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Looks like it’s reared it’s head again
The clerk watered haydock on Tuesday despite bits of rain in the forecast for every day up to Saturdays meeting
You can’t make it up
To do this at haydock, a track that takes rain notoriously poorly just seems plain stupid
If Haydock anywhere like.us it be swimming. We had that much rain in over 24hours and more to come
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I live not too far away from Haydock. The rain here yesterday was the heaviest for months and it is still raining, albeit less heavily, now.
Worth posting this video again of Sir Mark Prescott talking about watering and why it is done:
Yesterday they were worried Saturday’s card would fall victim to the rain.
The more I know the less I understand.
The CoC needs firing, or more relatively, throwing into the nearest river/ canal. Completely brainless actions, when anybody with an interest in the weather knew we were going to get a significant amount of precipitation. And so it turned out; it started on Tuesday evening, and hardly stopped until Thursday
morning….It really beggars belief……
Did the new Clerk at Haydock learn his trade under Mr Tellwrong by any chance?
Value Is EverythingThe rain in mid week was so heavy, it triggered off the flood warning system which was recently installed in my neighbourhood after a tragic incident last August.
With that volume of rain (which was forecasted), it is extraordinary how anyone at Haydock could have thought it necessary to water.
The authorities, so quick to condemn trainers and jockeys for misdemeanors, should be asking the Clerk what he was doing.
They should also be demanding to see whether the clerk or his friends / associates backed soft ground horses ante-post.
Now I am not saying he did, but apparently stupid decisions like this means it is a possibility.
Value Is EverythingOli Bell & Co this morning were sympathizing with the Haydock clerk for this week’s meeting, as the forecast rain failed to materialise earlier in the week, so he decided not to water. As the ground was only good to firm on Thursday he shouldn’t have been watering with or without rain. The directive is supposed to be, water to produce good to firm.
I am at my parents house, only a very short distance from Haydock. It lashed it down with rain last night. There was further rain this morning but the weather is good now. I will be very surprised if Haydock missed all the rain.
Fake news I’m afraid from Oli Bell.
The clerk when interviewed this afternoon said they never had any intention of watering and it did rain on Tuesday.
The complete opposite of what Oli said this morning.Heaven forbid we start a flat meeting in summer on straight up good to firm ground
Lets hope they don’t ruin the meeting by getting this wrong. Sandown today started on good-firm having been watered, changed to good-soft after 1 race, shows how quickly it can change.
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