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Simple question- is there still such a thing as a Class 7 race? Used to be 0-45 classified stakes. If not what is the lowest grade of race now?
Thanks in advanceYep , there is Class 7. Limited to the all weather. Apprentice, Classified and Handicap races. The lower limit of the handicaps is 0-50 since 2008. All class 7’s are for 3yo+ or 4yo+ only.
There’s still a few around.
Sworn Tigress (currently rated 77) ran up a sequence in them this spring after being beamed in from Baden Baden.
Barney Curley does particularly well in them. They’re the perfect target when you’ve been given a bullseye by Phil Smith on the basis of a run in the Timbuktoo Guineas!
Thanks lads. Watch out for tonight’s fake gamble in one this Winter perhaps after another couple of undistinguished hurdles runs…
There was an endless precession of them in the winter during the ‘big freeze’ to keep the punters occupied between FOTB sessions. The weather won’t have helped mobility but they still done their best to run up and down on the spot poor beasts
After the horrors of Goodwood last week – where a succession of twilight three and four year olds (who twenty years ago would have been targeted at minor Group 3’s and Graduation Stakes) are aimed at high prize money handicaps, each race contested by two or three notoriously tricky trainers with multiple entries, with limited weight variations, all racing on ground selectively watered on the whim of a tap-happy jumps enthusiast – I can’t wait for Class 7 Banded racing on artificial surfaces.
Only three or four can possibly win, the all-seeing Oracles of Delphi (as has been discussed all summer here) are alive and well on the betting exchanges and watering an artificial surface only makes the surface more consistent.
Bliss, meowds. Bliss.
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