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The racing today at cheltenham has been really good!

They need to keep that 2-4f race on this card. Keep the PPGC in November, move the December race to New Years Day, and get rid of the one in Jan. Keep the one in Jan.

New Years day, not much else going on, great attendance today, looked like a lot of families where out too
 
charlie said:
Carnage at Taunton agrees - Ed Chamberlain is one of the most painful people to watch on telly, anyone else agree? I cannot stand his presenting style, if you can call it that. I'm all for celebrating greatness and being enthusiastic, but Ed drowns in superlatives to describe pretty much every scenario that unfolds in front of him. I find his tone, demeanour and way of presenting so bloody irritating, to the point where even a pause irritates me. I don't think he's fundamentally bad at his job and I think he has racings best interest at heart, but, I think I'd rather gargle my own piss for an hour than watch Ed Chamberlain present for a full 5 minutes.

Thats the bad news, on a more positive note, my New Years resolution to be more tolerant is going swimmingly well :glee:
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Haha, reading through that i gradually realised I was going to find nothing to disagree with , so I won’t bother trying!!
I don’t think you mentioned nauseas though, so I will add that to your accurate assessment
 
Carnage at Taunton said:
Haha, reading through that i gradually realised I was going to find nothing to disagree with , so I won’t bother trying!!
I don’t think you mentioned nauseas though, so I will add that to your accurate assessment
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Yes, he's nauseas! Thats a solid addition.
 
Anybody got the official attendance from Cheltenham today? It felt absolutely rammed!
 
Poor Ed!

Subscribe to RTV you moaning cheapskates :victorious:
 
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 !!
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Lobos said:
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 !!
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Graeme Rodway is more Rosemary than Sage.
 
Quevega said:
Graeme Rodway is more Rosemary than Sage.
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I have no idea what these Power Rankings are or how they are evaluated. Is it just his own rankings ?
 
Lobos said:
I have no idea what these Power Rankings are or how they are evaluated. Is it just his own rankings ?
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Yeah they are, he had not so sleepy at 5th best hurdler at the start of the season for some reason
 
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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.
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​​​​​​​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.
 
JamieSensible said:
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).
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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...
 
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Lobos said:
I have no idea what these Power Rankings are or how they are evaluated. Is it just his own rankings ?
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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
 
JamieSensible said:
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.
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….and their TWAR market has obviously disappeared.
 
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