Talking Horses: rain required as dry summer takes toll on racing surface


Six of the seven races at Bath next Wednesday have had to be reopened because of a shortage of entries

How extraordinary to read in today’s Racing Post a line from Silvestre de Sousa saying that the ground at Bath racecourse is now so fast that officials in Brazil, his home country, might choose not to race on it. De Sousa added that the ground there remains “safe” but the track famously has no watering system, so of course it will be very dry indeed.

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