TAB For Ever Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Does anyone know if the big Northern Clubs actually talk to each other and to the trainers etc to see what horses are available to race. Cambridge about to have it's time in the sun with some big meetings / top horses leading into ATC meetings later in April/May A glance at the Nominations for Thursday so disappointing. There are two Group races for our top horses preparing for the much hyped GRINS night with the slot races the following week. The pacers has excellent noms with 11 entered ,but the Trotters a dismal 3 x noms. Pathetic....and one is top Aussie [ part NZ owned] Queen Elida. A Group 2 Race. But the top Southerners just raced at Addington on Saturday in a Group 1 so hardly surprising. And with the extra incentives to race 2year olds has fallen on deaf ears..... the pacing fillies have 2 x noms. The pacing males have 4 x noms and the 2yr old trotters have 3 x noms. I guess they will combine the pacers and put some slow maiden older horses in with the trotters. At least there are 17 noms for non-win pacers so will squeeze two races from that. And Cambridge still runs minimum stakes for most of it's supporting races so I'm unsure how all this can be justified when the SLOT race stakes are highlighted far and wide ,giving the perception that the Cub in good financial shape ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newmarket Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 35 minutes ago, TAB For Ever said: Does anyone know if the big Northern Clubs actually talk to each other and to the trainers etc to see what horses are available to race. Cambridge about to have it's time in the sun with some big meetings / top horses leading into ATC meetings later in April/May A glance at the Nominations for Thursday so disappointing. There are two Group races for our top horses preparing for the much hyped GRINS night with the slot races the following week. The pacers has excellent noms with 11 entered ,but the Trotters a dismal 3 x noms. Pathetic....and one is top Aussie [ part NZ owned] Queen Elida. A Group 2 Race. But the top Southerners just raced at Addington on Saturday in a Group 1 so hardly surprising. And with the extra incentives to race 2year olds has fallen on deaf ears..... the pacing fillies have 2 x noms. The pacing males have 4 x noms and the 2yr old trotters have 3 x noms. I guess they will combine the pacers and put some slow maiden older horses in with the trotters. At least there are 17 noms for non-win pacers so will squeeze two races from that. And Cambridge still runs minimum stakes for most of it's supporting races so I'm unsure how all this can be justified when the SLOT race stakes are highlighted far and wide ,giving the perception that the Cub in good financial shape ! Seems to be a circus up there… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeynz Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 21 hours ago, Newmarket said: Seems to be a circus up there… Based on numbers nominated how have they managed 11 races ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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