Reply With QuoteWhat was it you were saying about a demonstrably bad idea being worse then no idea at all?
What a MASSIVE WANK!
The Flying K Starts Monday
29 June 2012
by Adam Fairley
Drivers will wear colour coded silks throughout The Flying K Series which commences on Monday 2 July @ Tabcorp Park Menangle.
The Flying K Series, named out of a successful facebook competition, begins next Monday, 2 July when the Bulli Harness Racing Club hosts seven heats at Tabcorp Park Menangle in the twilight timeslot.
Commencing at 4:28pm, horses will fly over a 1000 metre journey starting at the top of the back straight, rounding the bend and running home.
The Series consists of $3,000 heats covering all classes of horse from 3YO’s up to M1’s with heats to be held the first three Monday’s in July (2, 9 & 16). The $12,000 finals will be conducted on Monday, 23 July.
The Series is unique and has been programmed to entice punters and horse and hound followers to the sport of harness racing. The initiatives for the Series are as follows:
HRNSW CEO Sam Nati said “There are many strategies aligned to this series. Clearly one of them is to cater for the after work pub crowd looking for some fast paced action. It’s also about new racing opportunities for horses that would not normally get the chance to be in a $12,000 final.”
- Heats are to be run at shortened intervals - keeping the action constant
- All races over 1000 metres - fast paced action, no slowing down, more haste & more speed
- All runners will carry coloured coded silks and saddle cloths - making it easier to follow your horse during the race
- All meetings will be conducted in the twilight timeslot commencing at approx 4:30pm
Harness Racing NSW (HRNSW) is the controlling body for harness racing in New South Wales with responsibility for commercial and regulatory management of the industry including 31 racing clubs across the State. HRNSW is headed by an industry-appointed Board of Directors and is independent of Government.
Last edited by Triple V; 06-30-2012 at 06:10 PM. Reason: Can't get the link to work so here's the full thing
What was it you were saying about a demonstrably bad idea being worse then no idea at all?
G'day Dot,
It's just such a shameless 'dropping of the dacks' to the TAB and with it such an offensive debasing of the Code. Left to their own devices they'll one day start pushing for colour coded Barbary Macaques strapped to Goats over 100m dashes. Absolutely disgraceful.
Monkey dressed by Tedesco's. Goat supplied by Corinthian Byfold Doors.
Looking at the fields, only 3 races have a Pink runner and a total of 1 last start winner for the entire program. Horses with no form, distance no form, majority of races only have 2 place dividends. This is sure to be a winner on the tab.
Good on them for trying something different. Based on field sizes you'd have to be pretty creative to come up with a justification to say it has worked. Hopefully those at HRNSW have the courage to admit they got it wrong. Time to start working on another innovation.
Not the end of world by any means.
You probably didn't have to put the hand in your thread title VVV. We know what it is.Originally Posted by Triple V
The Flying K Starts Monday
29 June 2012
by Adam Fairley
Drivers will wear colour coded silks throughout The Flying K Series which commences on Monday 2 July @ Tabcorp Park Menangle.
The Flying K Series, named out of a successful facebook competition, begins next Monday, 2 July when the Bulli Harness Racing Club hosts seven heats at Tabcorp Park Menangle in the twilight timeslot.
Commencing at 4:28pm, horses will fly over a 1000 metre journey starting at the top of the back straight, rounding the bend and running home.
The Series consists of $3,000 heats covering all classes of horse from 3YO’s up to M1’s with heats to be held the first three Monday’s in July (2, 9 & 16). The $12,000 finals will be conducted on Monday, 23 July.
The Series is unique and has been programmed to entice punters and horse and hound followers to the sport of harness racing. The initiatives for the Series are as follows:
HRNSW CEO Sam Nati said “There are many strategies aligned to this series. Clearly one of them is to cater for the after work pub crowd looking for some fast paced action. It’s also about new racing opportunities for horses that would not normally get the chance to be in a $12,000 final.”
- Heats are to be run at shortened intervals - keeping the action constant
- All races over 1000 metres - fast paced action, no slowing down, more haste & more speed
- All runners will carry coloured coded silks and saddle cloths - making it easier to follow your horse during the race
- All meetings will be conducted in the twilight timeslot commencing at approx 4:30pm
Harness Racing NSW (HRNSW) is the controlling body for harness racing in New South Wales with responsibility for commercial and regulatory management of the industry including 31 racing clubs across the State. HRNSW is headed by an industry-appointed Board of Directors and is independent of Government.
No not the end of the world maybe Mitch? But some of us are pretty certain we can see it from where we are standing now
[VVV] G'day Mitch,
I don't have any problem with trying something innovative....but for mine there is a vast difference to be had between innovative & different.
For mine, this is not in any way, shape or form innovative....chop some 609m off the previously shortest/standard distance, put them all in Dog regalia and presto, look how innovative we are. No, rather it is just different for the sake of different being cloaked as innovative.
There's only one aspect I can see as able to be worked upon, improved & incorporated in the longer term picture of Harness Racing & that is the introduction of LARGE numbers on similarly good sized colour coded saddle cloths. Makes perfect sense.
On that score, interestingly when looking on via Sky generally it's impossible to see the TB's numbers in the running and NEVER with the naked eye trackside until they're well inside the last furlong but not a word there? Hmmm. I wonder...what sort of an answer do you think they'd get from Gerry Harvey or Singo by way of telling them they had to race a 2000m horse over a 5 furlong scamper whilst wearing 1 the Red or whatever?
On that Dog Colours aspect for Drivers, I call an ABJECT DISGRACE on that because, like their TB counterparts, Harness Owners should always have available to them the option of their driver carrying their own colours.
I see this sort of thing as the thin edge of the wedge.
It should be noted that down in VIC, Minty Man Number 1 dutifully banged on about this & similar TAB agenda serving crap for years and was ultimately rewarded with a slot at TAB Sportsbet...much like Bob Carr getting a slot at Macqaurie Bank, one can only assume for all assistances rendered during his tenure as NSW PM.
For mine, Owners Colours are an absolute non-negotiable & should this ridiculous push continue down its path...from my cold, dead fist those colours will have to be dragged.
As for those at HRNSW having the courage to admit they got it wrong, they're smarter than this and I think that they knew that it was wrong right from the outset.
I would much rather they had the courage to admit that they knew it was a waste of time and effort BUT the TAB strokers, both individual and collective, have leant on them & they simply acquiesced rather than standing firm, straight out calling Bullshit on the idea and telling them to go shove it up their clackers.
I hope the drivers will be wearing muzzles.
Don't die wondering !
Jamie you are spot on on colours, encourage owners to have their own as well as trainers colours, I would imagine quite a few punters follow horses wearing certain colours. There is one other experiment with this program which is dog like, races 3 to 6 all within an hour (20 minute spacing), no question this is a TAB thing.
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