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I wouldn’t imagine that undersoil heating would be of any use in jump racing, and I don’t think expense is necessarily the problem.
Dependent on whether pipes or wires are used to provide the heating I believe they have to be within 6 to 8 inches of the surface to keep it frost free. Anyone who has crossed a jump track at this time of the year will know that horse’s hoofprints can be very deep. It would be very likely that horses cutting into the surface would damage the system.
I believe covering tracks offers the best solution, and it works in all but the worst conditions. Unfortunately the extreme conditions of recent weeks are just something the sport has to put up with.
Rob
Why don’t we just get undersoil heating for every county in the UK..please get real people…it’s only a sport for goodness sake..
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Ditto, Don’t want it don’t need it.
Talking about Jumping and A/w. It will be interesting to see the pictures from Kempton later to see if there’s still a lot of snow about?
I’m still bamboozled why they never ran the King George this week……..way too long the 19th and as Nicky Henderson says it’s bound to affect other meetings around that time. That seems a bit unfair to other tracks…… Run this week there would have been no need to re-open any of the races and it would have been unlikely to affect many is any.
Sorry for the rant but A/w jumping won’t be back any time in the near future.
The King George is being run on the 15th because the sponsors (a bookmakers, therefore very important) wanted it run then and weren’t prepared to dovetail it onto someone’s else card this week.
Nicky Henderson (a trainer, so less important) had enough clout to get the Fighting Fifth rescheduled because it suited him but he’s not important enough to get the King George run at Newbury today.
For once and for the wrong reasons, Hills have done the right thing. The King George is a championship race for 3-mile chasers and it provides a contrast to Cheltenham. For a horse to prove itself a true champion, it has to be the best on different tracks and different ground at different times of the year.
Trainers bleating on about this interrupting their schedules ought to learn how to train horses – if you train in Britain in the winter, there is the possibility of snow and frost interrupting racing. A good trainer deals with these problems, works round them and brings their horses to the racecourse when the race is run – the bad trainer whinges on about how their precious schedule has been disrupted.
I cant see A/W jumping coming back because of the reasons other posters have stated, but Suluk and Hiram B Birdbath, stalwarths of the sport in the early 90s, remain two of my favourite horses.
Why don’t we just get undersoil heating for every county in the UK..please get real people…it’s only a sport for goodness sake..
I agree. What a stupid idea the undersoil heating of racecourses is. It’s nearly as stupid an idea as making a frost proof course out of sand, synthetic fibres & old tyres. They’ll be suggesting we put up floodlights next.
Oh wait, hang on a minute!
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