20 / 20 horse racing

This is a great idea , greyhound tracks race every 15 mins keeping the new race goers interested



“Twenty-Twenty” horse racing comes to Greyville on Friday night, 17 April 2015!

“Cricket has successfully embraced various formats of the game and, taking a leaf out of their book, and as an experiment, Gold Circle will stage a race every 20 minutes on 17 April,” said Racing and Marketing Executive Graeme Hawkins.

In order to manage the evening, 4 of the 8 races will be restricted to professionally qualified jockeys and the remaining four races will be restricted to apprentices. They will then ride in alternate races, thus giving each 40 minutes between races.

Trainers, however, will be under pressure to ensure the meeting goes off as planned but have pledged their full support and we are all looking forward to a race meeting designed to keep everyone, including the racing fans, on their toes.

“One always has to expect the unexpected, especially in horse racing, but here’s hoping for an action-packed two and a half hours of exciting racing,” concluded Hawkins.

Always thinking out the box thumbs up

Great idea....lots of pressures, but hopefully it's a success

Well done for being innovative but don't expect this to become convention or a success story for racing.

All it will do is make it even tougher for a new player to get a bet on as they don't understand the products and forms to fill in half the time.

Spectator value in racing is low when compared to other sport and generally restricted to a playing involvement so I guess the beneficiaries will only be existing punters mostly.

Hats off for trying new things though and hope it will go well.

LSU the last time i took a friend racing she was bored after the 2nd race, 30 and sometime 40 minute gaps are too long these days..

Infact the last time i was racing i left after the 4th

Some of the folk involved with racing it`s a rush,said to me that they thought maybe "too many races or too long a day

excellent idea, as spending a friday night waiting 35to40 mins for the next race is boring and waste of time.But 20 mins will definetly have more interest

Great idea, well done.

They had something like this at Mooney Valley at the start of the year but it was the weather that forced them to have a twilight meeting I think.. Full racing program, with races 20mins apart.. Sun was going down at the start and racing was completed b4 complete sunset.. Good idea!

It was Cranbourne excuse me not Mooney.. forum.thoroughbredvillage.com.au/saturday-twilight-racing_topic53068.html ... That's a link to the aussie forum discussing what they thought of the 20min gap format that was tried there..

Brilliant idea by Gold Circle ! Well done to Mr Hawkins and Co.

I think it is a great idea. Many people on course have said to me that they get bored in between races and lose interest. Less time in the parade ring and ringing behind the starting stalls will help. I am really looking forward to the meeting and I hope it is a great success. Well done to Graham and Gold Circle for being so innovative.

Great innovation...............Gold Circle are so far ahead of "P" in their customer focus!
Well Done to them!