Originally Posted by
Messenger
I received an email about this and could have put it in the 'Goodnight Harness Racing SA' thread or the 2yo thread but I thought it belonged here as it is simply Bad for SA harness racing
Last night Emma Stewart won SAs $100k Allwood Gp1 for 2yo's at $1.10 and 2nd and 3rd also went to Vic based horses - their take is 82.5% of the stakes plus all three of the free services. How can anyone think this is a good thing for SA racing. These horses were just shipped over for the heats and are therefore contributing very little to SA harness racing economy.
I think SA shouldn't worry about having a Gp1 but rather think of how they can help the locals survive. I think it would be far better for SA if all of a horses SA starts earnt points towards making the final. A completely different approach would be to forget the heats and have two $60k races - one for horses that have had a minimum three SA starts for a local trainer and one Open to all 2yo's
ps Emma obviously used a 3 horse float to go over, won a $7k and $4k races as well at money back