Mr. Brian Kavanagh:

We are all under pressure, because the difficulty we have is that in order to accommodate those horses in the point-to-point system on tracks we would need much more track capacity. The way the weather has been in the last couple of weeks has meant that there has simply been nowhere to race. Racing has been called off pretty much every day for the last two weeks because of the condition of the ground. Anything we would do on the track, therefore, would simply be the tip of the iceberg regarding the situation of point-to-point racing. What is really needed is a resumption of racing in a point-to-point environment.