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The state of the injured party is obviously of the most importance, but if they are waiting for someone else to arrive surely they should have an idea of how long that will take? What would have happened had the race started and someone was injured? Would they have stopped it? Seems a bit shambolic.
Best to be proactive and abandon immediately, everyone knows where they are then, not hanging around not knowing what's going on.
should surely be seperate anbulances for public/staff/jocks etc,must mean anyone needing ambulance during a race would have to wait,and if a jock gets hurt ,who takes prefference public or jocks ?
What will happen is we will be in limbo for 90 minutes before it then gets abandoned.
a busy saturday cant surely be abandoned because of some groundsman
anyone living within a mile of a racecourse who ever needs an ambulance is better off getting to the track and alerting medical staff,rather than waiting 6 to 8 hrs at home for an ambulance 
True. Its like its cheaper to go on a permanent cruise rather than go in a private care home !
Has Fitzy given an update or is he too busy trying to find the ice cream van?
Olly just said news of the delay when he gets it !! FFS Where are the course Management. ?
fitzy elucidating as we type..isnt giving mutch away tho.
Waiting for an air ambulance. Horses parading with saddles and weightcloths on ! Get on a lightweight !
Hope the injured party is ok, probably hypothermia as well now.
wont leave current patient,so anyone in crowd needs an ambulance /medical help now,your on your fooking own , the coked up pisheads usually kick off about 3 at newbury 
, the coked up pisheads usually kick off about 3 at newbury
This is all going as expected no fooker doing not much before they realize that it's too dark so everyone has to go home.
The only people who can be blamed are the BHA for making the rules and the racecourse for not having medical cover for the crowd as well as for the jockeys. I suspect that most courses would be in the same boat but surely the chance of a racegoer getting ill on a Saturday afternoon is quite high?
There should be a cut off like in cricket ie if the delay is this long we start cancelling overs and applying DLS (in this races) or if it is so long they call it all off.
People turned up from all over today to be at Newbury and a massive delay like this is going to affect them later on when they’re trying to get home.
People turned up from all over today to be at Newbury and a massive delay like this is going to affect them later on when they’re trying to get home.
Surely you carry on until 20 minutes before sunset as per the rules. Those spectators on course are free to leave when they wish.
Sounds like Newbury executives are penny pinching. If the race is off and something happens to the spectators
do they have to wait 10 minutes for a medic; providing none of the jockeys are injured. Must be a breach of H & S rules
do they have to wait 10 minutes for a medic; providing none of the jockeys are injured. Must be a breach of H & S rules
I suspect idiotic Health & Safety rules are in place as well preventing racing going ahead. If its not life threatening like a broken leg couldn't they treat the person in the medical room and call a local ambulance rather than use the jockeys one?
Was talking to the Mrs Lunchtime , Quite windy where we are ,an Old girl got blown over split her had, Mrs said was 2 hours before an ambulance turned up 
why can Newbury Race Course not buy their own Ambulance ,and rent it to the health board for a grand a day when its not in use?
Sunset in Newbury today is 6.24 pm. They'll have to decide soon. I've tied up 80% of my bank on a massive bet on this race & can't trade out to recover it so very limited investing for me until this is resolved.
If the bloke is in a bad Condition , surely they call an Air Ambulance ?
The NHS in my area is particularly bad waiting for an ambulance. But even worse there's a 10 month wait for an abortion on the NHS!
Fitzy said they had called an air ambulance. Must be very serious.
I was at Newbury 2011 when some horses got electrocuted in the parade ring. The way they handled everything that day was a joke. Newbury authorities have form.
Just wait until we get electric ambulances that someone has forgotten to charge up overnight.
think we all no how this ends and its not with racing
Mar 23, 2024 -- 4:05PM, Manoleeds wrote:
Just wait until we get electric ambulances that someone has forgotten to charge up overnight.
They'd sink in the mud
Whos in charge of PR at Newbury ? Ex Post Office Management methinks.
Mr Manoleeds- might happen- BUT- in the last 5 years I've been in NHS Hospitals where the blood pressure machines are beeping all over the place because the batteries need charging or replacing. What a state we're in!
Newmarket-spurs 23 Mar 24 15:03
I was at Newbury 2011 when some horses got electrocuted in the parade ring. The way they handled everything that day was a joke. Newbury authorities have form.
Kid Cassidy was one wasn't it?
I was at Newbury 2011 when some horses got electrocuted in the parade ring. The way they handled everything that day was a joke. Newbury authorities have form.
Kid Cassidy was one wasn't it?
First day of the flat, and this is the main interest.
Duffy / Wondersobright.... Yes thats right they ran the first race which was ridiculous in itself and then left us all in limbo before telling us to clear off. If I remember correctly we then had to wait for ages for a train to turn up before everybody was crammed in like sardines.
I've never been back to Newbury since. I wonder how many more felt the same as me that day and never returned.
Yes Kid Cassidy was one of the horses....good memory!
I've never been back to Newbury since. I wonder how many more felt the same as me that day and never returned.
Yes Kid Cassidy was one of the horses....good memory!
