Worcester racecourse slated by trainers

[steveh31]

The facilities at Worcester have been described as so bad some owners & trainers are refusing to return to the course
https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/owners-and-trainers-call-for-change-in-treatment-at-worcester/334026

[phil walker]

No surprise its a dump, I’ve been there twice just aa a punter and hated the place.

[pilgarlic]

Centre course can be a pleasant, cheap day out midweek on a nice afternoon. Wouldn’t bother with the main stand or entertain weekends or evenings.I remember Kim Bailey referring to how poor facilities were years ago

[graysonscolumn]

Of the trainers to have made the original complaints referred to in this article, I note with interest that just the 42 runners have been sent by Mr Nicholls from Ditcheat to Worcester in the past five seasons, and just 40 by Mr King from Barbury over the same period.

That doesn’t make them particularly regular visitors when one considers there are twenty meetings programmed on the Pitchcroft per annum (it picked up a couple of additional spares in 2017, taking that figure to 22); and whatever the rights and wrongs of the quality of their provision in the Owners and Trainers area(s), I imagine ARC would only worry more should the day ever come that Worcester’s more regular visitors, such as Jonjo O’Neill (235 runners there in the last five years), Neil Mulholland (140), Dan Skelton (130) and Philip Hobbs (130), started talking aggressively about going elsewhere to appease owners.

With opportunities needing to be found for sizeable strings year-round, however, wheresoever those may be, I’m not sure I can see that happening any time soon. In comparison, it’s not as if either Nicholls or King have too many of the sort of animals that need to be found openings in 0-110 handicaps in June and July.

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