General Chat

[Magpie]

That’s a great shout by Nathan, I forgot to put anything on it, but hopefully comes in for you.

[charlie]

Looked at Sandown racecard for Saturday and 1 horse stood out for the 3.35 was Palladium 50/1. 2/2 at Sandown loves heavy ground it seems. Only off putting thing is it's been off for a long time. But back down in trip when it last won, same jockey won twice on him, same track where it won, and same ground as it looks like its gonna piss it down on Saturday. Already put something on this if it shows up.

Win or lose this was a great shout. 14's from 50's. Nice one, thanks

[Benjy23]

Just had a look myself. Went off joint fav for the Boodles 3 years back! Don't actually remember him to be honest but you've certainly got a nice price for today by the looks of it now. GL

[Kevloaf]

Agrred, win or lose, good selection Nathaniel99999

[EnvoiAlien]

All of us, many times over, I would think

Its a key problem that the sport has compared to injury news on participants in any other sports.

Still seems to like to pretend to have a "Master and Servant" attitude to this information being only for owners and trainers in some stables.
Wildly out of line with other sports that have large sums of money bet on them.

I dont hear of Premier League club owners, advising their "employed" Manager to not let anyone know about any injuries until the teams are announced an hour before kick-off.

Imagine the outcry from football fans, to that happening, particularly to those arriving at the stadiums to watch the games live.

Racing has so much to learn.

Also maybe a big dose of
"we hope it will get better before the big target race, so we wont tell anyone"

If Ireland and GB had a rule within the sport that any injuries needed to be logged and reported to the HRI and BHA for any horses entered in
* Early Entry races (and not scratched yet), or
* figuring in antepost betting markets have to be confirmed and shared
......antepost life would be a whole lot better.

A big ask, of course...............but why cant go for a few Big Asks, rather than doing little to improve the image of sport, and helping punters staying with the sport too

While I half agree with the sentiment truth be told, if you knew how often racehorses injure themselves you'd realize how unworkable it is be to expect updates on every horse everytime they cough,cut themselves,knock into themself,roll and get cast in their box,pull a muscle...lets just say I doubt you've a single horse backed this year that hasn't had at least 1 of these since the season began,it's so often by the time you'd put it to the press another 3 have similar and the one you've reported is fine.
It'd be a total waste of everyones time.

If you only mean major injuries then you'll only hear of these for the yards main horses and that'll be after everythings been double,triple & quadruple checked by a vet who visits then an equine hospital which could mean a week or two,then you have owners who aren't interested in paying vets bills so they just want the horse put on box rest for a week or 3 before checking again which could mean it'll be 4 to 5 weeks before you hear anything

[Lobos]

Question........

Quevega, where's your Diary ??

[Quevega]

Question........

Quevega, where's your Diary ??

On my chromebook

[AaronLad]

On my chromebook

on google docs?

[Quevega]

on google docs?

yeah - little blue thingy

[Lobos]

yeah - little blue thingy

Why not post it on here ?

[AaronLad]

yeah - little blue thingy

I use that find it very similar to the buttons we have on the forum. Decided to keep a track there aswell that day we all got locked out forever. Handy for notes aswell. automatically saves after everything you write if you so wish

[Benjy23]

Interested to see O'Toole running in the next at Newcastle, and straight into a handicap over fences. Went in my notebook after splitting Kilcruit and Sir Gerhard in the Punchestown bumper a couple of years back. Fair to say things haven't gone great since then

[Quevega]

Why not post it on here ?

Got too obsessed with putting my bets up in real time.
More relaxing not bothering.

Diary section has become a roll-up graveyard and after timing club mostly.
It's lost it's appeal on the whole.

I just bore Kevloaf with my after timing on whatsapp
He fucking loves it

Although I do still look in on the diaries as I've nothing better to do, and some useful/interesting stuff pops up every now and then.

If you're genuinely interested I could private message you a copy

[Lobos]

Got too obsessed with putting my bets up in real time.
More relaxing not bothering.

Diary section has become a roll-up graveyard and after timing club mostly.
It's lost it's appeal on the whole.

I just bore Kevloaf with my after timing on whatsapp
He fucking loves it

Although I do still look in on the diaries as I've nothing better to do, and some useful/interesting stuff pops up every now and then.

If you're genuinely interested I could private message you a copy

Nah, I'm ok. Just thought I was missing it somehow. Keep up the good work.

[Benjy23]

Interested to see O'Toole running in the next at Newcastle, and straight into a handicap over fences. Went in my notebook after splitting Kilcruit and Sir Gerhard in the Punchestown bumper a couple of years back. Fair to say things haven't gone great since then

Maybe he'll be a better chaser...