“Cook’s fundamental point is right. Last Saturday’s racing was poor fare and I wasn’t sorry to miss it.”
I disagree CAS, there is far too much emphasis on Saturdays. How many races have been shunted onto a Saturday at the expense of midweek? You correctly point out last Saturdays racing wasn’t the best but how many Sundays throughout the year have worse? There was already sufficient big races on a Saturday without moving a lot more.
How exactly did The Ebor benefit from moving to a Saturday?
It’s just another race on the conveyor belt of big races every 5 minutes, with little build up or analysis after it, that it used to get. And that’s not mentioning any other sporting events it might have to compete with on a Saturday. As said previously it’s even had to go split screen with micky mouse selling hurdles on Racing Tv more than once.
Obviously Chris Cook is positively drooling on Super Saturday (July Cup & Magnet Cup Day) I’m afraid it doesn’t do it for me.