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A top first up effort by Restrepo but that farcical cup was why we do not want one trainer with half the field
http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...ic#YGC03111601
$1.80 available Hectorjayjay with TAB. Would expect him to start closer to $1.40
A top first up effort by Restrepo but that farcical cup was why we do not want one trainer with half the field
http://www.harness.org.au/meeting-re...ic#YGC03111601
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
The terrific training and driving effort of Scott Dyer and Ellen Tormey with The Boss Man in the Trotters Cup needs to get a mention too. Too good them!!!
Not to be too critical of Josh Aiken because perhaps if it was a bigger race he would have driven more agressively but I don't think he helped the spectacle of the race with that drive. I think the Stewart team would have strong defences for the way each of their runners were driven.Originally Posted by Messenger
If Josh had driven Hector more aggressively they would have stitched him
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
He has the tactical high speed to go straight past them to the chair and they wouldnt have wanted to bustle Restrepo around first up over 2600... hence the 63 half that didnt suit Guaranteed or Yankee Rockstar.
Yeah maybe but if Restrepo hands up then Guaranteed would have worked Hector for the team, that's if Guaranteed didn't go to the lead when Hector came around.
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
In both those scenarios Hector gets a length on Restrepo when Restrepo finally gets the sprint lane (possibly more because if Restrepo hands up to Guaranteed Hector would run past Guaranteed leaving Restrepo stuck behind a tiring horse). If Restrepo can make a length on Hector in the final 200 just how much did Guaranteed work Hector? Would have been a bloody lot for $17,000 from the biggest stable in Aust when Interdoms are around the corner.
Guaranteed got run past by Major Secret and race was over at the 300m - he simply isn't in a position of fitness to make it a true run race whoever is training him. Hector took ground off Restrepo late because Restrepo was first up over 2600m - fitness and running along quicker early was in Hectors interests not Team Stewart so making a war of it trying to beat Hector would see them come unstuck - hence you see the margin reduce late.
Chris Alford on Restrepo and Nathan Jack on Yankee Rockstar have to worry about David Aiken eg drives on Lennytheshark and Smudge Bromac etc.
I would have thought Hector has the heart to go with his speed, whereas you have been critical of a couple drives on Chilli 'Squib' Palmer a couple times of late.
I'm not saying Josh did the wrong thing because he has an Interdom to worry about, but the race was run in a normal enough fashion and this certainly isn't the first country cup we have bemoaned a slow first half. If that was the Interdom final we wouldn't be here talking about it being farcically run because Hector would be going forward. Can't just pin it on the one stable.
You cant - I can. They had 4 in the race who all worked forward to fill the first four places knowing Hector from the 2nd line is going to be behind them, they then understandably run slow and what I am saying is that with half the field from the one stable we have limited contenders who are NOT going to accept that pace.
I am not saying anyone did the wrong thing - maybe Josh in not zipping to the death, just saying it was a fizzer of a race IMO primarily because one stable was able to occupy the first 4 places, we will beg to differ. The imminent Inter of course had a bearing on the race
I was critical of Chilli once and since have seen him lead up the 3w line in the Maryborough cup
"Chris Alford on Restrepo and Nathan Jack on Yankee Rockstar have to worry about David Aiken eg drives on Lennytheshark and Smudge Bromac etc."
I am not sure what you are suggesting here
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
Regardless of who was training the horses how else would you have driven the four Stewart horses?You cant - I can. They had 4 in the race who all worked forward to fill the first four places knowing Hector from the 2nd line is going to be behind them, they then understandably run slow and what I am saying is that with half the field from the one stable we have limited contenders who are NOT going to accept that pace.
I am not saying anyone did the wrong thing - maybe Josh in not zipping to the death, just saying it was a fizzer of a race IMO primarily because one stable was able to occupy the first 4 places, we will beg to differ. The imminent Inter of course had a bearing on the race
I was critical of Chilli once and since have seen him lead up the 3w line in the Maryborough cup
"Chris Alford on Restrepo and Nathan Jack on Yankee Rockstar have to worry about David Aiken eg drives on Lennytheshark and Smudge Bromac etc."
I am not sure what you are suggesting here
A horse up first up over 2600m is going to want to run a 63 half whoever it is trained by. Guaranteed doesn't have the fitness to be grinding hard time from the death as evidenced 20+m defeat last start and Major Secret running past him. Yankee Rockstar in this grade driven accordingly and Major Secret every right to hand up given his midfield form. The four horses were driven accordingly to how they are going at this level. That they were trained by the same stable is just superfluous to the matter. Horses being driven according to where they are at made the race run the way it was run (farcical as you put it) - not that four horses were driven by the same stable.
By saying the four Stewart horses made it farcical implies the four drivers drove not as individuals but as a team - because you are grouping them. Whether you meant it that way or not that comes across to me that they team drove. I'm just saying it isn't in their interest to team drive against Aiken.
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