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Stats are based on percentage of wins on certain ground not the number of wins, so the fact that trainers run pivotals on soft ground more often for instance is irrelevant.
Not sure if I’m imagining this but I seem to remember an enormous horse called Scallywag running on the flat.
He was so big they struggled to get him in the stalls!
I agree its certainly not as big an issue as it used to be. Maybe due to artificial watering of courses.
Hi Thebluesbrother
Unless I am misunderstanding you i think your statement below is incorrect, due to you thinking about the time and lengths beaten equation the wrong way round.
"Take the 2yo 5f furlong track at Epsom it is run downhill so how can you have the same calculation 3.54 lbs. for the 2yo 5f race at Pontefract which is run uphill."
In actual fact the Official Lengths beaten that you will see in the result of a race has nothing whatsoever to do with distance. It is in actual fact just a representation of time e.g. On good or better ground on the flat for every second a horse beats another this is represented in the result by 6 lengths and for soft ground this represents 5 lengths.
So in your example a horse beaten a length at Pontefract on good ground finished .16 seconds behind the winner. A horse beaten a length on good ground at Epsom also finished .16 seconds behind the winner. Therefore it is perfectly reasonable to value that length the same in your speed figure calcs.
Of course in reality the horse beaten a length at Pontefract would have been closer to the winner when the winner past the post, than would be the case for the Epsom horse however this is irrelevant for what you are trying to do.
I hope this makes sense!!
I actually backed the it, but I was well aware what you are getting with this horse in needs to be delivered on the line, and I think if she had gone outside the horse wouldn’t have gone past the others, so waiting for the gap was the only option.
I think that most of these initiatives are excellent.
No doubt the "all change is bad" brigade will find fault in them, but it looks to me that Racing is finally beginning to look forward, and the attitude that, we do it that way because we’ve always done it that way! is beginning to die out.
Long may it continue.
I use Raceform interactive which gives you this data, although as mentioned above the speed figures are very poor and I tend to use my own.
As an example they gave Dream Ahead a higher speed figure than Hooray when they both ran in 6 furlong races 30 minutes apart at Newmarket, despite the fact that Hooray ran a faster time??
I’m not sure I understand the question. Are you talking about minimum bet stakes allowed. If so then most of the more well known bookies don’t have minimum stakes anymore.
So for instance you could place an online bet of a £1 with Blue Sq.
I’m afraid this argument that there are enclosures for people if they want to wear jeans just doesn’t wash.
My local course is Newmarket, why should I not be allowed to stand anywhere near the finish at these courses just because I am not wearing smart trousers?
I find the July course the most frustrating, when I take my kids they like to look at the horses before the race, but they quickly become tired of the massive trek back from the parade ring to our enclosure to watch the race. Last time my 8 year old son said to me "why can’t we just walk through there daddy?" meaning the posh enclosure, rather than having to walk all the way round it.
I didn’t have a good answer to give him.
A very good piece in the Post today, about how ridiculous it is of racecourses to enforce a dress code on racegoers.
This has long been one of my big bug bears, and a worry to every "non horseracing" friend that I have ever gone to the races with is what should they wear?
I’m sure it must put off a lot of new people, particularly the young and I am surprised that Racing for Change haven’t tried to address the issue.
He is now kept in his own paddock at John Jenkins stables, where he takes pride of place and is enjoying a happy retirement.
My horse was gelded last week, and the vet told me that it would be 6 weeks before it would have fully recovered, so 21 days does seem strange.
