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I hope those rumours about Fontwell do not involve closure.
It is one of my favourite tracks in the country. At least it was until – as ID says – they went and ruined it a bit.
The damage was caused by far too much racing and the ground did not have time to recover.
To be sold for property development with fixtures transferred to Windsor was the gossip – but not all rumour is fact and let’s indeed hope this isn’t.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"The Racing Post report that Windsor will host the Winter Million meeting fron next year (Another high profile meeting moved from Lingfield).
Strangely they finish their article with “…It was announced last July that Windsor would host jump racing for the first time since 1988”.
Maybe they meant 1998 although, as the videos posted above show, this would still be 7 years out.
Shockingly poor from the industry paper.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
It had been rumoured. There is one meeting in December, which looks like the ideal try-out before the main event.
“Maybe they meant 1998”.
Even if they did, they still forgot the jumps meetings held at Windsor in 2004 and 2005.
This is basic fact checking that would take a couple of minutes.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
A good point on Luck on Sunday today: after yesterday’s announcement, what is the future for Lingfield? It has now lost its two main meetings, the All Weather Championships and the Winter Million.
The only quality meeting is has left is Derby Trial day but that is not really top drawer nowadays.
I suppose the all weather track is still an asset in the winter months but the overwhelming majority of the racing is betting shop fodder in front of small crowds. Not very satisfactory for a once high profile track.
Why, you’d almost think that ARC are planning to run Lingfield into the ground and then sell off all that prime Surrey real estate to housing developers.
The Jockey Club thought that flogging Kempton was a good idea, why not ARC with Lingfield. Windors flat racing programme is mainly fodder, having lost most of its Listed races, the Monday nights are just an excuse to sell lots of booze to punters. Will have to see what sort of NH level Windsor are aiming for. Lingfield is just left with the Surrey National as a race that stands out for half decent prize money, but whats the odds it will end up as the Berkshire National at Windsor.
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