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Strange thing to say, surely it adds to the diversity.
Absolutely it does.
One sharp left-handed Tapeta track; one galloping left-handed Polytrack track; one sharp left-handed Fibresand track; one right-handed Polytrack track, and one sharp left-handed Polytrack track.
In essence, and with only a little creative license, the artificial surface equivalents of, say, Cartmel, Doncaster, Kelso, Ludlow and Newton Abbot.
Do those turf tracks all ought to be subject to the same sort of scrutiny, then?
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Was the purpose of AW racing when it started to at least have some racing if jumps cards were decimated because of a long cold snap during the winter months
Remits change.
AS racing may have been intended solely to keep the show on the road when it launched in 1989, but last autumn more than ever it seemed apparent to me that trainers would sooner run on a trusty, artificial surface – in most cases not dissimilar to that used at home – rather than risk bloodstock on either "autumn heavy" or drier but rough/chewed/exhausted turf.
I can’t see how else you’d explain regular cards of eight races and 90-odd runners at Kempton and Leafy last September/October, when opportunities to race on natural Flat surfaces still abounded.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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Remits change
Bloody laughable , its the bookies/ BHA alliance that has delivered a staple diet of this rubbish to relieve mug punters from their cash
Get real please , you and fellow bookie apologists will never win , you may pile on the dross on a daily basis , but sooner or later punters will get fed up of the dullard tedium that is aw racing
What will you guys be pushing then ,,,,the virtual racing scene beckons ….its about money and racing keeps on taking a back seat
The bookie Rep starts soon , I’m waiting for his mantra , lets feed them more sand …..as if we needed it
Remits change all the time …but our racing is on its knees ,,and will remain as such until someone takes control and boots out all bookies and apologists
If this cap fits you please wear it , if it doesent …then please wake up and smell the coffee ,,,,a few meeting at the flat season back end , does not make the AW our saviour …but for apologists its another opportunity to excrete more bookie led drivel
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I’m with Ricky too.
My approach to AW is to ignore it. I have no more interest in it than synchronised swimming or archery
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Couldn’t have put it better.
We’ve had just one race meeting each day so far this week – Plumpton, Fakenham, Newbury. Tomorrow we have a potential bonanza with three UK meetings plus Thurles.
Only Musselburgh to entertain us on Friday, if that’s abandoned we’ll have a blank days racing for the first time this year.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
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