Racing League 2021 - Starts July 29th

[ipswich45]

not seen anyone post about the Racing League yet and with the start only 2 weeks away thought now be a good time to start a discussion to see what peoples thoughts are on this concept for those that dont know what it is ill try to explain it below:

6 meetings live on Sky Sports 
29th July - Newcastle
5th August - Doncaster
12th August - Lingfield
19th August - Windsor
26th August - Lingfield
2nd September - Newcastle

12 teams of trainers and jockeys and each team has its own racing colours it will rear

Team 1:   Dark Blue
T: Andrew Balding & Richard Hannon
J: Hayley Turner, Oisin Murphy and Sean Levey
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Team 2:   Purple    (Team known as Bullionvalt)
T: George Baker, David Menuisier, Gary Moore and Amanda Perrett
J: Jim Crowley, Hector Crouch and Pat Crosgrave

Team 3:  Lime Green       (Team known as eToro Racing)
T: Tim Easterby and Richard Fahey
J: Paddy Mathers, David Allan and Paul Hanagan

Team 4:  Orange     (Team Known as Goat Racing)
T: Tom Clover, Charlie Fellowes, Hugo Palmer and George Scott 
J: Laura Pearson, James Doyle and Callum Shepherd

Team 5:   Yellow      (Team known as ODDSbible)
T: Roger Charlton, Alan King, Martyn Meade and Brian Meehan
J: Jason Watson, Martin Dwyer and Thore Hammer Hansen

Team 6:   Dark Green
T: Donnacha O'Brien and Joseph O'Brien 
J: Gavin Ryan, David Egan and Dylan Browne McMonagle

Team 7:   Aqua Blue
T: Mick Appleby, Michael Dods, Paul Midgley and David O'Meara
J: Danny Tudhope, Cam Hardie and Paul Mulrennan

Team 8:   Light Blue
T: Clive Cox, Ed Walker, Charlie Hills and Jamie Osbourne
J: Adam Kirby, Saffie Osbourne and Kieran Shoemark

Team 9:   Black   (Team known as talkSPORT)
T: Michael Bell, Ed Dunlop, James Fanshawe and Roger Varian
J: Hollie Doyle, Jack Mitchell and Cieran Fallon

Team 10:   Bright Red
T: Mick Channon, Paul & Oliver Cole and Eve Johnson Houghton
J: George Bass, Rossa Ryan and Charles Bishop

Team 11:  Pink    (Team known as Race Horse Lotto)
T: George Boughey, James Ferguson, William Knight and Stuart Williams
J: Nicola Currie, Marco Ghani and Daniel Muscutt

Team 12:    Dark Red
T: Robert Cowell, John Gosden, Sir Mark Prescott and David Simcock
J: Frankie Dettori, Luke Morris and Jamie Spencer

Each Team has 2-4 trainers, 30 horses (to be confirmed later) and 3 jockeys
Jockeys will wear the team colour silks rather than owner silks
Each team enters 3 horses to each race at the usual entry stage and declares 1 at the normal 2 day declaration stage

6 races each race night each race worth £50,000 in prize money and a points system over the meetings will decide the overall winner after the 6 weeks
100 points available each race
1st 25,  2nd 18,  3rd 15,  4th 12,  5th 10, 6th 8, 7th 6, 8th 3,  9th 2, 10th 1  and 0 for 11th and 12th place

ALL races are handicaps for 0-90 rated horses aged 3+ and each race has a gaurentee of 12 runners
Distances will be  5f, 6f, 7f, 1m, 1m 2f and 1m 4f

Source: https://www.racingleague.uk/      (Racing League's Website)

Edited July 13, 2021 by ipswich45

[Trotter]

not really interested in this to be honest

I view each race every day as a separate event involving the horses entered to run in that race on that day ....... the fact that the trainer, owner or jockey has another horse running next week has no bearing whatsoever on the race I'm looking at today. I don't care who gets points and who wins some series

but them I'm a grumpy old so-and-so who is cynical about all these marketing ploys to bring racing to the people who are not interested in racing.

I don't think this will get people dancing in the streets

On the plus side ........ it's bringing some prize money into the sport and ensuring s few competitive handicaps in meetings where they might not have had them otherwise.

So I'm not against it ....... I just don't think it's relevant to how I look at racing