Let's follow in the path of the Dope-ridden an the ultra boring, shall we?

​I thought horse racing brought to the main thoroughfares of the world’s capital cities (City Street Racing) would be the stupidest idea I would ever read about during my lifetime. But no! A twit who goes by the name of Jeremy Wray has come up with a concept that if given the go ahead by the powers-that-be will go a long way to killing off flat racing for good. It’s called Championship Horse Racing and it reminds me of a well-kept muck-heap; neat and tidy but ultimately it is only horse manure (I cannot bring myself to use the s-word) with neat, vertical sides.
Mr.Wray, horse racing has a history that goes back three centuries and counting, and your concept drives a carriage and four through the heart of a history built on the solid foundations of generations of people grafting hard for their pay. F.1. is rapidly losing its appeal because though it may boast 10 teams only 3 of them can win a race and when Mercedes fails to win it remains a bit of a shock. Also, to liken the concept to cycling is to align our sport to a sport that is riddled with drug cheats and cheating. All we need right now! Also horse racing is not cricket, and to sell the soul of the sport for the rewards of corporate branding might work well in India but it will only alienate us further from the working classes and those who oppose using animals for human entertainment.
And something in your long association with horse racing you seem to have missed, is that the pivot of the sport is the horse, not the jockey, not the trainer, and not the owner. “It’s very much focusing on the characters and key participants, so the jockeys and trainers if you like, as opposed to the horse.” …”the horses are the engines.” I shake my head in disbelief that the powers-that-be are taking this man and his twisted concept seriously. He’ll be wanting to dye each horse in team colours and have them stand in grid formation with their jockey, trainer and owners while Luke Harvey and Mick Fitzgerald conduct a grid walk and no doubt explaining to all those television viewers who have forsaken Eastenders and Coronation Street for the night that every horse has four legs and the fifth leg they can see isn’t an actually a leg but a clear sign that the horse is right old boyo who cannot possibly win the race as all that he has on his mind is rogering the filly with the bushy tail.
To use an expression as horrible as Championship Horse Racing, we need to drown this kitten in the river before it has chance to grow up to savage our sport.
360 horses will be required for this enterprise. As far as I can determine 72 horses per meeting, with 4 jockeys per team requiring 48 jockeys to sign up to this charity for the wealthy. The concept is planned for 2019 to take place on Thursday evenings between July and September. Each race will be a handicap and comprise 12 runners. I.T.V. have expressed an interest, though I suspect I.T.V. 3 is where C.H.R. will end up.
Horse racing’s major problem in engaging a wider audience is that for many people racing is associated with snobbery and the mega rich and understand this, people with neither knowledge nor interest in the sport hate seeing horses hit with a whip. These perceptions may be wrong but by throwing millions of pounds into a concept like this you will be shining a light on all those aspects of the sport that the ignorant masses cannot abide.
And Championship Horse Racing will never be a reflection on the real world of horse racing. A Thursday evening at Ascot with its £100,000 handicaps bears no relation to a Tuesday at Catterick or Redcar. This is all about making the wealthy wealthier. There will be no drip drip of enthusiasm for the sport spreading to Fakenham, Ripon or Salisbury. The people who attend the top-end courses that hold these fancy-pants meetings will not go to Brighton on a wet day in October. You are not going to get people travelling the length of the country to spend the night in tents in the centre of the course as happens at the British Grand Prix. F.1 exists to make money for the media company that owns the rights to the sport. Also F.1. does not exist outside of the 20 or so races that comprise the sport. Horse Racing exists all the year round.
Horse racing in this country is not in desperate need of huge amounts of money thrown at the top end of the sport. This proposed £600,000 every summer Thursday would be better spent propping up prize money at the lower tiers of the sport. If the one-horse owner or small syndicate were able to win back their annual training fees they might be more inclined to buy a second horse; this would be better for the sport than a stupid concept that will only make the rich richer.
If Royal Ascot, Glorious Goodwood or the Ebor meeting cannot enthuse the sporting and non-sporting public to embrace horse racing I am damn well sure a team owned by Duff Beer and led by Frankie Dettori will not even ripple a wave of appreciation. I realise that because big money is mentioned a good number of racing people will support C.H.R. but I for one loathe and detest the idea and if it gets up and running I will neither watch it nor comment on it. I just hope and pray that commonsense kicks in and the powers-that-be kick Jeremy Wray’s nonsense into touch.