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Elsewhere (the Sir Percy thread to be exact) the idea of a five furlong hurdle race has been proposed, albeit tongue in cheek.
I wonder if there are any other crazy ideas which would make for more entertaining racing.
To start things off, how about placing a winning post ten yards after the final fence (an open ditch?) at a jumps track! It’d give the run to the last an extra edge one suspects.
Move the Grand National and its fences to Chester. The public could then bet on how many runners get lapped.
Take hurdles and fences away from national hunt racing and let horses enjoy themselves ;)
Corm, horses were born to run free IMO, man made them jump… :biggrin:
surely it’s easier for a horse to run than it is to jump?
Quote: from Jim JTS on 1:08 am on Feb. 24, 2007[br]Take hurdles and fences away from national hunt racing and let horses enjoy themselves ;) <br>
That is a fantastic idea.
Series of races using the same set of older exposed horses (all of whom must have won on the flat and over jumps) to try and identify the most adaptable horse ever…
6f <br>1m <br>1m4f <br>2m hurdle<br>2m4f chase
With an overall prize to the winner and a mega bonus for four or five wins…
Taking a different angle, some high profile, high prize money challenge races between top sprinters and top middle distance horses over an intermediate trip…
For example, a match race between the Arc winner and the Abbaye winner over a mile (this year Desert Lord -v-Rail Link) and/or a similar match between the Golden Jubilee winner and the Ascot Gold Cup winner over nine furlongs (this year Yeats -v- Les Arcs).
The prize money and timing would have to be reasonable, but would make a great spectacle whilst at the same time providing a decent work-out for the horses….
Also also (on a roll now)…
With the abandonment of Banded racing, flat racing for the same lowly-rated animals during the summer months at Point-to-Point style regional meetings (probably at suitable P-t-P courses) with races over 8f, 12f and 16f and 1-2-3 prize money of £400, £200, £100…
(Edited by non vintage at 6:50 am on Feb. 24, 2007)
NV, you’re not entering into the spirit of the thing, that’s actually a good idea!
Look, here’s a genuinely madcap idea: get a course near London to tear up its fair and well-drained flat track, and put in an AW surface in its place. Whacky or what?!
Anyone watch the athletics last weekend and see that "devil take the hindmost" race?
It’s a long distance race where, at the end of each lap, the athlete in last place is taken out of the race.
(so the field gets smaller each lap)
This meant that every lap there was a tactical sprint towards the line.
Maybe something similar in horseracing?
(either at an obstacle or at a furlong marker)
Steve
Quote: from FlatSeasonLover on 2:32 am on Feb. 24, 2007[br]
Quote: from Jim JTS on 1:08 am on Feb. 24, 2007[br]Take hurdles and fences away from national hunt racing and let horses enjoy themselves ;) <br>
That is a fantastic idea.<br>
Hey, why ask them to race at all. Surely we could just hype them up from there stable…..its all about anticipation anyway.
SHL
<br>Best of all Steve, that would give full rein to Thommo to shout ‘Whose going to get there, that’s a close one, we’ll leave it to the judge’, ten or twelve times in a single race.
How about some flat races run the wrong way round at places like Chester and Catterick, or taking the opposite route round the loop at Hamilton, Salisbury and Windsor. Of course it wouldn’t be much of a spectacle at Newmarket ………
AP
Best of all Steve, that would give full rein to Thommo to shout ‘Whose going to get there, that’s a close one, we’ll leave it to the judge’, ten or twelve times in a single race.
And, of course, multiple photo finishes might slow things down. :biggrin:
Steve
what if all the races at one day,s meeting were the same distance all six furlongs at ayr on gold cup day for a sprint festival
What about a knockout competition run on one day. 4 quarterfinals and then 2 semis and then a final.
AP – that’s a great ide about running the wrong way. We could have a 5 furlong sprint down the Cheltenham hill!
<br>Or we could get really silly, take a great race like the Derby and run it on a new track that goes up hill for half a mile (with a kink so that horses on the inside rail get hampered), then round a big turn, down a precipitous slope and finish up running across the side of a hill so that all the horses fall down to the far rail.
Bit nobody would ever a top class horse on a track like that, would they ?
AP
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