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A question was submitted to teletext racing pages asking which are the group 1 tracks in this country they reply from Teletext was:
Flat: Ascot, Doncaster, Epsom, Goodwood, Haydock, Newbury, Newmarket, Sandown, York
NH: Aintree, Ascot, Cheltenham, Haydock, Kempton, Newbury, Newcastle, Sandown.
Are these correct? I thought they were more group 1 tracks than these.
I always assumed a course was given Grade 1 status if it held a Group/Grade 1 race, which would fit those lists.
yes, I read that this morning as well; doesn’t seem right that Haydock should retain it’s nh status after what it’s done to it’s fences.
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A question was submitted to teletext racing pages asking which are the group 1 tracks in this country they reply from Teletext was:
Flat: Ascot, Doncaster, Epsom, Goodwood, Haydock, Newbury, Newmarket, Sandown, York
NH: Aintree, Ascot, Cheltenham, Haydock, Kempton, Newbury, Newcastle, Sandown.
Are these correct? I thought they were more group 1 tracks than these.
Just my view, but I would have thought that a grade 1 track should regularly attract grade 1 horses?
That would put Haydock out of it for the flat, and replace Newcastle with Wetherby for the jumps.
Looks better to me anyway?
Haydock is undoubtedly a Group 1 track, great facilities, brilliant viewing from all enclosures and one of only two British tracks that stages Group/Grade 1 races on the flat and over jumps.
Irish Stamp,
Go to the upper level of the Tatts grandstand and you can only see the final furlong and a half. The rest of the straight is obliterated by the roof of the new stand built only a few years ago. But then when have the Haydock executive ever cared about the customers who are interested in watching the racing!
I’ve been going in Tatts since I was 13 (admitedly not been since 2005/6 season) and always found at least one place to view the racing – with a full view of the course, even if it means standing behind the betting chaps with the computers etc.
Irish Stamp,
Ascot – Long Walk Hurdle, Ascot Chase, numerous flat races.
Sandown – Tingle Creek, Eclipse
AP
I’m strangley reminded of the classic ‘Record Breakers’ joust, where the young whippersnapper in the audience tried to tell Norris McWhirter that he had the carat-value of the Cullinan diamond wrong.
Mind you, I have been on the Transcendental Woodbines.
Just ignore me.
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