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For openers it is pretty weird that we have a public holiday (is it Victoria or only Melbourne?) for the day before AFL GF and it seems a massive risk/waste to be holding the time honoured Kilmore Cup the night before this holiday - a Thursday. Good luck with that Kilmore
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Originally Posted by Messenger
Not to mention the traffic heading out of town for a long weekend - another backward step in my opinion.
Can't wait to see what time the first race is - more than likely 5.30ish which makes it even more difficult to get to ....
Such a shame as the Kilmore Cup used to be one of the highlights of the season.
How about running it on the actual public holiday as a day meeting. As a standing start handicap over 2 miles and get all the top horses to run. They could have stallion parades and a huge crowd. Sorry I thought I was back in the nineteen hundreds.
I agree Rick. They have a generous promotion on the day but I still fear they will struggle for a crowd apart from locals
Kilmore has thrown open the gates free for anyone who wears their AFL footy jumper and is giving away a $500 TAB betting voucher on every race via the racebook competition.
All patrons, those who pay at the gate and those who wear their footy jumper, will get a free drink voucher and a racebook, which contains their ticket for the $500 per race voucher.
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...end-cup-night/
Ridiculous having it on Thursday, I think Rick’s suggestion would be far better
I can see why Love Ina Chevy is a late entry for the Cup - no super stars I am afraid (I had been thinking of going)
Shadow Sax is now a late nom, so the field is improving - just need another 1 or 2 class horses to nom in the next hour
Field out but no Shadow Sax or Love Ina Chevy - are late entries only considered if there are not sufficient initial entries?
http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...ic#KIC27091801
The emergency and Bettermatch are only M0's.
Comeback pacer Bettermatch has won 11 of 13 but he has never raced futher than 1758m
Yes Kev. Late entries only receive a run if there are insufficient numbers to make up a field.However , the Kilmore Cup is Manual Field Selection so Shadow Sax and Luv In A Chevy would been been given a run under the MFS criteria . Looks as though they were withdrawn prior to acceptances.
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Originally Posted by Messenger
Not sure if Manual Field selection overrides 'preference in field selection will be given to original nominations'. You have access to Harnesweb Kev. I would think if those two horses were withdrawn by connections they would be stood down?