Simon Nott spends time on the rails at Exeter

TALES FROM THE BETTING RING
EXETER 8TH MAY
Exeter is a course that is always a pleasure to visit, even on one of its legendary trial-by-weather moments, which tonight thankfully wasn’t.
It holds loads of memories for this writer being my local track. I probably first visited Exeter in the mid-1980s where it looked very different. The betting ring was laid out in a horseshoe shape, skirted by a couple of foot high rails supported by some strange concrete- filled rocket-looking things dotted around it.
Back in those days the ring was pretty ...