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Too much ‘not enough’ racing

It wasn’t really a surprise this morning to hear Newcastle had been abandoned. It seems over the last year they have only had a handful of meetings there. Winter hasn’t been great this year for sure, but it hasn’t been terrible and it’s amazing to see how many meetings have been lost.

But worse than that the number of runners at a lot of these meetings is miserable. Today we have only two races on the afternoon card that have …