Arena chief hails 'invaluable' all-weather.Byline: Howard Wright Howard Gregory Wright (born December 20 1967, in San Diego, California) is an American professional basketball player. He is a 6'8" (203 cm) 220 lb (100 kg) forward and played collegiately at Stanford University from 1978–82. ALL-WEATHER Adj. 1. all-weather - usable or operative or practiced in all kinds of weather; "a good all-weather road"; "all-weather flying" unrestricted - not subject to or subjected to restriction racing in Britain, which is 20 years old today, has outgrown its original purpose as a bad-weather insurance policy and become invaluable to the sport, Arena Leisure chief executive Mark Elliott said yesterday. Elliott was speaking at Lingfield as his company, which owns three of Britain's four active all-weather tracks, marked the first 'sand' meeting at the Surrey Surrey, county (1991 pop. 997,000), 653 sq mi (1,691 sq km), SE England. The county seat is Guildford. The North Downs cross the county from east to west. To the north the land slopes gently downward to the Thames, into which flow the Wey and the Mole, Surrey's venue on Monday, October 30, 1989. As well as staging two Listed races and hosting a lunch for personalities associated with the progress of allweather racing, including former Lingfield, Southwell and Wolverhampton owner Ron Muddle Muddle - Original name of MDL. , Arena marked the occasion by presenting special recognition awards to trainer Nick Littmoden, jockey
In sport, a jockey is one who rides horses in thoroughbred horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. Jimmy Quinn and trainer Philip Mitchell For the British Colonial administrator, see . Philip Mitchell is an author, playwright, poet and translator. Born in Manchester, England and an established author with BBC Radio Drama, he is perhaps most famous for his acclaimed translation of Caradog Prichard's Welsh language for the achievements of Running Stag. Elliott pointed out that all-weather racing was introduced to offset financial losses to the levy from the abandonment of jumps meetings. He added: "Since Lingfield staged the first 12-race meeting, there have been some 3,400 all-weather fixtures, 22,000 races and 200,000 runners, and these have generated a huge amount in levy. "For example, Wolverhampton, which is the only solely all-weather track and therefore provides an excellent guide, generated on average pounds 7.5 million in levy over the last three-year period for which figures are available. "The cost to the Levy Board of putting on the racing was pounds 5m, netting an annual profit for racing of pounds 2.5m." On the importance of all-weather racing to Lingfield, Elliott said the continuity of racing, which helped towards sealing a new media rights deal with SIS, had contributed to investing in the track's Marriott hotel development, which will open next spring. He added: "The future for Lingfield is bright, and it's built on the back of all-weather racing, which may be the Marmite mar·mite n. 1. a. A large covered earthenware or metal cooking pot. b. A small covered earthenware casserole designed to hold an individual serving. 2. A petite marmite. of British racing. But love it or hate it, it is here to stay." ingfield report, page 13 |
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