Re: Southwell All Weather ?

I’ve seen some self-righteous pedantry in my time but this takes the biscuit, even by my standards. There’s absolutely no need whatsoever for capital letters in the term all-weather racing.
I was, in any event, using it in the sense of an adjective, not a noun.

Well, that was the point I was trying to make crustypatch. Used in its adjectival (lower case) sense all-weather is indeed an inaccurate description, so please feel free to describe it in any way that takes your fancy
Used in the sense of a proper noun, or strictly accurately (but pedantically ), a proper name (upper case) All-Weather is, I repeat, a pleasant and apt-enough title; certainly nicer than Artificial or Synthetic, doncha think?

I honestly don’t see how All-Weather Racing can possibly justify having the capital letters that would entitle it to be classed as a proper noun, or proper name.

Nobody would write jumps racing as Jumps Racing. In the same way, Artificial and Synthetic don’t justify capital letters either.

I know more senior people are very fond of using unnecessary capital letters for all sorts of words that don’t justify it.

When I was a lad, a pensioner I knew even sent me a birthday letter once, saying he was sending me a Pen.

Younger people don’t use capital letters in such circumstances (indeed, they don’t even use it for "I", much to my chagrin) and people who work for newspapers, especially journalists and sub-editors, are specifically trained to avoid using unnecessary upper case letters and to "knock them down" into lower case wherever possible.

"All-weather" may sound more pleasant than "artificial" or "synthetic" but it is certainly not apt because it is fundamentally inaccurate.

Anyway, that’s enough hair-splitting for one day. I’ve not got enough hairs left to split! Nurse — the screens.