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| Publication Type:
| Professional |
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| Author(s): | Ledger, Trevor |
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| Author Affiliation: | Editor, The Groundsman |
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| Title: | Chaaaarrrge! |
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| Column Name: | Racing
Other records with the "Racing" Column
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| Source: | The Groundsman. Vol. 61, No. 3, March 2007, p. 13-16. |
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| Publishing Information: | London, England: Institute of Groundsmanship. |
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| # of Pages: | 4 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Race tracks; Protective covers; Weather monitoring; Sports turf maintenance; Surface hardness
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| Facility Names: | Cheltenham Racecourse, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England |
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| Abstract/Contents: | Discusses turf preparation for horse racing, stating that "the prospect of losing a day's racing to the weather is unimaginable...there are only 16 race days a year at Cheltenham [United Kingdom] and each one is important." States that "the groundsmanship required to produce a National Hunt race-course is of a different nature to most other sports pitch setups." States that "the groundsmen need to understand what the participants require of the surface...race-course work is very specialist and is not really interchangeable with other sports pitch groundsmanship." Lists odds for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, and mentions that "the First Cheltenham Festivall meeting took place in 1902 and has grown year on year since then." Briefly discusses the popularity of gambling on horse-racing. |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| Note: | Includes sidebars, "Cheltenham big business", p. 15; "History", p. 15; "Figures and facts", p. 15; and "Gambling mad", p. 16
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Ledger, T. 2007. Chaaaarrrge!. Groundsman. 61(3):p. 13-16. |
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