General Chat

[The Fellow]

Anybody got the official attendance from Cheltenham today? It felt absolutely rammed!

35,722 nearly half a festival day

[Joleg]

35,722 nearly half a festival day

felt like way more than that, it was chaos at the bars

[opatcho]

felt like way more than that, it was chaos at the bars

No Guinness Village, that adds 25k alone lol :-)

[opatcho]

Been on this site for 4 years... and I've just noticed there's a Calendar in the menu bar

... wow.

[Carnage at Taunton]

Poor Ed!

Subscribe to RTV you moaning cheapskates

Hahaha, he’s one of the reasons I have now got RTV, plus the offer of leaving at any time is good for me

[Lobos]

Think Graeme Roadway (Power Rankings..... whatever that means!!) is trying to upset a few with his latest instalment.......

'I wasn’t taken with many other chase performances and that includes Galopin Des Champs in the John Durkan. He won well, but beat nothing and remains a horse with an incredible amount still to prove for one who is so short for the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Dysart Dynamo beat nothing and just isn’t as good as he looks, Saint Roi won one of the poorest Grade 1s run all season, Blue Lord took advantage of a mistake by Chacun Pour Soi to look impressive but didn’t achieve much in beating Captain Guinness.

Conflated won one of the weakest editions of the Savills in living memory and has a cat in hell’s chance of winning a Gold Cup.'



ouch !!

[Quevega]

Think Graeme Roadway (Power Rankings..... whatever that means!!) is trying to upset a few with his latest instalment.......

'I wasn’t taken with many other chase performances and that includes Galopin Des Champs in the John Durkan. He won well, but beat nothing and remains a horse with an incredible amount still to prove for one who is so short for the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Dysart Dynamo beat nothing and just isn’t as good as he looks, Saint Roi won one of the poorest Grade 1s run all season, Blue Lord took advantage of a mistake by Chacun Pour Soi to look impressive but didn’t achieve much in beating Captain Guinness.

Conflated won one of the weakest editions of the Savills in living memory and has a cat in hell’s chance of winning a Gold Cup.'



ouch !!

Graeme Rodway is more Rosemary than Sage.

[Lobos]

Graeme Rodway is more Rosemary than Sage.

I have no idea what these Power Rankings are or how they are evaluated. Is it just his own rankings ?

[Zachx02]

I have no idea what these Power Rankings are or how they are evaluated. Is it just his own rankings ?

Yeah they are, he had not so sleepy at 5th best hurdler at the start of the season for some reason

[Quevega]

https://www.irishracing.com/news/Bravemansgame-and-Hermes-Allen-both-heading-straight-to-Festival/237684

Mr Aintree confirms Bravemans & Hermes both straight to Cheltenham.
Obviously Gold Cup & Ballymore.

[JamieSensible]

General moan - William Hill going entirely NRNB has made a complete mockery of their prices, and their initial Handicap offers are an absolute joke. (They should be offering two markets the same as Bet365 usually do).

The industry as a whole have been very greedy this year, but from my first review it's almost as if they don't want anyone to place a bet with them.

I said I was waiting until the day for handicaps, (exception of Captain Conby Pertemps, a graded horse clearly pot hunting) and this has confirmed it.

[Istabraq]

General moan - William Hill going entirely NRNB has made a complete mockery of their prices, (They should be offering two markets the same as Bet365 usually do).

Agreed.
But we should all remember that as soon as NRNB kicks in all the value disappears, yes we get insurance of money back for a NR but taking single figure prices about horses for the most competitive handicap they will ever compete in makes no sense whatsover.
As you say, the terms on the day will be far better...

[HesTheOne]

I have no idea what these Power Rankings are or how they are evaluated. Is it just his own rankings ?

I think a lot of it is almost tongue in cheek, I really don’t like him one bit but his notorious rankings generate plenty of interactions on social media and ad clicks for RP

Cliche of no such things as bad publicity yada yada he’s a plonk

[Eggs]

General moan - William Hill going entirely NRNB has made a complete mockery of their prices, and their initial Handicap offers are an absolute joke. (They should be offering two markets the same as Bet365 usually do).

The industry as a whole have been very greedy this year, but from my first review it's almost as if they don't want anyone to place a bet with them.

I said I was waiting until the day for handicaps, (exception of Captain Conby Pertemps, a graded horse clearly pot hunting) and this has confirmed it.

….and their TWAR market has obviously disappeared.

[Black Dog]

You can't say you weren't warned about the pitfalls of NRNB