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Grass cuttings being spread over the temporary crossing at Wilson Avenue
fescues and annual meadow grass - typical downland. Richard says that they’ve been introducing more perennial ryegrass. Fescue quickly goes brown in dry times and looks less appealing to racegoers, and presumably the horses too. “Ryegrass is much easier to look after and, of course, the root structure is better, which helps with the stability of the turf on our thin topsoil,” he said.
The British Horseracing Authority stipulates a three to four inch grass length for flat courses. Richard cuts the Brighton track to four, using a Votex front-mounted mower. He reckons this is the perfect length for the type of course it is. Any longer and it can tend to lay over, which is a potential problem on an undulating, twisting course like Brighton is, causing horses to slip, he says. Ed Arkell, who has twenty-
four other meetings to manage on top of his Brighton responsibilities, summarises the pre-meeting routine for runners. Race entries come in six days before race day via the Wetherby’s organisation, but it’s forty-eight hours before the ‘off ’ that is crucial to everything. It’s when declarations to run are made, and the deadline for this is 10.00am that day. Ahead of this, at daybreak, he and Richard walk the course at Brighton - as counterparts would do for all race meetings - to check and report the going, essential information to trainers. “Once we’ve said what the course going is, we have to ensure, as far as possible, it’s the same on race day,” says Ed. “For National Hunt, it’s just a twenty-four hour time lapse, so over the flat there’s more of a chance that
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