Carlisle Distance Question

[sberry]

taken from the RP: GOING: GOOD (GoingStick: 7.2; top and bottom bends moved out).

Will this affect the race distances and if so by much a circuit?

Probably of no significance but I thought I’d check.

[The Eye Of Sauron]

In an ideal world, the course would tell us. Just as in an ideal world we’d know the weights (body weights that is) of the horses.

Unfortunately, when it comes to matters such as this, British racing is still rooted in the early 20th century, so we just have to guess.

Surely it’s not beyond the wit of the clerk to the course to wander round pushing one of those bike wheels on sticks, and putting the information in the public domain.

[% MAN]

In fairness most courses do provide precise information – however the sooner the BHA make the provision of precise information mandatory the better for all.

[robnorth]

Carlisle have been moving the rails and missing fences out all season, so giving the distance rails are moved on the bends won’t tell the whole story. They have missed out four different fences at one meeting or another, and it seems to happen so regularly at courses on ‘my patch’ that I’ve named missing a fence as ‘the area requirement’.

I have to report that Kelso and Sedgefield this week totally ruined the theory since all fences were included…..

Rob

[yorkshirepudding]

Unless its the normal, but too mind the horses seemed too run along way too the first, was a fence missing or moved today Carlisle?

The ground looked firm as they were flying over it.

[graysonscolumn]

That would be the norm for 3m110yds races at least, YP – they start just before the stands and have a long old run until they get to the first in the back straight.

In actual fact, that run was shorter today than it has been for most of the season, as they jumped the first in the back straight, which they haven’t during the wetter meetings.

gc

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[dprp]

Having walked it today, I can report that the bend running rails had been moved out a huge amount, reducing the course particularly on the bend away from the stands to an unimaginably narrow width. Must have put a fair bit onto the distance.

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