Classes of Racing,......Help...!!
 

Hi there,

Can someone please give me a list of how the new classes of racing, eg. 0 - 68,......work,.??

Maybe a list of how these compare with the previous classes, or a list of all the news ones.

Much appreciated,

Paul

It is based on the rating of the horse. This makes it beneficial to older horse allowing them to be able to race for longer. As in racing in a "class" race refers to how many wins you can have, therefore if racing in a class 2 you cannot have more than 2 wins. In the ratings based system a horse can race in a race depending on their current rating (e.g. if a horse won 8 races but is now a 7yo and has not won for a while they can drop back in class. As they have 8 wins they under the class system must race in open races, which may be too strong. So if they are not performing their rating will drop and can then race in the rating equivilent of a class 4).

0-68 is the lowest I believe and then goes up from there. It can be quite confusing but is very good and has been worknig in other contrie for quite some time.

Thanks Jeff
 

Thanks Jeff, this is all very interesting. I am assuming then, that the "handicappers" must have a data base devised from some ingenius method, as to each horses rating..?Paul

If you do a search on google you will find a PDF doc listing the new classes and a comparison with the old system.

I did have the doc but lost it.

Think it works like this is Victoria...
 

0-62 = Class 1
0-68 = Class 2
0-72 = Class 3
0-78 = Class 4
0-89 = Class 5
0-?? = Class 6

Thanks Angry

Boy, this class business is starting to get as confusing as it used to be years ago. I randomly looked at venues today, some have handicaps, some have Class 2's etc, some have rating classes,.....!!

But thanks for all this, it is very helpfull indeed,

Paul