This Saturday

[runandskip]

so whos the joker who planned this saturdays racing then?
can anyone give be a good reason why next weeks craven and cheltenham april meetings could not have been on this sat/sun?

[Purwell]

Because they don’t want stag parties at those meetings?

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways

[CarryOnKatie]

Is this an extra Saturday that is not normally in the calender? If so I question the wisdom of having two relatively low key meetings this Saturday (albeit a week after the National) and next week we have the Ayr (Scottish National) / Newbury (Greenham) double header.

Would it have made more sense to have Ayr / Kempton one weekend and Newbury / Doncaster the other?

Just a thought.

[Drone]

I think it’s Easter playing its usual games with the racing programme. This forthcoming Saturday last year was National Day and the Kempton meeting was run the previous Saturday (National day this year)

The Doncaster meeting appears to be part two of the Lincoln meeting as it features the Doncaster Mile. Last year this was run on Sunday April 1st as the second day of a more traditional two day Lincoln meeting, which this year was reduced to the single Saturday presumably because the following Sunday (March 31st) was Easter Day

Clear as mud?

[phil walker]

Surely someone with an ounce of intelligence could have brought forward one of the meetings from Cheltenham or Newmarket next week to fill the gap on a desperate day’s fare.

[yeats]

The more good racing they have midweek the better, I’m fed up with all the best races being moved to a Saturday.
Races like The Ebor have lost quite a bit for me since being moved from the Wednesday.

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