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Drone,
Yes, that’s me – hoping for a bit part in the Simpsons.
The racecourse is at 28 – 39 ft, but locally the banks of the Ouse are between 41 and 28 feet high (which may be where the misunderstanding arises). That means in normal conditions the actual water level of the Ouse is lower at no more than about 26 feet high. The 3 new racecourse main drains lower the whole of the local racecourse water table sufficiently for course drainage to work effectively over the summer racing period – the water will drain, for most days of the year, into the Ouse by gravity with large pipes laid at very flat gradients. The pumped borehole extraction will further lower the local water table. If the Ouse should be in flood, then it takes many weeks for the local water table to rise at all from the river, as the course is sufficiently far from the river. All a bit on the edge but it just works for the Fens and Venice.
Reet – yes soccer pitches and particularly the grass courts at Wimbledon are more like precision engineering to get the right and even bounce at every place on the court – these are relaid each year for perfection. I have already made good from all this on the "edge" at Ascot where traditional thinking regards to draw and track bias remains routed to expecting the past patterns to reappear, they won’t. The best horses will be able to stretch out and run to their very best.
I’ll get my day-glo jacket!
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