For the Festival they have to straighten the starts so they are not coming in off a bend because the horses on the outside have to come in faster than those on the inside because they are covering more ground (just to stay level) but when they do that those on the inside speed up and then they all coming in too quickly
The jockeys are certainly not helping matters but the proceedure is fundamentally flawed and the fact that the BHA are now set to review their own review from last year’s starting issues sums up British Racing in a nutshell.