Racing numbers just don’t stack up

JUST about everyone was shocked when the attendance figures for Fairyhouse on Wednesday were revealed.

Late in the afternoon course manager, Peter Roe, popped into the Fairyhouse press room and told us the crowd was a paltry 3,126.

He looked and sounded disappointed, and was fully entitled to be. The meeting finally took place at the fourth attempt, after Roe and his team and Horse Racing Ireland had done everything in their collective power to ensure the massively attractive programme wasn’t lost to the weather.