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Gamma, lol This Sam O’Reilly did he marry Sarah and took her name instead of remaining a Thornley? Hate to say it but officialdom from HRNZ is very amateurish and very poor. Punters should not be putting up with these pathetic so called standing starts, snd blhcott wagering on them until such time as they get someone who knows what standing still means . Otherwise call them something else, like anything GOES! Where on earth is Brad Steele advising us what HRNZ policy is in regards to the stands? Seriously anyone could do what the starters are currently getting away with! Watch, nothing will come out from HRNZ! -
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Meeting News Riccarton Park Synthetic Trials Cancelled Unfortunately, we have not had enough entries for Trials on Wednesday. Thank you for your co-operation as we tried to get these off the ground.
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Thats an important point. Another point is,when mr lamb was starter , he often tried holding them until everyone was standing and all that did was lead to more horses moving around and horses who had stood perfectly for a minute or two often ended up being disadvantaged,which really was unfair. people should remember that before being too critical of the current starter.Our current starter doesn't appear to favour any driver either. Fairness is important. Some drivers are more switched on to his routines,but thats not the starter favoriing anyone. Personally i have no issue with the standing starts continuing. i think the industry needs to keep providing both standing and mobile starts at all levels, as if you just run mobiles in the races that are currently run as handicap standing starts(with horses off marks)then you will get a lot more hot favorites,less turnover and realisticaaly mopres of much higher grade starting beside lowwer grade horses. There is no way to handicap in mobiles apart from prefgerential draws and in an 8 horse field a pbd means not much. So until someone comes up with a solution to that,then they will continue. Persobnally what i have a problem with is the 2 circle formation. I've never been a fan of it and its evolved into the starter not holding them long and the last horses to turn in,through no fault of theirs(just because they are drawn to be the last horse in the circle to turn in),are disadvantaged. Also i have a problem with the stips not reprimanding drivers who start too far back from the ur due to turning in too late or wanting a running start. If its good enough to reprimand them for being half a lngth behind in a mobile start,then how come 20-30 metres behind in a stand is consistently overlooked. Again i think they is partly due to the 2 circle formation also. as i've suggested previously,part of the solution is also in having less horses off the front line on tracks like addington. And also i would point out,while all drivers are trying to get the best start possible,some are simp[ly much better at it than others. For example i watched a horse win a non win trot at winton a couple of weeks ago.Initially i thought there may be an inquiry because the driver,nathan williamson had his horse btween 5-20 metres in front of all the other horses off the ur. And he didn't draw the inside ur. But after watching the replay it was obvious,he simply was mopre switched on than the other drivers and got his horse into postion quicker .
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