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Chelmsford allocated 12 fixtures for 2015
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j … 0081,d.ZGUwell done Betfred
Lets see some decent fixtures Sir …the dross calender id overstuffed as it is !!!
hopefully Chelmsford will supply some good racing
I think it’s good news.
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I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwayswell done Betfred
Lets see some decent fixtures Sir …the dross calender id overstuffed as it is !!!
hopefully Chelmsford will supply some good racing
Don’t kid yourself, it is the AW after all. There isn’t anything else but dross racing on these courses.
No racing is ‘dross’ racing in my book, BlackGold. Group 1s or sellers – it’s all great stuff.
From a selfish point of view, I would love to see Great Leighs back in action. I now live in Essex, so it would be nice to have a local racetrack to visit.
I wonder if these will be additional fixtures to what there are now on the AW or take the place of others ?
Seems to be a shortage of runners on AW at times and extra fixtures wouldn’t help.
well done Betfred
Lets see some decent fixtures Sir …the dross calender id overstuffed as it is !!!
hopefully Chelmsford will supply some good racing
Don’t kid yourself, it is the AW after all. There isn’t anything else but dross racing on these courses.
Yes, because the quality from the four turf courses yesterday was un-paralleled.
There is plenty of good racing on the AW, like the turf and NH there is also plenty of ordinary racing.
In your racing Utopia would you just race from Heritage handicap upwards and cull the population and the program to a few races a week?
The winter AW series was fantastic this year, there was plenty of quality on show. More and more big owners and trainers are running horses on the AW these days, classic winners are taking their first steps on the AW, is this the kind of dross you mean?
I suppose you forget of horses such as Les Arc who rattled up numerous AW victories before winning the Golden Jubilee and the July Cup, Jwala, Sole Power, Slade Power, Paco Boy, Ambivalent, Prohibit, Ghanaati, Snow Fairy, Talent, Conduit, Mastery, Arctic Cosmos and more.
All names that have won prestigious group one races in the UK.
The AW does not exactly seem to be going away does it? Owners and trainers support it happily as it is growing accordingly.
I get Ricky’s point that there is a lot of low quality action through the winter and he has a fair point, but Blackgold your inane comments of everything being dross are completely baseless.
Chelmsford is planning on having the UK’s first floodlight turf racing
The turf course would be inside the All Weather.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/j … ace-sunday
Chelmsford has officially been given the go ahead for Sunday
One would hope not, given the less divisive nature of the surface compared to Southwell and the closer proximity of the course to the Newmarket handlers than that or any other synthetics track.
That said, the 3yo handicap only just scraped ten entries at the initial stage, and nothing rated above 96 is being risked despite the provision of a conditions race and a 0-105 handicap (compared to four such animals declared at Lingfield 24 hours earlier, so they’re not all on a plane to Meydan!).
Let’s see. An interesting thing for me will be how soon, if at all, runner numbers start to stilt more towards Chelmsford at Leafy or Kempton’s expense.
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I’ve been thinking that the same number of horses in the south will now be split 3 ways instead of 2 with the numbers of runners suffering.
There can be creative race planning and framing but there is only a finite number of horses to run
Prize money may also dictate field sizes alongside geographical location. Read somewhere that Chelmsford putting up £75k for initial meeting and £50k plus for other meetings
I’m looking forward to visiting Chelmsford City in the next couple of months, having missed the boat and not got to Great Leighs before it abruptly closed.
I can’t believe they seemingly haven’t sorted out the problem of the positioning of the grandstand. If it is apparently in the middle of the course, no doubt giving a restricted view of racing, it will be a bit of a joke.
Can’t believe they haven’t positioned it in a more suitable place, although it is no doubt an improvement on the temporary one they had at Great Leighs before.
Still, I am glad the course has been resurrected from the ashes like a phoenix and am pleased to see this second lease of life for the course.
Great race planning to have the meeting on Thursday, April 16 clash with the second day of the Newmarket meeting, although admittedly the Chelmsford meeting is a twilight card.
Hardly a great start to see that Chelmsford has already upset plenty of Essex locals by denying them entry to the launch meeting tomorrow by restricting who can come in that day. Hostile comments in the Racing Post this week won’t help generate good will.
Crusty,
I was there for the original opening day and had a runner on the card – it was invitation only, so not easy to have got in without being an owner.
The stand is on the inside because there’s not enough room between the outside rail of the track and the boundary of the course to put a stand. If I remember correctly, that came about because of the realignment of the main road outside the track, which reduced the space available.
The paddock and weighing room are also in the middle of the track, so it does also keeep all the facilities close together.
I note that the Racing Post have amended all references to Great Leighs in their results database, so apparently I’ve already had a runner at Chelmsford City!
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