Two separate Flat championships better than a mish-mash

Dundalk: all-weather championship should be a separate competitionCredit: Patrick McCann

The Flat season ends at Naas on Sunday with Colin Keane crowned champion jockey for the first time and, predictably, Aidan O'Brien yet again champion trainer.

While the Naas meeting brings down the curtain on the turf season, Flat racing will continue through the winter months at Dundalk and therein lies a situation that merits fresh consideration.

Meetings at Dundalk that are run between the start of the turf season in March and its conclusion this weekend count towards the different Flat championships. What happens at Dundalk between now and Christmas and in the early months of the new year does not.

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Published on 4 November 2017inFeatures

Last updated 18:04, 4 November 2017

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