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First meeting without the bulldozed drop fences at Haydock this weekend.
Here’s a look at the new portable version for anyone who hasn’t seen them already.
They better not forget to put the brake on at the last or the fence might end up passing the post before the horse
Always feel these changes take something away from racing……Haydock’s fences have been part of their history and now that’s gone.
Money Money Money……….tradition flies out the window. Be running friggin plastic horses next
I’m surprised Haydock haven’t staged a quiet midweek fixture to try out the new fences. Putting on the Betfair Chase as the first race over the new layout seems a bit like relaying the turf at a cricket ground and having a Test against Australia as the first game on the new wicket.
According to the map on the Post site, the open ditch and water jump from the old chase course will still be used on the first circuit, so like Kelso and Hexham, there are two different routes past the stands, one for jumping, one for the long run-in.
Here’s hoping it all goes to plan.
AP
Well if anything goes wrong I can give you one bit of very good advice………don’t be within a million miles of Ginger McCain
……….he has already gone nuts about these fences and he is not a man to mix his words.It was a shocking decision to be honest and something should have been done, but it’s too late now.
Really can’t believe that keeping the status quo was dragging down Haydock.
Look at some of the things that Haydock has going for it.
A huge potential customer base, terrific road access, good viewing facilities, high quality racing at some NH meetings.
An innovative Racecourse Management Team should have been able to develop those factors into something that the public would want to see but they took the lazy (IMO) option and cut costs at the expense of the good of NH racing.Very sad.
AP,
Reckon that’s the old map – the water jump had gone last time I was at Haydock, despite the Management saying it would remain.
For those who haven’t seen it previously, herewith a few lines of my rubbish on the drop fences, patronage of Haydock’s jumps meetings, and so on;
http://thatracingblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/wholl-take-drop-for-taking-away-drop.html
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
despite saying at the time that he will never have another runner at the course,i see that trever hemmings is running turpin green in the betfair tomorrow.
im off there too despite saying that i wouldnt go again,if trainers are still happy to run the top horses there then it might be not as bad as we feared.
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