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The two evening meetings tomorrow are at Chelmsford and Kempton.
Both in the South East and both on an artificial surface. In the height of summer.
Take the positives – there’s no AW evening fixture at Lingfield tomorrow.
One despairs….
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"At least there is no chance of them encountering ground with “firm” in the going description.
Check out the ground in the 1989 Extel Handicap at Glorious Goodwood: https://youtu.be/cayHdQZ5sRE
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Great clip. None of those horses looked like they were hurt by running on firm ground.
I remember a few of them. That was around about the time I was getting properly interested in racing.
Great front running ride by Pat Eddery. Never in doubt!
Biennial went on to finish five-lengths third under 9st10lb in the London Gold Cup the following May at Newbury on quick ground.
He later won a 22-runner Windsor novice hurdle by seven lengths also.
I don’t think the dreaded “Firm” at Goodwood did him too much harm.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Those long lost days when Windsor had jumping and novice hurdles had 22 runners.
It is enough to bring a tear to the eye.
It certainly is.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"If there had been eight runners in one of the big handicaps last week we’d have been hearing all about it.
I was having a look at the 70s and 80s Goodwood cards on the goingbehind.com website and the fields were worse than they are now.
Ps, didn’t Sweeping run last week with Hollie aboard?
I recall when Extel ended their sponsorship, and it became the Leslie & Godwin Spitfire H’Cap….I’m sure one did a fly past on the day of the race.
I may be wrong but I’m sure the Paul Mellon owned, Ian Balding trained Spinning won 2 races at the same festival; Tote Gold Trophy H’Cap, and the Schroeders Glorious Stakes.
As for the original point, AW racing has its place – but it’s not in the middle of a summer evening.
I think Spinning did win twice at Glorious Goodwood. His second win convinced Timeform to remove the dreaded squiggle against his name.
Timeform deserve a squiggle themselves – anyone who follows their souped-up ratings religiously needs a double squiggle.
Firm ground acceptable, 22-runner novice hurdles at Windsor, those were the days!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Thinking about the Timeform squiggle, I thought this was interesting:
“As for the original point, AW racing has its place – but it’s not in the middle of a summer evening.”
And tomorrow it is Kempton and Wolverhampton on a sunny August afternoon.
Although I am going to Wolverhampton.
Wolverhampton has picked up fixtures from Bath, deemed unraceable due to Hard ground and very limited watering facilities.
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