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8 meetings in UK. (None in scotland or wales interestingly)
3 in Ireland.Its too much, impossible too keep up with it all and TV coverage is very hurried and rushed which doesn’t make for enjoyable viewing. No time to preview or review races or get interviews.
And why on earth did Wolverhampton have their meeting during the day. Makes no sense that today wouldn’t have been a floodlit meeting.
In the UK we have
8 today
4 tomorrow
3 on Wednesday
3 on Thursday
3 on FridayAnd no racing in Ireland on the 30th yet too much today.
Surely a couple of today’s meetings could be on Wednesday or Thursday to help spread it out.
Far too much imo but If the courses were full then that’s great and justified
I’d have loved to have been a fly on the wall at the bookies with those that have to have a bet every race, watching them running back and forth.Charles Darwin to conquer the World
Yes, far too much and I only watched RUK (& did have a bet in each!) But you can’t blame the individual courses as they all attract great crowds on Boxing Day.
Not at all. Nobody is forced to watch/bet on anything. There’s easy (and free) access to all replays if you need or want it.
As long as there are the horses and jockeys available to sustain the meetings and the punters come through the gates, why on earth wouldn’t they race on a major bank holiday? We want to grow racing don’t we? This is probably a good day to do it.
I guess Wolvo is there in case of abandonments really but shouldn’t be an evening meeting. The poor sods working in the bookies deserve an early night (I was one till the middle of last year). Assuming they don’t make them open late anyway, we never did Boxing Day but may have changed by now, I don’t know.
Yes, there’s far too much racing on Boxing Day. Why would we want thousands and thousands of people all over the country to enjoy themselves at Christmas-time via a really positive racing experience?
Let’s hope the authorities see sense and limit next year to a single six-race all-weather bumpers card at Southwell.
Mike
Seems a bit of a non question to me.
I would think that all the courses that are open Boxing day are thankful for the revenue!!
Boxing day is one of my favourite days of the year. A huge variety of racing and very enjoyable it was.
Plenty of runners at all meetings and excellent crowds. What’s not to like?
It’s great that there are so many opportunities for people to go racing on Boxing Day when many are on holiday and can get out.
The racing authorities have often been criticised over the years for staging meetings on days and at times when people aren’t around so if a good number of meetings are scheduled when people are available, so much the better.
It was great when we used to have 16 meetings on Easter Monday, another prime example of staging meetings when racegoers are most likely to be around. Not to mention the many point-to-points.
Yes, as there is most days.
Too many races of most standards of racing.Value Is EverythingBoxing Day is one of the biggest earners for the courses, invariably almost full to capacity.
After being forced to spend a day with the family and the entire country forced to shut down on Christmas Day it’s a great chance to get out and escape for the day.
As for keeping up with it all – why does someone have to keep up with it all – just watch the races you like.
It was brilliant that the weather relented and all went ahead as scheduled, I miss the days of 16 meetings on Easter Monday as racing is a spectator sport that should be run when the vast majority can attend not have 5.30pm meetings from Wolves on a Tuesday in February to suit the bookies
I think it’s one of those times when we need to forget about the tv coverage and consider racecourse revenues, communities etc.
It’s great for racing. I was delighted for Chepstow that, for once, they had decent weather on their biggest day of the racing calendar.
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