Quality over quantity
One trend I’ve noticed so far this year is the increasingly poor racing on offer, I hope it improves during the summer.
Today we are faced with three cards but only five races with 10 or more runners. Tomorrow, at the moment, there are only two races of similar ilk. It’s dreadful, fairly low quality races and very few competitors. 2,3 or 4 runners races are getting quite common at the moment. It seems to signify the underlying problems racing has at the moment. Too much quantity, too little quality. I don’t think that will help racing as a spectacle.
I’d prefer them to miss a few races or even entire days to lift the quality of stuff later in the week. I can’t imagine there is a great deal of punter interest in a poor race mid afternoon on a Monday. Better to invest the money elsewhere in a more exciting spectacle with more purpose. It would probably help the industry by lifting the average prize money on offer as well. These sorts of days can offer economic value to anybody I feel? Anyhow, I doubt it will happen.
Category: Horse Racing
