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Just hope its something to do with the drainage, chafer grubs would be a huge problem for them, its what closed down Folkstone racecourse for a year or two..
 
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Nicky got a withdrawl in, can't say I blame him given the circumstances.
 
Irish Rugby said:
They'll probably get away with it today. Could you imagine this happening in March?
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Don’t even want to think about that!!
Would they now need to give the whole course a thorough inspection now?
They don’t seem to know the reason why a deep hole suddenly occurred.
Thank god the stayers in the cleeve avoided it!!!
 
Anyone have any ideas on when the bookies will go nrnb for the festival ? Usually up by now for one or two of them.
 
BigL said:
Anyone have any ideas on when the bookies will go nrnb for the festival ? Usually up by now for one or two of them.
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….i just noted in NRNB thread, looks like Hills have taken down their a/r market, not sure if that’s a precursor.
 
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BigL said:
Anyone have any ideas on when the bookies will go nrnb for the festival ? Usually up by now for one or two of them.
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Probably worth working on the premise this season that they don’t go NRNB, rather than when they do, as most would have been NRNB for a least the main Championship races by now

I hope to be proved wrong , but I suspect it maybe a result of the budget taxation decisions taken by the Government and the bookmakers trying to improve margins, as was forecast by many pundits pre budget
 
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I’ve just seen the still of the Photo finish for the last at Chelt yesterday . How have they called the winner off of that ? I was on the 2nd so defo pocket talking but either way it’s not a good look
 
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Guinness Village said:
It is a collapsed grave!!
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Suspect its part of the drainage system as they seemed confident there wasn't any more spots like it on the home straight, it's just very lucky none stuck a leg in during the Rekeel finish as they was all in a bunch on that strip of ground, fingers crossed they've been having a good look already today and are working on the ground there as if that pops up again in 6 weeks times they'll be no racing on that strip at all, maybe all hurdle races would be rerouted onto the old course.
 
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