From @RacingPost
No runners have been declared for the final race at Newbury on Saturday.
The novice contest, worth £6,500, was for fillies aged three and older and had attracted 13 entries on Monday.
Just when you thought field sizes couldn't get any smaller!
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wearthefoxhat
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The smaller fieds are my bread an butter, but not that small!
Long time since I was following racing but the issue was never the number of horses for races, it was the distribution. Novices' chases was a long-standing problem.
I've often wondered if it would be profitable to purchase a 12-year-old maiden chaser and just enter it in races where you suspect there's prize money waiting for the horse that finishes last. It even happens in grade ones.
How would you get an old banger into grade 1? If it was that easy that you could print infinite profit by buying horses to come last then everyone would be doing it and field sizes would be bigger and there would be a berry book/video/course on itDerek27 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 8:47 pmLong time since I was following racing but the issue was never the number of horses for races, it was the distribution. Novices' chases was a long-standing problem.
I've often wondered if it would be profitable to purchase a 12-year-old maiden chaser and just enter it in races where you suspect there's prize money waiting for the horse that finishes last. It even happens in grade ones.
Simple. You just enter it. At the 5-day stage if there's 4-5 horses left in then you declare it to run.alexmr2 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 1:54 pmHow would you get an old banger into grade 1? If it was that easy that you could print infinite profit by buying horses to come last then everyone would be doing it and field sizes would be bigger and there would be a berry book/video/course on itDerek27 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 8:47 pmLong time since I was following racing but the issue was never the number of horses for races, it was the distribution. Novices' chases was a long-standing problem.
I've often wondered if it would be profitable to purchase a 12-year-old maiden chaser and just enter it in races where you suspect there's prize money waiting for the horse that finishes last. It even happens in grade ones.
Horses lose their official ratings after 9 months of no racing. Minimum ratings to enter a G1 is 80.Derek27 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 3:14 pmSimple. You just enter it. At the 5-day stage if there's 4-5 horses left in then you declare it to run.alexmr2 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 1:54 pmHow would you get an old banger into grade 1? If it was that easy that you could print infinite profit by buying horses to come last then everyone would be doing it and field sizes would be bigger and there would be a berry book/video/course on itDerek27 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 8:47 pm
Long time since I was following racing but the issue was never the number of horses for races, it was the distribution. Novices' chases was a long-standing problem.
I've often wondered if it would be profitable to purchase a 12-year-old maiden chaser and just enter it in races where you suspect there's prize money waiting for the horse that finishes last. It even happens in grade ones.