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I am interested to hear your views on racecourse gallops.
They seem to be becoming a lot more frequent in recent times within jumps racing, and seem particularly popular with certain trainers.
In your opinion, does it seem right that a horse runs a couple of times per year, and then has a racecourse gallop before and important entry, such as Cheltenham?
Are the racing public losing out on seeing their favourite jumps horses, so that they are kept ‘fresh’ for Cheltenham?
Interested to hear your views.
There was some discussion on this last week to do with trainers who have small yards perhaps organising racecourse trials with horses from other yards in order to have galloping companions of a similar class (say, in the case of a yard which had a good horse and nothing good enough to gallop with it at home).
In the US all work is done at the track. I’m not sure it’s really very much different to that except that the RFC people could make more of the opportunity to watch the stars work by making it part of the normal raceday.
RFC people could make more of the opportunity to watch the stars work by making it part of the normal raceday.
That’s what I was thinking.
For sure, it might encourage people to get to the races on time if there’s a ‘star’ having a run around first.
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Without racecourse gallops is like throwing the beans to guess.
It goes against the principle of "equivalent dissemination of information also" on which horse race betting is founded.
Those who say "we can do witout this principle" are plainly thieves.
It’s like this.
The probability of a horse returning from six months absence is about 2/3 to 3/4 what it might have been otherwise.
But that’s statistics. In some cases there is no effect, in other cases it is not "3/4 times probability" but "zero times probability". The trainer-inner circle knows, you don’t. And without gallops it becomes black box.Statistics also tells us that the effect of absence is different for different distances.
In sprint races it is negligible but as the distance increases the effect becomes more pronounced.
Strangely for the longer distances it appears there is no effect. An explanation for this is that trainers do not list their horses in route races unless truly fit.
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