Racing needs to wake up
Sunny public holiday, lots of people on extended holidays, spirits are high. But racing is struggling to muster up decent fare again.
Today we have a bumper bank holiday card with 8 meetings and 55 races on hand, excluding the Irish racing. But a casual glance down the UK card shows only Warwick with decent fields and out of the remaining 7 UK meetings only 4 races have ten runners or more. Hmmm….
No racing on Good Friday and only one evening meeting on last Monday. Any guesses why racing is losing out to other sports? Racing has never been amazing on a bank holiday but last year we averaged over 9 runners per race. This year we scrape just over 7 and if you remove Warwick this falls to just over 6, that’s quite a decline. Horses will get prize money today just for turning up, that can’t be any good. Surely it would make sense to do less quantity and more quality?
Category: Horse Racing
