Derby Day Tomorrow

Give it back to the nation [if not too late] by putting back to a Wednesday?

All the chat tomorrow will be around the Champions league final at wembley the morra.

Jude Bellingham will attract more attention than the Derby's winning jockey.

Every racing follower and enthusiast says exactly the same: "Put it back to a Wednesday"!

And still the authorities don`t listen.

Wednesday my ar£e

no longer has the significance with the british public, many of whom arrived in small boats having grown up in the back streets of tirana.

As far as the British public are concerned it matters not a jot when you run it , it's the 4.30 at Epsom not the Grand National.

So it's a Thursday then

As good as any other day leif   

The race that stopped a nation

When I grew up London closed for the Wednesday afternoon...
And we watched the race on tele at school

That's the Melbourne Cup Reg , certainly not this one   

I know Hayden.... Poetic licence

Every racing follower and enthusiast says exactly the same: "Put it back to a Wednesday"!

And still the authorities don`t listen. - No they don't. I'd hate it and so would many other people. Who the **** wants to take another day off for racing. It's bad enough trying to skive off for 4 days of Ascot.

stops a nation ?

if you go into a bookie to watch it the 5 geezers tapping away on the fobt's won't even look up when it's on ....

And rightly so..racing is dead and corrupt as foookkk ... rip ..in the pockets of o brien et mullins...

Cannot for the life of me understand why it would tbh... dire race and horse that wins it does nought after .. AR and Sea the Stars among rare few ..

The Epsom Derby as it is does not command the attention and competitiveness - the majority of the programme is mediocre - against other more popular sports eg football, rugby and tennis to name 3; it cannot hold its own against these on a saturday afternoon with the exception of The Grand National - soon to be relegated to merely another "posh" handicap race.

I think the Oaks and Derby will need to be staged on the same day (if saturday) to maximise attraction and publicity and not to maximise commercialisation by extending it into a Festival comprising several days; the horse numbers and quality do not warrant and cannot support it.

Less is more!