All weather finals day

indeed joseph.  they've manufactured it rather well. 

3 favs under 2/1.

22 races

slybet paying an extra place on 19 of them. 

Absolutely magnificent card at Newcastle

Agreed

Facts I honestly believe you won’t see a better card until the opening day of royal Ascot.

A superb card at Newcastle, backed up by Lingfield and Chelmsford.

Is this some sort of religious thing ?

there's artificial surface racing,tomora and sunday aswell,so whats final about it?

Do not normally bet on the synthetic stuff, will make an exception today, just at Newcastle.

Each way double on 2 King Power runners, Fantastic Fox & Power of Destiny both 10/1.

Good luck.

Absolutely magnificent card at Newcastle

       YEP.

Agreed and there has been a proper build up of qualification for the races which reduces the chance of a £1million purchase being parachuted in from abroad (or from Coolmore) It is not that long ago that there was no racing on Good Friday and those who prefer a racing free day need not turn on their computer or TV or read their paper. Be grateful that a course can put up £150k per race and attract so many good horses in competitive races. Would you prefer level weights with 4 runners? Not sure the other 2 meetings add very much but again if you are not enthused, don't watch. Spend the day doing someting useful like helping older neighbours with jobs, litter picking your neighbourhood or just relaxing with a book. And Andrew Balding has plenty of runners at Newcastle which is my main betting interest at the moment.

townley, today is the end of the official AW championships in the same way as Sandown is the official end of the NH season in GB next Saturday. If you follow the sport you should have known that 12 months ago!

GL barstool. I've backed Heathcliff 3.35 but the King Power runner won the race last year
and I always fear previous winners.

As a confirmed atheist my bets today are

L15 eway

Diligent Harry 3.35N 9-1 (3pl)
Steel Tiger 4.00C 9-1  (4pl)
Kiniro 4.50L 8-1  (3pl)
Golden Garden 5.30C 13-2  (4pl)

Eway singles & double on ST and GG.


May God be with me.

My head is spinning looking at the 6 furlong sprint narrowed it down to 10 shame the great big gossey hasn’t travelled over although my head would have spun even more

ooh you told me dint ya, sir or madam.

Thanks saddo, good luck with Heathcliff, probably has most to fear from the top weight.

loved the kempton turf at easter with 2 classic trials, Think one was the Masaka stakes , today and tomorrow terrible flat racing for me

"Classic Trials"

No decent nag ever won them with Elmaamul being the exception.

Stop whining lads, we never had any racing full stop on Good Friday.

My local track has the pick with a listed race kicking things off.

someone mentioned skybet paying extra place in 19 of 21 races i think.I may be wrong but i think that means you dont get best price guarantee in these races and they knock the prices down at least a point under others.

The only negative about today is that it seems have detracted from tomorrow which was always a big day in the calendar, flat and jumps. I seem to remember Frankel winning the Greenham so trials are not a total waste of time.

The prize money on offer for this meet is daft.
You are talking about Royal Ascot types of rewards for winning one of these.
Just what is the point?
The All weather championships is never going to be an event on the social calendar so why chuck so much dosh at it when it would be better spent raising the prize pots on ordinary midweek cards?
You could offere £20k to the winner and still get competitive racing.

The point is that the sport is steadily moving to AW surfaces the world over and the run of the mill turf tracks will be gone in 10 years. Anyway not complaining with Berkshire Whisper at 8.6 yesterday. If things fall right Balding could top £1 million for 2025 by tonight.

sageform • April 18, 2025 2:00 PM BST
Anyway not complaining with Berkshire Whisper at 8.6 yesterday

what time does that 1 run?

A great card at Newcastle totally ruined by the recent harrowing it seems

OK wonder I have also backed 3 more Balding runners today so you can scoff when they get beaten. As I must have made it clear most weeks for 5 years that I back about half of all the yard runners. Do I really have to post them all to avoid the aftertiming tag? Being serious for a minute, the only 2 of Andrew's that have underperformed in the past 2 weeks were New Century and Bellum Justum. Why? Because they were sent over to the US in the winter probably. And yes I did back them both this week.

If the future was all all-weather, I'd never have another bet: like today, telly not on, no interest

same here Whallop,

So who were the All Weather Champions?

I'm talking horses.

Looking at the ratings of the winners, there were none at Chelmsford.

Looking at the ratings of the winners, there were none at Lingfield.

Looking at the ratings of the winners at Newcastle, there were winners rated 94,95,95 and Wonder Legend rated 100.

So 100 is the best we've got.

Champions?!

Don't think any will be globe-trotting any time soon.

Likewise whallop and elis. No interest in a load of AW hcps. Didn't even bother to turn it on.
Had there been proper championship racing, level weights , such as they used to have at Lingfield on Good Friday then it would have been of more interest.

not to worry another 30 or so rubbish hcaps tomorrow, no wonder coolmore and nullins are laughing at us

not to worry another 30 or so rubbish hcaps tomorrow, no wonder coolmore and nullins are laughing at us

The last race was 5.66 seconds inside standard, a new course record

On AW showcase day the best out there is a 100-rated horse and yet almost half the races run on the flat each year are on the AW.

.this is what bookies want not punters.

Yep they got the Lot , one Bookie had the audacity to say they took 47 Bets on 200-1 winner

47 £1e/w bets on a 200-1 shot, a massive £10 grand payout for those poor chappies........it's fair to assume they would've taken a little bit more on the race and every multibet up and down the land would have had a loser in it.

Think the fella who owns the horse  Named it after his Mum who had passed away, he said he had a Bet on it

Probably other Folks betting the Name of the horse for same reason  G luck to them

But your spot on Swifty  The blood suckers trying to use to their advantange