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- AbbysAce November 2020
- aussiebattler November 2020
- Chariotsonfire November 2020
- Constantlybroke November 2020
- curmudgeon November 2020
- freodockers November 2020
- getthechange November 2020
- JayJay November 2020
- KTQ November 2020
- Markovina November 2020
- PackedMetalPanda November 2020
- Rocket_Reign November 2020
- savethegame October 2021
- tony November 2020
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tend to partially agree
agree in so much as I think a horse using a claim to get into the race should be able to draw with the dropped down level - ie Rakasinc probably should draw with the level 10 horses and Ocean Beach probably should have been able to draw with level 4 horses
what used happen was that when a race was C3/C4 pref on C then nearly all the C4 horses had concession drivers so they had a chance of drawing barrier 1 - that might be good for concession drivers but is not so good for the non concession drivers who are in the industry long term and are left sitting on the sidelines watching - for the concession drivers that are looking to be long term in the industry the concessions work for them for approx. five years then against them after that
my thinking is that the middle ground should be considered in that where a horse gets into a race with a concession it draws with those one level below but at all other times the concession doesn't lower the horses level
eg ocean Beach in a L3/4 would draw as a level 4 but a level 4 horse with a concession driver wouldn't draw as a level 3 - the level 3 horses would draw the best draws
Yeah the problem is that it isn’t RBD it’s handicapped which is what you’ve been calling for
Training a team of 8 actually, mostly scrubbers still prefer RBD racing
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Serpentine
At these outer country tracks, how do we know the markers are 100% correct and being timed correctly?
Costing drivers plenty of money if they are wrong and some of the discrepancies on first and second quarter are quite bizarre...
we don't agree on much but agree that using hand timing is very suspect - have lost count of the number of times I have contacted RWWA over the last 10-15 years about incorrect sectionals and mile rates. mile rates that go down next to the horses name and appear in records that are relied on by punters, prospective buyers of racing horses and yearling buyers for years to come
like your horse Wrongly Accused falsely held the track record at Narrogin for quite some time
in this computerised era all tracks should have electronic timing
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Can get GP no worries but country when hit the replay button has a line through it.
Very annoying