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The opening of Great Leighs has been put back to March 18 2008.
Meaning another seven races will have to be transferred.
Nothing more to be said really the embarrassing spectacle continues.
What you never had you never miss. Don’t see why there is a thread on this every time it fails an inspection. It will open some day and be a resounding success.
Hello everbody
I live and work and great leighs, and have seen the racecourse developing from day one. I am a chef in the ‘green dragon’ pub wich is in spitting distance of the course. I for one cant wait for completion because as you can imagine lunchtimes are rather busy with all the groundworkers etc. I’m sure my boss doesnt agree though!
I get the feeling from reading some threads on here that the course isnt being received all that well, i can understand why, i’m no fan of all weather racing but i have the novelty of being able to see the course form my upstairs, so maybe i’m biased! But in all seriousness it is starting to look like a racecourse now, and it is good for my local area.
it is starting to look like a racecourse now, and it is good for my local area.
…and that, ultimately, is one of the entire project’s great assets – that it meets a recognisable demographic / geographic need. Take away its two point-to-point venues of High Easter and Marks Tey, and there hasn’t been any recognisable racecourse in Essex for decades, has there (NB need to check Chris Pitt’s book for the precise dates).
For all that it will be peddling my least favourite flavour of racing, Great Leighs will plug as much of a gap as Ffos Las will in southwest Wales next year where coverage of the country by racing under Rules is concerned. There won’t too many parts of the country left that are seriously deficient in that regard once both courses are operative.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Indeed. Can’t wait for it to open! Should get all sorts of banditry going on what with it being neatly nestled between the east-end of London and Newmarket!!!
So when are they going to build an A/W track in the North then Jeremy
Three tracks in the South and one in the Midlands
Mike
So when are they going to build an A/W track in the North then Jeremy
Has Sedgefield been put on hold then?
Thats great to know robharvell, we all know were to go for a fantastic lunch once Great Leighs up and running…..
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So when are they going to build an A/W track in the North then Jeremy
Has Sedgefield been put on hold then?
We have proper racing up here NV, we don’t need any of that artificial surface crap – it just ends up being used for camel and pig racing anyway
Mike
Oh, and sorry, make that FOUR in the South and ONE in the MIdlands
.Think I will get on to Mat Chapman, he’ll have a track built up here in no time
Mike
Mike, can you imagine an AW track within 100 miles of Grasshopper? It would be no sooner up than torched!
There was talk of Musselburgh being made into an AW track, although that’s been quite quiet of late. I think the council may have blocked the plans, but I’d need to look back to make sure. Locals didn’t want it due to comparing AW racing to "A circus of despair and suffering for its’ spectators, which only serves to make a mockery of racing and mankind in general".
Or it might have been about the historic golf course in the centre of the track, I can’t remember.
There was talk of Musselburgh being made into an AW track, although that’s been quite quiet of late. I think the council may have blocked the plans, but I’d need to look back to make sure.
Friggo
I believe the plans were rejected by the local council last year sometime. While I’m not averse to an All-Weather track in Scotland, Musselburgh would have been the wrong place.
Rob
So when are they going to build an A/W track in the North then Jeremy
Careful what you wish for, Mike, lest the diggers turn round and head back towards Sedgy!
Talk returns every few years to reactivating the Lanark racecourse site, without anything concrete ever coming of it, and indeed even the local hunts have stopped using it for point-to-points in the last few years. I’d still proffer that reactivating the site as a sand venue might be to the benefit of the sport, especially if increasing transport costs and dipping prizemoney really starts to render the sending of moderate all-weather horses from Scotland to Southwell and Wolvo non-viable.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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