Posts tagged Racing For Change
First televised racecourse enquiries
May 27th
Next week’s Derby meeting at Epsom will be the first when any stewards’ enquiries will be shown live on television. The ground-breaking trial is the latest initiative from the Racing For Change group. For the full blog: http://blogs.bettor.com/Epsom-stewards-face-trial-by-TV-a11647
Are Racing For Change backing a loser?
May 21st
When Racing For Change was launched it came with a catchy title and some interestingly-worded “strategic goals” that formed their mission statement. One of these core principles was to “define and launch a strategy that leads with distinctive premium-branded racing events, products, championships and finales”. Well, it sounds good even if it requires an honours [...]
Jump racing keeps battling in cold war
Jan 11th
The Vikings used to pray to Thor, their god of thunder, but this week jump racing is simply praying to God for a thaw. If only the snow and ice would disappear as quickly as the jump meetings. Already everything up until Thursday – where the prospects for Catterick and Towcester are bleak – has [...]
Racing goes decimal to make a point
Jan 5th
The name alone suggests the desire for a speedy reorganisation but it is eight months since Racing for Change made its first public appearance. Then it was to announce the start of the rebranding exercise that those within the racing industry hoped will arrest the decline of the sport in the minds of the general [...]
Grey legacy still casts giant shadow
Dec 24th
As colours go, grey gets a pretty raw deal. Try as it might, in most people’s eyes it only conjures up a drab component of the spectrum somewhere between black and white. It is very hard to set the pulses racing or stir the emotions when your dictionary definition includes words such as “dull” and [...]
Denman pulling his weight once more
Nov 30th
Earlier this year the great and the good of British racing launched Racing For Change, their latest vessel to carry the sport through the choppy seas of mass-public indifference to the promised land of packed grandstands. Since then any number of bright ideas have been put forward to make racing more appealing but few will [...]
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