Huchergh wrote:
rob faux wrote:
Over the Air wrote: In my opinion even a polytrack would not have saved racing today due to the heavy rainfall. The jocks would surely have objected. Sometimes things are just not meant to be and no one is to blame however convenient it would be to do so!
Damn, and I thought an all weather track would have a role in Gauteng .....silly me :woohoo:
OTA , an all weather track broadens the options ..........surely that is not in dispute!
Please Rob,don't give them any ideas.
Poly racing is totally boring,I'd rather we lose meetings and race on turf the rest of the time.
Don't you think that there is a vast difference between PE Poly ,where it is a full sized course,with large fields? ..............I have found nothing boring about that (actually quite profitable)
Greyville Poly is very boring,but that is because they tried to put 2 courses where there is barely room for one,and the Turf course is ruined as well,IMO.
I think we have to separate theory and "bad" practice!!!
I have no doubt that if the old Vaal sand track had been replaced with Poly ,it would have saved a lot of meetings,with full fields.............and,TBH,been far less boring than those stretched out sand races,with frequent form turnarounds of 20/30 lengths!
This is after all more than enough racing now that we race 364 days a year,bar a few lost meetings.
The last thing we need is Jhb having a poly taking 50% of Gauteng's annual meetings.
