Wolverhampton abandonment anger

Home: "MICK CHANNON voiced his outrage on Monday over the way Wolverhampton handled its abandonment after his intended runner Forty Thirty made a 214-mile round trip for nothing.

Forty Thirty, who was due to run in the 2.50, arrived at the course after travelling from the trainer's West Ilsley base only moments before officials finally called the meeting off.

Many trainers had also set out for Wolverhampton ascourse officials gave the meeting the go ahead despite persistent snow, and Channon blasted the racecourse for raising false hopes.
He said: 'It's been handled disgracefully by both the racecourse and the BHA. Who do they think are paying for the wasted transport costs in the midst of this recession? They should have more respect for the owners that have to foot the bills.'

Channon added: 'They had two inspections and could have called it off this morning. They should have let common sense prevail. We got all the way up there and I feel someone should have made a decision earlier. It happens on a regular basis.'"

It was indeed truly farcical and blatently obvious to anyone with half a brain that given the driving conditions across the country and the fact that over half the runners would have had to travel over a hundred miles that the risk to stable staff and the horses was huge so if a third of the declared runners had truned up I would have been very surprised.

Southwell today goes ahead at the time of writing, lets see how many non-runners there will be!