After the horrors of Goodwood last week – where a succession of twilight three and four year olds (who twenty years ago would have been targeted at minor Group 3’s and Graduation Stakes) are aimed at high prize money handicaps, each race contested by two or three notoriously tricky trainers with multiple entries, with limited weight variations, all racing on ground selectively watered on the whim of a tap-happy jumps enthusiast – I can’t wait for Class 7 Banded racing on artificial surfaces.
Only three or four can possibly win, the all-seeing Oracles of Delphi (as has been discussed all summer here) are alive and well on the betting exchanges and watering an artificial surface only makes the surface more consistent.
Bliss, meowds. Bliss.