Punters may love late kick-offs but extra time's the penalty for stable staff

Here are tonight's results. Look away now if you don't want to know the score. Online Punters 1, Stable Staff 0 (aet).

That's tough, isn't it, that's hard, the news of a £9.7 million injection of funds where it is so badly needed at the bottom of the pyramid, and that's all you get. A trite gag about one group in racing benefiting at the expense of another. Not even very funny.

Let's look at the match report, then, bound to give us more information than the bare scoreline. Next year the fixture list will be the biggest ever, and the BHA is to ensure that most of those 1,510 meetings contain races worth a minimum of £6,000, which is a massive boost for owners and trainers of horses who compete at the lower levels. It has been a long time coming, but here it is, and amen to that, brother.