It didn’t seem to attract the interest of the mainstream racing media, but we were intrigued about the distance of the King Charles III at Randwick on Saturday being 1609m rather than the traditional (but wrongly calculated) 1600m of the famous Randwick mile that the race was run over last year, and that is used as the distance for all other Group 1 ‘mile’ races in Australia including the Epsom Doncaster Handicaps, the All Aged Stakes, and the All Star and Champions Mile.
Attention to Detail is the Secret to Peter V’Landys Success
