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This is slightly off topic for a second.
I see Pippa Greene is again entered up tomorrow. Could someone just confirm for me if this horse now has 2 different handicap marks as the RP states – Turf of 72 and AW of 80?
If that is the case on the basis of 1 AW run, I really wonder what is going on at BHA towers. The fact the horse is in the process of the random rating drop for being beat irrelevant distances almost doesn’t matter.
If they didn’t run PG until November 2011 they could probably get it down to 50
Jose,
It’s a bug in the way the Post update their database. When a new mark is published which applies to turf and AW, they only update the turf figure until such time as the horse runs again.
You can check current ratings on the BHA website – it’s updated every Wednesday:
http://www.britishhorseracing.com/resou … a/ratings/
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He still runs off 80 tomorrow. I take it that has something to do with the horse still being rated 80 when 5 day declarations were taken? Thanks anyway.
At least another trashing will earn a "strange" 8lb (well it might be) drop.
And I agree completely with the problem about conditions races. Again, I would prefer a discretionary element typed into them for placed and worse horses. Any horse who runs in one rated over 80 (ish) retains their previous handicap mark for their next start.
The 162 hurdler I don’t quite have words for.
The last Hennessy winner from out of the weights was the disqualified Be My Royal, 7lb wrong when "winning" in 2002 before her post-race pee burned the bottom out of the test tube.gc
Bit harsh Jeremy given it was a trace amount of morphine from contaminated feed what done it- bit tragic really as the horse broke down in the race too.
A DQ is a DQ, and a horse can no more be a little bit disqualified than a little bit pregnant. I probably did put the above a tad too facetiously, though, given it was a marginal decision and there was no question of ill intent on the part of connections.
Never the same animal again afterwards, was he (two years out), so as you say ultimately not a great result for all concerned.
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