Brendan, I agree its a small sample.
2011 was based on Mr Feelgoods performance. He was a pretty fair horse to use.
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Just read the above article. Is Lance Justice really 77 yrs old??
I think Lance is 177 and Trigger 77
It was reported on "The Box Seat"...Harness review / preview show on Trackside TV in NZ tonight that the connections of several horses in Saturday night's Miracle Mile (and other races) reported that the Menangle track was TOO HARD for their horses. They reported being told by officials when querying the state of the track that the track was prepared for racing with the likelihood of rain.
If I am to understand this correctly, the topping of the track was removed so as not to become the sludge often seen at Menangle and Melton on wet racenights.
When the rains did not come the track was left in a very hard state.
Any comments from those in the know so to speak...
I overheard 2 trainers saying exactly that. They said in needed an inch of topping.
You mean the track isn't prepared the exact same each week and the weather isn't 100% spot on each week, so we can't actually compare time for time from one week to another? Blasphemy!!!Originally Posted by teecee
Not to sure how long it takes the put the topping on, but the cloud that Sydney had was very high and started to break up before mid day and it was extremely unlikely there would be any rain. I guess in hindsight a better option would have been to put 50% of the usual amount on the track in the early afternoon. Fred might be able to give us some feed back on the process.
Had nothing to do with me teecee!!
Heard same from trainers. 1 very astute one, who was at the track but didn't have a runner in, picked it up from seeing how much the track conditioner on back of tractor was digging into track (virtually not at all). Well spotted Danno!
To top dress would probably take between 500 - 800 tonnes of material.
Not something that could be completed 3 hours before a race meeting.
A good couple of days work.
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