Archive for January, 2009

Glenn G asked:


Why is it when a football match is called off before the start of the game it is stated has postponed,& when called off after if has begun is is called abandoned,yet in horse racing circles only the term abandoned is used even if the meeting has not begun ? This question is for UK circumstances i have no idea if these terms are used globally.
Thank you for answers,however why when a football match is abandoned this is re-scheduled to be replayed at a later date,surly if a horse racing meeting is abandoned not to be re-scheduled the correct term should be cancelled & not abandoned.What do you think?

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micktravis asked:


I live in the UK and would be interested to know if others here have made money or think it can be made through gambling. My area of expertise if I have one is more fixed odds betting like football rather than poker or horse racing etc. I’m sure if you bet sensibly on solid favourites over a season you would get at least 20% on your money, what do you think?

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tahernest asked:


I will like have information on horse racing in France as to increase my chances of winning

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shetland asked:


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I am looking for a hotel ,shop or restaurant in racing towns to display my work . I charge only 250 for an oil of a horse and jockey and it takes me a week of full time work . I have three children to support so I must work all the time that is why my price is so cheap Any body want to be an agent ?

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pkscally asked:


hi all,hope you were all on 16-1 at one point,THANK YOU AGAIN BOOKIES. Desperate Dan 16-1 ,IF the ground is good or good to firm on monday,WE have another tasty e-w bet that will probally win anyway, MAKE MY DREAM very well in at the weights should win. REMEMBER FOLKS E-W 5-1 OR ABOVE FREE BET FOR A PLACE. a few e-w chances that i think warrant a mention that could win aswell. ( WAVATREE WARRIOR 6-30 LINGFIELD - 16-1 ) (TOUS LE DEUX 4-45 WOLVS -16-1 ) GOOD LOOK ALL. (pkscally@yahoo.co.uk) gaming club member.(MAKE MY DREAM - 8-0 WINDSOR )
cheers loanshark, desperate dan 16-1 tous le deux 16-1 win wavatree warrior 16-1 just pipped for place. QUIDS IN also ground good - soft at windsor like i stated he needs g-f but only just got beat F-ing ground.

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mysilv asked:


I’ve just read that THE BBC has been offered coverage of Newmarket’s Guineas festival and Champions Day fixture from 2010 in a bid to try to save part of the corporation’s racing portfolio and that Doncaster are even considering switching the St. Leger.

This would have a terrible effect on Channel 4 who could be forced to pull the plug on their racing coverage.

Worst still the BBC would combine the Guineas meeting with their coverage of the Badminton Horse Trials. Now as much as I love horses and horse trials, the Newmarket Guineas Meeting is the Crown Jewels of Racing as far as I and many other punters are concerned and to have to put up with breaks in the racing whilst the BBC switch from one venue to the other is unacceptable.

There is a petition that has been drawn up by Gt. Leighs spokeswoma Pippa Cuckson in the fight to save threatened BBC fixtures which can be signed by all British Citizens and Ex Pats which calls upon Mr Brown to request that the BBC retain its current levels of horse racing coverage as befits a public service broadcaster and to reinstate the 15 days that it proposes to scrap from 2010.

Anyone wishing to add their name to the petition should go to http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/bbcracing/

I feel that we should consider signing this petition, but we should also be on the case for Channel 4 not to lose its coverage of the Guineas, Champions and St. Leger Meetings.

What are your thoughts, it feels that our racing is under attack from all angles and we must do something to save it…Jac x
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Edit: Tues 6th Jan..
Cheers Sir Alan for giving NetImp a roasting..my sentiments exactly. Perhaps he would rather watch a Master Class in vote fixing on the BBC.
Pelargoniums & Hendrix rule…..thanks for that lets hope Talksport can round up lots of support. If the BBC think they will get a fashoin show out of the Guineas meeting they will be sorely disappointed, it can be freezing on the Rowley Mile in May and gale force winds were blowing last meeting. Lydia Hislop & co. will have to sort out their thermals for that one (on reflection probably a better choice than her last Ascot frock)…
The Blue Shadow: 100% agree the BBC should be made to concentrate more on the racing and the horses, and at Royal Ascot get rid of the Weather Girl and Chris Hollins hobnobbing around the Royal Enclosure talking to posers who know nothing about racing.
Debzc to cut the racing from the BBC completely would be a disaster for the sport and those who cannot get out to the races and love watching it on the TV. We need a top rate service from BBC and Channel 4 and a promise that this will not be interrupted with Cricket, Tennis, Darts , Snooker or any other sport.
Yesterday BBC2 devoted the WHOLE DAY to World Darts so why couldn’t they use BBC2 ..for their racing/sports coverage, and if they really have to… give people the red button option to change to a different sport as they so wish.

