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As discussed elsewhere on this forum it’s rarely the surface that dominates the decision making process in snow cancelled race meets, it’s also the safety of the journeying horses and punters. If it snows and settles between Friday afternoon and Saturday am I can’t see any way the meet goes ahead sadly.
Marvellous – another morning snowed in, with a hike across fields and up and down hills for a few miles to feed the ‘oss!
As you say, the forecast until recently on the MET office site was for sleet, now heavy snow.
Lets hope theyre wrong with the snow and it misses Newbury completely!
Such a great meeting in prospect
I hope they don’t make a premature decision at 8am. The snow is meant to be followed by sleet.
Can somebody help me a minute please.
Newbury,Kempton,Bangor,Warwick are all in doubt for the weekend meetings.
Today they raced at Taunton.
Why not move the major races from Warwick and Newbury to Taunton for a Somerset Super Saturday?
Good idea Neil but Taunton had heavy snow throughout last night and is still going this morning, but if they omit all the fences I’m sure Denman could bull dose his way through the snow.
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Doubt it Ken.
Even if there’s only one AWT meet on it’ll be enough to ensure the comp runs.
Excellent work by the irish authorities once again with the fast/smooth rescheduling of their top class Hennessy card –
Looks like Kempton will try to race again tomorrow.
Also an additional race, replacing the Aon, is on the card – with Denman possibly running.
Excellent news and seeing Denman at Kempton will be fascinating – if he hacks up would they then consider the King George in the future? Obviously it’s all about getting the great horse back on track/proving his wellbeing though so really hope it gets the go-ahead.
Would love them to have switched the Game Spirit as well as Denman/Master Minded would surely have packed the crowds in but you can’t have it all
I can’t agree on the re-scheduling of the Leopardstown card to next Sunday, at the expense of one of Navan’s best racing days on the calendar. 3 x Gr2’s pushed out to a working Monday is not a good idea. I’d be pretty pissed off if I was a member of Navan racecourse.
Would be fascinating to see how Denman acts round Kempton.
Not ideal for the big horse, but I’m sure he’ll be fine. He has won three times on right-handed courses before.
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I can’t agree on the re-scheduling of the Leopardstown card to next Sunday, at the expense of one of Navan’s best racing days on the calendar. 3 x Gr2’s pushed out to a working Monday is not a good idea. I’d be pretty pissed off if I was a member of Navan racecourse.
Do the two courses not work together anyway – I notice they sell a joint Fairyhouse / Navan membership.
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