I was unimpressed to see that jackass Rod Street pop up in the Times yesterday wittering on about the possibility of a five day Festival and how it should end on a Saturday .
No to both thanks ! We do not need a fifth day with more handicap hurdles , a veterans race or a mares bumper ! Also ending on a Saturday would somehow just be wrong .
Surely, Racing for Change would be better off looking at the things that are really weak about the racing programme - the embarrassment that is the start to the Flat Season , too many fixtures etc .
I should like to see the races over the four days moved about a bit - the Friday is much too much of a bookies benefit with two handicap hurdles , the Triumph and the Grand Annual and I would move the Martin Pipe to the Tuesday, the mares hurdle to the Friday and swop the Pertemps and the Fred Winter as there are no 2m races on the Thursday .
Also can we not just have the Gold Cup back as race 3 and move the County Hurdle to the end of the day where it should be !
And if they cannot ensure good ground all over the x country course scrap the race -all the deaths but particularly the deaths of Garde Champetre and Scotsirish on the flat marred the meeting .
No to both thanks ! We do not need a fifth day with more handicap hurdles , a veterans race or a mares bumper ! Also ending on a Saturday would somehow just be wrong .
Surely, Racing for Change would be better off looking at the things that are really weak about the racing programme - the embarrassment that is the start to the Flat Season , too many fixtures etc .
I should like to see the races over the four days moved about a bit - the Friday is much too much of a bookies benefit with two handicap hurdles , the Triumph and the Grand Annual and I would move the Martin Pipe to the Tuesday, the mares hurdle to the Friday and swop the Pertemps and the Fred Winter as there are no 2m races on the Thursday .
Also can we not just have the Gold Cup back as race 3 and move the County Hurdle to the end of the day where it should be !
And if they cannot ensure good ground all over the x country course scrap the race -all the deaths but particularly the deaths of Garde Champetre and Scotsirish on the flat marred the meeting .
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