It's nice to see this weeks Metro Meeting having races with horses racing within their grades.
Except for the carry over from last weeks fiasco with Monifieth M10 racing in a M1-M2 final.

But a closer look might tell the story of what this grading system is doing to the sport in NSW.

Saturday night's races for pacers include a final, 2 MO races, 2 MO-M1 mares races a C3-C5 race and an Open pace
The final and the C3-C5 have 12 and 11 starters the rest only fields of 10, even though the new policy is 12 horse fields.

2 things stand out. 1) Advertised M0 and M0-M1 mares plus the C3-C5 races were well supported. 2) Where are the M2 plus horses.

I think the answer to 2 is that these horses have been scared off due to the presumption they will be used to make up races against the true FFA pacers.

The handicappers have created this with their "conditions" they add AFTER nominations to make up fields.

Please go back to the Victorian model.