Cheltenham - Friday

EKW said:
His name is Sky Khan and he was 3rd in the boys race at Cheltenham yesterday.

He goes to Aintree next I think. Cape Cross x Galileo so pretty genes!
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And I presume racing over sticks was not what his breeder planned? Well he has done his owners and connections proud.
 
Clodagh said:
And I presume racing over sticks was not what his breeder planned? Well he has done his owners and connections proud.
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No she has kept all the fillies and flat races them but even on the flat they aren't as good as this lad was. I have been trying to persuade the boss to take him to America but that's not going to happen lol! So next on my hit list for the summer is Royal Ascot! He is a good/quick ground horse so he will stay in now til the autumn.
 
So lovely to see. Thanks for posting Alec.

Sometimes I feel so disillusioned about the whole racing scene, with its urinating footballers and orange tanned, lip plumped, breast baring females. It just feels like the horses are completely secondary to the event.

And then you see a whole lot of people wrapped up warmly on a cold, grey day, gathered to honour a great horse coming home. Restores your faith a bit.
 
LadyGascoyne said:
So lovely to see. Thanks for posting Alec.

Sometimes I feel so disillusioned about the whole racing scene, with its urinating footballers and orange tanned, lip plumped, breast baring females. It just feels like the horses are completely secondary to the event.

And then you see a whole lot of people wrapped up warmly on a cold, grey day, gathered to honour a great horse coming home. Restores your faith a bit.
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Blame the footballers and their obscene lifestyle, not the horseracing ! They are world's apart.
 
Sorry, I am not blaming the racing for the behavior, if that's how it came across. I can see how it might have.

I realise that they are not "racing people". All I meant was with all the hyped/night club vibes, the ambience changes and I feel like the horses get lost. It's just lovely to see people making the effort to praise the horse.
 
LadyGascoyne said:
So lovely to see. Thanks for posting Alec.

Sometimes I feel so disillusioned about the whole racing scene, with its urinating footballers and orange tanned, lip plumped, breast baring females. It just feels like the horses are completely secondary to the event.
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I wrote a strongly worded email to Goodwood last year after attending one of their June evenings, which I have done across the years. We were drug searched on entry, surrounded by people dressed for a cross between clubbing and my big fat gypsy wedding, and not the slighest bit interested in the racing. Someone in their wisdom turned the June evening racing at Goodwood (no better view on a summer's evening I can assure you) into a dj/club night after the last race with the parade ring as a dance floor.

What used to be a throughly pleasant evening out racing is no longer. I would say that 80% of those there that night were there for the dj, and wouldn't have seen a horse...
 
teapot said:
I wrote a strongly worded email to Goodwood last year after attending one of their June evenings, which I have done across the years. We were drug searched on entry, surrounded by people dressed for a cross between clubbing and my big fat gypsy wedding, and not the slighest bit interested in the racing. Someone in their wisdom turned the June evening racing at Goodwood (no better view on a summer's evening I can assure you) into a dj/club night after the last race with the parade ring as a dance floor.

What used to be a throughly pleasant evening out racing is no longer. I would say that 80% of those there that night were there for the dj, and wouldn't have seen a horse...
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A lot of courses are doing this now. It is a great money spinner. Get people in for the after show. Who cares if they watch the racing or not as they have paid over the odds for the ticket already. It is a sad state of affairs but racecourses need to do what they must to bring the money in to keep them going.
 
EKW said:
A lot of courses are doing this now. It is a great money spinner. Get people in for the after show. Who cares if they watch the racing or not as they have paid over the odds for the ticket already. It is a sad state of affairs but racecourses need to do what they must to bring the money in to keep them going.
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Yup and for most courses I appreciate that the racing is their own way of staying afloat. Goodwood really does not have that problem and if they wanted to put on a club night they could do it anywhere on the estate, sell overpriced tickets and not ruin an evening's racing.
 
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