In my view it is never "great news" when either a great horse or driver is out.
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In my view it is never "great news" when either a great horse or driver is out.
Cran Dalgety has always been the exception. It's a shame Christen Me couldn't make it.
Lauren Panella is an outstanding talent. Horses run for her. I think peeps forget her rise before teaming up with Tritton. When she was freelancing horses improved out of sight for her. The I'm Victorious incident was very unfortunate. It was a mistake in the heat of the battle. Very few leading drivers don't have an incident/s similar to it. Kudos to Tritton for going to Amanda Turnbull in the interim.
I wish I was as forgiving as you Bob, if I was an owner of Im Victorious I would remind her every time I saw her (sorry, I must be a nasty bastard)
When you get to Gp 1 racing you are supposed to be better than that - I cannot think of too many horses who's careers were ended by leading drivers taking them out
Any thoughts on Waylade crossing stablemate Machtu and holding the lead or Machtu hunting up to hold the lead and Waylade opting 1x1 or 1x2? Waylade is good beginner but not overly brilliant and there looks to be speed from Shannonsablast,Devendra and Easy On The Eye.
http://www.harness.org.au/fields.cfm?mc=GP271115
Tune in from about 10pm AEDT (Midnight NZ will be too late for teecee!)
The Inter Dom you have,
When youre not having an Inter Dom...
Maybe the poorest quality ID in the modern era, its like a jar full of lollies where 80% are pretend toy lollies that just shouldnt be there...
Just my opinion
Too many horses missing and too many NZ's who wont travel that far and to a small track.
Does anyone find odd and slightly unfair he way the mobile releases them at GP? It's arms fold back before accelerating away seemingly giving advantage to the inside two and slightly stalling those in the centre of the field. I haven't seen another mobile anywhere whose arms fold so early and before getting away from the field. Was really highlighted in Lenny the Sharks heat.
That was some time that Philadelphia ran (only .2 sec outside Tk Rec) but Lenny was the most impressive - doing it tough. He will probably be looking for major points again next round so that they can drive him soft in the third to freshen him up for the final
just so that we all understand and any whingeing is nipped in the bud early, the previous post has been deleted as it does not deal with the issues of the thread.
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Outstanding opening night of ID racing at the 'ribbon of light' - Gloucester Park. Even foxtel said that this is the pinnacle of harness racing and Perth stages the event so well. Super fast racing on a superb track with all the best horses apart from Christen Me and Arden Rooney participating. You had to be there to experience it. Once again Harness Racing W.A.sets a very high bar for lesser lights to aspire to.
Devendra
Here's a member of a family that is quite prolific.
All descended from Pentlands Image a daughter of a good Melbourne Showgrounds winner for Phonse Hickey....Pentland Lass (by Meadow Vance)
Pentlands Image 1976 (F N10 ) by Tarport Bret - [4]
Draw Card 1989 (F N10 ) by Whats Next - [7]
Bettor Draw 2007 (F N10) by Bettors Delight - 1:51.9 $201,818
Faithful Sally 2002 (F N10) by Village Jasper - 1:59.6 $48,779 [1]
Faithful Gabby 2010 (F N10) by American Ideal - 1:59.3 $81,634
Guenevereslancelot 2003 (F N10 ) by Our Sir Vancelot - 1:59.9 $72,021
King Carey 1997 (G N10 ) by Walton Hanover - 1:57.1 $178,937
Kings A Coach 2004 (M N10 ) by Village Jasper - 1:59.2 $60,604
Public Persecution 2000 (F N10 ) by Safely Kept - 2:02.7 $63,659 [1]
Fawzia 2011 (F N10) by Sportswriter - 2:00.9 $55,966
Queen Carey 1999 (F N10 ) by Walton Hanover - 1:56.3 $165,227 [2]
Benediction 2007 (F N10) by Bettors Delight - 1:57.8 $157,780
Devendra 2009 (M N10) by Bettors Delight - 1:52.0 $204,593
Frozen Credit 1980 (G N10 ) by North Pole - 2:02.5 $14,449
Law Court 1991 (G N10 ) by Whats Next - 2:00.0 $20,295
Sorell Hanover 1982 (G N10 ) by Tyros Hanover - 2:04.6 $32,193
Yes Rod..spot on!!!, I took the long drive up to watch the first set of heats plus the good 4yo race and the mares...outstanding night.Huge crowd to boot made it the place to be for any harness fans.Looking forward to Tuesday at Bunbury as well.Nothing but positive's in my humble opinion.I would want my horse to be a part of the richest harness race in the world if he was good enough!!!!..I think the best is yet to come...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mighty Atom
Totally agree with everything that Rod and Big K have mentioned, Even though Christen Me, Beautide and Arden Rooney aren't competing, It was a great nights racing and congrats to Harness Racing WA for putting on a great show, All the winners went well and Lenny went exceptional, As a friend mentioned earlier in the night, It really looks like Lenny is the one to beat in the series, I think with the 3 horses mentioned earlier missing, The series is more even and still very interesting, The next round at Bunbury will be intriguing with P Man not drawing real well in his heat and hopefully he can continue on with his form from Friday nights heat.
It was surprising to discover that the third round of heats will be preferential barrier draw based on points. Seems strange to change the format from the first two heats?
I believe that decision was made to even up the heats for competitive racing and maximise turnover.
