{"id":473220,"date":"2025-10-04T09:17:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/473220\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:17:18","slug":"saturday-updates-soft-ground-at-longchamp-on-arc-weekend-and-sun-chariot-tops-bill-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/473220\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday updates: Soft ground at Longchamp on Arc weekend and Sun Chariot tops bill in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Umbrellas up: that's the trend as the wet spring continues to haunt racing\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759569438_276_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Umbrellas up: wet and wild day in storeCredit: Alan Crowhurst<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__1__GlideArticleBody\">Storm Amy has brought heavy rain and strong winds to large parts of Britain and Ireland, with a yellow weather warning remaining in place.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__2__GlideArticleBody\">There are no scheduled inspections for any of the day&#8217;s meetings and the going descriptions have not changed dramatically \u2013 if at all.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__3__GlideArticleBody\">At <a target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"Link__32__GlideArticleBody\" id=\"newmarket\" class=\"sc-b2c32ca0-0 dLKaTt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/racecards\/38\/newmarket\/2025-10-04\" rel=\"noopener\">Newmarket<\/a> the going has eased slightly to <strong data-testid=\"Text__34__GlideArticleBody\">good, good to soft in places<\/strong> (from good) following 12mm of rain in the last 24 hours. Guests of 45mph are expected in the afternoon, peaking during racing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__4__GlideArticleBody\">Here are the going descriptions at each of the tracks:<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Text__5__GlideArticleBody\"><strong data-testid=\"Text__51__GlideArticleBody\">Newmarket:<\/strong> Good, good to soft in places (from good)<br data-testid=\"Text__53__GlideArticleBody\"\/><strong data-testid=\"Text__54__GlideArticleBody\">Ascot:<\/strong> Soft<br data-testid=\"Text__56__GlideArticleBody\"\/><strong data-testid=\"Text__57__GlideArticleBody\">Redcar:<\/strong> Good to soft, good in places<br data-testid=\"Text__59__GlideArticleBody\"\/><strong data-testid=\"Text__510__GlideArticleBody\">Curragh:<\/strong> Soft to heavy (straight) and soft, soft to heavy in places (round)<br data-testid=\"Text__512__GlideArticleBody\"\/><strong data-testid=\"Text__513__GlideArticleBody\">Gowran Park:<\/strong> Yielding to soft<br data-testid=\"Text__515__GlideArticleBody\"\/><strong data-testid=\"Text__516__GlideArticleBody\">Newcastle:<\/strong> Standard<br data-testid=\"Text__518__GlideArticleBody\"\/><strong data-testid=\"Text__519__GlideArticleBody\">Wolverhampton:<\/strong> Standard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Umbrellas up: wet and wild day in storeCredit: Alan Crowhurst Storm Amy has brought heavy rain and strong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-473220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115315149961583457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}