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GC – I look forward to seeing you at Ampton on Sunday.
James isn’t commentating for a change – Matt Coleman is on the mike and if he’s in his Horseheath form he’ll be very good.
Noted! I only heard him do the one race at the first Horseheath meeting last year when you were all giving him a try-out. Did he do more after that? I thought one of the Sporborgs usually did the meeting after that, though that might have been a few years ago.
Looking forward to catching up with your good self. Didn’t know whether you’d be in Nad-Al-Sheba or not, but on further thought remembered you were at this meeting last year as well.
Yep, hoping for a dry day, too. Not expecting one, though. Time to deploy the waterproof clipboard again!
gc
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He couldn’t go to Nad Al Sheba,there were more important goings on at the Abbey Stadium (although he probably wishes he hadn’t bothered!!).
I plan to be at Barbury on Sunday, weather permitting. Believe it or not it will be my first P2P…
You’ll enjoy it , its a great setting. Going could be interesting with the rain that has swept right across the west country in the early hours.
GD, I can confirm what apracing has to say about the Swindon taxi-drivers and Barbury Castle.
Every other weekend I would go home from Barbury Castle to say hello to the wife and daughters. The return trip on Sunday inevitably ended up with a taxi-driver asking "Where???".
Good idea to take a map.
Colin
Of course if any of you are able to report on here what conditions were like then it would be appreciated as I will probably need to set off quite early Sunday.
We’ll see what we can do! Alternatively, don’t have any bones about phoning up Talking Point very early on Sunday morning. They don’t tend to sit on going updates – if the organisers ring though with a going update at 6am, it’ll be on the phone service p.d.q. thereafter.
It’s just courtesy, really, especially at this infant period of the season, where some horses have to travel miles out of their areas for runs. We’re another week off the North West Area, a fortnight off the North Area, and fully six weeks off either of the Wales Areas starting, for example.
I’ll be at Ampton, in Suffolk, and I’ll be surprised if at least one prize doesn’t find its way back to Warwickshire, as happened at the same meet last year.
11am seems an early time to start,even in the height of winter I can rarely remember a rules fixture starting that early.
Remember that most pointing meetings routinely employ a 35-minute gap between races (an absolute godsend for race-readers confronted with an 18-runner Bonvilston Open Maiden to quantify!), plus occasionally a bigger gap somewhere in procedings if there is to be a parade of hounds or somesuch.
Ampton is starting at midday to facilitate a seven-race card ending at 3.30pm, ditto Black Forest Lodge, ditto Sheriff Hutton and Detling if required. Barbury could easily run to eight or nine races and has been time-scheduled accordingly.
Have to echo what HJ suggested re: your chances of getting very wet, btw – the Good Book even has a permanent entry that says of Barbury, "Weather can be diabolical so come prepared". Don’t say you weren’t warned!
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Somebody has put results and comments on the Jumping for Fun discussion forum for today if any one wants them.
Just my luck that after setting off to cycle to Didcot to get the train to Swindon I got a puncture which mean I had to do an about turn and miss out today.
Gutted as I was looking forward to Thisthatandtother’s pointing debut which I believe he won.
Presumably he’ll be running in Hunter Chases over the coming months.
Won’t be around for the next meet at Barbury which I think is in April which is a shame.
Anyone able to tell me how a horse called Lee Gap Fair is getting on in East Anglia?
Was chatting to his owner at Auteuil so fingers crossed he’s running well
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