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[Bar the Bull]

It's a great ad; it really makes me want a bowl of the cut-price shop's own brand version.

 

[SteveM]

Keep an eye out for it - involves a jumps race. Really well done.

yes it was excellent... my seven-year-old son thought it was the funniest thing he's seen. He keeps running round the place crying "...run, run like the wind!"

 

[SteveM]

That guy should be disqualified though...

...pedant!

 

[SteveM]

I reckon he was always long odds-on to win...

His jumping impressed me... a bit sticky at the water though (...not sure about the Festival).

 

[Aldaniti]

And which racecourse was this filmed at?

 

[Irish Stamp]

Looked like a French course Helen - relatively short straight though the water jump looked like Aintree.

 

[Desert Orchid]

yes it was excellent... my seven-year-old son thought it was the funniest thing he's seen.

Funnier than Barracouda getting beat in the Stayers'??

 

[SteveM]

Funnier than Barracouda getting beat in the Stayers'??

:lol: ...I'm not amused.

 

[Shadow Leader]

Am I the only one who thought it was shite?!

 

[Guest_]

Yes, but why doesn't that surprise me Dom!!?

 

[krizon]

Yeah, I know, terrible shape in the air, poor eye for a take-off, disunited on landing... did I miss anything, Domski?

 

[Shadow Leader]

Oh I thought it was terrible - I'm amazed any of you liked it!

 

[Gearoid]

How was this allowed in the general racing section?

 

[trudij]

Am I the only one who thought it was shite?!

Thank Ferk for that..... no - you arent. I smiled - but the amount of hillarity that its generated has COMPLETELY passed me by....

 

[Shadow Leader]

Thank God for some people!!!!!!!

 

[Aldaniti]

Looked like a French course Helen - relatively short straight though the water jump looked like Aintree.

Thanks Martin

 

[Colin Phillips]

The "head-carriage" suggests Montjeu somewhere in the blood.

 

[socks]

It was filmed at a racecourse in Prague in the Czech Republic.

 

[Desert Orchid]

You have to wonder why. Why not film it in this country?

 

[G-G]

Health and safety probably top of the list as to why not filmed here, followed by cost perhaps?

 

[Desert Orchid]

But how much must it cost to ship out there etc etc? Why should h&s be less of an issue elsewhere than here?

I don't get it.

I can understand the idea of feature films going elsewhere as a 2hr film probably generates 200hrs of filming and is a big deal. But a TV ad??

 

[G-G]

Ship out what? They have horses, actors, racecourses out there, camera men etc. I was trying to be funny about the H&S issues considering everything else seems to fall under H&S, apart from packing people onto trains and tubes.

 

[krizon]

If it's the Czech Rep, looking at my photos from the visit there, the course is at Pardubice. (It's the lovely trees and the shape of the stands' roof which are the clues.)

 

[socks]

the racecourse is Velka Chuchle in Prague

 

[trudij]

Socks - are you certain? Ive just suggested that on another forum, and been hammered by the forum know it all who said "its mainly a flat track and the jumps are on the inside of the course" - Id LOVE to prove her wrong,so PLEASE can you tell me where you got that info??

(just like to add, I dont care if its wrong - as long as she isnt right!!!!!)