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Has there ever been a meeting with as few runners before? 26 runners over 7 races.. From a punting point of view the card was an embarrassment…
Thing that annoys me is that all winter trainers complain about wanting better ground yet when they get it you see horses either not being declared or being withdraw due to the ground – can’t win either way.
Festivals at Cheltenham and Aintree bang on about starting on good to soft ground and not having quick ground because of horse welfare and yet we get other jump meetings with firm in the going description – I understand that you have to produce safe ground but if good to firm ground really is a welfare issue why don’t all tracks water to ensure that isn’t the case and why do we continue to have summer jump racing in the first place?
Yes, a very poor meeting largely due to the prevailing very dry meteorological conditions. We would normally have had more rain but the courses cannot be expected to guess on the weather when they bid for the fixtures. The good to firm going had been watered but I sympathize with those not wanting to take a chance. April is not summer jumping and much of the country will be experiencing single figure temperatures in the coming days
<p abp=”148″>Yes, a very poor meeting largely due to the prevailing very dry meteorological conditions. We would normally have had more rain but the courses cannot be expected to guess on the weather when they bid for the fixtures. The good to firm going had been watered but I sympathize with those not wanting to take a chance. April is not summer jumping and much of the country will be experiencing single figure temperatures in the coming days
A poor meeting for Nicholls and Sam Twiston Davis as well.
Has there ever been a meeting with as few runners before? 26 runners over 7 races..
Yes, several and they’ll have been many more:
Tue 14th August 1990 – Devon & Exeter – Going: Hard – 16 runners over 6 races incl. 1 walkover.
Sat 1st November 1969 – Cheltenham – Going: Firm – 16 runners over 6 races incl. 2 walkovers.
Thu 9th August 1990 – Devon & Exeter – Going: Hard – 17 runners over 6 races incl. 1 walkover.
Mon 27th August 1984 – Cartmel – Going: Hard – 19 runners over 6 races incl. 1 walkover.
Wed 13th November 1985 – Wolverhampton – Going: Good to Firm – 19 runners over 6 races incl. 2 walkovers.
Wed 8th November 1978 – Wolverhampton – Going: Firm – 20 runners over 6 races incl. 3 walkovers!!!
Wed 8th November 1995 – Newbury – Going: Good to Firm – 20 runners over 6 races.
Thu 3rd September 1981 – Uttoxeter – Going: Hard – 21 runners over 6 races.
Sat 4th November 1995 – Newcastle – Going: Firm – 21 runners over 6 races.
Fri 17th October 1969 – Kempton – Going: Hard – 21 runners over 6 races incl. 1 walkover.
Fri 17th August 1990 – Perth – Going: Good – 21 runners over 6 races incl. 1 walkover.
Mon 3rd November 1969 – Doncaster – Going: Firm – 22 runners over 6 races.
Fri 31st August 1984 – Perth – Going: Firm – 22 runners over 6 races.
Mon 28th August 1995 – Plumpton – Going Firm – 22 runners over 6 races.
Fri 5th October 1990 – Hexham – Going: Firm – 24 runners over 7 races.
Mon 2nd October 1989 – Carlisle – Going: Hard – 25 runners over 7 races.
Tue 23rd November 1978 – Folkestone – Going: Chase – Hard, Hurdle – Firm – 23 runners over 6 races
Tue 7th November 1978 – Hereford – Going: Hard – 23 runners over 6 races incl. 1 walkover.
Fri 17th November 1978 – Chepstow – Going: Firm – 23 runners over 6 races incl. 1 walkover.
Mon 28th May 1984 – Hexham – Going: Firm – 23 runners over 6 races incl. 1 walkover.
Mon 9th August 1976 – Worcester – Going: Firm – 23 runners over 6 races.
Mon 7th May 1990 – Newcastle – Going: Firm – 23 runners over 6 races.
Mon 27th August 1990 – Huntingdon – Going: Firm – 23 runners over 6 races.
Mon 15th October 1990 – Fontwell – Going: Firm – 23 runners over 6 races.
Fri 18th August 1995 – Perth – Going: Good to Firm – 23 runners over 6 races.
Sat 19th August 1995 – Perth – Going: Good to Firm – 23 runners over 6 races.Sat 26th August 1995 – Cartmel – Going: Firm – 23 runners over 6 races.
Tue 29th August 1995 – Uttoxeter – Going: Firm – 23 runners over 6 races.
Wed 8th September 1976 – Plumpton – Going: Hard – 24 runners over 6 races.
Mon 7th May 1990 – Devon & Exeter – Going: Hard – 24 runners over 6 races.
Mon 30th August 1993 – Plumpton – Going: Firm – 24 runners over 6 races.
Fri 25th August 1995 – Devon & Exeter – Going: Hard – 24 runners over 6 races.
Mon 28th August 1995 – Huntingdon – Going: Firm – 24 runners over 6 races.
Wed 4th October 1989 – Perth – Going: Good to Firm – 26 runners over 7 races.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
I was at that 1995 meeting at Perth. There were more runners in the Great St Wilfrid at Ripon than there were at Perth.
But they still had 4500 people through the gates.
I’ve a feeling I was at one of those Devon & Exeter meetings. If not any of those particular ones from 1990, I do recall a meeting there around that time where the fifth race was a walkover and the sixth a two-horse race which gives me my username.
Would love to see the cards from all of those fixtures listed above.
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