'providing'

no but weve stopped punting

Well Doubled, not only that but it has been made clear that Coronovirus kills more smokers/obese/ and diabetics than any other cohort of people. Are they going to change their lifestyles going forward? I doubt it.

They could taser your arse!!

with or without opening betting shops,if its without you want government to restart racing for punters with accounts

True honcho.. do you remember the trouble they had when trying to control a few doped up teenagers during the 2010 riots? If they try and keep people locked in for much longer.. they will be setting themselves up for civil unrest and disobedience the like of which we have never seen before imo. Everyone from the minute they are born is dying, cancer, heart attacks, strokes, diseases, virus’s etc. They are an unfortunate part of living on a planet with the make up it has. It would be interesting to have a poll on who is for carrying on and taking the best precautions as possible, or staying locked down. I would predict more than 80% would not vote to stay indoors.

now wheres that switch!!! 30 Apr 20 14:46 
I’ve said it before on this thread.. and will say it again. The people elect the government... if the people decide they have had enough of lockdown, then irrelevant what they speak about at the daily briefings. If the public decide lockdown is not for them, then not a lot that anyone can do about it.


Good luck rallying the revolution, for the past 18 years on here every time the site crashes I've heard talk of the revolution and how we'll show Betfair who's boss as we're all moving to Purple site comes back and we're all back.

Or perhaps realise that the masses will always outnumber the few. And although it is obviously tragic for any life to be lost to this horrible virus, at what point do the lives of those who are dying through not having their cancer treatment, operations, life saving transplants etc start to matter. The loss of life through deprivation, starvation and mental health issues. As these will without question kill far more than CoVid19 ever does. If they have not already surpassed it....

I do remember switch and you may be right. What about the ones in 1991!!

TT any story that can be sensationalised they will do it. The public has a short memory. It will just take in the story of the day and forget all about it the next day let alone scrutinise it for facts. Germany are up and running.

Frightening thing is to allow Germany, US, China a 6 week+ start on our economy

You have to laugh at the way we are dealing with things
Today they’ve reported that the biggest killer linked to Covid-19 is Heart disease very closely followed by Obesity. Between 30-40% of cases in each category.
Instead of a major clampdown on obesity which obviously will be linked to heart disease cases I would imagine as well
We have tv reporting on fast food outlets like KFC and McDonalds reopening and pictures of massive queues blocking street junctions.
Even got so called reporters saying how good it was to give people fast food outlets to look forward to ? Nearly choked on my breakfast
Just what we need let alone more traffic on the road taking kids out for a trip to the drive through for a happy meal

You can’t make it up half the time

With recessions Blighty has a history of being *First In, Last Out* its frightening what is in store for this country.

Lol Double breakfast McMuffin

Here’s hoping they can a grip on things.. that this virus can be contained until a successful vaccine is found and life with some form of normality can be seen again soon.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-a-third-of-all-covid-19-hospital-patients-die-with-dementia-and-obesity-carrying-the-highest-risk-11980894

No prob, got a bit of heart disease in the family so always interested to read anything related.

Owners and trainers should find out in the next week what races will be staged when the sport resumes following shutdown.

Karl Burke and others have claimed that not knowing the likely programme was hindering their preparation for a resumption.

But he and fellow licence-holders were sent an update from the Resumption of Racing group on Thursday night, revealing that courses have this week been invited to submit expressions of interest to stage fixtures.

The update stated: "To help trainers plan, during the next week we will be developing a provisional programme for the first seven days of racing following resumption – whatever the resumption date.

"We will then subsequently publish the rest of the provisional programme up until the end of June. This will be as close as possible to the original programme for the period, which means we will be looking to stage roughly the same number of races by type, class and distance.

"Ahead of this, we will issue a fixture cancellation notice for all fixtures that were originally scheduled to take place during May and June. This simply reflects the fact that we will be publishing a new provisional programme and does not seek to pre-empt or pre-judge any government decisions around lockdown or resumption."

No racing has been staged in Britain since March 17 and a return is dependent on getting approval from the government and meeting public health guidelines.

The resumption group, made up of representatives from the BHA, the Horsemen’s Group, the Racecourse Association and the Levy Board (HBLB), warned the new programme will offer lower
prize-money.

"In normal circumstances, racecourses provide approximately half of prize money, but with betting shops, which drive media rights income, closed and no crowds, their contributions will be significantly impacted," it said.

"Every effort will be made to keep prize money as high as possible, but reductions below recent levels are inevitable."

Details of lost Pattern and Listed events that will be rescheduled, in the second half of May in a best-case scenario, will be shared "at the earliest possible opportunity".

To help provide opportunities when jump racing resumes at the beginning of July, winners since the beginning of February will retain their novice status until November 30.

Nick Rust: met the sports minister this week
Nick Rust: met the sports minister this week
Edward Whitaker
The update also revealed that BHA’s chair Annamarie Phelps and chief executive Nick Rust met Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston earlier this week to discuss plans for resumption and the wider economic impact of Covid-19 on racing.

"The Minister is aware of and supports the work being undertaken for resumption at the earliest safe opportunity," the resumption group said.

"The discussion outlined that any restart would be subject to advice of public health authorities and could not apply undue pressure on medical services and available testing. It also considered how continued exercise of racehorses during the lockdown could reduce the time for competition to resume."

Somebody said it was a volatile market, Yes out to 2.68 yesterday, back into 1.4 now, a traders delight i'd have thought and still a month to go!

Beverley have today announced the cancellation of their two meetings in june

Another sat no racing/rugby/footbal will be v surprised if isnt re-opened before June..........Think Ireland will re-open first and a week later UK.......What amount will be anyones guess i would think while bookies remain closed it will be low but at least something ....

TV rights basically finance racing at the smaller tracks will this be viable w/out tv rights providing significant funds.

Lot of small owners suffering ur paying 3 ton a week for a 60 rated nag and the priority will be to stage the group races which impact the race horse breed.

Also if there is limited races you will get group horses running in handicaps giving small owner little chance reduced prize money on offer but anything will be welcomed......

Which racecourses will host the big races?. I would think Newmarket RM. The course is ideally located away from large populations many trainers on doorstep vast open spaces in and around the action. July could be used for extra stables gallops etc helping with any social distancing issues.