Quote Originally Posted by Dot View Post
It certainly seems that the series is missing the mark and needs amending. Perhaps the heats should be amended to preludes with fresh nominations for the final and preference given to horses that contested a prelude.

It maybe that the finals for these should be held somewhere other then Melton if preludes amd fresh noms are called for though
The missing heats were in the east/south east regions in both the cases Kev has brought up. How is that deficiency addressed, not program heats for those regions? Run the prelude format where series heats are set down for those regions only?