Is it now time to put British racing's interests first and ignore Easter when devising the fixture list?

David Carr argues racing's calendar around Easter is ripe for change

Kihavah: narrow winner of the Queen's Cup at Musselburgh

Kihavah (far side) won the Queen's Cup at Musselburgh, the biggest race on a low-key Easter Saturday Credit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)

How was it for you? How did you enjoy the most important weekend in the British racing calendar?

What? You didn't appreciate its significance? You are clearly not involved in the fraught process of compiling the fixture list.

For all the controversy and arguments, and the supposedly "radical" changes brought by premierisation, the programme is largely the same from one season to the next.

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Published on 21 April 2025inAnother View

Last updated 14:00, 21 April 2025

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