Aimed at potential new clients i'd say.

Marketplace draws 4 in the big go whilst Mo draws 1 on 2nd row. 

One day of international for the year, a sellout, 85000 and first games washed out, yet we have no Cricket through late January Februray,  mind you it can rain then too but the changing calendar is all because of Indias imposition on the rest of the Cricket schedule, next year is the same, fitting things in because of the IPL which starts earlier this year.

Millionaire sprinter The Chosen Vron, recently selected as the California-bred Horse of the Year for a second consecutive season, has been retired.View the full article

On the March 17 BloodHorse Monday: Flying Dutchmen's Hunter Rankin discusses Owen Almighty's Kentucky Derby status, Louie Rabaut and Sean Collins recap the Virginia Derby, and Frank Angst recaps the OBS March Sale and Oaklawn Park's show bets.View the full article

Hokey and Mitey you will like this, Rock Hudson went to the doctors and said I think I've got Aids Dr said no problem go home and eat a Vindaloo curry and drink 2 pints of Guinness Rock said will that fix the aids the Dr said probably not but it will teach you what your ass if for.💩

Now Mitey is going to tell Hokey he is a very strange person always looking for trannies and lgb alphabet people. He could go to the Beehive he will find a few there.

Hokey found the trans women with a PENIS, how many hours did you spend looking for the mental case and were you ecstatic when you found it. It would know about your favorite  emoji💩💩💩

Might have something to do with money laundrying

Barnes, who endured his first defeat in the San Felipe March 1, and standout debut winner Cornucopian worked six furlongs at Santa Anita Park in company March 17 for trainer Bob Baffert. View the full article

I have been and are in China at the moment and don't understand why the TAB doesn't allow access to their site. I understand that they don't want punters betting offshore, but surely they should be encouraging people outside NZ to bet on their website. There must be a huge reason why not but my paygrade can't figure it out. Can someone post on here what Micky Mouse is now paying on the trainers challenge - I got him @$34 and am starting to wonder if I should be taking some insurance now

LMFAO  population of 347 million and the best they can do is a mere few hundred protesters  Are they the former Trump voters Hoki ?? Just wondering where they got to ?

Don't those dems love screaming and shouting , it won't do them any good, that party is in total disarray  .  Dow jones up again .  41,841.63+353.44 (0.85%)today

Here are more Americans not protesting apparently….🙈    

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White Rocks, gate-to-wire winner of the Cincinnati Trophy Stakes Feb. 21, takes on a full field of 12 in the $300,000 Bourbonette Oaks March 22 at Turfway Park. The lightly-raced daughter of Frosted will break from post 11.View the full article

The 2024 Equine Injury Database shows that racetracks in the United States that are not subject to HISA's rules have a fatality rate of 1.76 per 1,000 starts, which is almost double the 0.90 per 1,000 starts at HISA racetracks.View the full article

More post-Cheltenham news this afternoon - it seems the new Champion Hurdler, GOLDEN ACE, will take on CONSTITUTION HILL and STATE MAN at Punchestown in what looks a thriller at the end of April / beginning of May. In other racing news, POWER BLUE, the son of Space Blues, was far too good for SLANEY VIEW in the opening juvenile race of the Irish turf season. POWER BLUE came home by nearly four lengths and looks an above average type. In France, MAP OF STARS won in a bunch finish for the Exbury at Saint Cloud leading home a 1-2 for Wathnan Racing with FIRST LOOK second and an encouraging season debut for SEVENNA'S KNIGHT who will obviously be better over further. GLAMIS ROAD was third in the Fillies' Listed. Another quiet weekend coming up in Britain - there's a Grade 2 Mares Novices Hurdle at Newbury but that reminds me I forgot to mention the Grade 2 Mares Novices Chase at Cheltenham on Friday which saw DINOBLUE score impressively for Willie Mullins (who else?). She hadn't always run well at Prestbury but the step up to 4050m was a big help and she had beaten ALLEGORIE DE VASSY when the latter fell two out.  

