[Dan191]

Thank you all for some intriguing posts. Drone especially – your argument for a Tote exchange is compelling.

The thing is – and this is why its such a hard question – its hard to predict what anything will be like in ten or twenty years. You’ve made reference to cricket and T20, not many would have predicted that particular revolution ten years ago. Not many would have predicted the Bolshevik revolution ten years before it happened either.

Saying that racing ‘probably won’t change much’ isn’t a great basis upon which to write an essay, although for what its worth I don’t think it will change all that much. So i’m really left to speculate on what will happen as a result of these RFC initiatives, and what will happen if they are ‘successful’.

I don’t think anyone wants to see the midweek festivals shifted, or a Saturday Gold Cup. Even as a relatively novice racing enthusiast, I can still see the problems with that. And I can’t see how decimalising odds is going to get more to the track either. I know its not the Cheltenhams and Aintrees of the calendar that need to be addressed, its the low quality AW garbage. Drone – can you really see the racing calendar being halved? I know Monmouth in the states is trying that – will be interesting to see the results – but surely the bookies would never let that happen?

Thanks again for all contributions to this very helpful thread!

[Dan191]

So what makes you say that? I know alot of what RFC is doing is a load of garbage (media training for jockeys?) but surely the sport will undergo some sort of transition, what with the evolution of exchanges etc?

Thanks for the reply

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