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What are peoples views on the large increase in Horse Racing Fixtures next season. Are there enough horses in training and is it to benefit the bookmakers now they can open in evenings.
What will happen with these extra evening meetings if Southwell and Great Leighs are further delayed? Perhaps they should postpone the extra evening meetings until all the all weather track issues are sorted.
I`m not happy about a four day Ebor meeting. I fear it may become a festival as patchy as Glorious Goodwood now.
This is total madness.
More than ever before, racing is showing itself to be the bookmakers’ poodle.
The sport should concentrate rather more on quality, and rather less on wall-to-wall 24 hours a day betting shop fodder, if it wishes to enjoy a successful future.
I`m not happy about a four day Ebor meeting. I fear it may become a festival as patchy as Glorious Goodwood now.
Supposedly a one off next year as later meetings will be cancelled to allow for some serious and much needed drainage work to be carried out.
However I’d echo your concern should it become permanent.
I`m not happy about a four day Ebor meeting. I fear it may become a festival as patchy as Glorious Goodwood now.
Isn’t every meeting a ‘festival’ nowadays?
Mike
In the words of Tommo every Saturday no matter where they are Its one of the best racing days of the year whether it be Hexham or Ascot Southwell or Cheltenham its always a classic days racing for Tommo
Given that the levy yield from bookmakers has declined over the last couple of years despite the increase in fixtures it seems very strange that their increasing the fixture list further. With the racehorse population levelling off during 2006 and the 48 hour dec non runner scenario it can only mean more racing with smaller fields and a subsequent decrease in betting turnover.
Have the big firms accepted that racing profits have peaked and their now using racing to lure punters into FOBT laden betting shops instead?
Whatever the case its a shame the BHA are selling racing very cheaply to bookmakers who have no interest in improving the quality of the sport.
‘pile it high, sell it cheap’
As an owner this is step to far for me. Prize money came down 15% this year and is now going down 10% next year.
They are now going to spread this prize money even more thinly with more races. It is getting to the stage where if you have a horse running in average grade races that you have to win a race a month to break even.
Although I obviously don’t own a horse to make a profit, I’m beginning to feel that I am being seriously taken advantage of by the people making the real money out of the sport. Without the horses they wouldn’t have a product.
It is getting to the stage where my beloved horse may be going to the Tatts sales in October.
Paul Haigh summed up the situation correctly in the RP today when he stated that after a certain time, more means less in racing. How more fixtures and less prize money can be good for racing in the long term is beyond me.
I am bored with horse racing at the moment due to there being so much of it. It’s so bad that I am actually looking forward to the start of the soccer season and I don’t do that very often. I read recently that the number of race meetings per annum has increased by about 40% in the last 20 years……… and it shows!!
I can understand the need for racing on a sunday but can’t one day a week be left blank ( preferably monday’s which are usually dismal anyway ).
Paul Haigh also stated that the racing rulers should understand that by generating a tidal wave of ‘betting opportunities’ , they are damaging the sport rather than helping it. I agree totally.
I once wrote a scathing post on here criticising those of you who held the view that too much racing is bad for the sport.
I was wrong. Sorry. It is indeed utterly ridiculous.
I dont underdstand the guys who keep piling on more racing , its obvious to us on here that its strangling the game financially , if we can see it , surely they can ???
racing is reaching melt down really rapidly, I wonder just how long more owners will keep subsiding it
ps I like the new forum , keep it going folks
cheers
Ricky
I wonder just how long more owners will keep subsiding it
I think they are more likely to support racing if their horses can actually get in a race, which is a struggle at the moment.
I dont underdstand the guys who keep piling on more racing , its obvious to us on here that its strangling the game financially , if we can see it , surely they can ???
Either
Portman Square/Shaftesbury Avenue have sick building syndrome whereby anyone that spends any time there develops wrongheadedness of Savill proportions
or
Brown envelopes have changed hands
Well the fixtures are sure to keep increasing as long as we keep building new racecourses you can bet your life Manchester wont want to be classed as a small course they will want big races and as more courses look towards all weather as a way to fill the loss of money when winter racing is abandoned that will mean more floodlit evening cards. The only future I can see is that NH will have to suffer if as Sedgefield plan NH courses decide the money is in all weather tracks.
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