The final day of the Cheltenham Festival saw the cool, dry conditions continue. The ground remained Good to Soft but was clearly drying a little. The feature of the final day was the Blue Riband for the staying chasers, the Gold Cup. The opening race, however, was the championship race at the very other end of the jumping spectrum - the Triumph Hurlde for the 4-y-o over 3200m. Eighteen runners of which eleven came from the Willie Mullins yard but the money was for the English trained EAST INDIA DOCK from the James Owen yard, who had been decent on the flat and had looked very good on three hurdling runs, winning them all easily including one over the course and distance. He was 5/4 favourite with Gavin Cromwell's HELLO NEIGHBOUR supported in to 7/2 and Nicky Henderson's LULAMBA third in at 11/2. I've heard it said if you throw enough darts at the board, you'll eventually get a bullseye but I doubt Willie Mulllins thought PONIROS was his most likely bullseye darty but in yet another dramatic race, the 100/1 shot swooped to cut down LULAMBA and EAST INDIA DOCK up the run in with only connections, bookies and one punter who had £100 each way at 100/1 cheering. Coming towards the last, however, the bookies must have been quaking as, having brushed off HELLO NEIGHBOUR, EAST INDIA DOCK and LULAMBA looked set to fight out the finish but Jonjo O'Neill junior brought the outsider with a superb late run to lead close home. A shock? Well, the Triumph had been won by a maiden over hurdles (though rarely) but this was the first time a horse on hurdling debut had won the race. It would be the equivalent of putting an unraced 3-y-o in the 2000 Guineas or the Derby and that horse winning. However, dip into the form a little and perhaps not quite as much a surprise as might seem the case - PONIROS was rated 91 on the flat and indeed had been favourite for the Cambridgeshire, a hot autumn handicap at Newmarket, when trained by Ralph Beckett (trainer of the Arc heroine BLUESTOCKING among others). Previously, he had finished down the field in the King George V Handicap over 2400m at the Royal meeting but on that occasion he was five and a half lengths in front of a certain EAST INDIA DOCK. PONIROS is also a son of Golden Horn, the 2015 Derby and Arc winner. The plan is for PONIROS to be a dual purpose horse with runs in the Ascot Stakes over 4000m at the Royal Meeting and then a possible trip to Flemington for the Melbourne Cup (another looking to be on the plane to Weribee is Champion Hurdle runner up BURDETT ROAD in the same colours as EAST INDIA DOCK). This is Mullins re-defining what you do with horses and how you run them and it's staggering to think you can take an admiittedly decent Flat horse and bring them to the top juvenile hurdle race without having jumped one in public, win the race and start talking about a 3200m handicap on the other side of the world. LULAMBA and EAST INDIA DOCK both ran well in defeat and I suspect they will rematch at Aintree while the fillies LADY VEGA ALLEN and PLACE DE LA NATION both ran very well for Mullins and you could see one or both of them in the Mares division next season. The staying novice hurdle championship race is the Albert Bartlett over 4800m and this is a race which often throws up future champions - two Gold Cup winners have come from it - and it's one to review if you're looking at the future stars of the novice staying chase division next season. A big field and a wide open betting heat saw the sole mare THE BIG WESTERNER with the French raider JET BLUE and the Gordon Elliott trained WINGMEN also supported. The Mullins juggernaut rolled on with yet another Grade 1 winner as JASMIN DE VAUX put up what I thought was an impressive performance to hold off THE BIG WESTERNER with the front two nicely clear of three other very promising types. JASMIN DE VAUX is clearly a 4800m type - he was well held by THE YELLOW CLAY and FINAL DEMAND who both ran in the Turners over the shorter 4200m trip - and the extra yardage certainly brought about some improvement. He could be anything over fences of course. THE BIG WESTERNER did very little wrong in defeat - possibly the ground was quick enough for her - and I look forward to seeing her over fences as well. DERRYHASSEN PADDY lost his unbeaten record in third but he's an old fashioned stamp of a chaser and I could see him in a Grand National in 2027 if he's not up to Gold Cup class. He's trained by Lucinda Russell who of course had CORACH