to have it on mute.
 
pawras said:
One side of me understands the trainer point of view cos I certainly don't work for nothing so wouldn't add to their program for free.

But how often do they or the presenters say anything worth listening to.
Trainers will just serve their own agenda & most of the time presenters just regurgitate the same platitudes over and over.
Hence barring the in race commentary I tend to have it on mute.
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So you mute the trainers and the presenters and then pass judgement on conversations you haven't heard. That's a real cool trick maybe you should teach the rest of us how to do that...duh!
 
Tanlic said:
So you mute the trainers and the presenters and then pass judgement on conversations you haven't heard. That's a real cool trick maybe you should teach the rest of us how to do that...duh!
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I used to listen to it but I got sick of listening to the same old tosh being repeated. As I said I 'tend' to have them on mute, so I still dip in but nowt changes
 
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