I am keeping an open mind on how it will play out.
Could be inviting those with enough points to have a soft run on the final night rather than be full bore for victory.
Ray, IMO it is certain to and if anything they needed a reverse preferential draw to get them to go for it. An alternative may have been to scale the prizemoney to have the last round of heats worth twice the other roundsQuote:
Originally Posted by Chariots
My preference would be to leave it random and let the contest be a truly free for all contest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
Lenny looks as though he has a big chance at being crowned this years ID Champ. PhilyMan was great as well, as was Avonnova. Looking forward to the rest of the heats on Tuesday.
It may be the best Martin but thinking about some people's incredibly bad runs with draws (discussed in another thread) I wonder whether we could not have a computer program than ensures that everyone gets an even shake - with 10 starters in each heat the 'average' draw of any runner should be 5½ so after 3 rounds the computer program should be able to see to it that the sum of the draws of all runners should add up to 16-17Quote:
Originally Posted by Lenny
That's seems like a fair outcomebut after talking to people today the PBD for the last heat is driven by lack of betting turnover of 3rd heats run under the historical format so I don't believe any changes will be made going forward.Quote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
Tune in between 8.50 and about 10.20 AEDT tonight for the mile heats tonight (10.50 - 12.20 NZ time is not too bad Tony)
I will be interested in the last of the heats to see if Chris Alford (10) lets Gavin (9) ease Philadelphia Man off the pegs at release. Gavin usually drives Five Star Anvil for Adam Kelly
http://www.harness.org.au/fields.cfm?mc=FV011215
Why would the drivers on Devendra and Mach Alert do what they did? Just plain irrational! Maybe they wanted to have the quickest first quarter and that's it. Lang would have been giggling from the start.
I could justify giving Rattray a holiday for his stubborness.
It has been fairly hard racing but I can now see Lenny and Phil giving themselves easier runs in the 3rd round with them clearly the faves for the final when draws will become all important
It will be interesting to see if the stewards ask any Q's when they are driven cold next round
They will have a great excuse to be driven cold next round Kevin. The third round of heats is PBD
Yeah, we have discussed the merits of that Glen but as far as an excuse goes - if say Phil draws 9 again but does not try to get off the pegs - what do the stewards do?
9 is the outside of the front line at GP and that is where he and Lenny have drawn under the PBD on points
Thanks Ray, Bunbury was confusing me
Is this supposed to be the best site for Inter News?
http://www.perthinterdominion.com.au/
Surely not. No news since before 2nd round, much less a points tally
Edit: points table is only thing up to date - I found it under Race Information on toolbar
Nevertheless Lenny is odds on and Phil 6/4 for Friday's round (on WA TABtouch)
Fields
http://www.harness.org.au/fields.cfm?mc=GP041215
Might be time to get on Twitter Kevin. The coverage through this medium has been sensational.
Hi Ray, what is the news on twitter about the poor performance of the Irish horse?
Not a peep about the Irish horse on Twitter Kev. It's funny, I'm in WA for the week ... the "International" spin surrounding the series before Northam disappeared very quickly. As for Twitter, 60% self adoration, 30% fluff and 10% useful information.Quote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
As for Bunbury, ignore the spin, it was surely a massive disappointment. I was at Gloucester Park on Friday and drove down to Bunbury on Tuesday. Chalk and cheese. It was a poor turnout to say the least. What did they expect kicking off the meeting @ 4.50pm, the first ID heat before 6pm and the first 5 races run in daylight. I watched the races on the infield screen. The glare for at least the first four races was terrible.
Harness Racing is half the product it is from a spectators perspective in daylight. This infatuation with running feature meetings during the day, in heat, is beyond me.
Early start so from a betting point of view races are not run so late that Eastern states are not in bed, because most of NZ followers would be! Another great reason for running such a series in WA, yay!Quote:
Originally Posted by HaroldParker
Great to see Lenny and Phil kicking butt, Irish horse most ridiculous decision, who thought he would be good enough to compete, let alone be competitive?
Just for you Harold.
http://www.perthinterdominion.com.au...-video-centre/
If you can't find some useful information there you are hard to please.
That is definitely a good source of news Ray but I must say I had missed it.
I know I am stupid but I have been clicking on the picture icon for Latest News and thinking that Latest Video was race day stuff
How wrong was I, I cannot believe that Chris Alford gave Lenny that hard a run
Maybe he thinks he needed it Kev? Or maybe he was over confident.. You could tell for Lenny to win that race, Chris had to stoke him up earlier than what he did. He wasn't chasing no slouch.. LD has ran some big races in the series so far.. Without sounding like a sour sport, I'm not feeling this years inter much at all..Quote:
Originally Posted by Messenger
Good girl, she finally got a draw, unfortunately too little, too late.
Maybe he did think he needs it - compared to the winner who has been racing for 10 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smoken
I think the coverage is VVG - Adam and Gareth are working well together
Was Philadelphia Man disappointing or what.. He had the perfect run into it, & still couldn't gather in the leaders. Well done to LibertyBell Midfrew. I don't understand how Major Crocker was the favourite in that race.. That's another 'what the' moment..
Well done to the mighty mare Frith in the Norms Daughter Classic. A few hard luck stories in that race!
Devendra's rise is somewhat unbelievable