Jackpot not ill conceived, just poorly executed

Saturday night’s Pick Six Jackpot, which is spread across the track meetings at Limerick and Shelbourne, is guaranteed to €70,000. It would be a lovely pot to pick up, of course, but, really, it has been designed for the bigger players — those willing to invest thousands.

The first three legs of the Jackpot are run across races seven, eight and nine at Limerick, while the final three are races 10, 11 and 12 at Shelbourne.

It wasn’t an entirely ill-conceived idea but there are issues. Firstly, the races which have been hand-picked to constitute the legs of the jackpot have, on a number of weekends during the build-up of the pool, been deplorable.