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Watching the first race from Plumpton on ATR I will offer 1/10 it ends up being abandoned.
Never mind the wind – the surface water looks really bad – it cannot take much more rain!!!
Just watched it now – thought Fontwell was bad on National Spirit hurdle day 2 yrs ago but I’ve never seen anything like this….disgraceful really, makes you wonder how waterlogged it would have to be to make them abandon before racing.
I see Plumpton have introduced a new jump just in front of the stands and a revolutionary way of racing.
Instead of racing on dry ground and jumping a water jump, it’s racing on water and jumping a ‘dry’ jump today
Mike
Don’t see what’s disgraceful about it. The ground, while very wet, looks perfectly safe. The horses are finishing quite well, unlike the dreadful spectacle which we witnessed at Ayr on Saturday.
I say well done to the Plumpton management for giving the go-ahead.
Agree with Highflyer, looks very safe and the jockeys wouldn’t ride these days if it wasn’t, certainly preferable to firm ground.
It’s not very pretty, but slopping through standing water in the rain is probably less taxing on the horses than would have been the case had the rain arrived yesterday and soaked in overnight to produce the cloying mud more akin to the usual infamous ‘Plumpton heavy’
Highflyer’s spot on. I’ve seen similar scenarios at Towcester in the last couple of years, and they’ve gone through it far better than meetings held on going with more soaked-in rainfall.
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That is waterlogged.
Or ‘good to soft’ as they call it at Auteuil!!
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