Racing Explained - The Races

The second programme in the eight part ’Racing Explained’ series is entitled ’The Races’. In this programme Ella McSweeney explains what a race meeting is all about as well as the difference between Flat and National Hunt racing. The different types of flat racing are discussed. These are: the Flat Maiden, the Flat Handicap, the Conditions Race, the Listed Race, the Group 3 Race, the Group 2 race and the Group 1 Race. Ella then gives the viewer an insight into the twelve Group 1 races, including the fiv