The Problem With A Stable Having 2 Runners In A Race
... and the draw to suit
How was Jilliby Nitro ever going to win R5 at Melton tonight without another horse to help him
The Douglas stable had Fr1 and SR1.
Jilliby was never going to be allowed to cross Ozzie Playboy
I loved the check by Ellen Tormey early to make sure Captain Confetti had held her back
Jilliby had to have another horse take the death and give him the 1x1. Unfortunately for the Lee stable they only had one runner in the race
Maybe if they had it all again, Lochie may have hung back at the start to encourage something to come around him, or he may not have put the pressure on until much later so that he might have stolen a march before the sprint lane came up but then again he wasn't to know that the 1x1 was going to fold up and make the sprint lane irrelevant
Just a reminder to punters to really really analyse a race when a stable has more than one runner, especially when they have drawn favourably
You cannot accuse the Douglas stable of team driving - it was simply stacked against the Lee horse
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#MXC21042202
It was of course because they both Douglas horses had good gate speed. The same stable had Front 1,2,3 in a later race but not the gate speed to utilize the advantage
