Newbury 11th Feb

A late entrant?

"URGENT - LOST LLAMA in the area! Ttwo llamas were delivered to a field between Chilton and East and West Illsely in West Berkshire on Friday 27 January but one of them panicked and escaped. She jumped two substantial fences and disappeared towards the Ridgeway and East Illsley. Despite two days of intensive searching she has not been found."

Poor Llama. Hope no one has found her and used for Sunday Roast.

what you on about??

im going bang up for it my mate has fecked me over this year and lost interest so yes!"

Won't be there but will be cheering Olofi home. Cracking price at 16s

looking forward to seeing sprinter sacre win the game spirit.
on him at 10/1 months ago and think he looks something special.

nice one Howdi,was starting to get that billynomates feeling!!

Still no sign of the llama (sorry Budd):

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=19056

"We chased her all afternoon but were unsuccessful. She's normally a sweet, calm little girl, but is just in a complete panic and llamas can run as fast as some horses; she's jumping any stock fences."

Dont you live in that area Stront?
you sure you aint nabbed her??

Fraid not, but I'm on the look out.

Phew, llama recaptured - no challenger to Long Run after all: http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=19071

Thats good news,bless him.
I like a happy ending.

Anyway,you at Newbury on the 11th Stront??

Sorry, yes, I will be. Whether I'm allowed to meet up and talk about Cheltenham will depend on whether Mrs Strontium accompanies me! I'll let you know.

okey doke

Where is the meeting place lads?

Any threat to this fixture from the weather?

I won't be going.....just back from Murrayfield and off to Cardiff on Sunday. Supporting Scotland is a labour of love. Mrs Fanatic would get very leary if I announced that I was going racing on Saturday as well!

I live 35 miles away must be a threat to this meeting.

not much snow in newbury town centre

http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/webcam.aspx

Howdi,
I will be getting there about 11am.
Bit of time to chill out with a coffee and pick some winners!!
Can meet up anywhere you like mate.

according to BBC 1 weather there will be a warmer/wetter front moving in from the west from wednesday onwards meaning that temperatures rise towards the end of the week

conclusion being that the meeting will not be under threat

Good news if true. The CoC at Newbury is also excellent. I don't think they missed a day last season when meetings were off all over the plac because of careful preparations, skilled use of covers etc. In other words, if anywhere can get the meeting on it will be Newbury.

Just heard that the Scilly Isles maybe re-scheduled to Saturday at Newbury and with that been a grade 1 Ruby maybe able to ride at the meeting if he's allowed to defer his ban

That would be a nice bonus for an already superb card.

Should be an announcement in the next couple of hours l'm told.

Have a look at the entries - the 2 m novice hurde, 3 m novice chase and the bumper could be stellar.

Medermit entered up against Long Run in the Aon (Denman)... interesting

what a fantastic card! keep looking at each race and thinking "ooh that's great!"

the novice hurdle could be epic if they all show

Secondin (thirding?) judorick and Strontium here.

Makes 'Trials Day' at Cheltenham seem a bit humdrum in comparisom.

Class / real interest in every race and if they add the Scilly Isles Chase then this is probably the best days non-festival racing on the NH calendar.

The Scilly Isles move has been announced, which also means Ruby can defer his ban and ride at the meeting.

I think the Newbury card has benefited from the bad weather last weekend. Trainers want to get a run in to their horses a respectful distance from the Festival (and also while they can in case it freezes again). It will be a fantastic day if half the star entrants show up.

when will the cards for the Scilly and Game Spirit be up then?

Game Spirit reopened so tomorrow.

It's been announced that Denman isn't fit to parade on Saturday - shame. Get well soon old boy.

Hope it goes ahead chaps the entries are seriously good. Plenty of proper G1 & future G1 horses on show.

there is very little chance it won't happen according to the weather

Hopefully get a bit of sorting the men from the boys type stuff this weekend,not just Newbury,good card at Exeter,Kingmaker at Warwick which has Sprinter and Cue Card entered,and The Gold Cup may have another player or 2 after the Hennessey on Sunday.
Great weekend of racing,just hope the nasty weather stays away.

Some suggestion that Grands Crus will run at Newbury and that would be interesting especially if Join Together or Silviniaco Conti run as well

Join Together and Silviniaco Conti have both been given the option but the champion trainer said at his open day on Monday he would rather neither had a hard race against Grands Crus and he has the Reynoldstown Chase at Ascot and a later valuable event at Fontwell as back-up options.

