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how it should be across the board with fixtures thinned down
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Fair play to them. If they can attract 406 entries for that firm ground dump, imagine what decent racecourses ought to be able to do.
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Ant no more than 57 wish to win a million pounds in the watered down 21st century Grand National..................
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Could be a fair bit fewer than that - a lot are double entered in the Irish Grand National.
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Its great prize money. We seem to go from one extreme to the other. £26k for two 0-55s and a 0-52. Those three races would have been the prizemoney for 15 low grade races on the AW.
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Presumably they'll also end up with very compressed handicaps because of the number of entries - so we'll effectively get class 6 conditions races. Is anyone crying out to watch that? Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
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Bookmakers will be delighted with the big fields, but otherwise just a one off gimmick.
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tbf strontium, I think that will appeal to a lot of small punters.
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Arena Racing Company (Arc) hopes the decision to invest £1.6 million in prize-money on Good Friday will help its three meetings to buck the trends of falling attendances and field sizes.
The racecourse group stages the All-Weather Championships finals day at Newcastle, the All-Weather Vase meeting at Lingfield, as well as a meeting with seven low-grade but valuable handicaps at Bath. |
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Two of those Bath races would pay for the whole day and more at Thirsk today. Who says those running the sport don't have a clue?
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