Is Yielding the same as heavy ground?

Yielding is softer than heavy.Yielding to Soft is like a swamp.The best ground is good to heavy.

i've always thought yielding equates to soft

if it says heavy over there, its probably the worst ground imaginable!

Robo has these ground descriptions, by the nuts...

Yielding over here is not as bad as heavy

cheers guys

i though yeilding was the soft side of good to soft

i would think thats what it actually is manchester

Don't know about the UK but the best way I could put it from an Irish racing perspective is that you have yielding, then soft, then heavy.

it means good to soft umbro its when it has started to dry and goes that tacky way [;)]

the thing is what ever the official description

you would get some jockeys saying its very testing and others that the horses are getting through it well

Good
Yielding (good to soft but drying out)
Good to Soft
Soft
Heavy

That's how I understand it anyway

Thanks everyone, I'd always thought Yielding was somewhere between Soft and Heavy,
but is in fact somewhere between good and soft

No wonder I keep losing

Always thought it was somewhere around Good to soft.

Puddingy= yielding (not gluey)

YEILDING IS GOOD TO SOFT NO DOUBT ABOUT IT !

Someone said if the irish were giving a going report on the boat race that it would be good to soft

yielding - good

If so is 'Good to Yielding' the same as Soft? please.
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I don't know,that's all I know.

Official BHA Going Classifications.

Hard-Like a road(redcar in summer)
Firm- (watered where necessary-ie dont tell the trainers its like a road)
good-firm- (watering on the bends,no grass coverage spiked shoes necessary)
good- (its a miracle it rained this morning)
good-soft (cheltenham opening day description,ie very fast)
soft-(not too bad really.good jumping ground,if your horse is 23 hands high)
heavy-(drainage work during the year has worked well,only 855 unraceable.

something to bear in mind - the perceived wisdom is that soft ground in Ireland is really quite soft; ie would be at least bordering on heavy in England. i have no idea whether this actually translates well to differences in a going stick.

The official Irish term for good to soft is yielding.

Good to soft is not used in Irish going descriptions.

Likewise, yielding is not used in UK official going descriptions.

Lee_SHA

..is correct

Facts     28 Sep 10 13:43 
Lee_SHA

..is correct


No he's not.

loper is, actually.