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Have to put this on the trainers or their reps doing the entries – if the conditions were vague or not overly clear then contact Weatherbys for clarification, I get that you may be doing mass entries and time is at a premium but it would appear the other trainers were able to make the understand the conditions and make the correct entries so it couldn’t have been that difficult to understand.
With all that being said, how close to race times are entries checked by officials to ensure that they are in fact correct? It seems that the process may need to be looked at to see if there are any improvements that could be made but seeing as this type of incident (with the numbers involved) hasn’t happened regularly it would seem that the trainers/their reps simply need to pay more attention to what they are doing in future.
The word ‘Confined’ apears nowhere in the title or conditions for this race. Which you can view by looking at pages 30-31 on the online Racing Calendar:
Confined races usually mean for horses that have not won that season, or have not won for a defined period, e.g six months or a year. It has also been used for novice races on the flat limited to horses that have not run more than once.
The conditions of this race are different from either of those restrictions. And I’m not surprised that trainers/secretaries missed the key phrase. I’d never seen it before and I fail to see what purpose the restriction on lifetime wins serves in a low grade handicap.
I’ve no doubt that this has happened because using the Racing Admin site, entries are made by clicking on a list ‘of races and that doesn’t involve reading the detailed conditions. Unless there’s a key word in the race title, it’s no great surprise that so many trainers (or their staff) had no idea this condition existed.
That’s not intended as an excuse for the trainers, who are responsible under the rules. But it’s reasonable to ask who decided to include this condition, is it an acceptable restriction, and why didn’t whoever wrote the race conditions opt to include Confined or Restricted in the race title. Words which alert anybody doing entries to double check.
It seems this is a new idea, presumably dreamed up by Race Planning, whose remit has never been to leave things alone.
If you go to page 41 of that Racing Calendar, the first race at Lingfield on Monday shows how to make it clear in the race title what is required to be qualified to run.
As to the original question, I can see arguments for both sides. What I can’t accept though is that we have forty eight hour declarations and this was picked up literally less than an hour before the off.
As an aside, I would also be peeved to have had the 28-1 winner earlier in the meeting (four runners) and miss out on the placepot!
WWL – me and thee at the races, we’ve had the first five legs of the Placepot up, because of the NRs we are lumbered with the long odds-on fav in the last, who we don’t necessarily fancy that much….we are so having a lumpy saver on the other one at the best odds (probably the Exchange) we can get, so we’re going home happy enough.
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