Anyone Near Ascot / Weather

[% MAN]

Have just popped outside (11:22) and the rain has all but stopped now – only a few spits and spots in the air.

Mike – thankfully the cooler temperature here doesn’t seem to have affected the fillies – visual inspection is (generally) enjoyable

[% MAN]

Now dry with, dare I say, a potentially drying breeze!!

[seabird]

Great stuff, Paul.

Don’t wear your eyes out on those fillies before the racing starts and have a great day.

Colin

[graysonscolumn]

Yes Lurcano is a non-runner on going grounds

Other non-runners are, in the same race, Supersonic Dave (temperature)

and in the 4:25 Orpsie Boy (bad scope)

Paul, are the details of why a particular horse is a non-runner published anywhere?

Yep

http://www.britishhorseracing.com/goracing/racing/nonrunners/default.asp

Paul

Apropos of which, and sidetracking from the original thrust of the post slightly – isn’t it a pity that the reasons for a horse being a non-runner in a race are not included on the results page for that race on the Post‘s website in the same way that they are in the paper copy.

It’s also a shame that instances of a given horse being a non-runner, withdrawn, etc are not recorded anywhere on his personal profile, i.e. as another tab next to Form, Statistics, etc.

I’d regard it as a useful indicator of an animal who is regularly pulled out of races by connections on account of the ground, or who has proven too unruly at the start to participate, and so on. The same tab could also be used to place a date of gelding, of being found in foal, etc.

All blue sky thinking, of course, and about as likely to happen as me appearing in the Queen’s procession this afternoon, but I can always hope.

Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)

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[% MAN]

Jeremy –

Good point.

I certainly agree regards them being in foal – it is highly significant and, in my view, it should be a mandatory pre-race declaration.

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