Ronald Shaw
With regards to the Chelmsford racing surface, this is what I posted on theracingforum on the 18th August this year, before Timeform picked up the same topic on the 8th September.
Chelmsford City Racecourse: The State of the Going
The speed of Chelmsford’s racing surface is starting to alarm me.
Yesterday you had the Barry Hills trained Algaith dipping 2.77s under the standard time and setting a new course record, on going I had at +0.60s/f ( very fast),
if you were to compared this against the turf, you would have to return the going as hard.
AW going allowance table:
Fast +0.50s/f
Stand/Fast +0.18s/f to +0.40s/f
Standard -0.15s/f to +0.15s/f
Stand/Slow -0.48s/f to -0.18s/f
Slow -0.70s/f to -0.50s/f
In the inner circle we have a member horseplayer
Horseplayer who produces the some of the best pace figures on the net, normally as he explains, a
band 10 race full of pace runners would normally fall
apart, at Chelmsford at the moment this would not normally apply.
I produced a new set of standard times which I now use to compensate for the speed of the polytrack at Chelmsford.
5.0f -
57.1
6.0f -
69.3
8.0f -
95.0
9.0f -
108.3
10.0f -
121.5
13.3f -
164.4
14.0f -
173.6
16.0f -
200.0
Even using the new standard times, I am still using going allowance adjustments of around
+0.15s/f compared to the official going description of standard (
0.0os/f).
Mike.