Noodlum

Not sure what you are on about.

Nope.

I was at Addington when he cleared out from the field and won by 15+ lengths.

How can you tell? What is your reasoning?

Trials are supposed to be run under race rules. Were the Stewards asleep? Was Pete Lamb the starter?

Yeah perhaps Williams thought the horse wouldn't hand up? Cosmic Major was backed up in 7 days. You would expect a 2 yr old to be a little bit flat. But it has now qualified for the final so......

You are obviously a fine judge of a harness race. If you knew this was going to happen I assume you got a fair decent slice of the $8 on offer plus a bit of Nat's smile?

Full credit Karrots you are a fine judge of a horse race.

Isn't the trial by La Rosa a bit of a joke? Why did the 5 horse start on the second line and the 6 horse (stablemate of La Rosa) start 4 lengths behind the front line? Hardly putting La Rosa under pressure!

I guess we will see on Friday. Should be unruly.

That wasn't the point. Drawn 1 is not going to help it if it has dodgy mobile manners. Also it is more likely to cause carnage from there than being in the unruly position.

La Rosa has blown the start badly 2 out of its last 3 starts from the mobile. Got stood down from the last one and had to trial satisfactorily. Is that good enough? Drawn 1 which can't help it.

How many were tested? In the interests of Integrity (the RIU's middle name) and transparency shouldn't that be publicly notified?

So why hasn't Lamb been fined? Or reprimanded?

So you don't know? Typical! I've never known anyone called Leo that I would call a "mate"! More crap from Flash. So where are the written protocols? For integrity purposes there would have to be written guidelines at least. Although one wouldn't be surprised if there weren't any. Shit if there were Pete Lamb would have been sacked years ago!