@DarylCarter7@RacingTV@geoffbanksbet@SiClare@nickluck@WorldPool Don’t you get it? Once upon a time horse racing was a sport, now it’s a business. Years ago people bet on the sport, now gambling addicts throw their money at it for the sake of gambling. Why are there so many meetings? It’s to attract gamblers and nothing else, it’s not sport.
@cmoreton99@mikerainham The Minstrel was retired after the King George because he needed to be sent to America to beat a ban on imported horses down to equine flu. The Minstrel was the stable star at Ballydoyle in 1977.
@cheltenhamform @jimslyfox@AtTheRaces Be in no doubt whatsoever that what you’re seeing today is utter shit compared to the great national sporting occasion that Derby Day was throughout most of the 20th century.
@gromit77@Globalstats11 Leave out the Stones, and the average sixty year old would only be able to name one song between both Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd together.