Friday, 7 June 2013

7th June 2013

All the horses were ridden either on the gallop or in the school. I then headed off to Stratford for the P2P AGM before having lunch as a guest of the Board Of Directors of the Point To Point Committee. A very kind invitation, I sat next to Mike Felton who I know from old and Lucy Tucker who without doubt has the hardest job in the Point to Point circles.  You can't please everyone all the time and having selfish motives is not the way to keep the sport healthy.

I was pleased to hear the explanation over the loss of the coverage of p2ps in The Weekender. In short the Point To Point Racing Company had to protect their own interests, (which is understandable). The Weekender wanted to put all the information in their digital publications. This would of course had a massive impact on other publications produced by the Point To Point Racing company. They are currently working on an alternative as it is clear that Racing Plus is hopeless.  What that alternative is we didn't find out!