JL

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

Just over 24 hours until we hear @RichardHoiles 🗣️“plenty still with chances as they head down to the second last, in what is a wide open Supreme” 🏇💨💯 #CheltenhamFestival

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

@GingerJoeRacing Selma De Vary

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

@the_racehour @bet365 @gambling_com Superb, as always every year ����🏻💯

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

Proactif 🧐 #CheltenhamFestival

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

One of the best #CheltenhamFestival previews I’ve seen years… absolutely hilarious. Had everything. 💯 do this again same panel next year.

[Daryl Carter @DarylCarter7]

Full Cheltenham Festival preview here 👇

https://t.co/8PDzgj5975

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

@MickeyTommo 🏇🏻💨

[The Winners Enclosure @TWEnclosure]

WHO REMEMBERS LAST YEAR'S TRIUMPH HURDLE... 🤯🤯🤯

Poniros got the better of Lulamba and East India Dock at 100/1 😳

Will we ever see a result like that again at the Festival? 🤔

🎬 @itvracing

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

Highlight of #Gladiators Live today was definitely @clattenburg1975 being clattered in the Gauntlet… Superb 👌🏻💪🏻👊🏻

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

@AMfromeast1 All the best mate, smash it wherever you go next… sorry didn’t get down to see you more this season. Baller 👊🏻👍🏻🔥⚽️

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

@Withamtownfc 🔥

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

@MCYeeehaaa Will have a view on this…

[Paul Beck (Spectre) @PaulBeck3001]

Not sure where to begin with this… but here goes.
Prior to the Cheltenham Festival many of you will remember I did a Podcast (The Annual Naiad), which can be found here from 3m40s in:
https://t.co/Mejc9QXajz

In the podacast I asked the 1.4k people who watched the Podcast to do the Mikey O’Sullivan Marine Nationale/Jazzy Matty double and to donate 10% of those winnings to Mikey’s family. I myself did the same bet live on the Podcast to camera with @BetMGMUK. The bet was to return £10k, and I pledged to donate all of the returns to the pot.

When it came to the Festival the Racing Gods were smiling, and both horses won, and I immediately went to my BetMGM account but couldn’t find the bet. Ironically BetMGM were sponsoring at Cheltenham that day, so I went to seek one of their Representatives out. Sadly they had all decided to abandon ship well before racing ended that day, and I couldn’t find anyone to speak to.

On reflection, the only thing that could possible have happened was that the bet was referred to a Trader, and said Trader must have rejected the bet while I continued with the Podcast completely oblivious. All well and good you’d think because there should be a log of the event. However, after some considerable chasing through racing contacts to try to get to someone senior in their PR or Commercial Team I drew a bland and started the onerous procedure of trying to do it through the customer service call centre. Actually the front line were quite helpful, if a bit slow. I was however told that any records of a transaction like this disappear after 14 days, and by that stage 14 days had already passed. They would however raise it to someone more senior. Finally after many weeks and a couple more interactions, I’ve now finally been told that they can’t find a record and won’t do anything. Not even a gesture of goodwill donated to the fund.

All I had asked was, that given the very specific circumstances, the fact that it’s been recorded on a podcast, and it is for the most worthy of causes, that they may want to make a donation anyway. Which in the grand scheme is absolutely nothing to @BetMGMUK. Just for their PR budget it’s a drop in the ocean, and would have been very good for them to be seen to do something. Not least because of the circumstances with regards how it happened, and on the day they were at their highest profile, having spent a fortune on Marketing, including sending people for all expenses paid trips to Vegas.

So, despite it being on video. Despite the context. Despite the cause. Despite them sponsoring on the day. Despite the fortune they spent on Marketing and PR on that day. BetMGM have said No Donation. No Help. Case Closed.

I’m not one for drama—but this has floored me. Not just because of the lost bet. But because a firm making millions from racing, on the very day they were sponsoring, won’t even consider a goodwill gesture. And for something that means so much to so many people in Racing. I'm just appalled that someone @BetMGMUK can't see what the right thing was to do, irrespective of the positive publicity they could have generated by doing it.

So why am I writing this now:

https://t.co/3aaJWqa2SC make everyone in racing circles aware what has happened.
https://t.co/8j4Y9FNcjh that someone in the BetMGM PR Team reads this and either has the courage to contact me to discuss it, or even better decides to act and do something positive.
https://t.co/H3QhnnLeoC that those of you in the Racing Media may try to step in, both by using your influence, your contacts in the betting industry, and will retweet to your followers who may do likewise.
https://t.co/lQGqIQvrkk that those of you that do ‘Racing Twitter’ will retweet this tagging @BetMGM in to increase the likelihood of getting a response from someone senior in the business.
https://t.co/DsN5kxWFdH that those of you that pledged to donate will still do so https://t.co/zRShD6bEob
6.Because some of you that didn’t watch the Podcast may want to donate anyway
https://t.co/59CjlKBiVD that if BetMGM don’t decide to do the right thing, then perhaps another Bookmaker or Organisation may wish to do so. And may do so anyway.

