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    Kempton Park under threat

    Kempton set to close and new all-weather circuit at Newmarket to be built under Jockey Club plans.


    King George to move to Sandown Park as of 2022
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    amazing news - will stay at the current venue until 2021 at the earliest

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    Shellshocked to be honest - didn't see that coming!
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    all about the money

    acres and acres of land in a relatively nice area of SW London. Will probably be 10,000 houses on it
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    ******* **** of fucked traditions

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    Totally shocked to hear this. I suppose, if I'm honest it isn't somewhere that I ever go to, being a northerner, but all that history etc. Who's going to go to Newmarket, though? If we do go there it has to be a stay of a few days, not a day out at the races.

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    No great loss imo

    Fook all happens at Kempton apart from boxing day anyway, and Sandown park is a much better track for the King George

    An A.W track in Newmarket is logical as well as three was too many in the London area anyway
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    A real shame, as Kempton is much different test for a racehorse, than you get at most other jumps tracks, and diversity is to be welcomed, imo.

    Sandown has been a good back-up-venue for the race on occasion, and to be perfectly honest with you, it might actually turn out to be a better race hosted there - though admittedly this is probably a matter of personal taste.

    Whilst not exactly great news, the contingency plan is at least a good one.
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    Stephen's Day will be not be the same again; it was a cracking test for horse and rider.
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    Glad i will have memories of the track, must get there before it closes !

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    I thought Jockey Club Racecourses existed in order to save places like Kempton from the bulldozer, not push them under it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perpetual View Post
    all about the money

    acres and acres of land in a relatively nice area of SW London. Will probably be 10,000 houses on it
    Precisely, there was an inevitability about this - one day

    Kempton's got a massive footprint, easy access to airport and M25, it even has a water feature that can be incorporated into the residential scheme
    Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly. _ Harry Limes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Warbler View Post
    Precisely, there was an inevitability about this - one day

    Kempton's got a massive footprint, easy access to airport and M25, it even has a water feature that can be incorporated into the residential scheme
    and they are building a new AW just an hour down the road from Great Leighs. arseholes (jockey club). In 20 years we will probably have about 5 NH tracks. 4 Flat turfs tracks and a dozen AW.
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    eurgh. awful stuff.

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    I'm unsure as to the extent of the Jockey's club ownership but if you take the rough extent of the racecourse minus the water you're sitting on about 65-70 hectares. That's capable of delivering 2500-3000 houses. At current land values, especially in that location, that's probably worth pushing towards a billion quid.

    It's worth noting that a call for sites is a long, long way away from realisation.

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    Interesting find by Nick Luck

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...s-1426333.html


    includes the statement "The land cannot be used for property development."

    Maybe something changed since though ?
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    I think the move to Sandown will negatively impact the possibility of fast 2 mile horses throwing a shape at a 3 miler. We might get Douvan V T-Craic at Kemptom - less likely at Sandown.
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    Quote Originally Posted by an capall View Post
    I think the move to Sandown will negatively impact the possibility of fast 2 mile horses throwing a shape at a 3 miler. We might get Douvan V T-Craic at Kemptom - less likely at Sandown.
    With regards to the KG quite posisbly, but then I expect it won't be long before someone says why don't we roll the Tingle Creek card back 3 weeks and create a three day winter festival. The only thing missing really is a Gd1 staying hurdle, which Ascot has in mid December if they could be persuaded to release it
    Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly. _ Harry Limes

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