Monday's Meetings Fairyhouse N/H 7 Races 12:50-4:05p.m. Kempton Park N/H 7 Races 1:00-4:10p.m. Carlisle N/H 6 Races 1:10-4:00p.m. Newcastle A/W 8 Races 2:10-5:50p.m. Racecards At The Races Racing Post Sporting Life Good Luck
I see the ex Sir Michael Stoute, 98 rated, TOP TUG makes his hurdling debut for King of Barbury Castle tomorrow. It will brighten up a monday for sure! (cue Odddog with the line "I have had many a TOP TUG!")
Cor blimey I see that ‘camp’ boxing thread has reappeared again! Here’s a suggestion. If you are that way inclined why not go and talk about boxing on the boxing forum?!? You follow???
Chuckles, old chap (yes I can call you "Chuckles" 'cos I'm a 'Dook', like old Humphrey Bogart was), just don't look at threads that don't appeal to you. I don't like Boxing particularly, so I just don't look at it; so let the aficionado lads enjoy it. The Horseracing section of this forum would be a bloody boring place if we just talked about hosses, questionably popular trainers, and owners? Good grief, spare us in this respect! Oh, I should correct myself as I do realise that is was John Wayne who was 'The Duke'. However, it was an unsuccessfully oblique reference by me to a visit Humphrey Bogart made to London in the 1930's, when he was a guest of a big film producer at 'Les Ambassadeurs' restaurant (now more well-known as a posh casino club?). Fairly large table which included the then Duke of Marlborough, an odious person and an absolute snob. Marlborough made a particulary snotty and rude remark about Americans, I guess, and old Humphrey very quietly said, "Now you listen to me, Dook, don't you ever..................etc., etc.," and gave this 'Dook' a right old dressing down. Marlborough went red as a beetroot, and shut his trap for the rest of the evening. Loved old Humphrey. Seen every film he's made, I think? The old Curzon Cinema in Mayfair ran Bogart films for two or three weeks once. Happened to be in the 'Smoke' at the time and so I went every evening, even though I'd already seen most of these movies.
Swanny, to a point I do agree with you and quite like perusing some of the ‘other’, or ‘off topic’ if you prefer, threads but why is there a boxing one, on here, when there is a boxing forum on Not606?!? Afterall you don’t have your eyes tested in the greengrocers when there is an opticians next door, now do you?!?, You follow?!? Boxing is such an ‘emperors new clothes’ pastime anyway and the campest there is. Respect to the boxers themselves and those who earn a living from the pastime but we all know that if new law was suddenly passed where the boxers had to be attired in trackie bottoms and polo shirts 95%+ of the blokes who currently watch boxing would quickly lose all interest!
Cor blimey, people, I've just seen the front page of ‘The Sun’ and allegedly its all been happening recently in Chiseldon! Another racing scandal it would appear. Although I would imagine that the inhabitants of said Wiltshire village will be totally apoplectic at their place of residence being constantly referred to in the media as ‘Chiseldon, Swindon’!
I do think there are to many random threads on this forum. I just think that potential new members browsing will be put off with the amount of non horse related threads.Can we not try to merge some threads such as US Presidential race and EU Politics or put them on the discuss anything thread! This isnt a dig or anything like that as I love it on here(great folk/good banter & top tipping)but we also need to attract new members to keep the forum getting bigger and better!Ps Ive no problem moving my footy compo over to the footy forum!
Yes, I agree SBC, there is a Boxing thread, but we do talk about football on 'our' part of the forum too, so I'm not too bothered about another one, I do venture on the QPR section of the football forum, but not often as the subject is too depressing atm, as you can appreciate. You are lucky to be an Arsenal fan! Oh, I'm not a 'Dook' of course, so I'll be a bit more respectful in future...
Ste D, I think the mods did a fair old job in the last bit of 'merging'; made things a lot more manageable?. However, any spurious new threads should be merged, or maybe removed if of no real interest IMO, although I pray I'll never be 'merged' with that awful General Chat thread!
Couldn’t have put it better myself and I don’t think it’s a case of what existing members think but the effect of what seeing so many non-horse racing related threads will have on any prospective ‘new’ members. Let’s face it, people, you only, in the first instance, click on a horse racing forum if you want to talk about horse racing! And if you see so many ‘other’ things then I doubt you will stay around too long. Can’t see any reason to move the Football comp (also remember there being a good Golf one recently) but do think some of the others should be curtailed. I do think football is totally different to boxing in that almost everyone has, at the very least, a passing interest in the former. The latter though I wouldn’t even class a sport.
No, no, I cannot agree there. I've been a member for 5-years, others since inception, and I spend a lot of time on other threads, but I like to stick with the Horseracing section of the forum in which I find contributions interesting and often educational. For goodness sake, just ignore threads that don't interest you, new members will surely have the gumption to do likewise? Heck, Ste D contributes regularly himself on, especially, the Arts/Music thread. Not so long ago I bought a DVD of a Norwegian thriller film he recommended, was damned good too. I forgot to thank him for this tip, which I do so now!
Erm, Beef Stew (in red wine based gravy), potatoes, along with excellent mixed salad, 10/10 for my better half!
I think potential new posters would be more discouraged by the dearth of racing threads, rather than a few non-racing threads scattered about the place. There are very few posters who take the time and effort to create a thread, probably only 7 or 8 who do so on a regular basis.
