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I think it’s the fact that we know the BHA no longer have sole responsibility that is the issue.
A thread that resembles passengers on the Titanic debating which tune the band should play as the ship goes down ….
AP
What about the stupidity of having two Yorkshire racecourse, Beverley and Catterick both racing on Saturday afternoon? Total stupidity and proves that no-one with any brains works at race planning at the BHA.
Other than the likelihood that both courses would have bid for the date (and not had them foisted upon them by the BHA, as often seems to be assumed), let’s consider that both courses’ executives will have done their sums re: the demographic and geographic areas they cover and come to the conclusion that they could each hold a meeting without so doing being to the detriment of the other.
There’s a very simple way to see whether their optimism has been well-founded or not – check whether the same two meetings are still programmed on the same raceday 12 months hence!
Note that the first Saturday evening turf Flat fixtures of 2010 took place at Doncaster at Nottingham – separated by just 48 miles of M1 and M18. Presumably both courses will have taken the view that the local conurbation in each case would contain enough racegoers to make their meetings viable concerns, despite the promise of competing action less than an hour’s drive away.
In fact, looking through back runs of the racing calendar, it appears that after 2008 Arena Leisure moved an existing meeting to Doncaster from Wolverhampton on that race date, knowing full well that the longer established Nottingham feature would compete.
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Folks its about the levy , RFC has collaborated with the bookies , the plan is to bombard punters on the 2 busiest racing days friday and saturday , loads of fixtures, and loads of impossible races
Just wait and see what 2011 is like
Joe and Josephine Punter are just levy fodder , so hurry up and lose plenty , its all for the good of racing !!!
Right !!!
Ricky
For goodness sake. Are you going to tell us who shot JFK next? Or that the moon landings were faked?
Saturday is the day of the week most people have off & Friday is the biggest night of the week for boozing.
Hence there are going to be lots of meetings on Fridays & Saturdays. Not a bookie/RFC/BHA/FBI/KGB stitch up job, it’s just a simple case of supply & demand.
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