JB

Horses🐴, sport ⚽️, music 🎸, film 🎬, TV 📺, politics 🇪🇺, environment 🌍, conservation 🦧

[JB @DizzyJB]

@SCitigold @BNi29793 @MikeParcej And there are plenty of people on here discussing those issues. Mike is focusing on the racegoer experience, and through that alone he puts far more back into the sport than you or I. His followers appreciate it, so if you do not simply go elsewhere… 👋🏻

[JB @DizzyJB]

@HollywoodHandle It would actually be a lot quicker to list who *isn’t* in this film…

[Chris Fawcett @chrisgambler247]

'Three people linked to the Conservatives, including the party's former director of campaigning, have been given suspended sentences after admitting to cheating at gambling on the 2024 general election date.'
https://t.co/JZWR8j0Y59

[JB @DizzyJB]

Remember: never bet on the flat before the Guineas and never bet on the jumps before the Mackeson. 😜

[JB @DizzyJB]

@PuntingWinners £35 for today’s card may have been considered a little cost prohibitive.

[JB @DizzyJB]

@quevega It was a healthy business back then, even if it only accounted for c.5-6% of the UK market, it still had a foothold with the potential for growth. £36m returned to racing in the last three years before privatisation. Not to be sniffed at!

[JB @DizzyJB]

These are not the primary reasons why a Tote monopoly wouldn’t work in Britain, there are many cultural, economic, technological and legislative barriers that would need to be overcome way before compliance became an issue.

[Racing Post @RacingPost]

Ruby Walsh on how the Tote-based model cannot work in Britain & Ireland due to compliance rules

🗣️ "Some people are obsessed with the idea that far away hills are greener, and some long for a Tote-based model. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always work either. It does in Hong Kong, the world's only growing Tote-based market, but its compliance rules differ.

"Hong Kong residents have fewer opportunities to gamble, racing has less competition and it races only twice a week at two courses. France, by contrast, is under pressure. The PMU has a €45 million hole to plug and the French answer is effectively to close 24 courses in the coming years to balance the books.

"Funding the bottom will be a major issue for racing; compliance and competition started the derailment, and taxation has just forced sharp business minds to look elsewhere"

[JB @DizzyJB]

@quevega The opportunity was for racing to take ownership of the Tote in 2011/12, while it still had some integral value. And they could have purchased the pool element for a fraction of what Betfred sold it for. Unfortunately it’s now a busted flush.

[JB @DizzyJB]

@A_OConnor83 Respect your opinion, but I think it’s important that our politicians are down to earth and relatable. And this is for a good cause. Unlike IACGMOOH, where the likes of Hancock & Farage have grifted for financial & political gain.

[JB @DizzyJB]

@MarchForRejoin Rees-Mogg and his highway signs…

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

The forced choice heads to heads give you perhaps the starkest picture of how Burnham outperforms Starmer right now. Starmer was less preferred than Davey or Badenoch and tied with Farage/Polanski. The shift of Burnham vs Polanski is particularly stark from 50-50 under Starmer to 80-20 for Burnham.

[JB @DizzyJB]

@TheMBrand @AKlay19 Agree. Timing couldn’t have been worse for LBN. Stolen its thunder…

[JB @DizzyJB]

@louinemie @ChristianMSwan @FilmUpdates He tried before and failed when they cast Daniel Craig.

[JB @DizzyJB]

@FilmUpdates Mystery actor revealed…

[JB @DizzyJB]

@newmarket_tips I would suggest he did the opposite…

[JB @DizzyJB]

Racing’s factional in-fighting costs another high profile executive their job. The revolving door at the top, losing good people in the process, cannot benefit the sport long term. A strategy needs to be built on consensus, through stability and continuity, not constant chaos.

[Racing Post @RacingPost]

Wilf Walsh will leave his role as Racecourse Association (RCA) chair on December 31 after resigning from the position

Read more 👇

📎 - https://t.co/7Ab4loPZNZ

[JB @DizzyJB]

@effoff1988 That was my take too. Get the publicity without losing the surprise factor…

[JB @DizzyJB]

@brucemillington Select today and then “list”. You still get the month calendar half view but otherwise it appears as above.

[JB @DizzyJB]

@LifeIsSkewed Astonishing. I thought that this fee was £60 per sale, not £6. 🤯 I must have completely misread the press release when it was implemented last year.

[JB @DizzyJB]

@dave43law Isn’t this traditionally their “friendliest” pollster?