Turftalk: Rainfall Dumps Misfortune On Hapless Punters

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YOU do not need to be Michael Fish or Heather the Weather to realise that this has been one of the wettest and dreichest of summers. Global warming? Global drookit, more like. And only one group of people are wearing broader smiles than the owners of umbrella concessions - the bookmakers.

I am not alone in thinking that this has been one of the worst Flat seasons for punters in memory. The weather has rendered form books useless, with the going on many courses changing drastically, sometimes within the space of a few minutes, as downpour after downpours have deluged tracks.

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Turftalk: Rainfall Dumps Misfortune On Hapless Punters

Most trainers, quite rightly, have refused to risk their charges on unsuitable ground. At Brighton on Wednesday, for instance, some 40 non-runners were declared from the total of 93 o...

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