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From a report today in the Post about the problems caused by the low sun at recent Ffos Llas evening meetings:
"We have commissioned a study from the architects who built the racecourse, but we have learnt there is no rhyme or reason to this. Other racecourses who have had similar studies have found the sun confounds their expectations."
So, 467 years after Copernicus published his scientific research into the position of the sun, a document that formed the basis of all future solar astronomy, the Ffos Llas clerk of the course is still a sceptic.
Let’s hope that none of the horses going down the far side fall off the edge of the earth ……
AP
Let’s hope that none of the horses going down the far side fall off the edge of the earth ……
AP
Having made the trek there on more than one occasion it feels as if it could be very close to the edge – so a very real danger
Love it Racing For Change will sort it out APR; they’ve reluctantly agreed that the Earth isn’t Flat but do still believe in the Newmarketocentric Universe
Martha she listens for the ticking of my footsteps, Patiently;
She sifts the hairy air that’s worn and wood-swept, pleasantly;
She does as she pleases, she listens for me;
Martha she calls to me from a feather in the meadow, "Fly to me;"
You can dance and sing and walk with me
And dreams will fade and shadows grow in weed;
She does as she pleases, she waits there for me;
She does as she pleases, her heels rise for me;
My love she talks to winking windows as she murmurs to her feet,
thoughtfully;
She separates in laughter to my side, caught for me;
She does as she pleases, she waits there for me;
She does as she pleases, her heels rise for me;
Martha she keeps her heart in a broken clock and it’s waiting there for me;
She weeds apart through a token lock; What a great thing to be free;
She weeps time, starts unspoken, but when the gate swings there she’ll be,
There she’ll be:in green sun, on blue earth under warm running shower
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Not me, not Gamble, nor even Boycie…just Slick
Four years down the line from the race that prompted this thread, and Ffos Llas haven’t learnt a single thing about the behaviour of the sun.
They are still staging evening jump meetings in June, and they’re still having to omit the hurdles in the home straight from races run at the end of the meeting. Tonight it was a 3M handicap run over a total of six hurdles, with a 6F run in.
Has it ever occurred to them to start 30 minutes earlier and run the bumper when the sun is low?
It’s so shortsighted. The only thing I can think of is that they’re assuming the British weather is so bad that the sun won’t ever come out.
These races at Ffos Las have been absolutely farcical. I always thought that there was a minimum amount of jumps that had to be included in a race for it to be legal.
There definitely has to be a debate about the amount of NH races being run with half the jumps omitted. It’s bringing jumps racing into disrepute.
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