mardigras Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 This week we have Punchestown holding a 5 day jumping extravaganza. Starting Tuesday this week running every day until and including Saturday. 39 races. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 imagine how many Irish track workers would be dopey enough to replace all those divots while the races were being run ...I'd say NONE. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngakonui grass Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 IMO could have been done if it weren't for the shape of the oval shape of our tracks.Gotta blame the oldies for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, ngakonui grass said: IMO could have been done if it weren't for the shape of the oval shape of our tracks.Gotta blame the oldies for that. Last time I was at Punchestown it was also roughly oval from memory. Has that changed? It was quite a long time ago. Edited April 29, 2021 by curious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngakonui grass Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Don't know what shape i would call it.If you look at the width of the track they are able to incorporate 2/3 tracks and move rails around so that same bends aren't uded all the time. When i referred to shape i was thinking more along the lines of long shutes.With the amount of land some of our clubs originally had this was possible. I was picturing a d shaped track with many shutes off the oval/circle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mardigras Posted April 29, 2021 Author Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) I think they have a hurdle and steeple course. And every race goes around the entire track (hurdle or steeple) at least once, so the whole track gets very well travelled. They may have a cross country track as well but that is used very rarely. I don't know what level of rail movements they use - but can't NZ tracks move the rail? Edited April 29, 2021 by mardigras Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turny Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 There would not be one track in NZ that could do two and a half days, let alone 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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