Here's a way to add a fifth day and keep everyone satisfied

The fifth day. Not a Graham Greene novel but a modern sporting conundrum.

The International Cricket Council would like to eliminate the fifth day of Test matches, an abhorrent idea. The mandarins at Cheltenham would like to add a fifth day to the festival, an abhorrent idea? Hang on a mo.

This reactionary old fool has hitherto abhorred the idea of a fifth day, but has belatedly come to realise that it isn’t the fifth day that sticks in the craw but the likelihood of further diminution of a great race meeting. So let’s have a fifth day, let’s embrace Saturday. It’ll happen anyway because money doesn’t talk, it shouts, it swears, it gets what it wants in the end.