28th May 2011, 09:29 PM
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barriers are under rated
I think barriers are a lot more important than we give them credit for. After reading many posts on here one could come to the conclusion that it’s swing and roundabouts with barriers, ie; horses in the widest barriers are overly compensated in the price. Possibly correct. But, if you go through form guides and look only at the barriers, you’ll see that horses do perform better with a favourable barrier, especially in the better class races.
During the spring carnivals, the overhead camera shots show just how disadvantageous wide barriers are. Some horses have absolutely no hope from outside, or wide barriers. 50 metres after they jump you can regularly see horses from wide barriers some 6 lengths worse off than those with inside barriers, without necessarily missing the start. They’ve lost the race in the first 50 metres and they’re in the market.
I've posted the opposite opinion in the past ............
Maybe we could look more closely at the barrier when we consider past form.
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