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They just need a bit of positivity:
Sing along:
The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There’ll be sun!When I’m stuck with a day
That’s grey
And lonely
I just stick out my chin
And grin
And say:Oh!
The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
‘Til tomorrow
Come what may!Inspection tomorrow 07.30am at Cheltenham.
It’s really cut up, obviously, and now the heavy rain has got in. Rain thru to midnight, maybe 01.00/02.00am tom morn.Here ‘down the road’, in BS34 it’s been incessant, heavy all day.
What a farce in the 1.20 at Plumpton!
And just to add to the farce, a horse fell at the first hurdle they jumped which was meant to be “safe”!
Every so-called amateurs’ race with PW Mullins in it, is already a farce. But this one was even more farcical. Just imagine new racegoers asking themselves why there are so many obstacles in the straight that aren’t jumped. NH Racing must be dangerous and only to be held when there is cloudy weather.
Here we go again (possibly). Ok, maybe not.
Tiresome really. Surely they could come up with some temporary fencing or similar contraption, that gets erected on raceday morning, to block out low sun.I find it quite pathetic actually, considering they get this problem most years.
The sun which was out prior to the start Turners Handicap Chase (which would have caused the final two fences in the straight to be omitted on both circuits) went in and they decided to run the races with all fences being jumped – on the final circuit the sun came out again and meant the field had to jump the last two fences (directly facing into the sun)……..and what do you know not a single mistake by any horse!
The sun is properly out now yet the next race, the Unibet Middle Distance Veterans’ Chase Series Handicap Chase is also being run with all fences being jumped (including the ones in the straight that would again have been omitted) and no yet again no jumping issues…..makes a mockery of the wole argument!
Ruby on ITV made a rather ironic comment about horses not apparaently being able to jump with low sun after the Turners Handicap Chase but ITV really need to make a much bigger point about it as these two races have shown that the whole premiss of omitting fences is built on flawed logic.
It is frustrating but I can understand racecourses being cautious. They don’t want to leave themselves open to legal action.
They have made a rod for their own backs – as I have said many times previously, low sun is not a new phenomena and I don’t recall really seeing many (if any) slalom races on sunny days back in the past when I grew up watching racing.
Not sure how anyone could take legal action (on what basis?) as we have evidence that low sun doesn’t effect a horse’s ability to see and jump fences and jockey’s saying their horse took off too soon because of the shadow the sun created is just their opinion because we also see many horses every day of the jumping week take off too soon at fences when there is no sun in the sky at all.
From time to time, horses will guess and come up way too early at an obstacle irrespective of whether there is low sun in the sky and as they have vastly different viewing capabilities to that of us humans you cannot just assume that mistakes are as a result of the low sun simply because low sun effects a humans ability to see.
“I don’t recall really seeing many (if any) slalom races on sunny days back in the past when I grew up watching racing.”
But I expect that was in the era before health and safety became an industry and before ambulance chasing lawyers started encouraging everyone to sue.
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