You obviously like working with numbers Trish! Gives me the heeby jeebies just thinking of all those spread sheets![]()
Agree with Katie about the sometimes ridiculous way races are designed especially for younger horses in WA. A few years ago I had a good filly who could not get a race against her own sex due to silly conditions such as minimum field of 6, there always seemed to be 5 acceptances so she had to race against the boys and I now have a 3y/o gelding who cant get a go in a westbred race because they want a minimum field of 8. There were only 10 horses in the Inter final...cant work it out.
Sometimes over here its shocking, last year we had a 2yo in Sydney & the 2yo races didn't stand up for close to 6 - 7 weeks in a row, they had enough noms at one meeting (8) & scraped it, other race noms twice were 6. So he had 1 run as a 2yo. He went to the paddock!!!
We had to send one to the paddock also. We were getting him trained and for weeks and weeks he couldn't get a start so we were paying training fees for nothing.
The debate about the Leeton Breeders Plate now has its own thread
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
DCECMBER 2016
317 races across NSW ............... of those races 71 had No Third Dividend .
Yikes
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person