You have to get rid of three tracks

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As a jumping enthusiast I ought to like Stratford, but the viewing is dreadful

Seconded. I lived less than an hour’s drive from the place for two years and only visited it once, despite having all my summer Sundays free at the time. Simple reason – the viewing was cack.

Having visited Stratford again in March, I’d still have it down as a place to visit only if you can get in the corporate boxes (which fortunately I’ve managed a couple of times between those two visits), restaurant or anywhere else appreciably off the ground.

I couldn’t see the honey roast ham stall anywhere either, alas. That was one of the main saving graces originally.

Worcester is not my favourite, facilities are poor, but I would imagine trainers like the place as a very fair course to run their horses.

That about sums it up, yeah.

Only a month to go before racing resumes there, incidentally – I drove around it en route to Cold Harbour point-to-point last weekend and the racing surface looked, for want of a better expression, shaggy. I think they’re letting the grass grow for as long as they can possibly get away with it.

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Don’t think it has got a mention so just to rectify things step forward Leicester.

If forced to add another two would probably go with Musselburgh and Wolverhampton.

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Bath (too high) Beverley (silly draw bias) and Perth (too far north)

There had to be one Have you ever been to Perth? It’s one of the best tracks in the UK and if you went into a bar in Perth and suggested closing the racecourse you probably wouldn’t see the light of day again

It gets fantastic support considering it’s halfway to Greeenland

Sorry but Perth is banned from this discussion

[Anonymous]

Johnny Murtagh sends his regards and asks that Chester be closed as soon as possible

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Okay, okay, you can keep Perth as I’m not likely to get within a hundred miles of the place anyway and as robnorth suggests we’ll swap it with Chester which is also too far north and another silly course.

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Bath (too high) Beverley (silly draw bias) and

Perth (too far north)

Damned southerners!
If you dismiss Beverley for having a ‘silly draw bias’ surely that makes Chester ‘hung, drawn and quartered’?

Rob

No, not the same at all, every punter knows Chester has a marked draw advantage and can be allowed for in a punter’s tissue. Beverley also used to have a marked bias, but these days; how do we know how much water has been put on each part of the track? How can we know what draw bias there is going to be race days? Unless we wait for the first 3 races to finish.

Mark

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