Horse racing isn’t as popular as it once was. Tracks are closing, and some shops are considering dropping the product entirely. There are simply too many other forms of entertaining action to bet on for it to keep up. Watching a race, in person or on TV, doesn’t have the same draw that it used to.

Leave it to the Queen of England’s grandson to come up with an idea so crazy, it might just work.

The BBC reports Peter Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest grandson and 14th in line to be the next King of England, has proposed the ‘City Racing’ project, which would see horses race 1,000-meter races in city streets.

“There will be a pedestrian crowd barrier, two or three meters back from the edge of the track and people lined four or five deep, getting up close to these horses running at 30mph,” Philips said, according to the report. “That’s going to create a unique energy and buzz.”