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New Metro Programming
Harness & Greyhounds
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They programmed a less than 8k race despite telling me “they have no interest in running those races at gp”
If gp is the turnover capital why not run less than 4K races too? Get full fields with shelling out the stake money. Before anyone says it- no one cares what quality is running at gp. Punters punt.
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You look at the fields on a weekly basis, the friday horses are the friday horses, the tuesday horses are the tuesday horses, the monday horses are the monday horses, the outer circuit horses are the outer circuit horses.
There is little to no movement of horses coming through that win their grade and move through to being friday horses they just get stuck.
You might get the odd import win one or two and then become a friday horse but that aeems to happen very quickly now and to very few, the numbers arent enough to make up for the numbers that also retire/get moved on.
You see it in the times they run on a tuesday night. You always use to have a couple of races that were run at times that would be competitive on a Friday night be that by an up and comer or someone dropping back for a kill. To me now they just sit where they are and if they were to go up in grade they would get walloped.
I think there needs to be a better split of the grade of horse on a friday night so that more horses could be competitive on a friday, not necessarily talking about programing weeker races so much but it needs to be more possible in some way to take a Monday/Tues horse and be competitive on a Friday.
This system hasnt worked, to me it was too much a copy of what happens in America and I can not stand the single line no run on racing that dominates there and has infiltrated here.
Not sure the bench mark system is the answer either.
The moving around of the feature races has been deplorable, I often get the feeling that some do not even care or have any sort of feel for the sport that are involved in the harness department.
All that aside i've actually quite enjoyed the last couple of months of racing so if we could just get some numbers up to make more races betting options i'd be happy.
It was mentioned above dont worry about class punters well bet on anything and that is true to a point but I would be happy to bet a lot more on horses that had some actual form rather than a line up where half the horses have been non competitive their last half dozen starts.
Would much rather see a level4-6 pref draw on level, level 6-8 also eligible no less than $4kL5 type races where you have horses from lower grades coming up against better horses drawn poorly, at least gives you something to work with.
Instead we cop these less than $4k type races were you might cop a winner of 10 races coming out of hard company vs a winner of 2 that now draws outside him and has zero chance.
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What's your take on lady Lani. I'm Loki just two I've notice racing lately from w.a. both are still racing now both have won 10 races since leaving W.A..There prior form would have been ideal for Kalgoorlie. They have won races at your Super Duper tracks. Melton Newcastle, Albion Park Bendigo Ballarat between. them. Getthechange I'm Loki won at least eight races in 30 -42 . both horses form has tapered. Hypothetical we would he be in comparison to when he originally left if he was to come back. assessment .
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BUT there is an L2-L4 pref draw $L4 early on the card that doesnt have a full field, have these connections not nom'd for that race???
Or is it case there is some sort of pref system and they were moved to this race (possible second pref) just to make up numbers??
If not seems horrible placement and cant just blame the system.
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Then L9 for nearly $36K.
Seems massive advantage for horses up the top, why not just have more levels abd a more expanded system??
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You changed the program, it didnt just halpen by magic!