Kwazulu Natal R100000 maidens!(tu)

Flash Harry Wrote:

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> Now you talking (tu)
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> I say nothing about poor stakes in WC be cause
> some one get HOT under the coller when I take this
> LINE


That is so original.....

100k maiden BUT half the field will end up rated less than 60, I am all for higher paying maidens BUT i think there should be a pre qualification into them. No point having 100k maidens with weak horses.

Again i ask the question if a trainer has a maiden rated 68 and is running consistently WHY not race it in a handicap and eliminate the risk of continuing to bump higher rated maidens?

or introduce the following
R120k maiden
R100k maiden
R70K maiden
R60k Maiden

easy Wrote:

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> or introduce the following
> R120k maiden
> R100k maiden
> R70K maiden
> R60k Maiden


very good idea

and add the following rules


easy Wrote:

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> or introduce the following
> R120k maiden (unraced horses only)
> R100k maiden (all maidens)
> R70K maiden (must have run unplaced last time)
> R60k Maiden (must have run unplaced last twice)

excellent ideas easy (tu)

With our elimation process of running placed and unraced horses 1st,you will end up with the best field available 99% of the time.

Craig

Is that already in practice?

mikesack Wrote:

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> Would be exciting to see a raceday restricted to
> all maidens only. Great stuff considering they all
> race for a hundred grand and soon exit the ranks.
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> Remember the days when a 5 yr old battling maiden
> was not eligible to race and was put on the float
> to Vrystaat to break the duck?
> One such character was His Nibs who went on to win
> a minor feauture at Greyville!!


His Nibs broke its maiden as a 5yo in Bloem. Ended up winning the Greyville 1900 and running in the July. Gift Funeka became the 1st black jockey to ride in the July aboard His Nibs.

Yes it is. I think many Natal trainers have been waiting with some of the better maidens for now.

Craig

Not starting and argument or being funny but no way can that be the case and in most maiden races there are at least 4 horses at greater than 50/1 and with NO CHANCE.

Hi Easy, it is in place and possibly the reason is one that we not happy with. After your horses running in 1st 5 places last run getting in 1st and then your unraced horses, you them go to the elimination process where every unplaced run after your 2nd unplaced run you get basically -1 rating. So after 3 unplaced runs after your 1st 2 runs you would be on -3. Therefore the -1s get in first then the -2s etc. That I can understand but what I dont like is say what happened with Cools Style. Ridden badly and ran 6th beaten 5 lengths in a 18 horse field and he was eliminated for a horse that ran 6th in a 6 horse field beaten 13 lengths. You also find that most trainers will rather wait with the horses that have a chance of winning, than run them frm the inside at Clairwood or the outside at Greyville or Scottsville. So often bad horses will still get in.