Own goals by other sports show how brilliantly racing has done since resumption

Disaster. It’s just gone one o’clock on Monday, June 1, the moment we’ve been waiting more than two months for as racing finally gets going again, and the runners haven’t gone more than half a furlong when all goes black. The cameras are screwed.

The pictures are restored just in time for the second race but there’s still no information, no racecards, no betting shows, no results. Not that there would be that much more to show anyway. Despite having the eyes of the sporting world, the racing authorities have insisted we won’t have any more than seven races. That’s the way it always was before, so why should we change?

Thank goodness racing put on a better show than that. Much better. But the doomsday scenario isn’t as far-fetched as you might think. Just look at cricket’s return this week.