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Heavy rain currently over The Channel Islands, and the whole English Channel - currently heading up the Channel, from South-West to North-East - and fringing onto Goodwood.
Any local report would be appreciated.
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- and then there is this guy ...
Seamus Buckley feels the course at Goodwood could handle some rain without a significant change in the going description after a dry night prior to the second day of the Qatar Goodwood Festival.
Officials at the course are braced for rain at some stage on what is set to be the wettest day of the week but clerk of the course Buckley remains unable to say with confidence when it could come and how much could fall.
Buckley changed the official going description to good all over on Wednesday morning and said forecasts are now suggesting any rain could move through the area more quickly than first anticipated due to the blustery conditions.
While he acknowledged there is a chance the going description could change, Buckley added the course could take up to 6mm before a major change in the going may be required.
"The ground has dried out but I don't know how long we'll hang on to that because there's rain coming in around lunch time," said Buckley. "I'm unsure how much but 5-6mm would not do us any harm, we'd probably hang on to good, maybe go towards good to soft in places. The way it's drying out, we might need 4-5mm just to keep it sweet.
"As long as we don't have a really, really wet afternoon, we should be ok. The forecast at the moment is for rain during racing but it's moving quite quickly, it's quite breezy here now, so it's moving quicker than perhaps we were expecting. We might have a period of rain before lunch and then it brightens up, but that's in my dreams maybe.
"The first forecast I heard today was for rain until midnight and then moving away to be dry after that into tomorrow morning, with three dry days to come after that. Today is likely to be the worst day on our best day."
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Buckley is retiring this year - after 23 years as Clerk of the Course at Goodwood.
He says ... "we might need 4-5mm just to keep it sweet.
For those 23 years he has been petrified of the word FIRM appearing ANYWHERE in his GOING reports.
Goodbye Buckley.
Any local report would be appreciated.
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- and then there is this guy ...
Seamus Buckley feels the course at Goodwood could handle some rain without a significant change in the going description after a dry night prior to the second day of the Qatar Goodwood Festival.
Officials at the course are braced for rain at some stage on what is set to be the wettest day of the week but clerk of the course Buckley remains unable to say with confidence when it could come and how much could fall.
Buckley changed the official going description to good all over on Wednesday morning and said forecasts are now suggesting any rain could move through the area more quickly than first anticipated due to the blustery conditions.
While he acknowledged there is a chance the going description could change, Buckley added the course could take up to 6mm before a major change in the going may be required.
"The ground has dried out but I don't know how long we'll hang on to that because there's rain coming in around lunch time," said Buckley. "I'm unsure how much but 5-6mm would not do us any harm, we'd probably hang on to good, maybe go towards good to soft in places. The way it's drying out, we might need 4-5mm just to keep it sweet.
"As long as we don't have a really, really wet afternoon, we should be ok. The forecast at the moment is for rain during racing but it's moving quite quickly, it's quite breezy here now, so it's moving quicker than perhaps we were expecting. We might have a period of rain before lunch and then it brightens up, but that's in my dreams maybe.
"The first forecast I heard today was for rain until midnight and then moving away to be dry after that into tomorrow morning, with three dry days to come after that. Today is likely to be the worst day on our best day."
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Buckley is retiring this year - after 23 years as Clerk of the Course at Goodwood.
He says ... "we might need 4-5mm just to keep it sweet.
For those 23 years he has been petrified of the word FIRM appearing ANYWHERE in his GOING reports.
Goodbye Buckley.
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I have no interest in the rain or the going, for me it makes no difference to my betting
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Raceday Live
By Mark Storey - 3 minutes ago Mark Storey LATEST Goodwood latest: it's raining The rain has arrived at Goodwood and it's pretty heavy |
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Buckley is retiring this year - after 23 years as Clerk of the Course at Goodwood.
Best news for punters this year, just need Tellwrong to follow suit... |
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Rain tends to play havoc with the form at Goodwood
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Fecking good riddance to this worthless old goat. Goodwood should have a beautiful surface like at Bath and Salisbury but for this idiot and his consistent over-watering. Summer racing should be good to firm or firm if no rain - end of imo.
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got it in 1 crawford
its not just the rain, its a legacy of consistently over-watering |
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good ground
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g/s now hush
7.4 on the stick prior to the rain today |
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Its pi$$ing it down! be heavy by the end of the day!
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looks farcical
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Undoubtedly the worst clerk of the course, Can't wait to see the back of him.
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Good to soft
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How on earth can that be called good ground 10mins before the off?
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Because the Clerk of the Course lives in a world of continual DENIAL.
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Clearly Goodwood CotC lives in cloud cuckoo land, times suggest it was soft yesterday and how good can still be in the going description today beggars belief.
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Officially "soft" now having been "good" 20 mins ago!! You couldn't make it up (although with these changes in the going every couple of minutes it sounds as if that's what somebody actually does!)
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Inaccurate going reports at racecourses with significant bookmaker sponsorship is no coincidence imo...
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Got it in one WSB. Ridiculous overwatering, so that some rain falls, we end up with jockeys finishing like NH riders in a wet January. Fecking joke.
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Soft now
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By Mark Storey - 21 minutes ag oMark Storey LATEST Goodwood latest: going now soft Clerk of the course Seamus Buckley said: "We've had 15mm of rain and I'm changing the going to soft." |
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By Mark Storey - 20 minutes ago Mark Storey LATEST Goodwood latest: jockey views After the first jockeys Graham Lee and Jame Elliott described the going as soft. David Egan said: "By the time we were coming up the straight it was getting chopped up." |
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Before the first circa 1.30pm he came on RUK and said their tweet that 10mm had fallen so far today wasn't accurate and wasn't that much. 40 minutes later it's 15mm
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it will be heavy before long
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Slowest Goodwood Stakes in the last ten years was 4m 36s - today 4m 48s. Buckley wouldn't know his a**e from his going stick.
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Any chance that a clerk of a racecourse will state the ground to be much better than it actually is in order to try and deflect criticism of over watering?
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It's been p1ssing down all day so watering doesn't come into it. The incentive could possibly be attempting to hold up the fields.
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Straight to the nursing home for the doddery ****....
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the goodwood joke shop continues
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Bookies retirement fund day.
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25 seconds behind standard and he called it good to soft
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Probably chucked a bit more on last night just to keep it SWEET
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49mm of rain yesterday, dry and windy since midnight.
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^ It will need a Hurricane - to get it back to normal ...
- although 'normal' for belligerent Buckley means that the Going must have NO 'Firm' in it whatsoever. |