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I love Flat racing and have for many years but to be honest, despite Racing For (meaningless) Change, I am more confused than ever as to when the the flat season this year begins.
The all-weather season ends? I thought it was this weekend but there is all-weather fixtures on Wednesday along with turf action from Catterick. And yet I thought the flat turf began this Saturday.
Bloody bewildering.
Flat Turf season officially begins on Wednesday with winners counting for jockeys’ title. Any winners ridden on Mon/Tue seem to disappear into thin air.
Thanks David.
So, I suppose all-weather results on Wednesday and onwards count towards 2011 season stats?
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Three simple steps to remedy the confusion:
1. Start the Flat season at Doncaster, on a Thursday, with the Brocklesby Stakes;
2. Finish it at Doncaster on the first Saturday in November, with the November Handicap;
3. Abolish all-weather racing.Problem solved.
What an indictment of Racing For Change that people interested in flat racing have to write in to a forum to find out when the season actually starts. Where are the media hordes swarming around Catterick for "wall to wall" national and overseas coverage of the "narrative"?
Perhaps they are waiting for the huge crowd attraction of those desperately anticipating the eventual change to stalls numbering before they announce – yes – the season has actually started.
Why don’t they run the Grand National on say the first Saturday in April then run the Lincoln on the Sunday – make it a true spring double?? Great publicity for racing and possible repeat business, especially if 2 fancied runners were to win. And surely wouldn’t be that difficult to market. Or am I missing something?
One issue is maybe turnover on the GN would be diluted as once a year punters split their stakes on both races, or focus on the GN and the Lincoln gets forgotten about and suffers.
A scoop 6 type bet split across the 2 days would get good publicity and pull some once a year punters from the GN across to the flat.I think whenever Easter falls each year might be an issue – not sure why though.
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