Well done Laff

Will there be a minimum time the trialist will have to adhere to in order to qualify to run in a race?

Mac wrote: Will there be a minimum time the trialist will have to adhere to in order to qualify to run in a race?

I hope so

HOW


i know that Lebeoana ran 1200m the other day in 50 seconds but mosts stayers will struggle over 1000m

you crazy if you say 50 secs

thats me crazy

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thats equivalent to saying you discovered someone that can run the 100m in 7 secs

mydada


i was being sarcastic.

Lebeoana ran the other day and someone sent me an email asking why he had set off at such a fast frenetic pace. I was in spain and never watched the race but I'm subsequently told he went off a tad fast......

I'm sure though had Lebeoana had a barrier trial we might have rather tried the computaform sprint with him.

I am completely opposed to Barrier Trials and think that it's a load of codswallop. I have enough work and enough of a time planning normal routines towards my goals. We are on a 7 day a week industry.
Programmes are brought out and then withdrawn and then ammended and then again finally ammended. This during tbe AHS vaccination period....
Then courses are suddenly closed for maintenance and then meetings are moved to another venue. And I am talking about both Operators here. The basics, which have been around for a hundred years are suddenly a challenge. Whichever way you look at it, Barrier Trials will cost Owners more money.

But, if it increases turnover, I am all for it. If, as Mr.H says, it depicts our Sport in a cleaner light, I am all for it.

However, remember the following points -
1)Dissemination of info - how will it be done/accessed ? Will it please about 30 or 40 people who post on ABC only ?
2) Increase in turnover for Racing is measured on the tote....nothing to do with Bookies.
3)Who will "get the job"....who will benefit financially through this "project" ?
4)How many Owners will be quite happy to arrive on course to an odds on favourite...which they have paid for and kept for 2 years ? Is the Sport happy right now, to upset Owners ?
5)Most important, how many "winners" will be profitably found through Barrier Trials ?
6) And finally, I can just hear the whinging and mudslinging when a horse improves out of site from the Barrier Trial, is properly backed as they leave the ring and comes home lonely. Then the "clean" Sport will once again be rubbished, the Trainer criticised and long threads about how useless NHA are....

It's going to be an interesting journey....

Laff claims the vote to have been unanimous.

Did you not vote against it Louis?

If not,why not?

Louisg what i dont understand is that they say it has the unanimous support from trainers, vote 100- nill. And you say that you are against it.Then what say are saying about the vote is a lie?
From a trainers side i know how you must feel about it and showing horses to the public that a owners intention is to have a bet. Although im the public and love it.

In principle this has to be 'better' than what we have currently ..... to what extent things will be 'better' and whether it would have any effect to tote pools, remains to be seen .....

As mentioned by a few, it seems that there will be a lot of practical 'teething problems' to overcome .... for me I think the main issue is who is going to pay for this ? This has been standard practice in other racing jurisdictions, so how is barrier trials funded in those jurisdictions ? Is it just the norm that this forms part of an owner's cost ? If so, I don't think many local owners will rush to support this (depending on the percentage this will add to training bills); and if the owners do't support it, there has to be a possibility that (as Easy has 'threatened') they will just move there unraced runners out of KZN ..... or at least raid another province for that debut run (if the intention is to 'pull a coupe' on said runner