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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: panhunter on February 02, 2023, 10:58:18 AM
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I am tired of watching the 7 and 8 hole horses just drop to the back of the field and take a stroll around the track. Some solutions, your thoughts?
a. Fine drivers for lack of effort
b. Provide purse incentives for outside post
c. Use slanted starting gate at 1/2 mile tracks
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Get a bulldozer..
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Limit field to 7 starters and start Horse 7 from 2nd Tier or 8 Horse field with 8 Horse 2nd Tier as is done at Western Fair. tmbz1
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Post Positions should be geared to earnings in the last 10 starts. Lowest earner gets the rail and so on down the line.
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Good suggestion Frank the Zipper !
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Post Positions should be geared to earnings in the last 10 starts. Lowest earner gets the rail and so on down the line.
not sure if it would work --- but following Northfield and watching everyone dump money off their card so they can drop and pop at 2-5 is not a business model that would create new interest.
When I look at a program, I won't play a horse on the outside in a condition that has a LAST 4 attached if that line (with good money) on the program is about to be dropped with their next start.
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Meadows had a bonus for the 9 hole for certain classes years ago.......
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Only allowed to race horse once a month at Yonkers. Take it elsewhere. Wanna do petwalking, then race for Monti purses.
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far fewer races, much bigger purses so everyone tries
no 8 post, trailer
triple the slant at Yonkers
must draw 4 - 7 after a win
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Perhaps force Belmont, Aqueduct to come in line. Mile track racing is "one" of the keys to more honest racing, no 1st over excuses. I think maybe it's possible if the state for sees a loss of of revenue.