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notsure
Thanks for putting it up.I've been wondering where to go tomorrow after seeing the weather forecasts.Now my minds made up,Newcastle or nowhere.It now depends on how bad the forecast is for Newcastle whether I venture out or not.

Was there much rain during racing yesterday at Cartmel allpoints?

The mushes went up but it was next to nowt.There was plenty of standing water & of course mud but it was fairly obvious when leaving that they couldn't take much more water.A horrendous forecast for tomorrow so that've probably made the right decision calling it off early rather than messing people about.
Once again good management by Cartmel for which they should be congratulated.

have cartmel ever lost a bank holiday before due to weather

hear hear allpoints

wasnot there would have been no chance off getting cars on and off, and the middle was a right mess before racing yesterday,let alone after racing,sadly the correct decision has been made.

carpet

i can only go back to 1989 but since then cartme lhave only lost there 3 day fixture in may 2001,meaning that season they only raced on 2 days.

allpoints

i know racecourse bookmakers dont look to far ahead but i was astonished at the ammount of bookmakers who left there joints after racing yesterday,without giving the weather a thought.

I was chatting to one who was going to the Saturday the day before and told him to bring his joint home.  Hope he did.

wasnot the same thing happened chester cup day in the course enclosure many just left the joints overnight.

very surprised as cartmel is rarely called off in spite of being situated in one of the wettest parts of the UK
I cannot even remember a cancellation and Ive been going since the early 70s

wolf

all 3 days of the may fixture 2001.

Morning, jimnast -

To use a Cartmel cancellation analogy  -

'Ploughing' through this lot for today - Started last night, as usual
Treading carefully, though - Hate Bank Holiday Mondays, always have -
But you have to make sure that you are not missing anything - without getting 'sucked in, though.

All 3 days of the may fixture 2001, because of the Foot and Mouth disease.

good morning onlooker,

at least the top flat racing ie doncaster/newbury and newmarket is just around the corner.


norfolk m

thanks for pointing that out i had never gave it a thought.

Yes, jim - Horrible 'Holiday meetings' - at such as Brighton and Yarmouth - out of the way now.
September always one of my favourite months - most especially the Doncaster St Leger meeting.

mine to onlooker good old dony never messed around with anything still the best meeting for punting on the flat all season,hopefully they will get rewarded with a triple crown winner this year,something i never thought i would see.

hope newmarket will see sense and get the dewhurst ,middle park and cheveley park back to midweek.

mine to onlooker good old dony never messed around with anything still the best meeting for punting on the flat all season,hopefully they will get rewarded with a triple crown winner this year,something i never thought i would see.

hope newmarket will see sense and get the dewhurst ,middle park and cheveley park back to midweek.

raining for the last 30 mins at cartmel

I went to Cartmel once.
If it wasn’t for the race commentaries you wouldn’t know they were racing because you can’t see a bleeding thing.
And I’ve never seen so much smoke at a racecourse, it was wafting across the whole place from the barbeques in the woods.
To add insult to injury, I had some fish and chips and the batter on the fish was burned to a cinder.

It's okay for a day out if you're down that way, but it's no place for the serious racing man.

any more rain and it will be off.