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And they've altered it significantly in Victoria. “Last financial year’s 43 fatalities represented 0.039 per cent of the 110,422 starters in Victorian greyhound racing, down from 69 (0.068 per cent) in 2019-20. “With over 110,000 starters in about 15,000 races in Victoria annually, fatalities and serious injuries in racing are rare.”

If that's the case, then it's a lost cause. Maybe, but if that perception is wrong, the industry has done nothing to change it. Horse racing is headed down the same track imo.

Fatality rates and public perception particularly.

Really? Isn't it a decade of warnings and inaction from the industry that has done that?

You mean a low WBC count? It can also be high with viral infections. That hasn't really answered my question though with respect to an injectable treatment for a virus. What treatment?

Yes. If I'm there to track that but I'm not routinely. Maybe when someone convinces me that horses that shorten are more likely to win than those that drift. More likely than the chance the market gives them that is.

I'd trust my own assessment ahead of the market. That's how I find value in the first place. One successful punter I know bets more if a horse drifts because the value becomes better.

And I'm curious to know what injectable treatments there are for a virus?

Yes, the Levin Classic has been down graded to G2. The 1000 Guineas is on a warning but only an alert for the 2000 at this stage. The Manawatu Sires had its warning removed last season.

It could be. You still have to have some criteria for pricing the race so that you can know whether the available odds exceed the horse's chance. Not that I would use those above, nor can see how to adjust my pricing based on them and Tommo has been reluctant to share how to do that.

Well, I get speed maps, but don't really know how to use them in pricing a race, so don't. I don't use weight in my ratings so can't help with weight ratings. You could calculate kinetic energy ratings easily enough provided you knew the weight of the horse, which you don't in Australia/NZ. He didn't really have much chance to explain any of these things. It seemed he was really just being rushed through the list of 11 without expanding on any detail.

It seems a bit odd if that is the case. The square patch was already well browned off when the news was announced and it appears the damaged area extends beyond that in places.

Sorry TC. Can't help. I got lost at #1.

And after Trauma won. "Did they rate it's chances after the nice trial?" "I don't know". Has she been getting lessons from Dummy on handling the inane media questions?

A nice run with a spray boom and round up or similar instead of weedkiller or fertiliser?

Do you think it's actually any easier to win a mdn or rating band race in the SI or is that a myth?

What?

Gold Coast Magic Millions hinges on 'drop-in pitch' about an hour ago by Trenton Akers The Gold Coast track has deteriorated further Image: Supplied The fate of the 2025 Gold Coast Magic Millions hinges on a radical drop in pitch to replace a section of damaged grass on the new track, as officials face a race against time to get it right for next Saturday. Punters can reveal heavy machinery is being floated in from interstate to dig up the section of turf at the 500m mark that has been severely damaged by chemicals and will be replaced by existing unaffected grass that is already on the Gold Coast track. READ: Sunshine Coast Preview & Tips - Magic Millions Sunlight night The procedure will be similar to how many venues now use drop-in pitches for cricket matches. The 25m x 10m section of grass first started showing signs of deterioration on Wednesday, with the issue coming to a dramatic head on Friday afternoon when stewards stepped in after two horses galloped over the affected turf. Pictures obtained by Punters reveal the track had further deteriorated by Saturday morning after the decision was made to shift Saturday's meeting to the Sunshine Coast. READ: Millions shock: Gold Coast meeting moved to Sunshine Coast after track poisoning The rich meeting, which acts as the kick-off point to the Magic Millions carnival, has the $3m Sunlight slot race and the $500,000 Wave. The Gold Coast Turf Club and Racing Queensland have taken samples of the affected turf to send off to specialists to determine what has caused the area to become so badly damaged in a short period of time. The turf club notified police at 7pm on Friday night of the possibility the track was vandalised. Investigations are ongoing, with Gold Coast police urging witnesses or anyone with relevant information to come forward. Officials began work to take out the huge damaged section of turf on Saturday, with hopes to have the new grass in place as soon as Monday. Any work will be dependent on when the huge equipment is able to be trucked into Queensland. Pictures on Saturday morning reveal the Gold Coast track has further deteriorated. Picture: Supplied Punters understands Gold Coast and Magic Millions officials are confident of racing next Saturday's Magic Millions meeting at the track, however the new section of grass will need to be given the tick of approval by jockeys prior to the meeting. More than $14m in prizemoney will go on the line next Saturday, with the $3m Magic Millions 2YO Classic and $3m Magic Millions 3YO Guineas the highlight races. The club and Magic Millions will work on contingency plans over the weekend and into early next week in the event the Gold Coast track is not able to be brought up to speed. MORE: Gold Coast Magic Millions Carnival - Full Guide With Eagle Farm already racing next Saturday with a secondary meeting, the track is available to host the Magic Millions should it be required. It is the latest in a list of track dramas which has haunted the Gold Coast, after it was put offline for almost nine months after a diabolic meeting in March. The 2023 Magic Millions was also washed out after just two races with 14mm of rain after a rogue sprinkler waterlogged a section of the track. The state government recently spent $63m on redeveloping the track at the Gold Coast and installing lights.

Move to Gore then. That might help your chances. 1965.

Confirms what above?

There is reasonable evidence that even horses that go through yearling sales have lower injury rates and more career longevity. That is presumed to be due to the managed exercise involved. Horses that go through more than one sale, even better. Generally, the socialisation would likely have occured during the weanling period, before colts need to be separated from fillies etc. A large number of very good horses have gone through yearling sales. Bramlage said recently, members of the Jockey Club’s Thoroughbred Safety Committee have analyzed data on starts and auction appearances and found that each trip through a sale ring – yearlings and 2-year-old sales – increases a horse’s probability of ultimately making a start.

Not sure it helps much in the context of the above. That requires managed speed work. Larry Bramlage cited in the article above concludes that turnout conditions horses to turnout, not to speed work. Bramlage said it means that turning a horse out until its third birthday and then beginning race training will adapt the skeleton to turnout for a year, but not to training or racing. The bone modeling system will largely atrophy. The horse is then introduced to training and will have to recreate the vascular supply and cell population devoted to remodeling. By contrast, the horse who trained at two only had to repurpose the vasculature and cells already present for growth.

It's up the same day for Oz racing.