Early start again likely as autumn schedule needs to cater for pent-up demand

Saturday's action at Ballingarry and Punchestown will kickstart the penultimate weekend of the season, and after a second Covid-interrupted campaign, the focus swiftly turns to what shape the
2021 autumn campaign may take.

The 2020 expanded pre-Christmas season played a significant role in offsetting much of the damage that had been done by that year’s spring season coming to such an abrupt halt in March.

With so much of this season’s spring calendar wiped out by the suspension of point-to-pointing from January to March, will a similar expanded autumn programme be required in four months’ time?