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Nicky has already said he will be supporting the meeting Billy, with all the horses who were originally intended runners.
Value Is EverythingNothing to do with it being one of the showpiece races of the whole season, and with one of the richest prizes, then?
Bookmakers, punters, the press, trainers, owners and jockeys all want it to take place, and more power to Newbury and the BHA for facilitating it – or maybe it’d suit the whingers better if the course was covered in snow?
Though of course the prize money is being greatly reduced apparently so that argument doesn’t hold water.
IF the Totesport was such an important race, why put it on a Friday when betting turnover will be down whereas it COULD have augmented the Ascot card on Saturday.
As for the ludicrous argument that it is "the only place to run it", that only happens when it is in a bookamker’s interests as we all saw from the King George. In the past, we have seen races moved around in a cavalier fashion to suit vested interests so we can leave that one alone as well.
The point is that NH racing and training is a winter sport and the skill (or should it be art) of training is to deal with interruptions or forced changes to preparation and still prepare your horse to run in its championship race.
Nowadays, all the likes of Nicholls and Henderson is to complain through their newspaper or other articles and racing runs round like frightened rabbits to appease them.
Had it been me, I would have moved the Totesport to Ascot with its existing prize money fund and bumped up the Ascot chase further.
There really is no pleasing some folk
Taking a pop at Racecourses, BHA and most others involved in putting on the racing show is a hobby I rather enjoy and normally the flimsiest of excuses is sufficient to produce a hearty mouthing-off
But one of the big positives to have emerged in racing over recent years is the willingness to exercise flexibility and re-arrange lost races
You can argue until the cows come home – and several on the ‘electrical problem’ thread have also seen them out to pasture again and gestate a calf – about how Newbury handled last weekend’s events; but I’m sure we can all agree it was no more than an accident – awful admittedly – and accidents do happen. There was no intention and until we’re made aware of the enquiry results no blame can be apportioned.
Therefore, on with the motley: act, behave and organise in the same manner as if the card was lost to the weather. This in all likelihood would have meant the Schweppes and Aon being re-arranged. Hurrah for that.
As for re-arranging the entire meeting for Friday, well I do agree that seems a little unnecessary. Wouldn’t like to see either of the big races transferred to Ascot or Sandown as they’re wholly different tracks to Newbury, but adding them to Haydock would have been fine, and something of a feast given the good card there. And given the Tote sponsor most of Haydock, there wouldn’t have been sponsorship conflict
Anyway, that’s nit-picking. Good to see the races saved, well done.
Are the rescheduled newbury races going to be shown on C4 this Friday?
The first four races are yes. I think that covers all the ‘big’ races.
One thing I will say, if this were Ireland we wouldn’t be having this discussion. They seem to have made the decision that decent races will be rescheduled as a matter of course, and more power to them.
DRONE sadly haydock is no longer similer to newbury now it has its new tight jumps track with velodrome bends and trolly fences!
Point taken, I was rather dreaming of the Haydock of old
Now that he’s in his dotage and out to grass perhaps Cool Roxy with all that Fakenham form could be persuaded to reappear in Haydock’s Walrus Hunter Chase
I am concerned that the racing at Newbury will have a detrimental affect on the card at Ascot on Saturday,
To my eyes many of the horses entered to run at Ascot are more than likely going to run at Newbury instead, meaning their card won’t be as good as it should have been.
I am concerned that the racing at Newbury will have a detrimental affect on the card at Ascot on Saturday,
To my eyes many of the horses entered to run at Ascot are more than likely going to run at Newbury instead, meaning their card won’t be as good as it should have been.
Surely, if those horses entered at Ascot had actually ran at Newbury last Saturday then they wouldn’t have also ran at Ascot this Saturday.
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