Heart Of The Art
Pace can be defined as the time it takes to cover a given distance, compared to a pre-determined average time for the same distance
Pace can be defined as the time it takes to cover a given distance, compared to a pre-determined average time for the same distance
If betting drives turnover and turnover keeps racing in business, it is in all our interests to enable our customers to the best of our ability. Therefore barrier trials deserve our full support.
What about the large mass of less sophisticated punters who rely on the official MR’s as a guide to exposed form when structuring their bets?
While the argument that these penalties have been introduced to minimise the ‘fear factor’ may hold water, at this stage I suspect there is a larger ‘fear factor’ of what else may have been changed without notice.
Due to an administrative oversight, the date for written submissions has been extended to 15 July 2014.
The new MR of Yorker plays havoc with the July-weights of the 3yo’s
If the official handicapper sticks to Merit Ratings, the weights for the big race will have Big City Life on top
With three months of competition behind them, and their feature races looming large on the horizon, here’s a look at how the current crop of juveniles shapes.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’