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insp 11.30am
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Ive said my prayers ,,,
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I hope its off,,,
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If it is I hope they move the Long Walk Hurdle elsewhere.
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Nothing on the bha website what exactly is there purpose ?
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rained heavily in the night;amazed it wasn't called off at 8am.
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they should open a book on how many races get run before its called off
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inspection at 11.30
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Gazo all the smart areses said that about Uttoxeter and ascot yesterday
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and then southwell came in and saved us all
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Ascot Racecourse
@Ascot · 30m FURTHER INSPECTION PLANNED 11.30AM Racing this afternoon will be a marginal decision. However, we are doing everything we can to navigate the areas of concern, principally on the back straight, down the hill on the hurdles track. 1/2 |
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Nobody commented on Southwell that would have been to tricky to predict
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true but if it happened today you would get no money back and miss the best races which are usually towards the end of the meeting
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Gazo it’s not ideal I accept that but I think you should give it every chance yesterday Uttoxeter looked sure to be off after 5 races but they sorted a few things out and to there credit got through the card ,if ascot starts I would be pretty sure it will finish they are hardly short off a few quid so don’t need to extract the urine.
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why would any racing fan want it called off especially as this is it till thursday
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Islesham you have been on here since 2002 I am surprised you ask that question.
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Yes, no racing until Thursday and not really much on offer today should it be called off.
I get the impression that they more and more cautious every year. Let's hope it goes ahead. |
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weather much brighter now...i think they'll race
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5 days without racing is a long time
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Clerk of the course didn't sound too optimistic IMO.
'Poached ground' on the bends not good? Moving rails and hurdles. 50/50 |
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Chapman saying Ascot maybe too precious re the ground? Much worse at Uttoxeter yesterday.
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Only we British are daft enough to have racing on turf in our winter climate!
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And we will be getting more rain with these mild temperatures for this time of year.
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raining again...have revised my opinion.
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stand outside with an empty jam jar for half an hour posy and measure how full it gets mate
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roggrain 21 Dec 19 09:52
Only we British are daft enough to have racing on turf in our winter climate! The only other alternative would be AW racing in the winter then....what a frightening prospect!!! |
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would you risk your good horse on false ground?
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Two responses, kevo. Firstly, if AW racing were the only winter racing the quality would improve considerably and two, why is there no flat
racing on turf in the winter? |
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starting stalls
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Gazo, tractors.
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I seem to remember there were some national hunt all weather meetings about 20 years ago. Can recall hurdle races but not over fences.
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Looks like alot of standing water on track, plus more rain to some. Cant see them going ahead unfortunately.
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You would think for the trainers and racegoers sake they would have said either on or off after the first inspection.This would save all the people and horses any travelling problems.They are useless in this country,you cant keep everyone dangling until 11.30,the first race elsewhere is at 11.45.Bloody disgrace for all,punters.racegoers and trainers.Totally unprofessional,such as our horse racing rules and stewards.We are still horse racing in the Dark Ages when others are up to date with todays world.Never forget the time at the Olympics when they brought in technology to measure long jump distances,we still used a Tape Measure a few years after.
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did try AW racing over hurdles, found it to be not beneficial to the horses
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If conditions were unsafe wouldn't there already be a mass of non runners?
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they are trying to move rails to make it safe,then trainers and jockeys will see what its like
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I thought Stickels was very arrogant on TV this morning
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roggrain,
I'm sure you are aware that top class NH racing kicks into gear in the autumn and winter when ground conditions are more suitable for the majority of the horses. It is no surprise that the top 10 betting races in this country are dominated by the big NH meetings and thefore more popular with the public than flat turf. AW meetings are not even on the radar. Look at the attendance on the 2 day Boxing Day meeting at Kempton and compare it to the sparse AW racing attendance there for the whole year with only a few bookmakers on course. AW racing was introduced in this country to keep the betting shops open when harsh winter conditions caused abandonments of turf racing, and obviously the advantage for these tracks are they can have far more racing as the surface is easier to maintain compared to turf. I lost interest watching the AW racing some years ago mainly because of the low grade banded racing. When the jumps season ends I will again take an interest in the decent class turf racing usually the first Newmarket meeting. |
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Jockeys, reps and trainers will walk the course beforehand.
Yes, Stickels was arrogant when posed the question,'what might change between now and race-time. Stickels "The rails" |