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Gary Moore does not believe jump racing can afford to lose £790,000 in prize-money and has called on the sport's powerbrokers to find a way to reschedule the two days lost at Lingfield due to the frost.
He had stable star Goshen and emerging Arkle hope Haddex Des Obeaux among seven declared runners for Sunday's Lingfield Winter Million card.
Moore has described the three-day festival, which sandwiches a day of all-weather racing between two days of top-quality jumps action, as "my Cheltenham" and is adamant efforts need to be made to save a meeting that caters for high-class horses who are better suited to winter ground than spring conditions.
"Being selfish I really want it back on, there's a lot of prize-money and where does it go, it's just going to be wasted?" said Moore.
"I'll give George Hill [clerk of the course at Lingfield] a ring but it probably needs someone with a bit more power than me to get it on, the powers that be probably don't care enough. They've saved the Clarence House for three horses, look at all the good horses and prize-money at Lingfield."
Moore would like the meeting to be scheduled for next weekend, when racing takes place at Cheltenham, which is already hosting the rescheduled Clarence House Chase, and Doncaster.
"Next Saturday there's a meeting in the midlands and one in the north, so why can't we have it rescheduled? They seem to be able to throw meetings on just like that, I don't know if we'll be able to race next weekend but let's give it a chance.
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"You can't control the weather, but you can be adaptable and I'm well aware Lingfield bent over backwards to try and get the meeting on. I feel sorry for them, it's a great initiative and they're not getting full use of it. I've got to come up with new plans for all those horses now, it doesn't make life easy."
Anthony Honeyball was due to saddle 3-1 favourite Sam Brown in the £165,000 Fleur De Lys Chase and also voiced his frustration.
He sad: "You know it's a possibility, it's the winter and you get frost and waterlogging at this time of year, but we've had this race in mind since the summer for Sam Brown. It's frustrating, win, lose or draw it'd have been lovely to have had our chance.
"People will say just run in the Cotswold, or the Denman, which is fine, but our horse won't be a 3-1 favourite in those races. This was perfect for him and he had a fantastic chance in a race worth more money.
"You can argue it makes the Cotswold a more competitive and better race if we all go there, but we wouldn't have the same chance in that."
Honeyball also highlighted the difference a big win makes for a yard like his. "We had a mare, Coquelicot, who was second favourite for a Grade 2 mares' race at Ascot on Saturday. That won't get put on again so we're in no-man's land a bit with her.
"The Clarence House isn't really a race that's on our radar as a yard unfortunately, but we've lost races that we felt were very winnable and if you do land one or two of them it makes a big, big difference to the fortunes of a yard like ours.
"It's the winter and you can't control the weather, but you know that in advance and I do wonder with these bigger meetings with lots of prize-money that people target, you plan for them a long way in advance. We don't summer jump, we save horses for this time of year so it'd be good if they said it's the winter, it can happen, but we'll make sure we find a slot for them and they will happen.
"I get that it's difficult as things stand and they can't really win, if they saved the Fleur De Lys it clashes with other races, but purely for today it's frustrating. It's not straightforward, it's almost impossible, but there are so many obstacles in the way of making it straightforward."
The BHA will review the weekend abandonments on Monday to consider if any races merit saving or if the existing race programme caters for the horses who missed out at Lingfield, something managing director of Arena Racing Company's (Arc) racing division Mark Spincer pointed to as an obstacle in saving the two days.
He said: "I'm sure we'll talk to the BHA. I think the issue will be with the quality of racing next weekend at Doncaster and Cheltenham, with similar distances, I think the likelihood of getting it back on isn't that high. I'm not saying we won't, but I think it's unlikely. We'll have those conversations tomorrow, we might be able to move a race or two to another card, but I don't see the fixture being restaged. But never say never.
"There are a lot of factors. If we restaged it, the chances of getting the sort of level of attendance we'd like is minimal. Restaged fixtures don't meet that level. We don't know how long this weather will last, so what slot does it drop into. There are many moving parts that would have to fall into place for it to be restaged."
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