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It's always a race I look at and it's an even better one since they gave it proper money (£100k nowadays), plus it's usually quite easy to find the winner.

I haven't checked the weather forecast for the week but it's often fast at Musselburgh and it's a course, like Ayr, that drains fast due to the sandy subsoil (beng right next to the firth). I'd anticipate good ground at the very least but no point really in speculating for now.

One piece of advice, though, is that there are only two reasons hold-up horses win there: either the pace is stupid-strong or whichever horse manages to do so is a class apart.

[QUOTE="Desert Orchid, post: 2698528, member: 65242"] It's always a race I look at and it's an even better one since they gave it proper money (£100k nowadays), plus it's usually quite easy to find the winner. I haven't checked the weather forecast for the week but it's often fast at Musselburgh and it's a course, like Ayr, that drains fast due to the sandy subsoil (beng right next to the firth). I'd anticipate good ground at the very least but no point really in speculating for now. One piece of advice, though, is that there are only two reasons hold-up horses win there: either the pace is stupid-strong or whichever horse manages to do so is a class apart. [/QUOTE]

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