Originally Posted by
dizzy
theres your problem mitch, you had to say the majority of races had 8-10 runners at acceptance time, not 10 runners at acceptance time, and obviously less again in some instances at post time. Eight runners is not a full field and full fields count for turnover.
[vvv] anything to try and drag down menangle huh dot? Mitch has already done the figures here so there's nothing to add.
melton frequently have 12 horse fields and on some occasions more.
[vvv] melton start 6 across the front with up to 6 trailers, there is no room for more than 12 to score up so the... 'and on some occasions more' thing is just totally incorrect.
menangle starts 10 across the front. No trailers. All silent all done.
it has also escaped you that vic has centralised programming in place...the very thing many including myself have repeatedly stated that we need here in nsw and paradoxically the very thing that you have repeatedly railed against???????
centralised programming is the very thing which produces that which you are lauding here, full fields at melton...because the programing is done in such a way that cetrain grades of horse have no option but to go there...or otherwise, stay at home and not race. Time and time again you've stated on this Forum that you are against such a system but here you are, unknowingly wrapping one of the major benefits of it? Perplexing to say the least. Things that make you go Hmmmmmm.
some of us will recall that the field size was increased at harold park from 10 to 11 runners except for 2yo to improve turnover. Some even older will recall 12 horse fields as the norm at harold park.
[vvv] geeze. There's a fair old slice of fish can swim, a duck can swim, therefore a fish is a duck about that dot.
what happened or didn't happen at hp is totally irrelevant to the way in which racing is now conducted at menangle.
completely different beasts.
improved programming and handicapping certainly is of benefit to field size and turnover and should constantly be reviewed for improvement
[vvv] couldn't agree more.
but perhaps in this economic climate that isn't enough.
[vvv] there's that old socialist thing creeping in again.
call me a cynic but i immediately read that as 'bankstown will more than likely not have any $ coming to it because the money that would otherwise have been our due from race fields legislation will go towards repaying hrnsw all the money they have outlayed over the last 2 years so to prop the place up...so in view of that, we want another hand out'....but hey, that's just me, dreadful cynic that i am.