FRESH IDEAS
Why Follow Sydney's ( Lead Here? (From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) After an absence of a couple of years, Andy Brown is back for a short stay m Auckland. LJE had no sooner hit the big smoke *■* than they .tried him out on the handicapping business, but "Andy" is too wise a bird to say too much. All the same, he said he favored the Sydney style of setting adjustments, which, m his opinion, caused little dissent. Over there second and 'third place-getters are never penalized, and competitors are never handicapped to go better than their fastest record. With a lot of experience m the game, "A.8." knows his onions, but, giving all that m, several prominent owners will not likely take the same view. If such a manner of handicapping was introduced into New Zealand,'betting would be restricted, and as stakes are framed pn the tote turnover, owners would suffer. We have seen horses run seconds better than set to do into minor placings, and if next time out they receive no penalty they look more or less certainties. ■ ' ■ Of course, the argument is there that it is not always that they would repeat that performance. But the punting fraternity, if they wouldn't take the short price certain to be on offer, would not try to pick one to beat it. The system itself may work well m New South Wales, but try it out m New Zealand and it is "odds on" that the tote returns would drop with a wallop. - ' . .
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NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 13
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