lingfield 1st race next saturday 10.10am

Seems somewhat Senseless - especially with Prize-Money - in Race Order ...

!5,000 x 3 > 35,000 (at 11:40) > 12,000 > 50,000 (at 12:50) > 100,000 (at 1:25)

good chance no turf racing next weekend ,how ridiculous would a 10 in the morning start look in those circumstances,  captain tellwright already giving up on haddock,saying frost covers waste of time,with whats forecast

Weird that Taunton is in the premier spot instead. Can't really grumble about Ascot.

Could have started 15 minutes later with a 30 minute gap between later races

Another BHA master stroke!

Punters will watch and play,and punters will get up and go…makes no difference

Nobody being forced to watch and play.

Yep

Wouldn't bet on that sh1te if you paid me.

Is anyone paying then, acey?

But you would lay …

I wont even look at the card ffs.

Life's to short innit.

Think they could have started just before 11 and with 30 mins between races finished before the 2pm cut-off but looks like Lingfield have taken the opportunity (?) to have a live race on the Opening Show.

A race meeting starting at 10.10am is utterly absurd and the person responsible for enforcing this situation needs to be sacked immediately.

people just don't like change.

It's worth a trial

In France they quite often kick off before 10am.

12.15PM start now

is that 10am here or in france

The BHA has today confirmed that the scheduled first race time for Saturday’s All-Weather fixture at Lingfield Park has been changed from 10.10am to 12.15pm (subject to division).

Forecasts surrounding the three GB Jump Fixtures on Saturday afternoon are uncertain and this later start time at Lingfield Park has been agreed with ARC, ITV and stakeholders in order to ensure that racing will take place during Saturday afternoon, as well as being able to be shown live on ITV.

now known as RE premerisation

Jan 17, 2024 -- 4:24PM, mrcombustible wrote:

The BHA has today confirmed that the scheduled first race time for Saturday’s All-Weather fixture at Lingfield Park has been changed from 10.10am to 12.15pm (subject to division).Forecasts surrounding the three GB Jump Fixtures on Saturday afternoon are uncertain and this later start time at Lingfield Park has been agreed with ARC, ITV and stakeholders in order to ensure that racing will take place during Saturday afternoon, as well as being able to be shown live on ITV.

Excellent news. I was going to have to miss a long-planned record fair and bacon sandwich due to the originally planned 10am start.

I thought earlier ...

The BHA and Lingfield are going to look really stupid if, as anticipated, we end up with (little or) NO Afternoon Racing on Saturday .... and they stick with the ridiculously EARLY Race-Times at Lingfield.

what a sensible and early decision. Never thought the BHA would be so flexible. Fair play to them.

not really they like the rest of us no so called premierisation is a joke/gimmick  and if all the so called premierisation meetings survive ,it wont effect any course,owner,punter in the slightest like it hasnt for last 50 yrs

The forum knew.

Surely there ought to be at least one AW meeting scheduled in the afternoon slot every winter Saturday as a contingency, because this weather isn't a one-off.