Let’s show BetMGM just how much Racing, the Racing Media, and Racing Social Media care. Could I ask that if you’ve read this that you retweet it as far and wide, and as often as possible, and if you don’t mind, several times over the next week. Each time tagging in l until someone senior decides to get in touch to discuss the decision someone in their organisation has made.

Your help with this would be very much appreciated.

Paul

[ITV Racing @itvracing]

It's been a week since Poniros did this in the JCB Triumph Hurdle 🤯

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

@MickeyTommo Looking forward to seeing this again this year Lad! 🏇🏻

[The Race Horse Guy @theracehorseguy]

Live footage of me watching Kopek Des Bordes at 1:20 today :

[Joe Chambers @ScobieCjnr]

Important to clarify a point.
It is not “Switch Ricci” as has been trailed this week, but “Switch Switchy”, which was first coined with great humour by @HenrydeBromhead on March 15th 2016 prior to the running of the 1st race.
May as well get it right, as you were.

[CheltenhamRacecourse @CheltenhamRaces]

The amphitheatre putting on a show for us ☀️

Gates open, one week today.

#CheltenhamFestival

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

@CheltenhamRaces Quick qu. on Guinness Grandstand seats please - is there a separate bar facility for people with seats in this stand or do you simply have to get drinks from the Guinness Village behind? Thanks 👍🏻

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

The one and only #CheltenhamFestival Preview I ever watch year after year. Superb as always gents 👏🏻👍🏻 “My Mrs has got an account though” 🤣🤣

[#racehour @the_racehour]

😂 Once @DavidJenningsRP asked @RacingTrends about Lulamba it all went awry quickly!

🏇 The 2025 Racehour Cheltenham Festival Preview Night is live, in association with @Betfred & @gambling_com

🎥 Watch: https://t.co/G17eNkGyRF

Panel:

🎙️ @DavidJenningsRP
🏇 Mikey Fogarty
🏇 Darragh O'Keeffe
🗣️ @dermonolan91
🗣️ @CassStephen
🗣️ @RacingTrends

[Luke Parkinson @ParkyRacing]

I've got 2⃣ pairs of tickets to giveaway for the SOLD OUT @TheSun's Cheltenham Festival Preview in partnership with @ToteRacing 🐎

📍News Building, London Bridge
🗓️ Wed 5th March, 6pm

RT this post, follow @ToteRacing and I'll pick two winners at 4pm ✅

[Paul Beck (Spectre) @PaulBeck3001]

No this isn't just another Cheltenham Preview!

I'm hosting a panel that includes Liam Firkin @AntepostValue, Ginger Joe @GingerJoeRacing, Jon 'Statto' Odell, Richard 'The Handicap King' Smith.

Ben Hastie @bencheltenham former Head Groundsman at Cheltenham Racecourse and owner of Festival Grade 1 winner Yorkhill is also making a special appearance to tell us about which types of horses suit which of the two courses, and importantly to tell us which horses to avoid or lay. And importantly he'll tell us what wins the Cross Country as he does every year!

This isn't the typical trainer and jockey panel who couldn’t tip their hats, regurgitating 'the same old, same old', on the graded races that’s been done to death. We all have our positions or thoughts on those races already. It's a panel of serious form students and pundits giving hard opinions on the handicaps for the serious Cheltenham fan and punter. Winners and not waffle is the only thing that matters this close to the Festival.

The Live Preview at Towcester Racecourse last year with Daryl Carter, Dave Young (Cheltmental), and Jaime Wrenn absolutely smashed the handicap winners, and I expect exactly the same again this time.

If you live locally or in the South West or Midlands, or if you're heading down early for the Festival, it'll be the most profitable Preview you see. No guff. Just winners.

Numbers are limited so please either DM me, or if you're not connected on Twitter already message me back on this post and follow and I'll follow back so you can.

The afternoon will also be a great opportunity to connect with a group of Jumps Racing fans who love all things Cheltenham, and the panel will be there before and afterwards for a chat.

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

@SunRacing @ToteRacing Will there be any more tickets released for this please? Says sold out on the link… Thks

[JL @CommanderoFleet]

@the_racehour @Betfred @DavidJenningsRP Best Cheltenham Festival preview out there by a country mile. Will be tuning in lads 💯👊🏻🏇🏻