THE recent unveiling of the 2019 fixture list in Britain revealed that a record 1511 race meetings are scheduled to take place across the Irish Sea over the course of next year.

This mammoth fixture list has grown by just three from the corresponding figure in 2018 which isn’t any way remarkable but there was one phrase accompanying the forthcoming fixture list which caught the eye. The phrase in question was that ‘measures have also been agreed to schedule floodlit cards in an attempt to provide more continuous and consistent betting product’.