All Weather Notes, Ideas, Stats

[Trotter]

Thought it might be a good idea to have a thread for the AW followers to post general thoughts, news, ideas, stats, any research that you've done, strategy for assessing races, thoughts on the different tracks etc. I don't mean tips for the days racing or horses to follow which might be covered in the daily threads but more general things which might help out fellow posters or give a point for debate. Any contributions welcome ! :ok

[chris34]

Re: All Weather Notes, Ideas, Stats Great idea trotter the AW scene is defo specialist and this can only help these are my thoughts on the tracks! Kempton Is the only right handed course, uses polytrack surface similar to those at Lingfield, Wolverhampton & Great Leighs but tends to run slightly slower than those. Tends to favour front runners at times and may be something to watch for over the winter to see if this is still the trend. Higher drawn horses do well round here being on the inside. As far as trainers and jockeys go to follow round here, GoDolphin seem to do well round here with their horses recently and Hughes also tends to do well round here recently but has vowed not to race on AW during winter Lingfield Is a left handed course, uses the polytrack surface similar to that of Wolverhampton, Kempton and Great Leighs. Tends to be the fastest of all the all weather tracks but front runners have an awful time round here. Neil Callan has an extremely good record round here recently. Wolverhampton Is a left handed course and uses the same polytrack surface similar to that of Kempton, Lingfield and Great Leighs. It is again a fast track and is extremely similar to the AW tracks in America as it is a 1mile oval and because of that there tends to be a fairly strong draw bias in low numbers for the simple reason the bends come so quickly and prominent horses again do better. Spencer and Callan again seem to do well round here. Southwell Is a left handed course and is the only one which uses the fibre sand surface nowadays which tends to favor front runners or prominent runners simply because of the kick back and its hard to accelerate up on the surface. It is very much a specialist course and therefore important to look for previous form round here. It is the only AW course with a straight 5f trip. It also seemed to run faster in the middle rather than rails because of the way the track is maintained (has to be harrowed deeply). Seb Sanders seems to do well round here.