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Just wondered what BetMGM and BetUK are thinking as sponsors, when the most high profile of flat jockeys (Moore, Marquand, Buick, Spencer, James Doyle) are all riding at Chelmsford on Good Friday.
I’m thinking thank God I’m not covering one of Spencer’s from the back on the bridle , meeting trouble , didn’t get there rides …
All weather racing or more accurately racing on an artificial surface is an absolute load of rubbish.If we have to have this trash it should only be held between December & March.
How do the AW tracks in these islands compare to those in Deauville and Chantilly? Are they designed more like greyhound tracks? Are the French ones broader with more generous bends? Perhaps someone has experienced both.
Chantilly and Deauville both have layouts similar to Kempton,right handed, 3F straight. Chantilly has a chute off the end of the back straight that allows them to run 1900 metre races with just one long bend into the straight.
There are other AW tracks across France that race regularly. Cagnes Sur Mer is a mirror image of Southwell but warmer and with a more picturesque backdrop! Lyon La Soie is solely an AW track, with turf racing at the other course in Lyon, Lyon Parilly.
Pornichet is another AW only track with a 7F circuit and the whole place looks a lot like Wolverhampton. Pornichet is on the north bank of the Loire estuary, so the equivalent of having an AW track in Southend.
The big difference with here, is that all these lesser tracks also stage trotting meetings, so are not solely reliant on flat racing as a business. But there’s no apparent AW snobbery in France, Deauville stage AW races on the same card as a Group 1 race on turf, and there are no riots in protest.
Must admit I watched yesterday but not all of it but wasn’t tempted to bet on it.
The more I know the less I understand.
Typical that ITV show this sand pit stuff but ignore Cheltenhams 2nd day or even the Epsom spring meeting.
It’s as if the bookmakers are telling them what to showThanks AP for that info on the French AW tracks. It must be just the magnificent settings of Chantilly and Deauville that make them look better!
I wonder why that Trotting never developed in the UK like it did in Europe and North America. It seems to fill a big gap over the French Winter period because jumping isn’t very strong. Strange too why hurdling as we know it doesn’t seem to be that popular across the channel.
And I thought we had at last started to get rid of this snobbery toward a/w racing.
I recall watching Jack Hobbs make his racecourse debut at my local track.
What did he go on to do the following year?
Oh yes second in the Epsom Derby before romping home in the Curragh equivalent.
good luck to all
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