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Next to Association Football, the chief spectator sport, in English life is horse racing. Partly because of the laws which forbid such activities on Sundays, horse racing is:: organized rather differently in England from other countries. There are many race tracks all over the country, and each of these has from two to about six “meetings” every year, with each meeting consisting of two, three or four consecutive days of racing; most horse racing take place on working days and during working hours. There are totalisators at ? the race courses, but bookmakers are also allowed, and in each spectators’ enclosure there is a long line of bookmakers ft offering their odds against the horses. Associated bookmakers in different enclosures employ “tic-tac men” who communicate - miraculously over the heads of the crowds by making sig­nals according to mysterious private semaphore-type signal­ling systems.

Horse Racing Results Today England And Ireland

When, on a particular day, there are races at, for example, Epsom, people all over the country bet on the results with bookmakers off the course. Until 1961 it was illegal to bet by cash off the course, though betting on account was al­lowed. But most working men like to make their transactions by cash payments, and there was a vast number of illegal bookmakers operating in back streets, and employing agents :- in nearby factories, workshops and offices to collect bets from : the employees and bring them in to the bookmakers’ hideouts before the races began in the afternoon. The illegal book­makers were usually known by the police and fined from time to time, but the total fines charged were in many cases much less than the expenses of maintaining a proper office would have been if their activities had been allowed by law, and had been conducted openly. In 1961, after many years of argument, Parliament changed the law so as to allow “bet­ting shops”, and to escape from the absurd scandal of the old system, which created opportunities for many abuses.

The whole atmosphere of a race meeting still belongs in some ways to the eighteenth century, and in particular it is pervaded by old divisions between upper and lower people. The difference between the most expensive parts of the course, where people pay as much as to go in, and the cheap or free sections, is very plain to see. Apart from the bookmakers, there are many tipsters and others who hope to make money out of the gullible public. There are also pick-pockets, men who steal field-glasses and men who expect to make their profits by playing cards in the train. Most of the racegoers are just having a day out, and many are missing their normal work in order to do so; but one result of having the races during working hours is that there is quite a large professional element connected with racing.

(Life in Modern Britain by P. Bromhead)

Daytona Stakes (Race 5 Santa Anita) – Saturday 22:39

A 5f group 3 on the Santa Anita round turf track should really see Cistron and Victor Espinoza relaunch their 2020. Having won a similar race in March over course and distance, beating the well regarded Wes Ward horse Bound for Nowhere, Cistron ran a triple figure Beyer speed figure that day, equalling the same figure he got for his dirt grade 1 win in the Bing Crosby at Del Mar last July.

His last four pieces of work have been 12-second furlongs or quicker and trainer John Saddler has shown no signs of rust since the enforced break. Wildman Jack and Texas Wedge look his main opponents but I’m happy to take on Wildman Jack after his Dubai exploits for Doug O’Neil, while Texas Wedge will have to run a lifetime best for the widest draw to win.

Charles Whittingham Stakes (Race 8 Santa Anita) – Sunday 00:18

This group 2 over 10f on the turf features the Breeders Cup Turf runner up United, who will take a lot of beating here. Jockey Flavian Prat has managed to get him beat with a waiting run but I think the whole team has learned for that. His February romp showed that this son of Giants Causeway is going to be a force in all the older horse turf group 1s in 2020.

His man rival is the Chad Brown shipper Rockemperor, who is yet to win stateside for Brown, but has been running well in hot races – but I think he will just be filling the places here.

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Prix Barbeville (Deauville) – Sunday 15:25

What the race lacks in numbers it makes up for in class.

Horse Racing Results Today England

Call the Wind won in Saudi Arabia in February, beating a star-studded field, and here he needs to put away old foe Holdthasigreen. The worry for Holdthasigreen is that he gives weight to Call The Wind and despite the fact he won this race 12 months ago he is better over further – one year on, he may find the near 1mile 5f too sharp.

While I have a worry over how slow the Freddy Head stable has kicked off the racing restart, Call the Wind can throw down his Royal Ascot marker to Stradivarius.

Monday is memorial day in the United States and so we have some group 1 action at Santa Anita.

The ex-John Gosden (now Chad Brown) Without Parole has a great chance of opening his US account against the 2019 Preakness winner War of Will in the Shoemaker Mile.

In the Gamely stakes, ex Charlie Hill (now Brad Cox) Juliet Foxtrot is hoping to finally get the W after finishing 2nd and 3rd in Group 1 contests on her most recent starts.