Racing in Ireland, however, was given the go ahead to continue after a crunch meeting of executives. Shares in bookmakers tumbled again, as they had done during the previous week, and by the end of the week all betting shops in Britain had been forced to close. The BHA promised to help those involved in the sport and get government answers.
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The move was supported by racing’s professional bodies, such as the National Trainers Federation and Professional Jockeys Association, although what the shutdown meant for those participating in the sport was unclear as everyone scrambled to understand the new situation. Just a week after celebrating the biggest and best names in jumping at the Cheltenham Festival, the sport was closed down for six weeks by the BHA due to the amended government advice around the coronavirus.
Nick Rust, BHA chief executive, Tuesday, March 17 but our first duty is to the health of the public, our customers and to racing industry participants and staff so we have decided to suspend racing following the government’s latest advice.” “This is a national emergency the like of which most of us have never seen before. It felt increasingly like a last big occasion for the sport, with Alastair Down writing in the Racing Post: “A trick of fancy perhaps but that noise seemed louder than usual as if the crowd were having a final blast before the wider world closes in on us.”īy the end of the four days, sports such as football, rugby, cricket and golf had cancelled or postponed major events but racing forged on hosting the Midlands Grand National (won by Truckers Lodge) at Uttoxeter on Saturday, March 14 with a reasonable crowd in attendance.
The Cheltenham Festival went ahead as planned with advice from the course not to attend if you had been showing symptoms of the virus, such as a high fever or a new, persistent cough.Īdditional stations for boosting personal hygiene were put in place, such as alcohol hand gels and sinks for washing hands, but crowds dropped by approximately five per cent across the week. “I don’t think it’s too bad as it is, but if we had had to wait until next week I’d have been surprised if we had a festival at all this year.”Ĭheltenham Festival racegoer, Jason Ellis, on Wednesday, March 11 The daily ritual for many in racing was to log on to Betfair’s special ‘will racing go ahead’ market for the Cheltenham Festival, which grew exponentially to become the most viewed market in the exchange’s history while the best part of £4 million was traded by the time the betting closed.
Oliver Dowden, Culture Secretary, talking to the BBC about the Cheltenham Festival on Monday, March 9įour weeks ago the watchwords for British racing were “business as usual” as final preparations were put in place for the Cheltenham Festival, the four biggest days in the jumps calendar.Ĭoncern had been mounting in the week prior to the festival as cases of Covid-19 crept up in Britain following the February half-term holidays, and other countries across Europe, such as France and Italy, started to report significant numbers of infections. You May Also Like.“The advice from the Chief Medical Officer is that at this stage we should not be cancelling such events, so we are not planning to cancel them” At the end of each episode, the loser must perform what is deemed to be the most-mortifying challenge yet. On the show, to find out who is best under pressure, the guys compete in awkward and outrageous hidden-camera hijinks. Since they were young, the quartet have challenged one another to do ridiculous dares in public.
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This hidden-camera series follows four lifelong friends - Brian ''Q'' Quinn, James ''Murr'' Murray, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano - who take dares to an outrageous level. s05e06 - The Good, the Bad and the Punished.Tonight's big loser virtually loses his mind after entering a world he's never visited. They then head to the market for a game that throws everything up in the air. Murr, Joe, Sal and Q bark up the wrong tree while posing as employees for a pet store.
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