HRNSW Stewards in Cost Recovery Mode?

Amen. It's like having a traffic sign at a T-intersection that says Right Turn Only and one directly below it that says No Right Turn while to the left and the right sits a Highyway Patrol car waiting to book those that turn in either direction.
On a related note, I will never, ever forget last year's epically bloodyminded and abjectly foolish application of the ridiculous Change Of Tactics rule to Luke McCarthy's winning drive aboard Roman Stride. God help us all. Like Elvis before it, common sense has left the building.

On a practical note with twenty minutes between races is there going to be time to ask anyone about anything? Will the stewards even get back to the room to watch a replay?

This thread might be as good as any to post this
Change of Tactics.

I read an article from a current/ex steward this morning.

From it I gathered in Hong Kongtrainers tell stewards COT, who don't pass the info on.
In Mauritius they write instructions on a peice of paper, put it in an envelope and it goes in a box, unread.

I think one reason behind COT is to protect drivers who Change tactics, but things turn awry (either through bad drive, horse gets beat, or it looks like they might be helping another horse). So, letting the tactics be known to stewards before the race will help them in the department. The implementation in Hong Kong and Mauritius is good imo. Punters don't need to know.

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Originally Posted by aussiebreno

This thread might be as good as any to post this
Change of Tactics.

I read an article from a current/ex steward this morning.

From it I gathered in Hong Kongtrainers tell stewards COT, who don't pass the info on.
In Mauritius they write instructions on a peice of paper, put it in an envelope and it goes in a box, unread.

I think one reason behind COT is to protect drivers who Change tactics, but things turn awry (either through bad drive, horse gets beat, or it looks like they might be helping another horse). So, letting the tactics be known to stewards before the race will help them in the department. The implementation in Hong Kong and Mauritius is good imo. Punters don't need to know.

No doubt an improvement on what goes on here Brendan,drivers also should be allowed to deploy plan "B" or "C" as well without being automatically convicted, by that I mean drivers go into a race with an ideal game plan for success...only trouble is 9 other drivers have done the same thing and only one of ten is gunna get what he was designing,
I'll never forget many years ago, a bloke at work said to me " you should be putting your horses in the one out ,one back, i went to the trots the other night and nearly all the winners came from that spot"....brilliant thinking!!!trouble is about six or seven others had designs on that spot and only one was gunna get it!

cheers,
Dan