Asking horses to race twice at one meeting

[Messenger]

I cannot see why we are doing this unless we are that desperate for runners - at best it seems a gimick

See Maryborough today - Races 1&2, 8&9

http://www.harness.org.au/fields.cfm?mc=QP040516&fromstate=vic

[thepacingman]

One word: TURNOVER. To HRV it's the be all and end all of everything.
They have to make up the race numbers somehow.
It's quantity over quality 100% of the time. But being fair, all three codes are like that.

IIRC at King Island, horses double up. Kyle will know for sure.

[Amlin]

The gallops do Stephen over there I think and from memory the trots may too. It has been a while but I would need to dig out the racebook!

I think they wanted the whole card in today's format but compromised on the one race instead.

[Messenger]

If I was still an owner there is no way I would have my horse race twice a day unless we are talking Gp racing

[Danno]

I raced a horse twice at the one meeting back in the 80's and he won the second race too!!! however, we were running races at about a 2.06 clip in those days with horses that were capable of running 2.03 or thereabouts.....now we are racing horses at 1.57 that are capable of running 1.57....and therein lies the problem.

[Amlin]

They ran two heats into a final of a series at Traralgon back in the 1970s so not a new concept. Plus the El Dorado and Holmfield at MV in the 1990s before the concept was revived with the Great Southern Star.

[Toohard]

One word: TURNOVER. To HRV it's the be all and end all of everything.
They have to make up the race numbers somehow.
It's quantity over quality 100% of the time. But being fair, all three codes are like that.

IIRC at King Island, horses double up. Kyle will know for sure.

Can't remember name but know there was a horse a (long) while ago who went through 3 classes in one day at King Island.