Thank heavens for Polytrack

[davidjohnson]

Hilarious stuff from underscore

[seabird]

Colin

[Ian]

I would rather have blank days than have to suffer all weather racing whatever "standard" it is.

Unfortunately the British climate has done us no favours over the last couple of years. Rain, rain bloody rain!! It’s life, it happens.

[Anonymous]

I’ve often wondered how long turf can continue to be treated as an acceptable surface on which to race.

Comical

[seabird]

"I would rather have blank days than have to suffer all weather racing whatever "standard" it is."

Don’t you enjoy watching high class flat horses, Ian?

Colin

[Tuffers]

I’ve often wondered how long turf can continue to be treated as an acceptable surface on which to race.

Comical

Another erudite contribution Mr. Wilson. I can only assume you haven’t owned a horse injured by running on ground that is:

too firm
too soft
has patches of false ground
has an uneven surface possibly with a poor covering of grass

or paid for a horse to travel several hundred miles only to find the going is completely different to that advertised.

The rest of the world seems to have a completely different view of articficial surfaces. It’s about time those involved in racing in this country considered the wellbeing of its most important component rather than pandering to traditionalists.

[Ian]

I for one don’t want to see the UK "Americanised" with racing being primarily an all weather sport,. Its all very well knocking history and tradition but that history and tradition has made the sport what it is today.

The differences in conditions and the variances in courses is all part and parcel of our great sport – take that away and you take away the heart and soul.

I have never been a fan of all weather. I can accept it has a place, low grade stuff when everything else is wiped out – fine but I don’t want to see it becoming much more significant than that.

[Grasshopper]

Another erudite contribution Mr. Wilson. I can only assume you haven’t owned a horse injured by running on ground that is:

too firm
too soft
has patches of false ground
has an uneven surface possibly with a poor covering of grass

or paid for a horse to travel several hundred miles only to find the going is completely different to that advertised.

The rest of the world seems to have a completely different view of articficial surfaces. It’s about time those involved in racing in this country considered the wellbeing of its most important component rather than pandering to traditionalists.

You may wish to consider changing your tag-line then, Tuffers, because the race it refers to would never have been run, if what you are advocating was in place.

[davidbrady]

IMO it is the bookmakers and Saturday gamblers who are being saved by AW and not racing. I had no intention of watching the AW today and just because Leopardstown and Haydock are cancelled now doesn’t mean I will turn my attention to Kempton and Wolverhampton.

AW racing’s big positive and big negative is that it fills a void in the calendar for the poorer class horse (in general) and I have neither negative or positive views on it.

I would lean very slightly to the negative though as I think it is stopping failed Flat horses from going over hurdles which was the only option prior to the AW.

[Neil Watson]

Only one positive thing has come out of this for me.

I would have gone to Haydock as per usual but with only Kempton being on I had a nice little win on Hattan in the September Stakes.

[GhostofTheFellow]

Agree with underscore tdays racing is complete”drivell” and is only good for exercising horses.

A natural surface for a horse is grass wether is hard,good to soft heavy etc etc they are grazers they are more at home on grass.

I caught a couple of races from Kempton….not good stuff

[Venusian]

Try to be positive.

If they hadn’t had the AW stuff at Kempton, there wouldn’t have been any C4 racing today, and we would have been denied the excellent fillers on Stoutey and the holidaying champions at Ditcheat..

[gamble]

They’re grazers as Ghost rightly says
but it is a changing world and they now
live in smoke filled towns
and have to tread pavements,
How they wish they were footballers
Look LEFT AND THEN RIGHT
forward and pull the old bookie cart
and dream of the old hills.

‘bird you are right
we all need those blank days
and I am sure the horses
appreciate them too.
My winged armchair
has many off days.

[davidjohnson]

Never mind try to be positive, more like stop talking bollox. Today’s card at Kempton was of sufficient quality to have not looked out of place at any racetrack on a normal Saturday. Fair enough if polytrack is not your thing, go and do some shopping or something, but comments like ‘not good stuff’ are just plan erroneous.

[clivex]

Ive never seen such drivel on one thread

There were two group threes at kempton today. Are posters really claiming that they would rather watch a bunch of low grade sprint handicaps at thirsk say simply because its run on grass?

And heavy going too?

its the horses that matter, not the surface surely

And as it happens i have seen far worse and less competitive group threes run on turf than we saw in the September stakes today. A very nice race

Was a enjoyable day today at Kempton too

[gamble]

Quite right
I’m off to get
some shopping

[Grasshopper]

……….but comments like ‘not good stuff’ are just plan erroneous.

Given they used neither the Hurdles or Chase course today, that is surely a matter of opinion, David.

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