{"id":7470,"date":"2014-04-18T10:59:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T09:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2014-04-18T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T11:52:01","slug":"first-race-meetings-good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/first-race-meetings-good-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"First race meetings on Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lingfield Race Course<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first horse race meetings with onsite gambling take place today at Lingfield and Musselburgh<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Kate Hills, spokeswoman for Lingfield owners Arena Racing, said: “One of the reasons we are having racing on Good Friday is it’s a day of leisure and people are looking for something to do.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also an opportunity to make some money.<\/p>\n

In the modern era, off-course betting shops first opened on Good Friday in 2008. \u00a0Championship football matches will be held today, some shops will open. \u00a0These are modern-day, secularist\u00a0developments. \u00a0As recently as 1986 the Daily Telegraph was not published on Good Friday.<\/p>\n

In a sense it is rather appropriate to have gambling on the day we remember Christ’s crucifixion. \u00a0The Roman soldiers cast lots for the\u00a0coat of Jesus, fulfilling an Old Testament prophecy in Psalm 22.<\/p>\n

It will be thoroughbreds racing today, but Christ entered Jerusalem as a king but riding on a donkey, again fulfilling an Old Testament prophecy:<\/p>\n

Zechariah 9:9: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.<\/p>\n

As A N Wilson points out<\/a><\/strong>, even people of no faith used to recognise Good Friday as a day of solemnity.<\/p>\n

A lot has changed in just a few years, a degree of respect for what is holy has been lost and our society has become more coarse and more crass along the way.<\/p>\n

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