I’ve just looked at the fields for Cup Day Riccarton.
11 Races.
These have to be the “fullest” put together on a raceday this year.
ARE THEY?
I’ll guarantee you one thing; neither Wellington or Auckland will have numbers like them on their Cup Days in 2025!
Looking at the results of the Cup Carnival where the European Bred wins were pathetic, why would you bother.
Once again horses with the NZ suffix, percentage wise, out performed everyone else.
Calm down. There are a number of South Island drivers ahead of C Dalgety, including Samantha Ottley, John Dunn, M Williamson, N Williamson, Tim Williams and top junior Sam Thornley.
Blair Orange #1 definitely
You may be more savvy in some domains Uriah, but certainly not in maths. The critical comparison is that Trump's vote remained basically the same but the Dems lost 10 million--and those were fake ballots in 2020 that ended up in drop boxes and behind curtains under trestle tables in places such as Fulton County. No winning President has EVER got near 80 million in the popular vote before the 2020 deceit.
Try again Uriah
What a drive….. Carter is clearly the South Islands second best driver….. Blair Orange is number one in NZ…… I met Carter when he had horses stabled at Menangle…… What a pleasant young chap….
Good summary of the rating system Deep South. And of course, as well as the $17K stakes, Ashburton is the only meeting most of these Canterbury horses could race at this week. So of course big fields!
It also highlights the mathematical stupidity of the rating system.
So many horses rated below 50, and so few in the higher rating bands .... and the powers that be don't seem to understand why.
Let's apply some year 2 maths to the situation ....
After the Ashburton meeting:
14 horses will go up 6 ratings points on average. Possibly even less than 14 will go up as some winners may be eligible for a free win.
42 horses will stay on the same rating
140 will drop to an even lower rating (if they haven't already bottomed out on 35 points)
Any fool can see that it's a mathematical certainly that an ever increasing percentage of the horse population will keep heading into the sub 50 rating band.
Therefore it's also a mathematical certainty that fewer and fewer horse will be available to fill the higher rated races.
Eventually a 51 rating will be considered FFA grade!
The asylum is being run by the lunatics!
Was gunna say , Get on the Stable-mate of that one .
Olivia will be Coming out of the gate from the 1 Alley, with All she's got to keep the lead in that , RACE 7. It's a Group 1 worth 200k , so they won't muck around ,
and she'll give a perfect Sit to the Cullen stable-mate (same owner too) GENERAL JEN , drawn directly behind her.
General Jen will come through the inside up the home straight and take the Victory at 9-1 . Get in the queue !!! (either to collect or for next bet if plan doesn't work lol 🤣)
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