Riccarton 1000 Guineas Day - Soft 6 and no rain for 7 days?!

[Chief Stipe]

Is the water table high at Riccarton?

[curious]

It was a Soft 7 yesterday. I imagine they will be irrigating again in the next day or 2, or it will be concrete. Last summer they typically took it back to a H8 at the beginning of the week. Right way to do it imo.

[Chief Stipe]

44 minutes ago, curious said:

It was a Soft 7 yesterday. I imagine they will be irrigating again in the next day or 2, or it will be concrete. Last summer they typically took it back to a H8 at the beginning of the week. Right way to do it imo.

Well they havent done it this week.  The report says nothing about irrigating this week or have I missed something?

[curious]

1 minute ago, Chief Stipe said:

Well they havent done it this week.  The report says nothing about irrigating this week or have I missed something?

On the weekend I'd say.

[Chief Stipe]

1 hour ago, curious said:

On the weekend I'd say.

Wouldn't they have to put that in the report?

[curious]

8 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

Wouldn't they have to put that in the report?

The CJC puts what ever they want in their track reports, even if that doesn't match the penetrometer readings.

But on this, no. The track information report only requires notification of "IRRIGATION IN THE LAST 24HRS: mm"

Edited 6 hours ago by curious

[curious]

Consequently, if they irrigate today or tonight, they don't have to report that on Friday morning.

[Newmarket]

Its supposed to be 30 degrees down here tomorrow… with northwest winds. With no rain forecast, surely track will be good, hope they dont stuff around with the sprinklers too much