Haydock Clerk of the Course

ash...he completely ruined the ground at exeter during his tenure there by overwatering in dry periods
winter of 2021/22 onwards in particular its been the worst surface of any jockey club track

even when he's called it g/f its only been g/f in his head because it was mostly time-based good ground
12/10/23, 18/10/22, 7/10/21 etc

and what he thinks is g/s is actually soft

if in doubt, water, and if not in doubt, water also

a complete buffoon

loosemore there now & ryall doing wincanton, 2 good appointments imo

20mm of rain wednesday,40mm thursday. going now Soft, won't take too much more for inspections too be needed.

9s above std for 1 mile...v soft

skiptoomaloumacari24 May 24 12:22Joined: 24 Nov 10 | Topic/replies: 2,129 | Blogger: skiptoomaloumacari's blog
Why do they water for flat meetings exactly......isn't flat racing meant to be run on good to firm ground..???

       Just what I was thinking, Hard luck if you own a horse waiting for Good ground.

just told ITV Racing, Amber weather warning was never in our thinking.

... I thought the same Ash, fair play to him for speaking to Olly, but it still begs the question why water when rain is forecast ??  Not sure where the declaration process came into the argument apart from deflecting away from the original point.

Pretty simple human explanation, there's far more jeopardy in the going being perceived to be too firm than too soft. Jeopardy with the people that they get remunerated by.

Tues - Cooper takes flak on twitter for watering in face of possibility/likelihood of substantial rain

Weds - James Stevens piece, which seems to have been removed or updated, Cooper fretting about Saturday's card possibly being abandoned, but which managed not to mention the fact that Cooper watered (watering mentioned in Wed Daily Mirror piece which is still up)

Thurs- 8am going stick report of 6.2 in time for Saturday's declarations

Fri- still 6.2  (soft, heavy in places) while Bath is 5.9 (Good/good to soft in places) .

Sat 6.3

Nephew of Andrew

Trainers clearly not trusting the Going description of Good To Firm, with 22 non runners all due to the Going.

I presume this time it's like a road, since there's no reference to 'watered'.

Not to worry as we can rely on Bath for the good to firm ground as ever.

you can't blame the trainers either , they just presumed the 'good to firm' would ride on the soft side like usual .

years of misinformation caused this

Looking at the colossal No of NR's unbelievable Jeff come racing.

Hushwing, did you notice Kirk with that 50/1 second place on debut?

wondersobright • May 22, 2024 3:14 PM BST
ash...he completely ruined the ground at exeter during his tenure there by overwatering in dry periods
winter of 2021/22 onwards in particular its been the worst surface of any jockey club track

whoopsie seems to be making a balls of haydock now