is Men! Starting in early spring, the flat course
is harrowed to remove any dead grass or thatch build up - if needed, the pulled out material will be brushed and collected. It is then overseeded using a hired Moores Uni-Drill with Barenbrug Bar 7 seed. Worth Draining will then vertidrain the entire course and, finally, it will be fertilised ready for the first meeting of the season. Repairs will be carried out using a 70:30 sand to Norfolk fen soil mixture supplied by Banks Amenity.
The track is cut using the Hayter R314 and, during spring and autumn, is cut at 100mm. During the racing season this is raised this to 120mm.
The track will be aerated during the season every week using their own Verti- Drain 7212, SISIS Mega Slit or SGG Airone Aerator. In addition to this, the bend into the home straight is always spiked with the Airone on the morning of racing. The running lines will also be overseeded as required during the fixtures.
National Hunt Course
This course is raced on between November and March. As there is a very narrow track by the end of the season, there is limited grass cover and a very compacted soil profile. So, the first objective is to decompact and improve this. This is done by ‘earthquaking’ the soil, and then leaving it to crack with no irrigation added, which is found to allow
the clay soil to restructure. The track is overseeded with Barenbrug Bar 7 and cut at 100mm for the spring, summer and autumn.
2010 Fertiliser programme:
Flat track: Mid March - 14:7:17 Entec Perfekt @ 25gsm
Late April - 15:3:20 Blaukorn Premium @25gsm
Early June - 15:3:20 Blaukorn Premium @ 25 gsm
Mid August - 15:3:20 Blaukorn Premium @ 25gsm
National Hunt track: April - 6:9:6 Granular @ 20gsm
Mid August - 12:4:8 Rigby Taylor slow release granular @ 20gsm
Mid October - 15:3:20 Blaukorn Premium @ 25gsm
The applications have been slightly revised for 2011 because, in 2010, 118 kilogrammes of nitrogen per hectare was applied to the flat track, but only 71 kilogrammes of nitrogen per hectare to the National Hunt track, and this was felt to be too low. An additional application has, therefore, been planned for this season.
Irrigation
This is carried out using a Briggs 30m boom. Warwick has its own reservoir, and an abstraction license to fill the reservoir
in excess of £60,000.
What’s in the Warwick shed? John Deere 5720 Tractor Deutz Fahr Agroplus 85 Tractor Deutz Fahr Agrokid 45 with front loader
Kubota B2410 with mid-mounted cutting deck Hayter R314 Batwing Rotary Mower Charterhouse 7212 Verti-Drain
Votex front mounted 7ft rotary cutting decks x 2
Einbock Grass Harrows Kubota brush and collecting unit SISIS Mega Slit SGG Airone Aerator with solid tines Cambridge Roller + strimmers, blowers etc.
with water from the Gog Brook, which runs alongside the outside back straight of the flat track. A new 5" ring main was installed by D W Clarks in 2007 at a cost
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