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For Information if anybody is interested. (from Essex Chronicle 10th April)
There is an open day on Monday 14th April from 2pm to 8pm. All sorts of staff, part or full time needed.
Wanted : Project Managers, Builders, and anyone who can organise a pi$$ up in a brewery.
I believe getting the racecourse to open on time is going to be this year’s final challenge in The Apprentice.
In a tragic late twist, the unquantifiably posh Telegraph pin-up Raef Bjayou gets run over by the 12-fingered oik operating the sand harrowing tractor, thereby slightly weakening his claims to be able to work with prince or pauper and leaving the way clear for despotic, lantern-jawed ginger mentalist Jennifer to prevail.
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it’s a shame they’re not looking for piss takers and general knockers of all weather racing, otherwise they’d have no need for an open day, they could just PM most of this forum
there will be a press release monday 14th regarding the first 3 meetings commencing 20th
Agreed, a map would be useful.
The entrance to the course for racegoers is on the A131 south of Braintree/ North of Chelmsford. AA direction signs have now been put up.
At the risk of continually moaning about Great Leighs. I still think they are being a mixture of optimistic, complacent and incompetent.
It’s only a week before the re-scheduled first meeting, and they still haven’t even run any trials. I think they have been cancelled twice recently, due to nothing more than bad planning, & not foreseeing obvious problems. When the trials do take place, they could potentially throw up loads more snagging issues, or even more serious issues about the track, which could delay it even further. This is a bit from their press release last week: “We need to get some horses going round the track at racing pace while we also need to do things like time how long it takes to get from the stables to the paddock. It definitely won’t affect us racing on April 20thâ€
I’m with Simon – I get the impression most people on here won’t be happy until the track is closed and Holmes is bankrupt.
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Seconded, Colin.
I am in little doubt that Great Leighs will add something to the rich tapestry of racing in the isles – it’s just that it should have started adding that something many, many months ago.
Moreover, the sport has a vested interest in all new and / or redeveloped course projects both coming to fruition painlessly and then proving economically viable as soon as possible. Great Leighs’ protracted and troubled birth is hardly hugely encouraging for any other individual or consortium out there considering initiating something similar.
My little Apprentice-themed jibe was not a trashing of Great Leighs for what it is; rather, it was a catalyst for my frustration at how long the whole damn thing is taking to reach its end.
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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.
Unless they are going to add some grass, and build some jumps I cant see it adding anything to racing in this country. I can’t wait to watch banded racing on Ch4 in about 12 months time….
I fail to see how Great Leighs can be considered a major embarrassment, so long as the Morning Line is still being shown every Saturday, Kirkland Tellqwright is still issuing going reports and Fiona Needham is still employed in racing.
Football seems to have coped perfectly well with the much more public delays and problems at Wembley – and a far greater percentage of the population will know about Wembley than do about Great Leighs.
GC,
Are you sure that’s a picture of someone from The Apprentice and not a shot of Gordon Brown, the early years?
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lol @ AP
Can’t quite imagine Raef barking "Pru-dent!!" over and over, somehow…
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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.
Am still amazed at annual membership being £500.
How can that me right for seeing 0-75 handicappers when you can pay half of that for Cheltenham and Newmarket.
It is interesting looking at their web site.
All their meetings up to the 13th May are being described as "Preview" meetings, with Wednesday 28th May being listed as the first "Public" meeting.
It begs the question when is an opening not an opening?
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