It's now called CHELMSFORD CITY which is a nice throwback to my days of watching my football team AFC Wimbledon play in the Ryman Premier / Conference South days.
Nowadays though it's the new name for the troubled AW venue in Essex, which became one of the new venues to the racing fixture list in April 2008, only to suffer many problems and go into administration and lose it's fixtures in Jan 2009. It's been a long road back with several false dawns so I do sincerely hope they are all ready to go and succeed this time around.
Sunday will be the first of 58 fixtures throughout 2015, I will be keen to follow how they get on, believe they've put up a new stand and better facilities so it will be interesting to see how things develop. Having lost Hereford and Folkestone in the last few years and with other courses changing their criteria (Newcastle installing an AW surface, Wetherby running flat races in April) it's clear there is still a wind of change in the horse-racing world.
Here is a quick link to Sundays card,
http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/meeting/chelmsford-city/11-01-2015/fast-cards
And we'll have the following selections for this opening fixture and look forward to hearing how things go, so I do hope the weather is good for anyone travelling, could be windy I hear.
12:50 -- REBELLIOUS GUEST [7th 9/1]
1:20 -- PIN UP [6th 7/2]
1:50 -- LUIS VAZ DE TORRES [3rd 3/1]
2:20 -- IT MUST BE FAITH [2nd 11/4]
2:50 -- ANONYMOUS JOHN [NAP] [2nd 5/1]
3:20 -- RIZAL PARK [7th 3/1]
3:50 -- SILENT PURSUIT [8th 10/1]
Results were a bit of a near miss here and there, not a big shock given the lack of true form here to go on, it'll improve and good luck to all involved with the course, hope you survive a bit longer than the last time.
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