RAMBLER. In fourth was YELLOW CAR at 33/1 from the David Killahena stable, one of the smaller yards, and this will be his standard bearer for the next couple of years. The unlucky horse was WENDIGO and this is why I bet with a bookies who pays five places in big fields - he was travelling well until getting chopped for room and stumbling badly at the top of the hill. He ran on bravely to be a close fifth and while I'm not saying he would have won with a clear run, I am saying he would have been a lot closer and he's another I will be following closely if and when he jumps a fence. On then to the race to which many of the connections of those who ran well in the Albert Bartlett might aspire, the Gold Cup, over the full 5200m of the New Course. Winner in 2023 and 2024, GALOPIN DES CHAMPS, was 4/7 to join an elite club consisting of Golden Miller, Cottage Rake, Arkle and Best Mate, horses who have won three Gold Cups. There was support for INOTHEWAYURTHINKIN, who had been supplemented for the race at a cost of £25,000 while King George winner, BANBRIDGE, was also fancied despite stamina concerns. It wasn't to be as GALOPIN DES CHAMPS was decisively outpointed by INOTHEWAYURTHINKIN who propelled himself to the top of the tree with a magnificant display of fencing. This was a brutal race run at an end to end gallop - they ran 6 minutes 40 seconds for the 5200m - a full 11 seconds below Standard.  The winner was always travelling while in truth GALOPIN DES CHAMPS wasn't - post race jockey Paul Townend admitted what many of us could see, the horse wasn't travelling comfortbaly or within his rhythm. Courage and class kept him in the race but Townend thought the ground was perhaps quick enough for the dual winner. Maybe, but it might just be there's a new young star on the block and GALOPIN DES CHAMPS isn't quite the champion he was. Either way, I imagine FACT OR FILE (in the same ownership as INOTHEWAYURTHINKIN) will be the next one waiting in the wings for the Gold Cup winner back over the 4800m trip. The front two were well clear of GENTLEMANSGAME and MONTY'S STAR who both ran with credit in third and fourth. BANBRIDGE didn't stay though I doubt he'd have beaten the winner at 4200m let alone 5200m and this was a disappointing effort while unfortuntely CORBETTS CROSS, who might well have been placed, took a fatal fall at the second last. INOTHEWAYURTHINKIN is in the Grand National with just 11 stone 5 lbs so gets 7 lbs from last year's winner I AM MAXIMUS. The immediate bookie response was to slash INOTHEWAYURTHINKIN's price to 5/2 but with no decision on the horse's participation at Aintree made as yet and with owner J P McManus having other cards to play, the price has eased to 4s. I don't think the Gold Cup/Grand National in the same season double has been achieved since Golden Miller in the 1930s not that many have tried. L'Escargot won the National (beating Red Rum) but a couple of years after he'd won the Gold Cup. A few postscripts to the meeting - the overall attendance was about 212,000 over the four days - Wednesday was very quiet at just over 40,000 but there were nearly 70,000 on Gold Cup day so the numbers weren't quite as bad as the course CEO had feared but still well down on the 280,000 in 2022 (though that was post Covid). Some concern over the number of false starts - the rules are slightly different in Britiain and Ireland and in the excitement and anticipation of the big races there were some problems. The Irish won all the races on the final day as they had last year so the final score in the Prestbury Cup was Ireland 20 (Willie Mullins 10 of those), Britain 8. Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the British racing press and the paucity of British runners in the Supreme and the Brown Advisory spoke volumes but the stronger UK contingent in the Triumph suggested perhaps the tide was starting to turn. Fot the bookies, an unbelievably good week - LOSSIEMOUTH, KOPEK DES BORDES and FACT OR FILE went in but with the favourites in all four championship races, CONSTITUTION HILL, JONBON, TEAHUPOO and GALOPIN DES CHAMPS all losing and outsiders coming in the books clearly had the best of the week. J P McManus re-established himself as the leading owner, Willie Mullins was the leading trainer by a mile and Paul Townend won the jockeys' title comfortably. On then to Aintree where I suspect the British will be a lot stronger and eventually Punchestown with any number of Cheltenham rematches.