A good example for this thread are the young nsw fields for friday.
From memory the program available to trainers was, the place of origin final (riverina horses who qualified at wagga and central west horses who qualified at bathurst only 2 heats conducted), a 3yo race, a C0 and that brilliant blight to trainers the C1 or better where the handicappers make your races up.
Now there were 20 available C1 horses in the nominations so instead of having 2x C1 events giving all 20 C1 horses a run in their own grade they split this into 3 races, a C1 mares with 8 in it, a not won more that $1300 in last 4 no better than C1 with 10 in it and then in all their wisdom they decided to make a C2 which have not won more than $4000 last 4, C3 which have not won more than $1500 last 4, oh and to make the field up also eligible C1.
Now here is where the joke becomes evident that those 2x C1 horses Somart and Artegra were being used to make a field up, neither horse has won a race in over 10 starts, whereas many of the C2s and C3s they are asked to race against have won multiple races in their last 10 , so why should they be made race out of class?
Well our horse somart had been unlucky enough to earn $1650 in place money his last 4 and artegra $2250 in his last 4, but to add insult to injury these horses were not even afforded the luxury of a pbd/c they got an rbd with C3's to draw inside them.
We pulled our horse out before acceptances but if you dont see the noms when they come out your stuck in a race that your horse is outclassed in and if scratching are forced to take a minimum 7 days (another farcical rule that I wont get into).

Yes we have been on the other end of this with another horse hurrysound finding himself down in grade a few times not that it ever suits him stuck on back row draws and the leaders walking.

Oh and dont speak out about it because your horses will draw as far out as they can possibly be put, but seeing as though our horses very rarely see a suitable draw I guess writing this cant see them draw out any further than they already do.