Odds On Favourites under the VIC tiered system 2016-17

[djgood]

Re the issue that Kevin has raised about a horse that has won $150k being in a $3.5k race. How about some restrictions in the 3.5k races, say no horses with $50k+ winnings allowed to enter. And the $5k races no horses with $100k+ allowed to enter. I thought the whole idea was to give horses that have not won much a chance to earn some money. Even keeping the 3yo's out of the R0 races would help. Once people see a $150k+ winner in the nominations they don't nominate their horse and you end up with a small field !

restricted races should all be reverse handicapped lowest points to highest Preferential draw to lowest points , inform horses have plenty of races to chose from and to put them for a easy kill and stifles the betting,

[gutwagon]

restricted races should all be reverse handicapped lowest points to highest Preferential draw to lowest points , inform horses have plenty of races to chose from and to put them for a easy kill and stifles the betting,

The trouble with the lowest points first option is that it only works if there are more noms than the field size limit. If only 8 enter all will get a run and the top horse could have 20 more points than the rest of the field.
Maybe it could be based on prize money won in the past 12 months. The tiered system is not reducing the amount of short priced favorites or producing more even fields.