Vaal Saturday- Emerald Cup

Emerald Cup Replay

Being entitled to an opinion, I have one,which is that the chances of well schooled horses should not be adversely affected by fractious ones,if at all possible.
The horse was playing up badly and became, IMO, the master of its own destiny,and blew it,and unless caused by HANDLERS or EQUIPMENT,the starter should not play the role of compensater.
Don't forget that the fancied horses were well behaved ,but whose chances were affected by the false start.

Remember a well punted horse the other day not being giving much of a chance by the same handlers,can`t remember the horses name,but was punted of the boards into near favouritism

Blue Flag Beach

rob faux Wrote:

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> Being entitled to an opinion, I have one,which is
> that the chances of well schooled horses should
> not be adversely affected by fractious ones,if at
> all possible.
> The horse was playing up badly and became, IMO,
> the master of its own destiny,and blew it,and
> unless caused by HANDLERS or EQUIPMENT,the starter
> should not play the role of compensater.
> Don't forget that the fancied horses were well
> behaved ,but whose chances were affected by the
> false start.

Fair enough.

So how do they overcome this problem, do you suggest that troublesome horses get a maximum of say 4 attempts?

ps the winner of that race was extremely fractious, Striker even mentioned it in the post race interview.

Yup,but didn't need the starters help to get the job done!