For me it is one of the most fun days racing of the year and I’m absolutely gutted I shall be missing it this year.
Well good luck to you Paul, it takes all sorts to be a racing fan, but the day I highlight a 6 race card of 10 runner handicaps, contrived to suit a totally alien format, as one of my meetings of the year will be the day I know that my heart has died and it is time to move on. Horses are THE stars of racing, jockeys are incidental to the equation.
It may bring punters in but it is NOT representative of what horse racing is actually about. Loads of people spend money on virtual racing ahead of real racing, does that make it a good thing? It is like so many areas of life, where something is pulling in cash and it is deemed to
prove
that it is the way forward. One million people betting on two globules of saliva running down a wall can never be wrong.
Thanks for the good crack. Time for me to move on. Be lucky.