New Irish track capable of facilitating racing in winter months needed

The loss of yet another meeting to the weather this week - Limerick on Wednesday - highlighted one of the problems National Hunt racing has in this country.

The simple facts are Ireland does not have enough tracks that can handle winter racing. We have 26 racecourses and a number of them, 12 to be precise, can only race through the summer months.

That leaves 14 for the winter and there is always a question mark against at least some of them.