Petition Update:
416 signatures to date and 11 pages long, last date to sign 2/4/2009.
I signed a couple of days ago and sent it out to all my email contacts…Jac x
Edit Monday Jan 12th 19.21
Oh David G I do understand your grievances, but like a lot of people, I can’t get racing on Satellite TV unless I pay for it. I don’t get ATR either so I would have to go down the bookies to watch the big races.
It could also mean that lots of people within the racing industry would be out of work, that’s not on in this day and age.
Nearly 1800 signatures to date…thanks to all who have signed…the BBC mustn’t lose its racing coverage..Jac x

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Malcolm Heyhoe asked:


May ushers in the first Classics of the current turf Flat season, beginning with the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 6. All eyes will be upon the short-priced favourite George Washington as he bids to bring trainer Aidan O’Brien back-to-back victories in the colts’ Classic following Footstepsinthesands smart success twelve months ago.

In recent years the 2,000 Guineas has been the personal preserve of the Flat’s big battalions with Sir Michael Stoute, Saeed Bin Suroor and Aidan O’Brien dominating the race year after year with a succession of expensive blue-bloods.

This time around it’s the tight-lipped O’Brien who seems to hold all the aces courtesy of the aforementioned George Washington, a brilliant, if at times temperamental, colt who swept all before him as a juvenile and sets out this season to prove he’s not just a two-year-old wonder but can mix it with the best and come out on top as a three-year-old.

Only Barry Hills and Dermot Weld have broken the big boys’ monopoly of the 2,000 and this year it’s Marcus Tregoning who has been cast in the role of party-pooper as he bids interrupt the top guns by training Sir Percy to land the opening Classic. Regarded as the best horse that he’s ever trained by his astute handler, last season’s Dewhurst winner is sure to go close in a race that will be run to suit his talents.

On the same day Newmarket stages the Palace House Stakes, a Group 3 for up-and-coming sprinters and the fast-improving Reverence well be an interesting runner while over at Haydock, the jumps stages a last hurrah with the valuable William Hill Swinton Handicap Hurdle, and Philip Hobbs could hold a strong hand here courtesy of Wellbeing and Motorway, two progressive and late-blossoming timber-toppers.

On Sunday May 7, it’s the fillies’ turn to strut their stuff in the 1,000 Guineas where Gololphin’s Silca’s Sister, Ballydoyle’s Rumplestiltskin and Race For the Stars will do battle with John Gosden’s Nanina for the fillies’ Blue Riband. On the same day Breeders’ Cup hero Shirocco is likely to come up against Sir Michael Stoute’s late-developer Hard Top and the evergreen John Porter winner, Mubtaker, in the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket. Spring gallop s reports have singled out the Stoute horse for top honours.

Chester’s prestigious three-day meeting follows hot on the heels of Newmarket and the Derby hopefuls will be on show in the MBNA Europe Bank Chester Vase (May 11), with the fillies taking centre stage in the Weatherbys Bank Cheshire Oaks on May 10. Barry Hills has a superb record on this turning track and any horse he runs in the previous two races will be worth close inspection.

On Wednesday May 10 the totesport Chester Cup is the meeting’s big betting race and recent Newmarket winner Mikao set down an early marker for this big staying prize. Four-year-olds often run well here and trainer Barry Hills boasts an excellent record. Friday, May 12, closes the Chester meeting and the feature race for the older horses is the Blue Square Ormonde Stakes landed last year by Day Flight.

