Snoopdog Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Britain has always had races starting at INTEGER multiples of 5 minutes. I noticed on Saturday strange start times like 1.03 at Wetherby and Musselbrough. Similar today at Donny and Huntingdon. The Daily Mail explains why: It's a one month exeperiement to try to avoid races starting while one is in progress to help TV coverage. Actually, I believethat this year most courses have done a better job at getting races off on time than previously. It's more difficult to remember 1.03 than 1.05, etc. I don't like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valiant Thor Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 They could give them +/- 1hr @ Brighton and it wouldn't make a difference, never go off on time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trotter Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 One thing they could do is think about which TV channel has the racing and adjust the days accordingly ....... to try and avoid days where RTV has 6 meetings and Sky has one They could shuffle them about a bit especialy during the week when it doesn't really matter if a track has a meeting on a Tuesday or a Wednesday Bit more difficult at weekend when most of the big tracks want to race Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoopdog Posted February 6, 2020 Author Share Posted February 6, 2020 Better this year, but I used to feel that Ascot felt races could be off at their convenience. Eg it's off time and they are only just thinking about loading the stalls.. Yalwen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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