Bangor Friday meeting in doubt because of the flooding
It is indeed disappointing news for the fans of the sport and all those involved in the horse business: the Bangor meeting that was scheduled to take place on Friday is now in doubt since the racecourse has been flooded due to the heavy rainfall. It has
been reported that the part of the course that was flooded on Saturday night is situated near River Dee.
According to the sports correspondents the banks of the river run round the back of the course. The water levels in the river rose to a level when these banks could no longer hold off the waster and thus they burst resulting in the flooding of the track.
When the clerk of the Bangor racecourse, Ed Gretton was approached by the correspondents on Sunday, he was reported as saying that almost eighty per cent of the track is flooded by water from the river at the moment. He added that naturally, it is going
to take miracle for the situation to return to normal till Friday. He said that for the meeting to take place on Friday, it is important that levels of the water should come down as quickly as possible.
Nonetheless, it is not very likely that the meeting at Bangor will be getting a go-ahead since the situation does not seem very promising. Even if the level of the water goes down, there is still a very high chance that the racecourse might become water
logged, which will once again leave the course unfit for racing. Once the water level drops down, the management of the racecourse will definitely thoroughly assess the course before they announce any final decision regarding the race on Friday.
On the other hand, the Irish Hennessy Gold Cup meeting that was scheduled to take place on Sunday afternoon was called off because the racecourse was found to be water logged and thus was unfit for racing. It did not take the management of the racecourse
long to announce the rescheduled event. It has been reported that 26 mm of rainfall fell on the course over night due to which the problem of water logging arose. The new date that was announced by the officials is Saturday, the 12
February. Moreover, the deadline for the fresh entries of the meeting was also announced as noon on Tuesday.
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