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Saturday fields
West Australian Racing
Chelsea
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The fields for this Saturday's racing,are nothing more than a glorified Midweeker.
It's the same every year after the Westspeed finishes for the 3yo(now turned 4yo). There are only 9,4yo's running this Saturday,hence the drop away in field sizes.
The 2yo races on a Saturday over the past 6 weeks or so have struggled for numbers yet this week there are 2 x 3yo races with a total of 13 runners of which 6 are maidens.
If RWWA are intent on increasing field sizes, why is it at the same time every year we have this situation.
They should look at ways of boosting field sizes
1 run 4yo races only,for the months of August and Sempember (before the current 2yo's start)
2 Introduce an all aged maiden or a class 1 ( during August and September only)run as the first race on the programme with a total stake of $30,000 then you will attract the best horses around at the time
3 Look at the Westspeed bonus's for 4yo's being introduced for the sprinters for the months of August and September
They are just examples of what can be looked at.
The introduction of the barrier draw after acceptance,to increase field sizes is somewhat clouded by the 3yo's attempting to gain a Westspeed bonus before they turn 4.It will be interesting watching the field sizes for the next 2 months or will Saturday racing be like the upcoming one
It's the same every year after the Westspeed finishes for the 3yo(now turned 4yo). There are only 9,4yo's running this Saturday,hence the drop away in field sizes.
The 2yo races on a Saturday over the past 6 weeks or so have struggled for numbers yet this week there are 2 x 3yo races with a total of 13 runners of which 6 are maidens.
If RWWA are intent on increasing field sizes, why is it at the same time every year we have this situation.
They should look at ways of boosting field sizes
1 run 4yo races only,for the months of August and Sempember (before the current 2yo's start)
2 Introduce an all aged maiden or a class 1 ( during August and September only)run as the first race on the programme with a total stake of $30,000 then you will attract the best horses around at the time
3 Look at the Westspeed bonus's for 4yo's being introduced for the sprinters for the months of August and September
They are just examples of what can be looked at.
The introduction of the barrier draw after acceptance,to increase field sizes is somewhat clouded by the 3yo's attempting to gain a Westspeed bonus before they turn 4.It will be interesting watching the field sizes for the next 2 months or will Saturday racing be like the upcoming one
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Roadblocks would have to come from the industry participants who would have their income removed or severely reduced thru those months though.
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I can't see a downside at all quite frankly.
You are suggesting additional wet meetings at which tracks?
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there would be mass suicides h-b. lol...:)
seriously, in other words jocks, trainers etc would have no income..
come off it, mate....
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The problem is the product. It is watered down to the point where it has lost it's wider appeal and only the converted are attending.
It's hard to create superstars in an environment that is so bland. Superstars is in short the only saviour on the horizon for our sport. People love a hero horse and you have more chance of creating one with a concentration of racing so that the best of the best compete.
If you honestly assessed even our highest level of racing in Perth, the three Gr 1's, we struggle to get one genuine event out of the three. From there it just goes downhill.
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totally different model as I understand.
Turf club supply / fund all the overheads efc.
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They do
Why not???? Some of us o here have blamed them for more stupid things in the past!!!! haha
If that is seriously the case why isn't it reported on RWWA's webpage?? Lack of information like that, only leads to people second guessing about things.....and they never guess that it is a problem that cant be fixed!!
Seriously wouldn't you want your customers (punters in this case) to know why things are the way they are??
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Sack PR and give control of racing in WA to RWWA.
Get rid of all bar 2 tracks - lets say we keep Belmont and Ascot and have only about 700 races in total for the year. Zero racing anywhere else
Licence say only 25 Trainers, only allow 1200 or so rich people to become owners and allow 35-40 different Jockeys to ride.
Cap the total number of horses that can race in a season to say 1400 and we too can be like HK. :)
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I know they wouldn't, but if they had some nommed and then withdrawn, you think they would be on the phone about it.
I mean they scour the trial results when the fields are short and ring around trying to get you to nom, so thought they would be doing the same in reverse...
I hope you didn't get too many hurt in the storms, especially that promising rising 6yr old we have with you!!!
;) :D23/8/15 meeting last year only had 64 runners.
Bigger issue is race programming.
Proper analysis of previous years poor numbers (which regularly repeat) and a modified race program to address the issue would do more than the current initiatives.
Interestingly the total number of starters is up on 5 years ago, yet the number of Metro starters is down by 700 or 8%
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