IT’S often a question of how you spin it, isn’t it?

Watching a BBC concert for the British Olympic team, who are funded to a significant degree by receipts from the National Lottery, the constant reminders were to ‘thank’ people for ‘supporting’ the National Lottery.

However, it’s also simple to place this as random gambling. But where the money is then used takes the negativity away.

Perhaps had HRI gone bottom up rather than top down on their plans to have ‘restricted’ races – saying a new series of race was being instigated that would only ‘include’ trainers who had trained from 0 to 30 winners, and not mention those ‘excluded’ - would there have been as much of a furore?

Show the race not the horse

THE inside track moving camera can give extra intensity to a race coverage but it can be irrating too.

The RacingTV angles in the early stages of the Juddmonte International this week focussed in on the leading City Of Troy.

Most of the time in a race like this, you want to see the whole field. It was obvious that Ambiente Friendly was giving his rider a hard time but the camera closing in on City Of Troy in the lead removed almost three-quarters of the field from view.