The run of Classic trials continues at Lingfield on May 13 with the Letheby and Christopher Derby Trial and the totesport.com Oaks Trials respectively for the real things at Epsom the following month. It isn’t just the Classic colts and fillies that are in the firing-line at Lingfield because the Surrey course also stages the totesport Victoria Cup, a closely fought and always influential 7f handicap that frequently throws up a Royal Ascot winner or two.

Over in France the following day, May 14, the European Flat season raises the volume with the Poule de’Essai des Poulains (French 2,000 Guineas) and the Poulai d’Essai des Pouliches (French 1,000 Guineas) on the same card at Longchamp.

Ballydoyle and Godolphin have begun to target these two important races in recent seasons and their runners should be respected, but Criquette Head-Maarek’s Quiet Royale will be fancied for the ‘Pouliches’ after a satisfactory spin in second at Longchmap the other day.

Flat racing’s domestic caravan rolls on to York for their three-day Dante meeting and the potential Oaks fillies will run in the Musidora Stakes on May 17, the meeting’s opening salvo which is now a Wednesday on account of the fixture moving forward by a single day.

On May 18 the Derby hopefuls will run in the Dante Stakes and it’s worth recalling that in recent times, North Light and Motivator, the last two winners of this race, have gone on to glory at Epsom in just over three weeks’ time, while looking a little further back in the race’s illustrious history, it’s worth noting that Shahrastani, Reference point, Erhaab and Benny The Dip all went on from the Dante to Derby success.

This mile and a quarter Group 2 contest has clearly become a key Classic trial in recent seasons and mustn’t be missed. There’s sure to be a host of top-class performers in contention on the Knavesmire and Sir Michael Stoute has the best contemporary Dante record with two winners and three placed horses.

On the same day as the Dante keep a close eye upon the outcome of the Hambleton Stakes, a valuable mile handicap that has a habit of throwing up the winner of the Royal Hunt Cup at Royal Ascot the following month especially if the Hambleton winner is trained by Sir Michael Stoute.

The final day of the Dante meeting sees the stayers take centre stage in the Yorkshire Cup, a useful pointer to the rest of the campaign’s leading staying races. Alan Swinbank’s stable star Collier Hill, a winner of the Irish St Leger last season, is a likely runner and may well be capable of surprising more fancied horses.

On May 20 it’s the turn of the season’s crack milers to unleash their firepower in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury and this has been a good race for Saeed Bin Suroor and the boys in blue in recent seasons, and it would be no surprise to see them land this Group1 event with Proclamation, who is surely heading for the top after joining Godolphin on the back of a brilliant three-year-old season.

In France the following day Longchamp’s Prix d’Ispahan always draws the top mile and mile and a quarter horses and this a race that mustn’t be missed as a key pointer to some of the season’s top races over this classic ten furlongs.

The month of May rounds off with the Irish 2,000 Guineas on May 27 followed by the Irish 1,000 Guineas on the following day. Both these valuable races tend to go to horses that have raced in the equivalent events at Newmarket and inevitably British trainers hold an excellent record in both races.

Finally, Sandown’s two-day fixture at the very end of the month is always informative with the Henry 11 Stakes for top-notch staying horses on May 29 followed on May 30 by the Temple Stakes for sprinters over the minimum trip and the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes in which trainer Sir Michael Stoute boats a useful record. Any runner from his yard should be noted carefully.



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Boylesports asked:


According to this article it has but can’t find confirmation anywhere else?

http://bettingnews.boylesports.com/horse-racing/uk/comply-forced-to-miss-haydock-130209.php

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Vegas Bound asked:


Do any of the Casinos in Vegas have the Horse-racing machine where little simulated horses run around a track? It’s a quarter machine. And what casino has this machine? Thanks
Its normally hid in the back of casinos cause not many people play it.

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Lord_Darkclaw asked:


My choices..

Boxing: corrupt as hell.
Horse racing: cruel to horses.
Fox hunting (in the UK): cruel both to the foxes and hounds.
Olympic power walking: I mean really, what’s that about?
edit* oh btw, that’s just my choices not a multiple-choice select list.

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