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Just to update.
Lingfield is off.
Temperatures of -12 this morning.
Cleared the track yesterday, but from the pictures i have just seen on ATR, it comes as no surprise that the fixture has been called off.
What a pain, Gazza. I can only find one horse out of ten races at Dunstall worth backing – but fair play to everyone down there for making an effort.
Could have raced here in Southwell today – its very cold though. The proverbial witch’s teat has made a predictable appearance.
Looks like the eyes of the world will be once again focused on Southwell tomorrow – this sleepy outpost full of real ale, four-be-fours, Bramley apples, ancient dowagers cycling to market on basketed Raleighs and bollock-shrivelling property prices.
Everyone here is already looking forward to Tom Segal selecting a Pricewise for Southwell. Has he ever done it before? Does he know where Southwell is?
Lets play a game for tomorrow. All you race-starved jumping types have to join us Sandmen and pick ONE horse to win at tomorrows Sandpit meeting. Have them ready by 11am and we’ll sort out a forum Heinz.
It’s a ten race monster at Woolybags today, have they ever staged such a large fixture? Has any other course? I had a look at the opening maiden last night, saw they were all rated in the 40’s bar one and wept. I couldn’t bring myself to look at the rest of the card. I might have another go at lunch.
Scratch that the 57 rated one is out leaving 2 47 rated titans as the top rated in the field.
The party is topped off with a Peter Grayson horse rated in the 30’s. Not only is he not having winners his charges seem to come stone cold last more often than not lately. He must have some very patient owners.
What a pain, Gazza. I can only find one horse out of ten races at Dunstall worth backing – but fair play to everyone down there for making an effort.
Could have raced here in Southwell today – its very cold though. The proverbial witch’s teat has made a predictable appearance.
Looks like the eyes of the world will be once again focused on Southwell tomorrow – this sleepy outpost full of real ale, four-be-fours, Bramley apples, ancient dowagers cycling to market on basketed Raleighs and bollock-shrivelling property prices.
Everyone here is already looking forward to Tom Segal selecting a Pricewise for Southwell. Has he ever done it before? Does he know where Southwell is?
Lets play a game for tomorrow. All you race-starved jumping types have to join us Sandmen and pick ONE horse to win at tomorrows Sandpit meeting. Have them ready by 11am and we’ll sort out a forum Heinz
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Oh dear
Best get scratching my head and looking at the fixtures then!
Is that any race from any of the AW tracks tomorrow, Maxilon? ? ?
Or just Southwell? ? ?
It’s a ten race monster at Woolybags today, have they ever staged such a large fixture?
March 8th, 2008 – that year’s renewal of their Lincoln Trial and (Listed) Wulfruna Stakes fixture. Some of the "matinee" fixtures (i.e. some racing, then two hours’ break for food and entertainments, then more racing) may have extended to 10 races, too.
Has any other course?
Cheltenham did, just five days after the above! That was, of course, in the face of exceptional circumstances, though, as the final two days of the Festival sought to absorb the races that "Windy Wednesday" contrived to delay.
Further back in time (mid-80s and before), the likes of Worcester and Hereford have served up double-digit race fixtures; and there’ll doubtless be at least half a dozen Point-to-Point fixtures this season that will cut up to 10 races or more. The season’s opener at Black Forest Lodge last weekend comprised nine races as it was!
gc
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.
Could have raced here in Southwell today – its very cold though. The proverbial witch’s teat has made a predictable appearance.
Are you likely to be at the course tomorrow, Max? If I can get to and from Southwell safely (and it is an "if", given the trains aren’t running through Worksop and the car’s still snowbound at home), I’m intending to be there, too.
Simply put, I don’t care if it is the coldest snap since Jesus Christ himself was a 7lb apprentice for Reg Hollinshead – if I don’t get out the house and see some live racing very soon, I’m going to go
MAD
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gc
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.
I’ll be there, GC. The gang were
so
looking forward to seeing Mike Cattermole and the fragrant Emma Spencer up here in the frozen north…
…but then, we all woke up and realised Kempton’s on too.
*sigh*
See you tomorrow, I hope! The roads are all fine now, but I’ve no idea about the trains.
Gazza, any race, sir.
Has any other course?
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Further back in time (mid-80s and before), the likes of Worcester and Hereford have served up double-digit race fixtures; …
gc14 races at Hereford one day in 1975 was the most, I believe.
Rob
Who knows maybe this years King George Chase will be run over 3m on the Polytrack under the lights at 8pm jumping over little bales of hay as fences.
Just been out for a morning constitutional with the gun dogs. Been snowing like the set of "White Christmas" all night, but the temperature’s risen and its thawing sweetly. I doubt there’ll be any problems on the roads.
However. Fog is forecast for midday. Whether said fog is going to be the Rathbone-like Whitechapel version, an emerald tinged James Herbert or a soupy, freezing Johnny Carpenter, I couldn’t say – they don’t go into that much detail at the Met Office. A fog’s a fog.
So get here before twelve.
For the sand skeptics amongst you desperate for a day out with the missus, there’ll be barrels of mulled wine, a spit roasted oversized rabbit, jugged hare, roast chestnuts on the brazier; a Fruit-of-the-Loom reindeer sweater concession; free "I Did It On The Sand" ball caps, (a range of colours); a Santa’s Grotto for adults, Caribou rides to Averham and back, the Hawaiian Tropic girls on tour, a warming bonfire (with a Paul Roy guy), and a Crazy Golf course with luminescent balls.
Probably. Best of luck.
That was unlucky, Gazza!!
Nothing was going to beat that favourite yesterday, was it!Coach party of plankton at Southwell yesterday annoying the locals. On the surface, a hybrid gang of students and part time football hoolies who, in their entirety, resembled young farmers (some wearing currently fashionable
flat caps
– Briony eat your heart out!).
Snowball fighting, attitude, heavy drinking and – smoking weed! I couldn’t tell whether they were betting or had visited the paddock – I’m not Raymond Morris and I was busy losing next weeks rent money on hyperslow horses, but if I was speculating, I’d say not.
There was a lifesize cutout of Tony McCoy by the doors out to the freezing stands, encouraging racegoers to vote for the great man to be Sports Personality of the Year. You can imagine the fun the plankton were having with Tony. He was dragged everywhere with them – a Coach Party plus one.
Weekend racing huh?
I can see a major incident happening at the racecourse this year which, stable door horse bolting style, will put racecourse policy over heavy drinking into the spotlight.
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