Paul Webber Racing

A little quandary to start the day. This heavy rain of the last few days has been well-forecast and Lingfield received 17mm on thursday night as predicted. So it really helps that they watered on thursday afternoon adding 5mm to parts of the track. Although it may not appear so, are we in summer when we expect and plan for fast ground. Lingfield today will now be good to soft, whereas if they had not tried to 'play God' it would be perfect ground.

We know that DE SOTO does not act on soft 'jumping' ground as well as he does on better ground, indeed fast ground is ideal for him. Ted Durkan reported that CARBON PRINT would have won at Newmarket last time when he finished a close fourth on recently-softened ground. Yesterday i was pretty hopefully of a double, particularily as we have found a five runner maiden. Today, doubts have apppeared and we'll have to see how the ground is riding. I don't remember much latin from school, but i do recall studying a report from a rain-affected chariot racing meeting at the Colosseum. 17mm of rain changed the surface considerably and the form book was being torn to shreds. Victorius Chandlerus and his fellow bookmakers were 'denari-ing it in' and the advice from the Clerk of the Amphitheatre was....' Caveat Puntus'.