Stayed up for the first 2 hours last night to get a feel for the Aussie markets
Crikey mate they seemed all over the place to me at randwick last night but i dont think the unfortunate delays helped as races were running into each other and in hindsight not alot of action happened after post time so i could of checked in earlier on the next races
The volumes were bigger then I thought they would be with races literally going from 1-2 k to over 100k in 5-8 minutes
Seems to me like there are plenty cleaning up with automated bots as the races seem to build rapidly but with low stakes always a few quid in the front of the queue
I knocked off before the group 1s at randwick as it's hard to stay focused when your just looking in through the window
Also noticed that you could get yourself in alot of trouble laying near the top prices expecting second and third favs to carry on drifting regardless of what the favourite was doing
Australian racing
Don't they know it's the Wellington Boot.
About to jump in the Boot.
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Victoria premier on the future of racing in the state. Seems to be looking OK.
Victoria premier on the future of racing in the state. Seems to be looking OK.
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thx for that. Can we assume the other states will have same strategy in mind? Not knowing the setup over there, I'm not sure what things are decided at a state level or at a national level.Aarondewit wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 2:52 amhttps://twitter.com/joshblackmarket/sta ... 1112937472
Victoria premier on the future of racing in the state. Seems to be looking OK.
Could be. The states are in constant discussions with each other and the federal government. But yes, as in Tasmania a particular state could ban racing without the Federal Government doing so.ShaunWhite wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 3:38 amthx for that. Can we assume the other states will have same strategy in mind? Not knowing the setup over there, I'm not sure what things are decided at a state level or at a national level.Aarondewit wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 2:52 amhttps://twitter.com/joshblackmarket/sta ... 1112937472
Victoria premier on the future of racing in the state. Seems to be looking OK.
The chances of racing being postponed in the short-term are probably lower at the moment than 2 weeks ago. It has helped that our response seems to be much more effective than in Europe and the USA, both areas which seems unbelievably inept. But as we know, things can change very quickly.
Edit: Tasmania is behind other Australian states with the virus with about 80 confirmed cases on the island. The justification given for the race ban was that people are being asked not to travel to their shacks and 2nd houses in more rural and regional areas in an attempt to prevent the spread to these areas. Since many horse trainers are located in these more remote areas the decision was made to cancel racing. In states such as NSW and Vic the virus is too widespread for these measures being effective. I can see in places like WA and SA - which have sparse populations outside of Perth and Adelaide - there being bans on country racing for similar reasons. But we will see.
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Great info, it saved me from the preconception that remote = less populated = less risk of spreading = more likely to continue.
I see the logic now that if somewhere is clean you do your best to keep it that way, rather than applying the strict rules to where it's already more widespread. Banning racing would be pointless in areas where people might contact 100s of others as soon as they leave it anyway. The European approach (like in Italy) has been to throw a ring around infected towns, yours seems to be to throw a ring around clean towns, and that seems pretty smart because as this spreads, containing thousands of infected areas just becomes too much of a problem. I guess there's a clean/infected tipping point when containing one group or the other group is easier or more appropriate.
I see the logic now that if somewhere is clean you do your best to keep it that way, rather than applying the strict rules to where it's already more widespread. Banning racing would be pointless in areas where people might contact 100s of others as soon as they leave it anyway. The European approach (like in Italy) has been to throw a ring around infected towns, yours seems to be to throw a ring around clean towns, and that seems pretty smart because as this spreads, containing thousands of infected areas just becomes too much of a problem. I guess there's a clean/infected tipping point when containing one group or the other group is easier or more appropriate.
Yes. The biggest problem in isolated towns small cities is that there's very basic medical infrastructure that would not cope. Take Kalgoorlie, for instance. It has a population of 30,000. It is 600km from Perth and no closer to any other city. This means that when the relativity few ICU beds are used up, all patients requiring intensive care would need to be flow to Perth as there road journey is far too long. But this also means that this would likely result in higher mortality. Keeping Covid-19 out in some of these places may be a cheaper and more effective strategy.ShaunWhite wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:42 amGreat info, it saved me from the preconception that remote = less populated = less risk of spreading = more likely to continue.
I see the logic now that if somewhere is clean you do your best to keep it that way, rather than applying the strict rules to where it's already more widespread. Banning racing would be pointless in areas where people might contact 100s of others as soon as they leave it anyway. The European approach (like in Italy) has been to throw a ring around infected towns, yours seems to be to throw a ring around clean towns, and that seems pretty smart because as this spreads, containing thousands of infected areas just becomes too much of a problem. I guess there's a clean/infected tipping point when containing one group or the other group is easier or more appropriate.
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I was going to say that myself, but then I saw the race was 850 metres and forgot.
