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Why don’t we say this more often during the NH season ?
Good track that trainers enthuse about and is in the centre of the country so attracts support from across the British Isles, drains easy so ground is often the best available during the winter..And yet aside from a few decent handicaps, it’s devoid of top quality racing and offers low prize money.
Doesn’t Northern Racing own/run Donny? If they do then you have your answer
Beat me to it – used top be Arena now ARC -say no more!!!
Doesn’t Northern Racing own/run Donny?
How lovely.
So when’s it being closed then?
Mike
Is that all it is ? I thought it might be but it’s a prime venue for better quality racing.
Is that all it is ? I thought it might be but it’s a prime venue for better quality racing.
It may be a prime venue but its owners are people who know nothing and care nothing about the racing but are just there to make money.
The viewing is poor for flat racing, terrible for NH because the jump track is inside the flat track. Few places where you can hear the commentary properly, you are more likely to enjoy drunken screaming and lads praying "fall, fall, just fall" as the leaders near the last and their bet is second.
Nice big shed for everyone to get pissed in though.
Your words would suggesr Aji that you’ve only ever attended Doncaster on Saturdays and the summer Thursday evenings which are, like the majority of courses, a haven for the loud dipsomaniac; it will be just grand there today and it brings back fond memories of the long-standing Monday meeting in January, lost sadly a few years ago
Don’t have a particular problem with the viewing, though being a circuit of around two miles does mean the horses appear to be in Nottinghamshire as they trundle over Rose Hill. As with the majority, if not all, courses if you want to actually analyse the race watch it on TV
I, and others, have enjoyed several moans on these pages concerning the woeful underuse of Doncaster during the NH season, largely for the reasons outlined by MarkTT
Look how well Ffos Las – another fine galloping course on well-drained surface – has coped with the incessant rains, and in wet West Wales too!
That track is a winter haven for the South; Doncaster should be for the North, but I fear it never will be
Doncaster has one of the fastest growing economies in the country,its a different world to the one I knew when I lived there during the reign of Lady Beaverbrook and Charles st George but its a town thats never forgotten its Heritage and never will.As a child travelling from London to Scotland on the Train I could always recognise the Station just from the giant black and white photographs of St Leger winners past.There was a time when 200,000 gathered to watch the St Leger on Town Moor,those days are gone but the locals still support their course loyally,its incredible but true that the majority of the local public that go there stay underground in the bars and the vast indoor betting area rather than venture out front and watch the racing.There is a massive Party atmosphere on the Big days,The Lincoln,November Handicap,Great Yorkshire chase and of course the St Leger itself but the revellers do enjoy a drink!! That then carries on into the Town itself afterwards and being the finest server of ‘Ladies of the night’ thereafter,its always memorable to say you rode the Winner yourself!
Its common knowledge that since the new stand was built a change of atmosphere has hung over the place,security there is almost Paranoid and that doesn’t go down well with the revellers as in the 30yrs of supporting the course I have never once seen a fight and yet I can guarantee one every Friday night in my local bars.If the local fraternity have forgiven ‘Northern Racing’ for their tighter regulations the one thing they haven’t forgiven is the famous ‘Chicken Curry’ taken from the Menu……..Unforgiveable!
I’ll be there today on a fact finding mission to see if a horse I said last year would win this years Champion hurdle.If he is the horse I think he is he’s got to beat the Champion hurdler himself today,No mean feat on a very windy day on Town Moor I know!
Doesn’t Northern Racing own/run Donny? If they do then you have your answer
Beat me to it – used top be Arena now ARC -say no more!!!
Doncaster is owned by the council and was leased to Arena leisure on a i think 99 year lease.
Town Moor is common land and can never be sold or built on there was enough fuss when the elected mayor wanted to have some trees removed.
It is also Doncaster’s biggest attraction so any attempt to do it down or get rid of it would be opposed and rejected this is one site that ARC can not sell.
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