KENILWORTH - WEDNESDAY

FRODO, do you have a PA selection for us today?

gregbucks Wrote:

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> Rush for John Best Bet
>
> On second glance I don't think Run For It will
> have it his own way today, Brown Penny looks like
> a lively runner at the weights.
>
> Can someone please tell me why Laurie's Gold is
> only carrying 59kg's with a merit rating of 87 in
> the 2nd...:S


What a coincidence,i have a best bet from the trainer John Best in the UK.
Hecton Lad 6-30 Kempton..Took 7/1 last night with William Hills,
This will go off a lot shorter

Thanks for that guys, still baffles me this merit rating shit...:S

FUGETTA
DUKE OF BEAUFORT
BEGINNER’S LUCK place ( vb )

gregbucks Wrote:

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> Thanks for that guys, still baffles me this merit
> rating shit...:S

Plate races have nothing to do with merit ratings. As pointed our already, the rules regarding races like novice and graduation plates were changed maybe a couple of years ago now to drop a horse's mass by 0.5 kg for each unplaced run since its last placed run, although I think that this excludes unplaced runs in Graded and Listed races. It wouldn't matter if Laurie's Gold was rated 107, 87, or 67. He carries 59.kgs, getting one kilo off the "base" 60 kgs for his two unplaced runs in a row.

With regard to that drop in weight in a novice.....why incentivise a strategy of a few bad runs to set up a good bet.........a completely braindead concept bearing in mind the general perception of racing by the public.

For instance No4 Big Bird............are the programmers saying that,at 3yrs old and after only 8 runs,the horse has lost ability?........bollocks..........it had a saddle slip FFS.
A lot of strange logic applied to this game.

rob faux Wrote:

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> With regard to that drop in weight in a
> novice.....why incentivise a strategy a few bad
> runs to set up a good bet.........a completely
> braindead concept bearing in mind the general
> perception of racing by the public.
>
> For instance No4 Big Bird............are the
> programmers saying that,at 3yrs old and after only
> 8 runs,the horse has lost
> ability?........bollocks..........it had a saddle
> slip FFS.

I have never agreed with those "new" plate race rules, either. It rather torpedoes the concept of racing on level terms, which is essentially what novice and graduation plates were supposed to be about. But our operators can bastardise anything for the sake of trying to grow field sizes.

But then you still use the merit rating (if you agree with the official rating) for a guide, make your selections in the plate race??

Greg,dropping the MR comes next.....
No.7 Dan Patch ....3yrs old and 9 runs, and according to the ratings has already lost 2 lengths of it's ability..........I ask you with tears in my eyes!

Rob thanks, your knowledge on this is appreciated(tu).... (Not that I'm any closer to finding a winner in the 2nd)...()

fugetta / big bird / telepathy / pasadera / brown penny (nice atc place)

magiclips Wrote:

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>
> Plate races have nothing to do with merit ratings.
> As pointed our already, the rules regarding races
> like novice and graduation plates were changed
> maybe a couple of years ago now to drop a horse's
> mass by 0.5 kg for each unplaced run since its
> last placed run, although I think that this
> excludes unplaced runs in Graded and Listed races.
> It wouldn't matter if Laurie's Gold was rated
> 107, 87, or 67. He carries 59.kgs, getting one
> kilo off the "base" 60 kgs for his two unplaced
> runs in a row.

Thanks for that Magic i never knew.