Tuesday May 31st 2022

@Dilton ”Soggy” Cooper posted on his Twitter account (most appropriate for a real Twit) that he put 5mm on the course on Friday and another 5mm on Saturday. He described the going yesterday as good and good to soft In places. Then the deluge which, as Dilton states, was forecast. He know admits that the finishing straight is softer than the rest of the track. He destroyed a meeting at Sandown last year and a good number of AP bets held by many.

I’m with Eve Johnson Houghton who called for the BHA to issue fines to tracks that failed to ensure a safe racing surface.

Can you explain the frequent dismissive references to University degrees? Are clerks to the course all University graduates? Your comments about this appear to be quite prejudiced. I believe that all knowledge is valuable. Your comments about graphic design are not well informed. It is the fundamental knowledge base and skill which underlies the key elements of modern society. Without the creative graphic design students who specialise and then graduate from the eight disciplines within it the UK would be a primitive backwater, effectively living in a Stone (pre-computer) Age.

Historically, working class children have been hampered by a lack of qualifications mostly caused by poverty which gave rise to negative parental attitudes to learning as they wanted to see their children earning money as soon as possible. This meant they had little chance of achieving their academic potential.

Well qualified graphic designers normally find little problem in securing well paid employment. Design needs exist across every industry.

I really do not see the point in tilting at the academic windmills in your hugely well informed comments about horse racing?

@QuaiDB I tilt at the academic windmills because theres to many of them in racing without an ounce of common sense ( and in my opinion which I'm allowed to have ) elsewhere.

Shouldn't that be coupled with What You Will?