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    Senior Member Horse Of The Year arlington will become famous soon enough
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    Quote Originally Posted by KTQ View Post
    Have they ever re-drawn a race? We nominated one of ours for a $100k race this Friday for Westbred 3yo C&Gs. Preference based on horses classed 3C1+. All horses are classed minimum 3C1 but he drew second emergency. SECOND.

    His form? 2-1-3-3-2-1 out of 6 starts. What drew ahead of him? A horse with form 8-2-5-7-8-1-2, one with 5-4-2-1-3-8-5-5, another with 4-8-2-1-5-11-4.

    We are all fuming. Is there any reason he wouldn't get a start behind those horses?

    Was there an explanation Katie??? Looks like the same goes for the 1st emergency.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arlington View Post
    Was there an explanation Katie??? Looks like the same goes for the 1st emergency.
    Dad's calling the handicapper. They better have a good explanation. It's not just some $7k country race, this is a group 1. F**** sake

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    Quote Originally Posted by KTQ View Post
    Dad's calling the handicapper. They better have a good explanation. It's not just some $7k country race, this is a group 1. F**** sake
    Can see why you're f***uming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arlington View Post
    Can see why you're f***uming.

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    Good luck with that. My calls to the handicappers in WA over similar issues have always fallen on deaf ears. They always come up with a reason why you are wrong and they are right.

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    They can't arbitrarily select horses. There are rules. He's Royal Blue has better form than 2 other horses, therefore he should get a start and they should be the emergencies.

    Clearly they made a mistake.

    My god I am so annoyed. This kind of crap makes me want to forget about horses and divert my attention to some other hobby instead. Its not often you get one thats good enough to win a Group 1 and when you get the horse, they should get their deserved start.

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    Just looked at it Katie and they have clearly selected the field on Lifetime Stakes.
    On that criteria I am afraid that your Blue is a long last
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    If they went on this season's racing only (it is a 3yo race after all) you nudge out the 5 horse by $1500
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    Quote Originally Posted by Messenger View Post
    Just looked at it Katie and they have clearly selected the field on Lifetime Stakes.
    On that criteria I am afraid that your Blue is a long last
    I looked at that too Kev but doesn't mention stakes as a criteria in the original program from the HRA calendar, using http://www.harnessracingforum.com/sh...ace-Conditions

    Unless WA have a separate gazette but, pretty sure, if you go through the WA website you still end up at the HRA meeting programs/calendar.

    Don't know what that means Katie.

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    From http://www.rwwa.com.au/home/document...ndicapping.pdf
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