Duffy / Wondersobright.... Yes thats right they ran the first race which was ridiculous in itself and then left us all in limbo before telling us to clear off. If I remember correctly we then had to wait for ages for a train to turn up before everybody was crammed in like sardines.
I've never been back to Newbury since. I wonder how many more felt the same as me that day and never returned.
Yes Kid Cassidy was one of the horses....good memory!
I've never been back to Newbury since. I wonder how many more felt the same as me that day and never returned.
Yes Kid Cassidy was one of the horses....good memory!
keep drinking everybody, and you might forget to claim your refund on the way out.
I’m at Newbury, and I’ve been told that the injured party is in fact the ambulance driver.
Only a rumour, mind you.
Only a rumour, mind you.
I just don't get it. If someone in the stands at a football game suffered a
heart attack would the game be held up like this?
heart attack would the game be held up like this?
We are officially at the point where if they could resume now (delay + 15 minutes to get down to the start) then the final race would be after sunset.
So I think this meeting is over folks.
So I think this meeting is over folks.
This would be news any day and it is a very good card (or would have been) GB racing just can't get any luck recently. When they do put on a good meeting the Irish win 70% of the races. Mick is back so perhaps we can have this very good hurdle race although the horses will have scrambled brains.
Thousands of People at a Race meeting whats the chances they might need an Ambulance for Some one ?
This is Pathetic TBH ,fooking 2024 ,you would think we were back in 18 th century
Football Game there would be a Couple of Ambulances on stand By ,Makes no sense and TBH questions need to be asked
This is Pathetic TBH ,fooking 2024 ,you would think we were back in 18 th century
Football Game there would be a Couple of Ambulances on stand By ,Makes no sense and TBH questions need to be asked
The next thing we will hear is that Tom Jones happens to be at the meeting and has agreed to entertain the punters in the bar
Third world country, nobody can make a decision for fear of upsetting their overlords and the H&S spoilsports
Quite a few fans sadly suffered cardiac events at football games. At most the matches were held up for 30 mins. Usually the medics at the ground treated the person in question whilst waiting for the local ambulance to turn up. How is this different? Please someone educate me here....
The Newbury authorities are a complete joke.
The Newbury authorities are a complete joke.
Duffy / Wondersobright.... Yes thats right they ran the first race which was ridiculous in itself and then left us all in limbo before telling us to clear off. If I remember correctly we then had to wait for ages for a train to turn up before everybody was crammed in like sardines.
I've never been back to Newbury since. I wonder how many more felt the same as me that day and never returned.
Yes Kid Cassidy was one of the horses....good memory!
Kid Cassidy suffered an electric shock , still raced, and was never the same again.
The electrocuted horses were Marching Song and Fenix Two/
I've never been back to Newbury since. I wonder how many more felt the same as me that day and never returned.
Yes Kid Cassidy was one of the horses....good memory!
Kid Cassidy suffered an electric shock , still raced, and was never the same again.
The electrocuted horses were Marching Song and Fenix Two/
I hope the individual concerned has been seen too and in a comfortable position. But, still a shamble if an ambulance (or driver) cannot be forthcoming. Poor planning.
it was an ambulance man hit by vehicle I believe - not that any of you give a sheet tho.
An Air Ambulance would Arrive in 20 Minutes from anywhere London included , If the Chap is so bad surely that was the Call
Its Madness
10 Mins till the Off Now
Its Madness
10 Mins till the Off Now
I find it Worrying Spyker TBH , Do not have an Accident or Get ill at a Racecourse would be my thoughts on it
It's always the same,every time an ambulance leaves the trac
they have to wait for another one.Don't worry about the injured
bloke though.
they have to wait for another one.Don't worry about the injured
bloke though.
"Do not have an Accident or Get ill" -anywhere in the UK at any time .
Make you Right Mano
Came across an old chap who had come off his Push Bike serious Gash to His Head , Was Just after lock down ,20 minute Questionaire When I phone 999
No ambulance Sent,2 Hour eta Given , Fortunately one of His family Members came by Managed to get him in the Back of Car they took to him hospital
I don't remember such Delays Pre Covid
Came across an old chap who had come off his Push Bike serious Gash to His Head , Was Just after lock down ,20 minute Questionaire When I phone 999
No ambulance Sent,2 Hour eta Given , Fortunately one of His family Members came by Managed to get him in the Back of Car they took to him hospital
I don't remember such Delays Pre Covid
I posted half an hour ago that it was the ambulance driver who was hit, and there’s still a load of old biddies on here blaming the racecourse and/or the ambulance service for the delay.
Please tell me the races won't clash Cry
You really couldnt make it up.
You really couldnt make it up.
Newbury will desperately try to get three races in then abandon. No refunds then
This country has never been the same since the complaining snowflakes got their way with Brexit, we are turning into a 3rd world country, next the snowflakes will be complaining about a motif on the back of a soccer shirt. wtf
If you think Brexit had anything to do with 'snowflakes' then you really do need to study the facts a little closer
Dolling off fences even though the shadows show the sun is at right angles up the straight. What a fecking sport we devote so much time and effort to.
