Yorkshire Ebor Festival

[Venture to Cognac]

Completely agree Isinglass, it was completely unnecessary, no idea what they were thinking.

[apracing]

A gloomy update from the ROA arrived in my inbox this morning, which included the following one liner from the BHA Chief Medical Officer:

“Behind closed doors restrictions likely to remain in place for foreseeable future”

A wonderfully vague prediction, included in amongst a lot of waffle that suggests the BHA have swallowed the ‘second wave’ panic wholesale.

Here’s one owner that won’t be going racing while these restrictions are enforced, and if the situation hasn’t changed considerably by the end of the year, my contribution as an owner will also come to an end.

[robnorth]

Presumably because there’s more tax money for the government if people are allowed to go on the p***. But, as Aberdeen and presumably a few places have shown, once you let people off the leash then we end up heading back to square one. I suspect racing authorities might have to continue to do things ‘safely’ and bide their time.

[Gladiateur]

When did this stop being a “meeting” and become a “festival”?

Linguistic inflation strikes again.

[Drone]

When did this stop being a “meeting” and become a “festival”?

When the dubious decisions were made to extend it to four days and move the Ebor itself to a Saturday: dilution of quality and the once-hallowed Ebor Wednesday just another weekend piss-up

Next week will, like earlier ‘festivals’ this Flat season, be a ‘Meeting’ in the original sense of the word: horses and connections only, no hoi polloi

We’ll meet agin, don’t know where, don’t know when

[isinglass]

When the dubious decisions were made to extend it to four days and move the Ebor itself to a Saturday: dilution of quality and the once-hallowed Ebor Wednesday just another weekend piss-up.

Thanks Drone, saved me a lot of typing there.

I.

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