England’s hopes. For much of Saturday evening. Stuck in a cloying treacle, going nowhere…
Sir Starmer has announced that there will be a Bank Holiday if England win The World Cup. Talk about getting ahead of yourself….?!
“Hey Jude, don’t make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better….”
A way was found. And we have a Semi-Final to look forward to. Messi awaits. England expects – although I’m not quite sure what we should expect…?!
But a whole heap easier launching into Monday and new week with hope still firmly in the heart…
Ascot Saturday. NESTHORN (Benoit de la Sayette) running a creditable 4th under a welterweight. Weight stops trains. A race probably not run to suit, but no disgrace at all. Ascot’s hospitality for Owners is right at the top of the tree, and several tracks should take a look at the way this superb racecourse looks after those who provide the product….
Too many tracks make the task of securing Owner badges impossibly hard, and in some cases there is a sense that those on the end of the line actively thrive in so doing. “More than my job is worth….”
Without Owners engaging and supporting our sport, we have no sport….
An O’Brien winning The July Cup. Donnacha. Dynasty….
Away from some fabulous sport on the track in recent days, I’m afraid the bad news tales are mounting up. The bizarre and misguided Gambling Commission. The drift towards Black Market bookmakers becoming a tsunami. At a potential cost of £250,000 million to the industry over 5 years, and thousands of job cuts as bookmaking firms cut their cloth to adapt to the “bizarre and misguided….”
Affordability checks….?!
If we want to buy a car, a house or a lobster for lunch, the fun police are not at our shoulder demanding bank statements and utility bills. But it is beginning to look odds on that if you want £20 each way on a 10/1 shot at Windsor tonight, you are going to have to scrabble around to produce a vast amount of personal data. Sad, mad, bad, bonkers and bizarre…
Kempton ?! Who signed that bit of paper 10 years ago ? Was the figure discussed index linked?
What are Redrow’s plans ? Perhaps because those who were signatories remain active Jockey Club members, those ranks have been firmly closed. A muddle…..
Windsor tonight. Another step up the learning curve for ELSA TAN (Benoit up)…
