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Article: Robin Oakley's Racing Week: All-weather fare proves cut above fish-and-chip class.(Sports)
- Article from:
- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 23, 1999
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NOW that Tony Blair has decreed we will all be middle class, I thought I had better sample some fish-and-chip racing before the Government declares jellied eels a prohibited substance, bans Blackpool illuminations, and makes beer-crate office excursions to all-weather tracks a criminal offence. (Well, all right-I admit the cancellation of the Ascot card had something to do with my arrival at Lingfield last Saturday to watch what I expected to be slowish horses kicking sand into the faces of even slower ones).
The case for all-weather tracks was made comprehensively ...