My morning routine usually consists of a quick check through my bank account and then a trip over to the Racing Post website to see if there are any selections for the day.
Now until today this was an easy task – I would simply log onto the site, choose the course and then click “view all races on one page”.
The site would then give me all the runners for the day and the betting forecast for each race so I could scan through them all and quickly pick out any races that matched the criteria I am looking for.
Unfortunately they’ve thrown away that useful site and sometime over the last 24 hours have published a new “good looking” site which isn’t easy to navigate.
First of all, during the day I use my work’s proxy for connection to the internet. And I also use the Opera web browser. Together, these made navigating the RP website pretty much impossible.
The new site is much more resource intensive it seems – and my poor net connection and incompatible browser were causing timeouts.
No problems, I thought, I’ll switch to Internet Explorer and see if that helps.
No luck – the RP website informs me that I need to use IE7 to access their site. I guess they are happy to block a huge proportion of internet users who are still using IE6 and below.
So, I can’t get the site to work all morning and miss three races.
Disappointing.
Now you may be saying – “quit complaining Ben, the site’s free to use”
Fair enough, I shouldn’t expect bells and whistles for nothing but I do contribute in my own way.
For example, if I am signing up for a new bookmaker, I will try and go through the Racing Post’s links so they get some commission. It’s the least I can do to say thanks for such a great source of racing info.
However, I feel I’m going to get tire very quickly of seeing the following ‘loading’ image each day:
Edit: Perhaps I was a little premature with my criticism. I’ve just logged on and I see that my “view all races on one page” selection is available again:
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