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Seems an eminently sensible thread. Some horses like racing round tracks like Carlisle and Towcester so their jockeys should try and find a hill midway through a race at Newbury to improve their chances.
Yes. The wording "ground it likes" may be causing confusion. Firm ground may jar up and hurt a horse with unsound legs and joints, but otherwise horses do not actually like much anything except polos and carrots. "Ground it likes" really means, in the usual misleading jargon, ground that a horse can best compete on. It has no particular enthusiasm for that ground, but relatively slower horses with plenty of power and the right action for best traction can go better than lighter fast ground horses, with daisy cutting actions, which can slip, when the ground is softer.
It is similar to when a lower league team overwaters the pitch to slow down the pace advantage of a Premiership team in the FA Cup.
In the Eclipse, the ground on the stands side was Good so N went faster and was not incovenienced by it.
The Sandown finish is uphill which better suits power/stamina horses rather than speedsters.
N goes faster on better ground but would be likely outpaced by G1 fast ground horses on Firm ground. None of the ground at Sandown was Firm.Thanks for that Robert (and Graysonscolumn).
What I find most confusing about the reactions to this post is that, even if, at worst, the question was naive, there is little need to resort to insults. Is there anything wrong with asking a naive question?
Ultimately, some of you are acting with all the charm of mechanics who think it’s funny, and justifiable, to rip off customers because its their fault for knowing so little about cars in the first place. I’m certainly having second thoughts about asking whether horses sleep standing up or not.
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