dont know why you have so much to say about snfc when you are not a member. you obviously know very little about long distance racing. eastbourne wont affect the reims entry because almost every fed in scotland went to the south coast that weekend before the snfc put eastbourne in the programme. distance fliers have their gold cup birds prepared before eastbourne. there is a hard core of dedicated distance men who go to the longest race and there is no way they will send there birds to ypres instead. going by the last two years ypres seems to be a favoured race for yearlings after eastbourne. there was at least one yearling on the result from newbury, eastbourne, ypres and falaise last year. fantastic performance