BROUGH Scott delivered an entertaining speech as the guest speaker at the Moyglare Dinner last week (reproduced in full in The Irish Field last week) and it was refreshing to hear a proposal for improved customer information in racing being made on such a stage.

However, for such information to be truly useful, the customer needs to have absolute confidence in the accuracy of that information, In my opinion, it would be worth doing an audit on the timing systems used in Irish racing. I know myself, from hand-timing races, that there are often discrepancies greater than reaction time allows for and I can’t help but be suspicious about the accuracy of some of the timing equipment that is used.