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Racing today was due to take place in southwell on the All Weather track but it has been abandoned due to the weather. How can this track be described as all weather.
Meanwhile racing goes ahead on two of the softest jumps courses in the UK.
Racing today was due to take place in southwell on the All Weather track but it has been abandoned due to the weather. How can this track be described as all weather.
Meanwhile racing goes ahead on two of the softest jumps courses in the UK.
Oh dear, not this same old nonsense. The weather is extreme and the course is flooded. Any course could flood doesn’t matter what it’s called. Do you expect the horses to swim? A good tweet by Simon Rowlands on this.
Hope pedants who gleefully point out that “all-weather” does not quite mean ALL weather pause for a while to consider term “steeplechasing”.
You’re not a gambler till you’ve had a bet in a class 6 Southwell claiming race.
I was looking forward to that today.
You’re not a gambler till you’ve had a bet in a class 6 Southwell claiming race.
Are you reading Nathan?
I’m not a gambler, am an investor.
Value Is EverythingRacing today was due to take place in southwell on the All Weather track but it has been abandoned due to the weather. How can this track be described as all weather.
Meanwhile racing goes ahead on two of the softest jumps courses in the UK.
Oh dear, not this same old nonsense. The weather is extreme and the course is flooded. Any course could flood doesn’t matter what it’s called. Do you expect the horses to swim? A good tweet by Simon Rowlands on this.
Hope pedants who gleefully point out that “all-weather” does not quite mean ALL weather pause for a while to consider term “steeplechasing”.
It isn’t nonsense though is it? ALL weather means ALL weather. Therefore for the meeting to be abandoned because of the weather is a contradiction in terms.
I think the executives, plus the clerks of the courses of Southwell, Kempton, Wolverhampton, Chelmsford, Newcastle and Lingfield. Should all be hung by the neck until they’re dead on the grounds of treason. It’s a simple solution to the A/W debate. We’re not Yankies, we’re not Arabs. We’re British, and we race on turf. Anything else, is simply not cricket old chap.
It is an extreme but does happen occasionally just as I suspect Windsurfing is abandoned because of high winds. Cricket has been stopped when the sun is out but was reflecting into the batsman’s eyes from a window. I’m sure there are other cases as well.
Are you reading Nathan?
I’m not a gambler, am an investor.Ginge me old cocktail sausage you may invest in the horses
but you have gambled with your health by winding up a whole host of TRF in the past and no doubt the future
one day one might catch up with you but don’t worry as I’ll be the first to visit you with a bag of grapes and a get well card provided they are at a value price, now stop gambling and carry on banging in those invested winners…..
Charles Darwin to conquer the World
Racing today was due to take place in southwell on the All Weather track but it has been abandoned due to the weather. How can this track be described as all weather.
Meanwhile racing goes ahead on two of the softest jumps courses in the UK.
You’re soooooo right wexfordman. The next thing they should do is to abandon Flat Racing at tracks like Ascot (uphill finish, therefore not FLAT), Newbury (undulating, not FLAT) or Epsom (downhill, not FLAT). What do you say about that?
…….Meanwhile racing goes ahead on two of the softest jumps courses in the UK.
The fences at Lingfield must be the softest in the country.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
Nothing wrong with any of the A/W tracks, if you know your stuff you can make it pay.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysThe fences at Lingfield must be the softest in the country.
I’m afraid that’s the norm for most tracks these days, having a jumping test has gone out the window, they just want as few as fallers as possible.
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