No racing on ITV next weekend

Footie's about. The initial stages are always boring eg minnows against principals. Then England will come home early (again) as per usual. I'll probably watch the semis and the final.

there used to be a race at york weekend before RA, and i probably had the winner every year, it was a listedv race over 14 furlongs i think , the daniel penn stakes and im certain that a horse callede Batshoof won it one year

Dan Prenn used to have horses with John Dunlop...Beau Reef springs to mind but lots of others..

And with John Winter too,I think

Is it 1 April

Ben Hanbury had Batshoof,Green with a red crossbelt/chevron?
If I remember right.Sure he was a 1M-10F horse.

nee games on saturday arvo

oh thats right the daniel penn was 10 furlongs of course

Racing on ITV as normal. ?

https://www.itv.com/watch/tv-guide/2026-06-13

Ah Batshoof, lovely horse. I remember being at RA and backing it in the Prince of Wales - won in a very tight photo, Eddery up, must have waited 10 mins for them to look at the print. Great memories.

TBF racing in it's current state (shambles) pretty much deserves to be booted off TV for any other sport they might have - curling would probably be a better alternative for the general public viewing/interest.

We can watch on BF LV in any case...

at least until the sport dies off entirely!

Most in mute tbh.

Horses parading and in full flow is poetry in motion imv…..

ITV's own guide shows racing between 2.15 and 5.15 on Sat main channel. ITV racing schedule shows nothing before Royal Ascot. Confusing.

I got on the 'phone to them to complain and they're going to be showing York after all, and if we're lucky some Chester and Sandown too. Thanks for seeing sense guys.

WD George.

Drs, I posted earlier on the thread ITV 1-15 - 4-15.

Well done George...you've got some influence!!!

Did seem strange that there were no games at that time, yet they hadn't scheduled any racing?

..... Is this a wind up thread, for the second time, racing on Saturday was always in the itv listings !!   HTH.