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But then you take away from the Irish Guineas weekend as an overall package.

To be honest I think the TGC barely gets by as it is as a Group 1, and a lot of its appeal is that it can be a "cheap"...

Problem there is that it would still be only open to older horses and in direct competition with the Coronation Cup (there can be as few as five days between the two races at the moment).

I'm going to have to stop agreeing soon :)

I think moving the National Stakes as well and being able to market it as the biggest day's (flat) racing of the year would help bump up the interest, crowd, coverage etc.

The Irish Leger and Irish Champion moving to the same card would also allow them to position it better in order that both avoid the (Doncaster) Leger in most years. Plus, it would end the monopoly...

Agree:

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Agree again.

Good point! :lol:

Well there is, but it basically requires putting law enforcement in the hands of private ISPs, and that every ISP toes the line. What happens if the ISPs tell them to sod off?

Horse racing was exempted.

The US made the transfer of funds from a financial institution to an online gambling site illegal at a federal level.

Saw that. This made me laugh:



Utterly clueless.

Cheltenham Festival 2008 wasn't it?

They got lucky :p

Maybe Cantoris is looking to pick up a 50k horse for 25k, rather than a 25k horse for 5k?

One problem would be how to deal with those horses who never make it to the track, or not often enough to be given an official rating.

I would be surprised if there wasn't a correlation between the price of a horse and it's quality. If anyone knows where I can get the data I'd be happy to crunch the numbers.

Choose:

a) benign dictatorship
or
b) off-course Tote monopoly

and you can :D

(I go with the first one, on condition that it's me!).

:lol:

If only it was that easy.

Grim.

Yep redhead. I'd guess there's some kind of ideal distribution of ratings and that action is taken whenever the real handicap gets too far out of line.

Doesn't the handicapper employ methods to maintain the average handicap rating at a certain level regardless?

They're pumping serious money into the Irish Derby, which is more than nice.

I don't think anyone expected that.

Is that what did for the Curragh, or was that other factors?

I was looking forward to all those Classics at Leopardstown!