thurles thursday

Morning

how do they 'get' racing on

Surely it's decided by the weather & not the racecourse?

lol

some racecourses are better than others at getting racing on.

can depend on how much they wont it on just look back at the day mccoy rode his 3,000th winner.

Newcastle were prone to cancel a meeting or two when it suited them.

Don't worry Thurles will be on , yet to be called off .The most dependable track in Ireland.

That's reasureing workrider at least you and Holywell understood where I was coming from.

With racecourses reportedly getting 7k+ per race when racing is on, I'm not a member of the conspiracy club that suggests they pick & choose when to race in bad weather

It's not a case of that some are better than others at getting racing on .

Anyway hopefully workrider will be right minus 4 and plenty of fog around in the morning I wouldn't fancy the likes of Haydock and Ludlow getting racing on.

Fog seems to be following Irish racing, Punch,Gowran ,possibly  Thurles unreal.

No problems at present soil temperature plus 2 degrees.

That's some going description

pictures on atr now, fog looks the biggest problem.

Two years ago they showed brilliant pictures from a hand held camera from a car there.
Forecast to linger in some places all day.
Looked on tv to be fairly dense so hope that made it look worse than it really is.

Ive been racing a couple of times at Thurles when it was completely unraceable! Dont think they worry about the ground much there.

They've done that a couple of times lately pa. Like at Gowran at the weekend. Preferred it to the normal view!

Can look a bit strange but the detail is brilliant rather than the "long view",i prefer it as well CCM.
Car is only a few yards off the course there as well which makes it probably the best one for that.

I was there the first time they did it,think it was Ken Whelan who first had the idea and got a driver to take him round after them .

Another WPM runner fares badly. He's had several disappointments lately.

A load of Sh ite.  Might as well not be watching the race for all the use the camera on the car is.

Did the fav bring down total recall ?
they both seemed to go at the last

The car is going too fast ,needs to slow down.

Indeed, the car was fine until the last, then accelerated away
and only the lucky few saw the fallers.

Conspiracy IMO

They both looked very tired wallis. Think they fill independently.

Think the driver thought the leaders were travelling better than they actually were!

The car needs to be careful when it drives past the fly-tipping round the back!

Thanks CCM.

November WM 20 winners from 46 runners. GE 31 winners from 144. Almost twice GE's strike-rate.

Possible 15 min delay (visibility)

Fell independently winner would definitely had won .

Hope you had a good day, bet you thought you were back in the 50s

It was a fantastic experience and I mean that workkrider you are very lucky to be able to go racing over here and have fun,yes it was a throw back to how racing was in England in the 70s and 80s I wasn't around in the 50s,everybody there actually watches the races difficult in the first of course,but once the fog cleared it was a great view,thankfully no big screen to spoil things,great to see more people with binoculars than you would see in a 30,000 plus crowd at York,really looking forward to the next 3 days .

Glad you enjoyed it .

Anyone give a fiddlers about this Thursday ?