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<br>If you go to the Ascot website and link through to the redevelopment page, look at the photo gallery and view the picture of the straight mile mentioned under Feb 2005, you can see the new alignment.
Also in that picture to the left, you can see the road that ran parallel to the old straight mile course – that road comes out right beside the old road crossing at the 3F mark – I know because I used to use it as a quick exit at busy meetings.
So that gives a clear idea of the amount by which the straight has been moved.
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Didn’t they also import the turf from somewhere up north?
I think there has to be the possibility that the entire relaying of the track has impacted upon the times in general but that would not explain away the proximity of times to those at the royal meeting and the fact that fast ground horses have been running to their best form.
Would the racing have compacted the soil with racing, quickening it further? Its not as if the the pace wasn’t there at the royal meeting.
The inability of the officials to give a correct assesment of the going is my main hates in racing. That’s why i thought the aw would rectify this being a constant surface. Now this has been interfered with as well. There are enough imponderables in racing without the COURSE Officials not knowing what’s happening. :angry:
At Doncaster a couple of years ago when course records were appearing one after the other on suposedly good ground. It was explained as a springy effect if i remember correctly, occurring after rain. If Ascot is draining extremely fast maybe just enough moisture is being left behind to produce such an effect?
More plausible than Alien interference or the stalls being placed in the wrong place! ;)
I’ve just had a horrible thought that would devastate racing as we know it, Ascot may have produced the PERFECT FLAT RACING SURFACE.
The straight mile track and the jumps course straight have now been completely re-laid 42 metres north of their location on the old site, the grass mix having been selected some three years earlier and grown on a turf farm in Lincolnshire.
(from Ascot website)
The late-lamented EC is correct.
Saturday morning’s The Sportsman also pointed out that the official description of the going was probably wrong…..and that was before we got times as fast as they were at the weekend…..
is there any way i can post a BMP bitmap on here?
(Edited by Cavelino Rampante at 2:38 pm on Sep. 26, 2006)
Its probably easier for me to email the Ascot Striaght Mile Vertical profiles to anybody whose interested? Just post your address up. I’ve done the old one now and I’m working on the new one using the info posted by Mr Potts earlier and pics from the Ascot website.
Cheers<br>Cav
Quote: from clivex on 6:29 pm on Sep. 24, 2006[br]i dont live a million miles away and it tipped down on Friday… Heaviest rain seen for a while
Sunny and nice breeze on sat, but just cant see how ground remained good/firm<br>
Clive,
Just because it pelts down in the grounds at Broadmoor does not necessarily mean it rains the same at Ascot.
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