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Harness & Greyhounds
Ridersonthestorm33Ridersonthestorm33    10,809 posts
edited May 2019 Harness & Greyhounds
Good to see Corey Peterson chime home for third on 100/1 chance Hylee Exciting, a horse that's been mentioned a few times on PTT, boosting the first four dividend on a deadset quinella result to 1.3k. Chris Lewis at his best with a typical front running drive on the winner Forever Pearl.

Peterson a driver that can get roughies into the money, and also in that sphere, another better than 50/1 winner tonight for Jocelyn Young - winning and being placed on bolters from awkward draws as well.

Good drive by Nathan Turvy in the first too, not over impressive the winner and needed a good drive - he provided it.

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  • Ridersonthestorm33Ridersonthestorm33    10,809 posts
    Off the beaten track here - but last night in French Trotting for the Monte race ( ridden ) their were 18 starters - with eleven disqualifications!

    A record that will be hard to topple...to have 11 horses gallop and be disqualified. Replay of race on Tabtouch.
  • ToepuntitToepuntit    241 posts
    R7 GP. Stewards report will be interesting
  • Rocket_ReignRocket_Reign    841 posts
    Toepuntit said:

    R7 GP. Stewards report will be interesting

    Should of been a suspension Imo Buddy 0/4 leading since coming to WA. Racing on a 24 hour back up attacking a leader for a 35 lead time as if leading was its only hope of winning the race



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  • ToepuntitToepuntit    241 posts
    edited May 2019


    In my opinion both class as improper drives,
    Both gave their drives zero chance
  • freodockersfreodockers    2,667 posts
    The stewards have no idea what they are doing IMO.
    If you want a classic example then watch race 7 Bunbury Saturday night and then read the stewards report.
    You can't half cart and you can't simply run into the wheel of another horse.
    3.80 second favourite knocked out of the race and no action taken against either driver.
    It is pretty clear that the stewards are taking the line no action no heartache. Whilst the punter walks away totally confused or **** off.
  • Ridersonthestorm33Ridersonthestorm33    10,809 posts
    edited May 2019
    Wow finally got around to watching race 7 - both those runners were very well supported at around 7/4 and both shorter on tote.

    Shocking if you're on either - both gone going past the winning post first time round. Great if you're on the backmarkers though, but selecting that winner, you'd need all the luck in the world - and got it.
  • Ridersonthestorm33Ridersonthestorm33    10,809 posts
    edited May 2019
    Think in these instances the guy attacking, from stewards perspective is the one most "under the pump"... the driver leading has every right to hold the lead and its up to the attacker to bail out before placing undue pressure on.

    Think that's how they read these things.

    Watching pacing on Sky from all different parts of the world - leader pressured - automatically hands up - a little too easy for my liking. It's almost an unwritten rule in USA - quite often in NZ and France too - lead then batton changes.

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  • Ridersonthestorm33Ridersonthestorm33    10,809 posts
    edited May 2019
    The other thing noticed - the bigger the track - the more they hand up or expected to hand up - quite often not once but three, four, or even five change's of pilot.

    The smaller the track (as we have in some places of Australia ) - the less hand ups.

    Generally speaking smaller tracks = more up tempo racing. Can be attacks for the lead but drivers less reticent to hand up. ( probably a good thing ).
  • ZimmermanZimmerman    80 posts
    Couple of points about race 7. M grantham probably got no more than 3/4 past the leader in the first 350m before he decided to grab hold shortly after straightening. The leader has every right to hold its position until say the attacking driver elects to continue to push on past a point where it would be overly detrimental to its performance. I don’t think m grantham went too long but it wasn’t far away given the leader clearly indicated they wanted the front and given both of there respected starting prices. I do think mg could have rated the next lap a bit easier to help both there chances though. I think the drive of m reed in the previous looks far worse. Given that the horse that was directly behind that took his one off position secured a clear run upon straightening before just missing 1st
  • MarkovinaMarkovina    2,890 posts
    Just watched a replay of race 7 at GP myself

    LB Harper to the fore - lovely to see him drive a winner - Linds just sat back and watched them cut each others throats

    There were some posters saying he was washed up - finished -  yesterdays man - well  if you watched that race properly - in the last 100 metres  his horse was  their  to get beat - but he has lost none of his strength Harper .

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  • ZimmermanZimmerman    80 posts
    Yes markovina he did nurse the horse to line well. The only way his drive was to be a winning chance was a fast up front tempo. Classic harper with the race tempo suited to salute from behind or leading
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