The four legged game: the R3 Forum racing thread

[Petrushka]

I'll be another year older (Weds) by the time next weekend comes!

Still, chuffed by the weekend's winning horses and the prospect of some boxed sets courtesy of Amazon birthday gift vouchers and the extra spending power, rather looking forward to this week.

[EdgeleyRob]

I'll be another year older by the time next weekend comes!

Still, chuffed by the weekend's winning horses and the prospect of some boxed sets courtesy of Amazon birthday gift vouchers and the extra spending power, rather looking forward to this week.

Enjoy Pet,and happy birthday !!

[Petrushka]

all trying to pretend it not monday tomorrow?

Hope you racing fans had a good weekend of it.

I try to pretend it's not Monday every week but never succeed.

After the amazing Derby weekend I'm afraid yesterday was hopeless at the races. Didn't win a thing. Such is life...

[teamsaint]

I try to pretend it's not Monday every week but never succeed.

After the amazing Derby weekend I'm afraid yesterday was hopeless at the races. Didn't win a thing. Such is life...

such is life, such is racing.
Bad luck Pet...it will turn for you.
Perhaps this week the prices of box sets will drop !

[teamsaint]

Having just been blown away by Weinberg (so good they named him twice) 8,I don't even know what day it is.
Anyway,it's music to make you think Mondays aint so bad.

I'll certainly give Wainberg 8 a spin then. the recommendation for the Bliss PS was great. A very interesting piece,listened with the youtube score running. Brilliant. Probably went faster than Pet's horses this weekend !

[Petrushka]

Another week gone and Monday morning looms large again.

Never mind, got Royal Ascot to cheer me up though with working all week it's going to mean a lot of fast-forwarding on the recorder later in the evening. Once you've got rid of the chatter and brainless ads you can watch all the races in 10 minutes!

Tips anybody? Alison?

[teamsaint]

Funny you should ask about tips, I was just going to put the very same question.
Studying form is not really part of my schedule these days, so a couple of solid recommendations at tasty prices would do very nicely thanks !!

Where did the weekend go ?

thing about Royal Ascot is that all that wonderful racing is wasted on all those drunk idiots who are just there on a company jolly.
Can't be doing with going to big meetings, too much drinking, which is better done in the pub IMO.
Mumble grumble !!

[Alison]

Evening all. For some reason I always turn to Sibelius in the Autumn and can't seem to relate so well at this time of year.

A truly epic weeks racing at Ascot. It's almost a relief to take a break from the drama today.

Have you all checked your football teams opening fixtures ?

[EdgeleyRob]

Evening all. For some reason I always turn to Sibelius in the Autumn and can't seem to relate so well at this time of year.

A truly epic weeks racing at Ascot. It's almost a relief to take a break from the drama today.

Have you all checked your football teams opening fixtures ?

Hi Alison.

8/1 winner (Opinion) yesterday for me,yaaaahoo.

Stockport are so far down the pyramid their fixtures aren't out yet.

[EdgeleyRob]

Yes I was on Opinion too, yet another top notch ride from Ryan.

Perhaps I'll dig out some RVW for the car journeys this week. About time I gave Job another spin.

Petrushka was not happy about Opinions's win on the stormy weather thread yesterday Alison,something to do with non runner and jockey switching tactics.
We were singing your praises as the forum racing expert too !

Oh and Job is far too special for in car listening IMO,needs a home alone,darkened room,phone off the hook approach.

[Alison]

We really need a specific racing thread sInce discussion is often fragmented among several threads of differing vintage.

[Nick Armstrong]

We really need a specific racing thread sInce discussion is often fragmented among several threads of differing vintage.

There's this, Alison: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...ht=Four-legged

Maybe the fences need to come out of the title so it can cover everything. I can do that if you like

[Alison]

You were a bit unlucky with Shaishee, Robbers. I was standing very near the winning post and you were only caught in the last couple of strides.

[Alison]

There's this, Alison: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...ht=Four-legged

Maybe the fences need to come out of the title so it can cover everything. I can do that if you like

Yes, that would be good.

[Petrushka]

We really need a specific racing thread sInce discussion is often fragmented among several threads of differing vintage.

ER did start one then Barbirollians' started the Frankel thread which became our racing thread. Now they seem to be all over the place so yes, a dedicated racing thread would be just the job.

Hope my moan about Opinion's win didn't come across as sour grapes. It wasn't meant to be. It was a typical great Ryan Moore ride and he's my fave Flat racing jockey by a long way, but he wasn't meant to be on that horse. I'd backed the one he should have been on. A lacklustre effort from Sir John Hawkwood and a no more than average one from Duke of Firenze scuppered any chance I had of winning anything. Had RM been on Opinion in the first place I could have been in line for another boxed set!