Crikey, I don't know why this suddenly came to me. Wait a minute, yes I do. It was this Stable Stars thing, where you need to know what horses are entered in the following week. Buggered if I can find out. Anyway it suddenly came to me that we used to be able to find this out using a racing journal called The Sporting Chronicle. With a school mate of mine I used to spend ages with this journal on a Saturday studying the form of horses running that day. Every runner had a reference to its previous run and by going back to the relevant issue we would find all the details we needed of the race result. In turn, all the horses in that race had a reference to their previous run and so on and so forth. Of course it required every issue to be kept handy and in order for efficient reading of the form. But it was brilliant. There was also an alphabetical index of all horses entered in the coming week. This journal was so good, it went out of business and I believe taken over by the inferior Sporting Life. I recall being pissed off at the time. Shame they didn't continue with the "Engaged next week" index. How useful that would be, computerised. It's so much easier to study the form nowadays of course but it doesn't ****ing help me to find out which horses are entered in the coming week. It would have been a snip for me to match these against my stable and list off those engaged and those not
Oh dear. guess what I've just found. And it's the Sporting Life . Unfortunately it's only the next 5 days and it's not in one index (which is a pain) but it might be better than nothing. Or it might be worse than nothing. I'll try it out.
Yes I know that Nass but I couldn't be bothered. However I think it might be less bother than having to amalgamate 4 indices
Yep. To import 4 indices separately would probably take longer than manually checking each stable horse against the 4 indices. And looking up each horse to check its entries is probably quicker than that. Oh well. Back where I started
You must be Northern, Ron!! I was introduced to the Sporting Chronicle, shortly after being inducted into betting! And of course all the betting shops had this on their walls, not that Southern wimp, the Sporting Life I also used to keep all the results sections from the Sporting Chronicle Handicap Book, published every Thursday (handily placed in the centre so that you didn't need to keep the whole book. Happy days Ron .... but how much easier is it with computerisation ...!!
No, born and bred in the Chilterns Reebs. My mate's older brother used to have it delivered. I was surprised to see it was a northern journal.
Ron, I think if you click on your horses on the Stable Stars website it tells you the entries they have mate
Not being old enough to remember the Sporting Chronicle, I first started out with the Sporting Life. It used to list the form of each runner’s last three races with form comments, much the same way that the Racing Post still does today. At that time, the Sporting Life used to publish the entries for the coming days but obviously they could only publish them when the entries closed. I seem to recall that they would also carry entries for the early closing races during the season. Now that there is the SportingLife.com website and normal raceday entries only close five days before the meeting, they can only publish the coming week’s entries online but they do carry full race histories for many horses, which would be completely impractical in the world of printed newspapers – imagine a garage full of old newspapers to wade through to find out what some horse did in October 2014. You can register horses names on the At The Races Horse Tracker and receive email notification when it is scheduled to run.
Geh! The way you blather-on with your "Thoughts Of Bismarck", I'd have thought you'd be old enough to remember Disraeli, or even Wellington? Even I can't remember them. Seriously, have used the SL 5-day declarations for a long time now, and for the form of a horse I use the RP website; good combination IMO. As for the old broadsheet "Sporting Life", a great racing newspaper and a "must" for any racegoer in the old days. Its writers really knew what they were talking about, for damn sure.
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That is not how you spell Bismarck – he would have had you taken outside and flogged for such an outrage! That Disraeli chap was okay – so much better than that Gladstone fellow. Neither of them a patch on that rogue Palmerston, hated by Victoria but having the sense to die in office so they could not vote him out. Wellington was alright for a Paddy. Without him, Abba would not have won the Eurovision Song Contest. He would soon have put the boot into these damned Europeans.
QM old mate, I'm not sure I should pass on something I just uncovered, I'd hate to think that I'd cause you any distress ....... you're a European.
I presume you consider yourself to be 'not European'? Don't give me the answer 'British', the UK is not a continent. My God, QMII, you live in the past, you are a hopeless case. A real throwback from the Victorian era. I am British, I am a European, and I am proud of being both, and I object to being called a "damn European". I have never wished to live in a society which would give the appearance of being a puppet of the United States. Europe is a bulwark against the gun-toting excesses of that country. "Special Relationship"?, tell me another. The UK is probably still paying them for the last bloody war?
The Sporting Chronicle was great and they also published Horses in Training every year. There was also a Sporting Life publication every Friday called the Sporting Life Guide. It listed all the cards for the coming week as in those days the entry dates were different: 5 day declarations has changed the world and of course handicaps were different too. Other good weekly publications were the Racehorse (a 4 page newspaper) and even the dear old Racing and Football Outlook. That we really only have the Racing Post in print now is poor (I know there's the Weekender but it doesn't provide all the info the above did). Don't recall Bismark writing in them though.