Off Sporting Life website Judo.

cheers mate

buddelia chuck me your mobile mate or I'm on twitter @ Tim Comley

not a twitter mate,facebook?

timcomley1973@yahoo.com

its forecast minus 4 tomorrow night. sub zero all week and minus three fiday night. when frost gets into the ground after aprolonged spell it takes 48 hours of decent wether to shift.  1/6 to be off 7/2 to be on in my mind..

that's not what bbc weather said on the national news

i will e-mail then Howdi

The 5 day weather forecast isn't very accurate. We'll have a good idea on Thursday.

i will take that 7/2 though

Out of interest, does anyone know if/when they've covered the track? They usually do at Newbury if winter weather might threaten a meet.

been covered since Jan 31 with fleece covers.

Forecast for Newbury on BBC website pretty grim up until Friday but too early in week to be too despondent.

ok bud fingers crossed meeting makes it

Thanks Rease. How much frost if any has got in to the ground will be crucial - but the CoC at Newbury is very good. Fingers crossed at this stage.

i am a bit removed from it cause i live by a river in a rural area in shropshie ( its been grim here) and thats hundred mile from newbury but the frosts need to abate to stand any chance and furthermore fog is forecast for much of the week so lack of sun wont help..i am a pesermistic by nature..take 9/2 its on!!!!

latest betting from Will Racing go Ahead market on here

Will racing go ahead at newbury

Yes 5/4
No 4/5

lets hope we go odds on shortly

who bets on that market 5 days out? John Kettley?

Michael Fish showing a profit of £43,435 in the last 12 months.

Lmao Newbury have had the covers down before the first frost. I'm not sure how much they can stick temperature wise before the frost gets in though. I'm certain they will be doing everything possible to get it on. Anyone live local know what conditions are like?

Met office has it getting milder in the area on Friday so I think it should be ok. -2 as the lowest temp through the week. Lots of different forecasts though.

be alright as long as the predicted 4 to 6 above freezing appears in the daytime

and the long range weather on the bbc said there is warmer weather moving eastwards from wales from wednesday onwards

I am very confident

I emailed the course today regarding the chances of racing being on this saturday as i'am traveling up from Devon.

Many thanks for your recent e-mail.

The track has been covered since 31.01.12, which was before the start of the frost and we had 1cm of snow fell on Saturday, which has now washed off due to rain.

The outlook on the forecast is mainly dry and light frost overnight with the day temperatures between 0 to +3.
The going is currently good – soft, soft in places and the track is in a raceable condition.

If I can be of any further assistance please contact me.

Kind regards,
Hayley

Hayley Collins
Racing Sales Manager

Ye I would say unless we get snow or a really cold night it should be on.

Geos - many thanks for posting that. "the track is in a raceable condition" is the key phrase - if the weather is as forecast that won't change, and it doesn't need to warm up because there isn't frost already in the track.

Well, have just been on the BBC weather site and the Met Office site for Newbury and unless they are wildy inaccurate then racing will be on. Will be above freezing on Friday and Saturday.  I've had a bit of 2.12.

"wildly"

Agree I think ppl are making a lot of fuss over it tbh to make headlines. #the track is currently raceable by the sounds of it and the weather forecast looks pretty good. Newbury are pretty good at getting things going ahead as well.

Should we be lumping on the 11-10 it going ahead then and blaming Hayley Collings if we do our dough?

Looks like there won't be a frost on Friday night which is a big plus. Let's hope the forecast is right! Super day's racing in prospect.

http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=racing/12/0...

Do your Saturday gambling money on the 11/10. If racing is cancelled then your weeks gambling money is shot (but no decent racing to bet on), if it is on then you have double stakes for the weekend?

Win/win almost?

VikingR, I'm taking the opposite approach; if racing is cancelled I win; if racing goes ahead I have the best single days racing this side of the festival, and 8 races to get my money back!

True,

Tbh I suppose it depends what your approach is... I have a little budget as week, so for me I will be putting it on racing going ahead, based on the prospects for Newbury actually looking quite good

Newbury racecourse twitter feed very bullish as is Nicky Henderson.

http://twitter.com/NewburyRaces

1/2 to be on