I never talk about my missus like that :0)
I never talk about my missus like that :0)
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Talking about $lapping and stewards while I understand the horse must come first racing has changed but the stewards have not.
I understand 2yo' are babies and when a jockey decides enough is enough and drops his hand allowing the horse to come home in his own time hen he's doing the right thing.
When the same jockey on a seasoned campaigner has eg led for 5f gets passed with 1/2 furlong to go, drops his hands and gets pipped on the post out of the 3rd or 4th and they they do nothing.
They seem to be oblivious to the fact that there are EW punters, punters who bet in the first 5 etc
To me these are the thing stewards should tighten up on not Davy Russell tapping one round the lugs
Last edited by Tanlic; 31st August 2017 at 3:36 PM.
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granger (31st August 2017)
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
I just can't read Alastair Down........haven't for a long time.......I got about two paragraphs into this, before I had to stop.
"Beat the price and lose. It's what we do".
SlimChance, March 2018
This part of his article strikes me as utterly bats.But what slightly frightens me is the relish, glee even, with which responsible news outlets are battening on to the Fobt problem.
There is cross-party support for drastically reducing the maximum stakes, and newspapers of vastly different political stripe, usually at daggers drawn, are united in their opprobrium for the machines.
If the maximum stake is savaged there is potential for some massive financial unravelling of the betting industry with knock-on effects on the racing industry, primarily in the form of reduced income through reduced media rights revenue.
The Treasury did not want to lose its chunky tax take from the profits Fobts generate for bookies but it seems to have backpedalled in the teeth of media criticism.
If the revenue from these machines is restricted why would it impact badly on racing? The levy to fund racing is based on a share of profits from betting on horse racing, and it gets nothing from the money going into the machines. Given that they account for half or more of the profits of your average betting shop, surely it's the other way round, racing would benefit from restricting these machines which are in case highly undesirable because of the social harmful they do?
JJ. (5th September 2017)
Davy gets 4 days ultimately
Messy drawn out affair
Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done
As a matter of interest...by memory I think it was the 970's when the first gambling arcade opened in Grangemouth Scotland...The crime rate shot through the roof especially burglaries and muggings....the police/courts closed it down within months and no more licences were approved...in fact I believe they became illegal
Only cubs were allowed to have them after that BUT the big money boys Laddies etc want them and the get a licence??????? Just the way of the world..... money talks
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as they say in Germany Nine 9
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Davy has called out Dan Hardy on Twitter because the latter thinks he should get a life ban. Hilarious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Hardy
silliness all round
He was on Talksport along with a number of others discussing it , some were saying he should be put in gaol, relating it to when that Newcastle fan punched the police horse !!