The Last Race

[aussiebreno]

Preface: Thread is probably of no interest to the vast majority, however it could be applicable to other locations. I've noticed it at Wagga but could be a problem in other places.

It seems that those horses/trainers/drivers involved in the last race on a card at Wagga are perfectly behaved. What other reason would there be for the final races always having a very short stewards report.
If you ever want to pull one up/juice one up the last at Wagga would be the race to do so imo. I definitely wouldn't condone that though.

http://www.harness.org.au/stewards-reports-detail.cfm?mc=WW020312&fromstate=nsw

http://www.harness.org.au/stewards-reports-detail.cfm?mc=WW090312&fromstate=nsw

http://www.harness.org.au/stewards-reports-detail.cfm?mc=WW230312&fromstate=nsw

http://www.harness.org.au/stewards-reports-detail.cfm?mc=WW280312&fromstate=nsw

http://www.harness.org.au/stewards-reports-detail.cfm?mc=WW080412&fromstate=nsw

The only meeting in the last five/six weeks that you could say the last race was done equal to the other races was when it was just a seven race programme. Would I be so cynical to suggest the last race gets neglected simply because stewards want to clock off a shift? Or over the course of the day have the stewards just inflicted their authority and everybody behaves by the last race :p.

I shall keep an idea on next weeks final race report!

[Triple V]

I can't comment on Wagga but similarly, to my recollection drivers very rarely if ever did anything wrong in the last at Lithgow...and this was especially so at any meetings held between around the middle of May & the end of August. I guess it was a sort of seasonal 'good will amongst participants' thing. The freezing cold winds and single digit temperatures would not have come into calculations.
In terms of NSW Harness Racing, historically speaking...the fastest thing ever to come out of Lithgow was the head Steward's car. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Thevoiceofreason]

I can't comment on Wagga but similarly, to my recollection drivers very rarely if ever did anything wrong in the last at Lithgow...and this was especially so at any meetings held between around the middle of May & the end of August. I guess it was a sort of seasonal 'good will amongst participants' thing. The freezing cold winds and single digit temperatures would not have come into calculations.
In terms of NSW Harness Racing, historically speaking...the fastest thing ever to come out of Lithgow was the head Steward's car. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Anything to add from this Century.

[Triple V]

Anything to add from this Century.


[VVV] Hey VOR, don't be like that. What's up? Have they run out of Prawn Laksa at The Golden Arch again? ;)
Shoot on down to Fat Siu Lau's for a Roast Pigeon or a baked Pork Chop on rice.

[broncobrad]

They were a bunch of angels out at the 'Hill' back in March

http://www.harness.org.au/stewards-reports-detail.cfm?mc=BR100312

In reality some of these meetings are policed very sparingly by stewards and their jobs would be very difficult