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Reported at Hamilton yesterday that 2024 Fixture List will be issued this coming Friday October 7th.
Yes, sorry, calculating my dates around Scottish meetings and forgetting Kelso are the Sunday this week instead of the Saturday!
“There are two key changes to the fixture list for 2024 at Newmarket. The first will be the Thursday of the Spring fixture moving to the Sunday, to create an exciting new weekend of racing.
Secondly, the final Friday and Saturday in July (this year on the 27th & 28th July) will no longer take place at Newmarket. Working with the BHA and having looked at the spread of fixtures that weekend, it was felt the fixtures would better serve racing elsewhere, and as such they would be transferred to Sandown and Chester, respectively. We are working on arranging reciprocals with these courses and will update once we know if this is possible.”
If I understand this correctly, if I bring this forward over half a year — as I’m excited and can’t wait- today is still Wednesday, but tomorrow is Sunday, right?
What is premierisation? It sounds nasty, is it contagious?
I think most of the racecourses must have had their fixtures allocated by now.
Chester have sent me an e-mail asking me to rebook the same fixture as last year and a list of their fixtures for the year.
Fixtures/ races being transferred to other tracks is something I completely disagree with. Especially historic races moved; how is it allowed.
Another mess that racing can’t fix. Still too many fixtures; in most sports, the governing body, or Promoter decide who gets to host meetings, not the tracks. It’s the equivalent of Silverstone deciding to host two F1 Grand Prix – and Promoter not being able to say ‘you can’t’.
Tampering at the edges & slight of hand does little,besides what changing the start times at meetings does for stables and the staff I can easily see very poorly contested races becoming the order of the day for such meetings.
But for me it just says the people concerned,BHA and all other ‘interested’ parties,refusing to once again bite the bullet and simply admit there’s too many meetings/courses and a reduction is needed.
What the sport needs is a root & branch review followed by determined action to carry things to there ultimate conclusion and maybe just maybe it will come out the other side with a long term future.
good luck to allSo the Newmarket April meeting is still Tues – Thurs.
The Premier Sundays look thin gruel on first glance. Sunday Aug 4th, two meetings, Chester and Haydock!!
The Racing League fixtures that attracted such huge crowds this year, are now all designated as Premier meetings.
In the middle of the summer, the Sunday Premier meeting on Jun 30th is Uttoxeter. The following Sunday, it’s Chelmsford.
My ghast is barely flabbered!
Racing League premier that is hilarious. The only thing really attracting connections to those races is the prize money.
The more I know the less I understand.
Still the same mad double header winter saturdays when 2 meetings go up against each other with nothing decent staged the next day.
Morning jumps meetings in the winter must surely be vulnerable to frost. A track may not be raceable at 10am but OK by midday.
Good point CAS and they won’t have the opportunity to reinspect as afternoon meetings can. It will have to be a quick decision which will lead to more abandonments unless they are AW meetings.
The more I know the less I understand.
Yes, I don’t fancy the chances of Kelso or Wetherby’s fixtures in November & December respectively. Even if the meetings go ahead, I imagine the idea of travelling in the dark on the off-chance will put a lot off (both trainers and racegoers). Saturday meetings too so I’d imagine they are important fixtures for these courses.
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