Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) will be introducing a number of measures designed to improve field sizes, and therefore the competitiveness of racing, starting on Monday, February 1st.

For a three-month trial period, from the start of February to the end of April, in every weight-for-age race where there are less than five declared runners at the 10am declaration time, there will be an automatic supplementary time period of 15 minutes during which additional declarations may be made for that race.