Race for tickets

Music nights at Haydock Park usually range from the rubbish to the ridiculous.

Designed to attract extra punters to meetings where the card includes not a single horse that you've ever heard of, the acts that get booked as 'entertainment' often leave me scratching my head.

I remember Go West playing once, and I mean recently, not when they were famous.

This weekend though promises a new low: Non Jovi. Yes folks, Bon Jovi but without Bon Jovi himself or, I presume, any of his band or anyone who has even met them.

Suitably deterred from venturing anywhere near the course then, I thought I would have a quick look to see if the rest of the Summer's line-up was set to be as bad.

Hang on. Is this right? The Charlatans? At Haydock Park? Round the corner from my house? On 20th June? It blimmin' is you know!