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Aldaniti,
If it’s at all possible, can you shrink the size of the Gt Leighs pic, please?
It’s causing ends of lines of text to run outside of the viewable area of the screen.
Ta!
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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.
Hit CTRL+F5 to force a full reload of the page and grab the new version of the image.
I’ve now done that & the photo is smaller but I still can’t see the righthandside words
Hmm, narrower resolution on your screen than other people’s, perhaps, or something of that nature? All the text has been reinstated on mine now.
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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.
From the RP
GREAT LEIGHS is planning to hold an open day on January 28, but there is no guarantee that it will be the opening day of racing at the first new racecourse to be built in Britain since Taunton in September 1927.
The only certainty about the situation at the Essex venue is that January 28 is the earliest that racing can possibly take place, after the executive handed back to the BHA a further nine fixtures, from December 28 to January 17, for dispersal elsewhere.
Uncertainty about this beingthe starting date for racing was raised when course chairman John Holmes revealed on Thursday that a "preview day" would be held on Monday, January 28, the next day in the 2008 racing calendar for which Great Leighs has been granted a fixture, but that the event would be "invitation only".
He added: "It will be aimed at previewing the racecourse and its associated facilities to the racing industry and media, and thanking the people of Essex who have supported the project through all its trials and tribulations."
The opening date will be determined by the BHA course inspectorate, who Holmes said had been invited to visit the site on December 3, "with a view to signing off the new racecourse."
Throughout the long period of delays, BHA officials have stuck to the guideline of requiring a clear period of two months, between giving full approval and the start-date of racing, in order to trial all facilities, from the all-weather track to the integrity services.
This week’s intended inspection was called off because there was no prospect of the course being ready to start trialing immediately.
If the inspectorate is to take up the invitation with any seriousness, Great Leighs now has a month to finish work on the stables, the Polytrack surface and the raceday infrastructure, which are currently at varying stages of completion.Holmes said: "We will announce the start-racing date after the inspection. It would not be appropriate to pre-empt the BHA’s findings."
One prominent racecourse feature has been completed – a three-storey, Georgian-style complex to house operational, administrative and marketing offices, the construction office for main grandstand development, and a number of VIP suites and meeting rooms, which management will occupy shortly.
The nine fixtures, including five evenings, that have been handed back will be auctioned between the only alternatives – Arena Leisure’s all-weather courses and Kempton – on Monday.
Their return brings to 89 the total of officially allotted Great Leighs fixtures that have been lost. The course also had to relinquish a further December 2006 fixture bought from Newbury, when the Berkshire courses decided against an all-weather project.
GREAT LEIGHS IN NUMBERS
382: Days since Great Leighs was originally due to open. 89: Number of fixtures Great Leighs has had to give up. 70: How many fixtures Great Leighs has left in 2008.In the meantime, I’ve posted a little article on my blog regarding the current state of the other racecourse in build at present, Ffos Las, partly inspired by the photo of the site in the Post just over a week ago.
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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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