Every which way ... you lose!

The actual blog for the week ending 28th April will be deliayed to take in the Sky Meeting on Monday when the Blog will hopefully be able to un cover some of the mysteries of Sky's coverage of our beloved sport.

Suffice to say that on Thursday we were on to a loser from mid afternoon onwards. With a track as dry and hard as concrete we needed to water on a regular basis right up until the start of the meeting if we were to get the track into the same condition as it was for last week's sensational meeting against Coventry when passing and repassing took place throughout the night.

Everything was going well until the unexpected arrival of some rain clouds at 3.30pm. No rain - just rain clouds. We rang Eastbourne (raining), Oxford (raining), Newport (raining). It was raining everywhere. If we watered and it rained then the meeting would be off. If we halted watering and it rained then we might be all right. If we halted and is didn't rain then we would have dust and single file processions.

It rained, and we halted, but it didn't rain enough. There was no way we could win! And so the meeting was all right but the dust flared up around heat 8 and we had to water to contain it, but only to contain it. The track was OK but not up to the normal standards we have been setting ourselves.

Anyway, I'm off to see Deep Purple at Wembley tonight (Saturday) so expect to be both deaf and traumatised by tomorrow.