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When is this Track Rating BS going to stop!! Trentham an S5 but Gryllsie reckons its a G3 already!


Trojan

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Gryllsie after race one says Trentham is a G3!!!

Then how was it a S5 at 6:30am?

Race Day
Weather: Fine
Track: Soft 5
Moisture Meter: 30.8%
Rail: True
Rain: 2.3mm Rain Last 7 Days |No Rain Last 24 Hours
Irrigation: N/A
Weather and Track updated at 6.35am Saturday 7 December
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From the Stewards Report:

Due to equipment issues, no Photo Finish or Official Timing was available for Races 1 and 3, with the inside Photo 
Finish camera only being operational for Race 2.

So if they had no times for the first three races then they were relying on Jockey feed back for the track ratings?

Lucky there wasn't any close finishes as well.

From my observation of some horse actions there will be some sore ponies today.  

Soft 5 was complete BS.

Very very amateur all round on a Grp 1 day.

 

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Just read more of the report the first upgrade from S5 to G4 was retrospective to race 1.  That is they ran the first race, which was untimed and then decided it was a G4.  Did Oatham or Goodwin walk the track when the got to the course presumably prior to race 1?

When did they test the timing and Photo Finish equipment which are both linked?

I notice no one reported back to the Trackside Studio.

 

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Platinum Attack was in another class in the last and ran an astonishing time of 1.06.84. Trentham has their carnival earlier now to accommodate Karaka meeting so 4,11 and 18 Jan but what were the Muppets at NZTR thinking in also having later this month,  meetings at Trentham on 15 and 21 Dec

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22 hours ago, Trojan said:

Wow!  How brave are the Stewards?!  They upgrade to a G4!!!  Joe Doyle reckons the track is "firey" and Gryllsie said it is a G3!

Of I forgot the policy is to only upgrade 1 rating at a time!!!

When do you ever see stewards walking the track?

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39 minutes ago, Assange said:

When do you ever see stewards walking the track?

When a horse slips or when a Jockey says their horse felt like it would slip.  Then the Stewards are all over it!!

Well here are some questions for the RIB - the S5 was BS - was a penetrometer reading taking at 6:30am?  Were any horses galloped on the course prior to the meeting starting which is in the NZTR protocol?

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