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WHEN IS PERTH RACING GOING TO STOP SERVING UP RUBBISH FEILDS 2 OUT OF EVER 4 WEEKS A MONTH ON A SAT

West Australian Racing
milkmanmilkman    3 posts
edited March 2014 West Australian Racing
Another weekend to give it a miss well done again boys no wonder no one goes they have to pay me to turn up to watch some of that rubbish.
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  • notapuntanotapunta    938 posts
    Can't run the good horses with only a week's break mailman.
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  • ChrisChris    5,734 posts
    I'll take the showdown in R2 and Amorino vunerable at the weights

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  • ChrisChris    5,734 posts
    Fields are bloody small though
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  • milkmanmilkman    3 posts
    The issue is u ran all these cups on different days that take the good horses for 1 or 2 of the races why not make gero the stand alone and give ascot the week off makes no sense to me to shove those 2 good races on a sunday just dumb time to move with times.Thats y the Belmont season is so good u dont get these few months were all your good horses get dragged away its annoying.

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  • careycarey    6,424 posts
    and don't forget when you program for crap, crap is what you will get.
    60+ on a saturday may be good for those with slow horses, but does nothing to promote perth as a racing mecca!!!
    they don't have prime meeting these days, they just have more of the same nothingness on saturday's as they do on wednesday's

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  • GilgameshGilgamesh    5,009 posts

    I can kind of agree with the vibe of what you're saying and I feel it's to do with people actually trying to make things better but inadvertently making things worse. For the last few years there has been a push to spread the prize money more and more around the provincials. That's all well and good as it spreads the money around but at what cost? What is it taking away from the big day, Saturday? What is it costing in lost turnover which in turn is money back to spread around the industry? Don't we want trainers, owners and jocks to be aspiring to be successful in town? The best racing needs to be on the best day, you need to give everyone a reason to be coming to town.

    I'm not all over the figures by any means but I just had a very quick look. 3 races midweek in town today at random, $20000 $15000 and $15000. 3 Races midweek in town around this time 2006 at random all worth$17000 so in effect no rise at all. 

    3 races on a sat current time $40000 $47500 and $47500. 3 sat races in 2006 all $40000 so one race with no price rise and two up around 19%.

    3 races at Pinj current time $17500 $15000 and $17500. 3 Pinj races back in 2006 $9500 $9000 $9500 so a price rise of around 85%.

    So in essence country racing prize money has gone up at around 4 times that of city racing. Or looking at it another way in 2006 on a sat in town you were running around for approx. 4.2 times the money available at Pinj. At the current time you will be racing for about 2.7 times the money. So were is the incentive to set your horses and bring them to town? I remember a time not that long ago you'd see the good horses with good form from far and wide come in and try to pull off a big win in town, now I can see it would be harder to get enthusiastic about. Just keep yourself out of town and down in the ratings.

    Obviously it's a very small figure base but you can get my point from it.

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  • NevershowsurpriseNevershowsurprise    995 posts
    But you don't punt in Perth Muppetman??

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  • therealkramertherealkramer    8,008 posts
    notapunta said:

    Can't run the good horses with only a week's break mailman.


    Is Ihtsahymn still a good horse? =;
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  • notapuntanotapunta    938 posts
    therealkramer said:

    notapunta said:

    Can't run the good horses with only a week's break mailman.


    Is Ihtsahymn still a good horse? =;
    It's a great horse trk, couldn't run it weekly for the next month is the point I'm getting at.

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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,485 posts
    it should have had a good spell after his A1 efforts late last year.

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  • 60somethink60somethink    16 posts
    carey said:

    and don't forget when you program for crap, crap is what you will get.
    60+ on a saturday may be good for those with slow horses, but does nothing to promote perth as a racing mecca!!!
    they don't have prime meeting these days, they just have more of the same nothingness on saturday's as they do on wednesday's

    Couldn't agree more We should have much higher rated horses going around on Saturdays 58 is a bloody maiden rating. You have to earn the right to race on Saturdays 78+ even higher minimum over all distances. Set top weight of 59k so the idiot handicappers don't punish good horses for these spastic slow ones at 54k Years ago we use to have open welters for the best horses on Saturdays. I'd rather go to the races and watch a small field of good horses than a full field of nobodies. High rated horses have very few options of where to go without being heavily penalised.

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  • therealkramertherealkramer    8,008 posts
    notapunta said:

    therealkramer said:

    notapunta said:

    Can't run the good horses with only a week's break mailman.


    Is Ihtsahymn still a good horse? =;
    It's a great horse trk, couldn't run it weekly for the next month is the point I'm getting at.


    Well his runs have been spaced so that he only runs every fortnight and so far he has been rolled as a short priced favourite TWICE. The bookies will be building a statue of him soon.

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  • 60somethink60somethink    16 posts
    Ihtsahymn will have to go to the eastern states soon, the handicapper will kill him here  Just like he has with other good horses after only a few good wins, hell get bottom weight over there in much higher rated races. Hell of a lot harder to win though, very few real good horses have gone east and been successful. The rating system sux and the handicappers can use DISCRETION when appling  weights but never do.

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  • RodentRodent    7,470 posts
    Bring back 1MW, 3MW, Welters and Flying for Saturdays. Class 6 for Wednesdays. Provincials should have no higher than C3 with a 0MW-LY thrown in for the old plodders.
     The ratings band system has made the classes bottom heavy. Obviously there is no depth at the quality end but that can be bought in the east. Currently the dregs instead of being moved on, are kept running around indefinitely as they plummet in ratings.
     The old system made sure good horses raced on Saturdays where they belong.

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  • PuntingTragicPuntingTragic    1,141 posts
    I thought the fields on say were good betting races actually

    More whining than a a e load of poms at the airport on here lol

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  • LooksLikeTroubleLooksLikeTrouble    150 posts
    Rodents on the right track instead of this poxy rating system

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  • rot8inrot8in    1,881 posts
    All in all keep up the good work perth racing ,we can't have cracker fields every week , but im enjoying being on course lately ...i also dont expect big crowds and cracker fields when we just had Irish day and we got the karra and the derby day coming up ...mind you im a happy chappy ..i dont complain about much
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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,485 posts
    mate!!! wheres ya been???
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  • rot8inrot8in    1,881 posts
    Been thru the wars mate ..have not seen you at the track ??
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  • thefalconthefalcon    20,485 posts

    rarely go..its boring as $hit these days. honest, only go for an hour or so, no atmosphere, just to let folks i am alive and kicking.

    eg smokers...here they chase you with a water pistol...caulfield and flemington last month..open slather outdoors. not that i condone smoking...its just a matter of choice, not gestapo like tactics here

    grog cheaper, food 100% superior...why go to perth tracks?

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  • PuntingTragicPuntingTragic    1,141 posts
    Matter of opinion I enjoy perth racing an it's not carnival time every week suck it up horses are been prepped for our Autum carnival

    I enjoyed the day on Saturday then Again I'm not a whining git like must here

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