New Starting Stalls for Fairview

Despite the obvious risk involved of confining horses in such a small space, starting stalls have quite obviously been a great step forward. They are the only way to ensure that the field starts in a dead straight line, and while they lead to accidents (and not too rarely, unfortunately) they do make racing much fairer for everyone, on the whole.

The flag start I was only being flippant <

Too light weight?()

hibernia Wrote:

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> Too light weight?()

My take in this matter is the design of the roof ,in particular. Not sure if a roof was necessary at all. (what purpose does it serve for a minute or two whilst loading).

Getting back to the design, the current starting stall has a " A- Pitched" roof that is covered at the sides as well. The wind forces an upward thrust in the covered "A-Pitch". Since there is NO escape of the wind from the upward thrust, it therefore does not surprise me that the stalls is toppled over.

Get rid of the roof of cut slats for the wind to escape.