Originally Posted by briggsy1:
“I'm not an expert on horse racing, but it seems to me that the changeover from flat to national hunt racing is occurring later and later every year. Can't believe we're midway through October and still Ch4 are showing flat racing from Ascot. Is this something to do with their being more money in flat racing - is N.H. dying a slow death?”
I think it's more that nowadays with all weather racing over the winter and summer jumping both codes go pretty much all year round
I don't think this is late for flat racing
Traditionally the Flat season ended in early November with the November Meeting at Doncaster.......and that meeting would always have been televised
Also traditionally the Jumps meeting at Chepstow last Saturday would have been the first televised jumps meeting of the season so you'd have had 3/4 weeks where the season's overlapped for TV watchers
More generally.........Jumps racing is booming as a mainly British/Irish sport........us 'natives' have largely withdrawn from Flat racing (as owners) and left the top level (which gets televised) to the Arabs and Coolmore