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[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Whats wrong with spotting your colours ? always been part of the national trying to work out which ones yours, especially if your on mcmanus colours

This,all day long.
I don't see why racing has to change to accommodate the colour blind and the '50 pence each way once a year' brigade.
The horses have their names on the saddle cloth,the colours are in every daily newspaper,and they do a pre-race parade.
Anyone who can't spot their horse after reading and watching this really needs to go to Specsavers.
The last thing racing needs is to be dumbed down to American standards.

 

[Manchester1894]

Whats wrong with spotting your colours ? always been part of the national trying to work out which ones yours, especially if your on mcmanus colours

This,all day long.
I don't see why racing has to change to accommodate the colour blind and the '50 pence each way once a year' brigade.
The horses have their names on the saddle cloth,the colours are in every daily newspaper,and they do a pre-race parade.
Anyone who can't spot their horse after reading and watching this really needs to go to Specsavers.
The last thing racing needs is to be dumbed down to American standards.

The text/numbers on the saddles can only be seen when they are paraded not in the race(not on my 32" TV anyway).

The colours are too similiar when there are 40 runners. At least 5 dark horse were wearing blue and in sunlight, from a distance even black and white clashed as they all had stripes on.

Don't start all this "old school" malarky, a lot of people watch put money on this race and a lot more would if it was made easier to watch.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

Whats wrong with spotting your colours ? always been part of the national trying to work out which ones yours, especially if your on mcmanus colours

This,all day long.
I don't see why racing has to change to accommodate the colour blind and the '50 pence each way once a year' brigade.
The horses have their names on the saddle cloth,the colours are in every daily newspaper,and they do a pre-race parade.
Anyone who can't spot their horse after reading and watching this really needs to go to Specsavers.
The last thing racing needs is to be dumbed down to American standards.

The text/numbers on the saddles can only be seen when they are paraded not in the race(not on my 32" TV anyway).

The colours are too similiar when there are 40 runners. At least 5 dark horse were wearing blue and in sunlight, from a distance even black and white clashed as they all had stripes on.

Don't start all this "old school" malarky, a lot of people watch put money on this race and a lot more would if it was made easier to watch.

So buy a better fucking telly then,or actually go to a meeting.
As to 'old school malarky',(whatever the fuck that is),racing has been going for the best part of 500 years,and I fail to see why folk who only watch one race a fucking year should have the right to tell those of us who have owned horses,go to a couple of meetings a week,know trainers and jockeys personally,and love the sport as it is that we should change it just to suit them for one day of the year.

 

[mammutly]

It was so good to go into the bookies today and watch them counting out that money. They're so careful to say 20,40,60,80,100. And they did it 4 times! Lovely.

I was tempted to live a £5 tip with my stake money back too, but I didn't. I walked right on out of there grinning like a chocolate frog.

 

[bernabias home shirt]

Not good news today regarding the winning jockey Ryan Mania
Day after the biggest win of his career had a bad fall and had to be airlifted to hospital
Neck & back injuries

Lets hope he makes a full recovery.

 

[mancitymick]

I went this year for the first time on a Stag weekend. I love my Horse racing but would never go again. Yes you cant get a pint quick enough but when it comes to watching any races, forget it

 

[TGR]

The Aintree / Grand National meeting is basically Cheltenham for Chavs.
The scouse slappers are out in force with their silly shoes, spray tans and fake hair pieces falling all over the placed all pissed up. They really have no idea how stupid they look. Thank the Lord there is 142.5 miles between Liverpool & Cheltenham.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

The Aintree / Grand National meeting is basically Cheltenham for Chavs.
The scouse slappers are out in force with their silly shoes, spray tans and fake hair pieces falling all over the placed all pissed up. They really have no idea how stupid they look. Thank the Lord there is 142.5 miles between Liverpool & Cheltenham.

I went to both mate,and to be fair there were a fair few drunken orange women at both.
You get them at Chester,or York,or even Royal Ascot nowadays.
They are just out for a few drinks,a bit of a gamble,and maybe a quick random shag in a portaloo.
Not a million miles from the reasons I was there.
Hardly a social blueprint for the future,but no great threat to society.

 

[TGR]

The Aintree / Grand National meeting is basically Cheltenham for Chavs.
The scouse slappers are out in force with their silly shoes, spray tans and fake hair pieces falling all over the placed all pissed up. They really have no idea how stupid they look. Thank the Lord there is 142.5 miles between Liverpool & Cheltenham.

I went to both mate,and to be fair there were a fair few drunken orange women at both.
You get them at Chester,or York,or even Royal Ascot nowadays.
They are just out for a few drinks,a bit of a gamble,and maybe a quick random shag in a portaloo.
Not a million miles from the reasons I was there.
Hardly a social blueprint for the future,but no great threat to society.

Fair points. but you don't get that whiney, phlegmey, droney sad excuse for an accent so much at the other tracks.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

The Aintree / Grand National meeting is basically Cheltenham for Chavs.
The scouse slappers are out in force with their silly shoes, spray tans and fake hair pieces falling all over the placed all pissed up. They really have no idea how stupid they look. Thank the Lord there is 142.5 miles between Liverpool & Cheltenham.

I went to both mate,and to be fair there were a fair few drunken orange women at both.
You get them at Chester,or York,or even Royal Ascot nowadays.
They are just out for a few drinks,a bit of a gamble,and maybe a quick random shag in a portaloo.
Not a million miles from the reasons I was there.
Hardly a social blueprint for the future,but no great threat to society.

Fair points. but you don't get that whiney, phlegmey, droney sad excuse for an accent so much at the other tracks.

Another fair point.
I always like to gag scouse women.
They think it's kinky bondage,but it's simply to stop them speaking.