“How concerned are you about the financial plight of British racing?” 🐴 “Even if a small owner wins three or four races, that doesn’t cover the training fees.”🐴 Hamdan Al Maktoum, 1991🐴 What would the owner of Nashwan & Dayjur make of @arenaracingco prize money in 2026😱

One bookmaker running 6 pitches. Part of the reason I seldom go racing in SW. it’s better up north!

Paul Weller and his father paid The Jam's drummer and bassist more than £100,000 partway through a High Court hearing in 1996. The drummer, Rick Buckler, had sold his gold discs to pay the lawyers. The manager holding the band's money was Paul's dad. In the video below, Buckler, who died in 2025, tells BBC Breakfast he barely saw any money while The Jam were famous: "It wasn't really until the band finished that you start seeing some of the profits." Those profits ran through John Weller, a bricklayer in summer and a taxi driver in winter. Polydor wanted a professional manager in 1977, and the band refused to sign without him. Each of the 3 got 25% of records and gigs, and songwriting money went to whoever wrote the song, almost always Paul. A couple of years after the split, Buckler says, "we basically caught John with his hand in the till." The settlement sent the royalties straight to him and Bruce Foxton, not through the management company. The case for Paul Weller: he wrote all 4 No.1 singles, he ended the band at its peak, and even Buckler gives him "the benefit of the doubt" that he didn't know what his dad was doing. If one partner's family counts the money, get your share paid to you directly from the first record. So did Paul Weller just write the songs and leave, or did his family keep money that belonged to all 3 of them? I post one famous deal like this every day, with who got paid, who got played, and the numbers that never made the poster.

Poor Blogger in a way he inspired so many to get into the 21st century with racing content even Raceday Tv. Now they have taken his gig he did so well at. Life can be unfair I think at times.

Worth a read folks, to get a better understanding of the situation we find ourselves in at the moment.

The lad on the right is like Harry Redknapp with a stutter. It's the Budget tomorrow, send more money now. In fact, send it anytime you can. It's comical stuff on the🚂

Well done Simon. This probably has been one of the greatest useful pieces of racing investigative journalism that the industry has produced in the last 25 years of the sport.

Die illegale Glücksspielindustrie ist lustig. Vor Veröffentlichung der #casinosecrets wurden wir mit Schriftsätzen unseriöser Medienrechtsanwälte geradezu geflutet. Berichterstattung ist 5 Wochen her. Bisher hat, soweit mir bekannt, niemand die Recherchen juristisch angegriffen.

I know I’ve moaned about their terrible website but I’m loving the trade paper’s new picture bylines. Never mind writing a column for the Post, Julian Muscat should be auditioning to be the next James Bond.

Last yr he tipped that many horses in melbourne cup they were putting problem gambling messages up after every time he spoke. He was tipping Sir Delius to everyone citing it was formerly trained in france by the master trainer Andre Fabre when it was trained in france by J C Rouget then luckily for the horse and its owners the RV stewards deemed its scan not fit to race so it has been saved from his death now were stuck with him deathing the breeders cup😤 x.com/Punters/status/1985229…

One jockey, 3 different angles from 3 different photographers Jump racing isn’t for the weak hearted 😅 📸 Todd marks, Tammie J Monaco, middleburg photo

The movement of the West Country November meeting from Wincanton to Aintree is just another step in the Jockey Club's plan to close Wincanton. Watch out for the low sun at Aintree, turning the Badger Beer into a flat race.

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Last wknd, a Weatherspoons caused a stir when a member of their staff decided that wearing a poppy is a political symbol & banned people wearing them in the pub. His supporter 'steve' totally feels his bravery, despite his alarm & distress #parody #poppyBan

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Just leave Spurs

🇦🇺Strewth, Bruce. Even the Vegemite train is hitting the buffers.🚂

A great moment, not just for Harry Kane and English football but for any other kid who's an Arsenal fan - it shows what's possible.

2⃣4⃣race card😂😂😂

La mejor que ví hecho con IA hasta ahora. 10/10