We now have the TAB in pubs, betting exchanges, PC's to download endless facts for handicapping and systems, you name it we have it. Agreed. But the racing ?

The % of favorites winning hasn't changed and although we have changed and the hype has changed and our perceptions [and expectations] of the game have changed, the horse is still a horse with a jockey on it's back. They are still racing against each other and the fastest one to the post wins. What's changed as far as the racing itself is concerned except the amount of it?

Metres have replaced furlongs ?