here<\/a>.<\/p>\nFROM THE RACING OFFICE\u2026<\/p>\n
There\u2019s some key feature races at Melton this coming Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The Holmfield, which has been won by some great three-year-old trotters over the years such as Noopy Kiosk, One Over Kenny, I Didn\u2019t Do It and Majestuoso, is part of the card, as is the newly-created Bob Conroy 2YO Trotters Classic.<\/p>\n
The two events should form part of a great night\u2019s racing.<\/p>\n
ONE FOR THE BLACK BOOK<\/p>\n
TINEY<\/p>\n
He was well beaten, but what a big effort it was by Tiney at Ballarat on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The Tony Xiriha-trained trotter made a mistake at the start and was off the vision for much of the race, but made up\u00a0late ground to finish ninth, beaten 27.3m.<\/p>\n
His sectionals were very impressive, clocking clearly the best last half of 58.8 as well as the slickest last three quarters of the final mile.<\/p>\n
Stick with him.<\/p>\n
SOMETHING TO PONDER<\/p>\n
Should a driver\u2019s weight be listed in the form guide?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve had this discussion a few times \u2013 including on radio this week \u2013 and I personally think it should.<\/p>\n
While I won\u2019t proclaim to know the full science behind how significant weight is when pulled by a horse as opposed to being carried like in gallops racing, it\u2019s surely a factor in how a runner performs.<\/p>\n
If you follow the thoroughbreds, you\u2019ll know how much emphasis is placed on a few kilograms when it comes to a swing in the weights.<\/p>\n
In the trots, there would be a significant difference between the lightest drivers and those that are on the heavier end of the scale.<\/p>\n
And while it might only be of minimal concern to some and only have a slight bearing on performance, I think it\u2019s a factor worth noting.<\/p>\n
What do you think?<\/p>\n
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The opinions expressed in The Forum are those of the author and may not be attributed to or represent policies of Harness Racing Victoria, which is the state authority and owner of thetrots.com.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the bits and pieces that caught Tim O’Connor’s eye in\u00a0the world of harness racing… THE HERO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-57021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}