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From dolling off hurdles because the sun has the temerity to come out during the day, to going 'cashless' and disenfranchising your own customer base, to calling meetings off because a horse might slip on the grass. And they wonder why attendances are plummeting (especially midweek) I'm glad I am not a youngster - the world is truly fcked.
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It is not " a horse might slip on grass".
It is because they water on incredibly dry ground which just loosens the top few inches. You must live in a high rise building and never had the fortune of seeing how dry the ground has been the last 8 months. This over watering courses have performed the last decade has killed the root system. |
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Sir Mark on watering..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZ-GSLHlds
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Apparently they watered on the morning before racing so i’m thinking they knew they had a problem and tried to correct it but in doing so created another one
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Interesting watch that Grayhawk, thank you
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From dolling off hurdles because the sun has the temerity to come out during the day, to going 'cashless' and disenfranchising your own customer base, to calling meetings off because a horse might slip on the grass. And they wonder why attendances are plummeting (especially midweek) I'm glad I am not a youngster - the world is truly fcked.
Sadly a great post there Stevo, spot on. Ridiculous to abandon just because a few jocks moaned after poor runs - the 3 finishing in the places didn't seem to mind it at all! |
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If I was a Huntingdon racegoer I would certainly be refusing to attend a single meeting there again after yesterday. They don't give a stuff about paying customers in these kind of situations.
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I think it must have been slippery. Most grass died off during the summer and has come back fast in the mild weather. I know that tracks were watered but things are still far from normal. The big question is why they raced at all.
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Now Nottingham has a fire alarm! Racing blighted this week. Ludlow off, Exeter moved, Huntingdon abandoned, now what?
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Indeed sage - if they'd announced before taking ticket money on the gate, might have been a little better...
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