handicapping

[the galah]

So the north island trainers are advocating some changes to the handicapping system .. Some seem fair enough like the horses over R70 dropping back at a faster rate.

But they are advocating for the return of more penalty free wins again.

  When will they ever learn that this is a policy that leads to less participation,smaller field sizes and more hot favorites resulting in less spending by punters. As i posted on another topic -last season the average starts per horse had gone up close to 3% and races with hot favorites dropped by 5% . Stats obviously don't mean much to those advocating for  the penalty free wins.