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Galah, not sure about this racing on time thing? It is more about the starter having the control and not the drivers!!! Just watched a race on Trackside 1, a standing start for trotters, with several lines of horses. We need this starter over here as he ensured that every horse was standing totally still before he let them go! Was a great standing start, he wouldnt be putting up with the crap that we have here, with nothing like standing starts at all! Most of the execs at Entain and the CEO Brad Steele are all Ozzies, and they need to get an Ozzie over to get these stands being properly executed. Reality is Galah,that not all horses do get the same treatment in every standing start in the South Island! Just pathetic the way they think horses getting a flier cos it is in a run up is a fair standing start! Watch the replay of race 2 at Albion Park today and you will see that the starters here and Australia are chalk and cheese with the stands -
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24 heats, 143 horses there today. Where are they going to hold those events? Foxton is already loaded with their trial meetings. Surely not the Awapuni synthetic? We can see today what trainers might think of that idea.
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doesn't matter whether they are walking or standing at the end of the day,what matters is all horses get a fair start. like i said earlier,peter lamb got so much criticism,because he tried to stick to the stand (not moving)starts. i remember too well with mr lamb,your horse stands there ,not moving for 2 minutes,then after 2 minutes of horses being pulled into postion,while others backed away,another plays up,another backs away,then though and behold he lets them go just when your horse thats stood there for 2 minutes perfectly, moves a wee bit one way,so is off balance and breaks and then you get made unruly.Thats why he got so much criticism. And races starting on time is very important with the cluttered racing coverage. The $ invested by australian punters is of such significance and they don't want to be having a bet on a race,only for that race to disappear off the trackside channel because they are a minute or two late.I mean have a bet at a meeting where that happens yourself,and you would soon give up betting on the rest of the races from there. I mean think about this,you could do the opposite of what some are suggesting ,in all races being mobiles,.Make all races stands and horses,drivers and trainers would all become more accustomed to all races being stands,would be trained better for them and the horses would adapt better to them. That would be better than this chopping and changing ,one start to the next. But that ain't going to happen either. i remember the days,,when jack mulcahy started the races. He was a very fair man. He wanted everyone to have a fair start and horses were better trained for satnds,because they had to be to get the best results. but those days are gone,horses just don't seem to be trained as well as they used to be to stand still then go.Maybe its a breeding thing to a degree,maybe its all the chopping and changing from stands to mobiles,but i really do think a lot is the way they are prepared and the time,or lack of,that goes into teaching a horse to stand and then begin. i mean obviously thats a factor as some trainers always have well mannered stand horses and others don't For example the telfers break an awful lot of stands. I guess they just don't focus on teaching that aspect as much as say some like peter davis or mark jones or de fillipi or whoever. So if you do think all races should be mobiles,what are you going to do with the races that are currently run as handicaps to provide a betting product without hot favorites. Its all well and good to point out an issue ,but you have to something better to change to. personally i think a lot comes down to the drivers. Watch sam ottley. Watch her routine most times in the preliminaries.. Punters just have to factor those things when they make an investment. They always have had to previously,i mean i understand as a punter its very frustrating sometimes to see your horse get a bad start,but is it really the starters fault each time?Sometimes for sure it is, but not as much as people make it out to be,in my opinion.
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