Clairwood Sunday

hibernia Wrote:

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> Abbandoned,but the official announcement not out
> yet

lol, Hibs - ahead of the world as always < (tu)

Still, they've apparently needed the rain there so hopefully a bit of a blessing in disguise.

October 18, 2013 09:59AM

Yeah I doubt Clairwood will
go ahead

Please be advised that following 80mm of rain over the past two days and further forecast of rain, the Clairwood Racemeeting scheduled for Sunday, 20 October 2013, has been abandoned.

Would moving the meeting to Scottsville not have been an option for GC
weather permitting

Ben-Hur Wrote:

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> Would moving the meeting to Scottsville not have
> been an option for GC
> weather permitting


No. We have had the same amount of rain in Pmb if not more.
It was raining this morning as well. Has stopped for the last 3 hours. No sun at all.

why not wait till tomorow before calling it off?as per my forecasts no rain till tom night in durban..the track needed the rain very badly

are the operators regretting not waiting till today to call the meeting off? 1mil in the last 24 hours and no sign of rain today so far plus the track needed the rain desperately and the water table was low prior to it...yet again i salute the owners in this industry..

Pirates have you been on track today? do you reckon they could have raced?

the place is sell and i wonder how much gold circle spend on maintanence at clairwood? for me in their shoe i spend minimum so not hard to under stand why is abandon 2 days be fore

hibernia Wrote:

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> Pirates have you been on track today? do you
> reckon they could have raced?


my trainer works there and told me yday if we have no more rain then yes we will race today..we havent had anymore and she has her own rain gauge which totalled 60mm not 80mm over the last week...said you can always see from certain points on the track if we could or couldnt race after we have had rain and she was in no doubt we could of and she onlly had one runner today which runs tuesday anyway in a weaker field so she aint being biased...all im saying is that wait until the day of the meeting dont just follow weather forecasters blindly there is a lot at stake when abandoning meetings...look at tftein they going to all extremes to save a meeting

Flash Harry Wrote:

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> the place is sell and i wonder how much gold
> circle spend on maintanence at clairwood? for me
> in their shoe i spend minimum so not hard to under
> stand why is abandon 2 days be fore


do you know how much it costs the industry when a meeting is abandoned?the track is being maintained in fact the track manager at clwd is very good

ok pirates is the point i make is all