All the punters need at the end of a long day, is a chase with half the fences taken out due to low sun.
Nobody seems to be able to make a decision anymore. Not just in racing but throughout UK businesses.
All the fences in the hone straight and the first in the back straight. Knowing the shape of Newbury I cannot fathom how this can be justified.
Aye Aye... Snowflake alert...Well, you got your borders back and you snowflake Karens are still complaining, No doubt you're one of the "i want my boomerang back" snowflakes like 30p Lee...whine whine whine
Race ended up a farce. Should have just abandoned the race rather than turning it into a flat race.
.... mind you, in 10 years time there will be no such thing as NH racing the way things are going.
.... mind you, in 10 years time there will be no such thing as NH racing the way things are going.
If you think Brexit had anything to do with 'snowflakes' then you really do need to study the facts a little closer Plain
Baby boomers - the most snowflakey generation to exist and they don't even know it - it's great! Everything laid on a plate for them their whole lives and in to retirement, sheeting on the generations to come with bafflingly generous pensions aaaaaaaaaand that still isn't good enough for them.
The country is a mess cos you lot left it in such a mess - even bigger than the mess you lot got us into when we had to 'join' Europe in the 70's. Never has a generation had so much and spunked so much leaving nowt for those to come - and that's without mentioning North Sea Oil.
Good luck with your care in your old age, if you are in the north then you stand a chance of being ok but in the south you will have to give all your savings to shyster care cos for appalling service - if you are lucky! And its a system your generation devised - well done.
Baby boomers - the most snowflakey generation to exist and they don't even know it - it's great! Everything laid on a plate for them their whole lives and in to retirement, sheeting on the generations to come with bafflingly generous pensions aaaaaaaaaand that still isn't good enough for them.
The country is a mess cos you lot left it in such a mess - even bigger than the mess you lot got us into when we had to 'join' Europe in the 70's. Never has a generation had so much and spunked so much leaving nowt for those to come - and that's without mentioning North Sea Oil.
Good luck with your care in your old age, if you are in the north then you stand a chance of being ok but in the south you will have to give all your savings to shyster care cos for appalling service - if you are lucky! And its a system your generation devised - well done.
Didn't watch that last race but you have to bear in mind that fences cost money to repair so it is imperative to reduce the number of horses that jump them.
Was a member at Newbury for many years and a former shareholder. They sold out for residential redevelopment. Was there when the parade ring thing happened. So very sad. Once was a beautiful racecourse. The Hennessy and Racegoers restaurants excellent. Sadly no more. And never a chance of getting a race of on time, jumps or flat. No longer a member, PR and membership admin got it so very
wrong.
wrong.
Snowflakes are defined as people who easily get upset e.g over anxious, missing work by malingering with “modern day stress” , dont want to upset anyone even if they deserve it,, have to have equal numbers of cultures in every advert or drama, and love the BBC. That aint my generation and I am 74. Lived through rationing, poor education, low tech medical help, bread and dripping, 15% mortgages. ,back to back housing, petrol shortages, black outs, 3 day week, very few people owned cars in the 50's no central heating and I had outside toilets til I was 32.
You don't know half.
You don't know half.
Mar 23, 2024 -- 6:47PM, themightymac wrote:
Nobody seems to be able to make a decision anymore. Not just in racing but throughout UK businesses.
Decisions are a lot easier to make when there are no consequences (and legal action) when you get one wrong.
Decisions are a lot easier to make when there are no consequences (and legal action) when you get one wrong.
I think it was the lack of communication that was sadly non existent, not sure about on course punters but the TV studio and stay at home punters were left for what seemed an age without any idea on what was happening. All what was needed as soon as the incident occurred was an announcement stating what had happened and when or not was the racing likely to resume. Not hard imo.
I think it was the lack of communication that was sadly non existent, not sure about on course punters but the TV studio and stay at home punters were left for what seemed an age without any idea on what was happening. All what was needed as soon as the incident occurred was an announcement stating what had happened and when or not was the racing likely to resume. Not hard imo.
Comedy hour yesterday on here. Brexit became purgatory DUE in part to snowflakes. The little darlings couldn't tolerate a democratic vote going against them.
It was widely regarded as the fairest track in the country, flat and jumps and the favourite of many trainers and jockeys. It is far enough to drive from my home in Somerset but I made the effort many times until they changed the car parking and built houses over most of it. My earliest memory was Mill House beating Arkle in the Hennessy and one of the best was Buona Notte winning his first novice chase so a fitting link to John Haine, a childhood friend who was remembered in the first race yesterday. I had gone there with some fellow students from Reading and told them it was a certainty which it was but John decided to give the horse a schooling session for the first mile so was last turning in before cruising past the field and winning hard held. I was called a few names at half way by my mates who were not regular racegoers. Habitat winning the Lockinge under Ron Hutchinson is my favourite flat race of the old days. He was a 3yo maiden carrying about 7-12 and easily beat Jimmy Reppin, the Champion miler at the time. Fulke Johnson Houghton and Charles Engelhard.
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