Luke’s selection pretty much sums up my thinking today! I’ll take a chance with Chloe’s Court in the 15.30 at Hereford on the basis she stays and should like the ground. Why do I feel a PU coming?

el gran senor

Jan 04

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You literally should have followed Luke's selection who won at 7/1 as should we all have done.

At least your nap wasn't PU but 27L off the penultimate loser suggests she should have been.

Pebbles

Jan 04

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Wise words EGS. Thankfully I had a £5 win double on Endofastorm and Notimeforanother! 🤥

john987

Jan 04

Sir Titan 8pm kempton e/w

GForce

Jan 04

F all today so I'll have a stab at

Newc 1520 Billian

things didn't go to plan last time despite money for it. Maybe with Stotty now up.......

Robicheaux7

Jan 04

jikala. Hereford 130, is todays nap.

David

Jan 04

i'll go with Saint Segal in the Hereford 14,30 today. Was trying to find something at a price but its slim pickings

Dilton

Jan 04

BHA have backtracked on the whip rule change thankfully .

Dilton

Jan 05

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I would question that you try to see both sides. To me you try to push the argument the way that you want to see things go.

The BHA have backtracked ,no matter how you try to bring in other things like the decrease in strokes.

Harrytheactor

Jan 05

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The BHA's capacity for self-harm never ceases to amaze me. The protracted consultation process was never anything more than window dressing. As Tom Cannon said, the agenda was always to be seen to do something to "appease" the negative lobby. The consultation failed because those who were supposedly consulted were aghast when they were presented with its results, which they could not live with. So now with these revisions and the silly compromise on the number of strikes and the removal of discretion, we have a result which has been greeted with two cheers from the jockeys rather than three.

Your reference to "self-appointed 'senior jocks'" being "hardly democratic" is beside the point. Why see this as an old-school trades dispute? It just isn't like that. Obviously the jockeys with the higher media profile are those who are interviewed in the winner's enclosure day in day out, so they will be asked about issues such as this. The articulate ones will always get more airtime and their views carry the most weight in the jockey ranks. I sense your irritation because the tide is running against the anti-whip fusspots, but bringing in that old union mentality with delegates, composite motions and all the rest of it just isn't going to help.

Tom Jolliffe

Jan 05

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I have deleted my responses to your and Dilton's last two comments as I think this is not fertile ground for a meeting of minds and there is little point in repetition.

I think we may have exhausted our respective opinions on this topic for now (I am including Dilton in this comment). I am open to calling it a draw, if it's susceptible to such a categorization. There is some common ground that I can see, but I can't see a game of football taking place there just at present in the area separating our respective views on this topic. I won't be coming back into this particular "Naps" thread again, but happy to resume in the other more general thread if you wish to do so.

LukeH

Jan 04

Not Sure 4.00H nap

Alan

Jan 04

Final Frontier 15:20 New'c Nap

Leo

Jan 04

NAP: 7.30 Kempton - Eloso (each way).

Absolutely the last chance for this fella. He's well up to this level but he seems to relish getting beat. As dear old Nick Mordin would have said, that probably demonstrates a superior intelligence to the other horses he's running with/against as opposed to a lack of ability. Unfortunately, nobody has yet commissioned a special edition of equine Mastermind to test the theory.