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Please make some effort at explaining how it is an anti-irish thing. Judging from a few of your posts you seem to have a chip on your shoulder about the English?Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
What's dodgy about Frankie Dettori winning on two favourites? It's dodgy when favourites lose, not when they win.
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Originally Posted by el punter
a chip? no not really......i like the english.....but they are very patronising
i do think it was dodgy racing.......he won 2 races at a canter......it looked liked the arab owned horses were just set up to win those races.....the other horses were so obviously out of their league.......its a usual thing to see in horse racing but dont make it out to be competitive when it isnt.......
im just a little peed off that the english are not giving due respect to irish racing.....considering that all the top jockeys and trainers are in galway.....bigger prize money.....bigger crowds and better racing
I don't know enough to comment on the quality of the racing in Galway but more people go for weeks p!ss up than go for the racing. Seems more a scoial event than a sporting event.
You'll find that the quality of racing (measured by the ratings award by the official handicapper) is far superior at Goodwood this week than at Galway.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
There are no 'Group' races at Galway, there are several each day at Goodwood.
The Galway Races is about much more than the quality of the horses however. It's a cultural thing (like Pete said).
The top jockeys and trainers are not all in Galway either. There is a large Ballydoyle and Godolphin contingent in Goodwood this week.
And IF a stroke is going to pulled in a race - it's not going to be in a black-type contest at one of the highest profile meetings of the British racing calendar live on BBC. It's going to be tucked away in some 2nd rate maiden at a gaff track.
Another and...why would the British fix a race to allow an Arab horse to win?
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Originally Posted by el punter
quality is a matter of opinion really
how are horses handicapped? isnt that a case in itself.....seen a few of the goodwood races that were meant to be group 2......joke they were.......now group one yeah but the rest
i know that galway is not group 1 racing.....its not like for like anyway......but its still half decent racing.......with top jockeys and top trainers.......
strokes of all kinds are pulled in every race meeting............i saw live on bbc superior horses running against donkeys......the punters are always the mugs in that game.....
one of my main gripes was that the english were going on about how great goodwood is......and how galway is just a p iss up, which it is........but it also had some bloody good racing in it.....and i reckon it was better than any **** (bar yeats) i saw in "glorious goodwood" (my ar se).....