19th February 2006, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Silver_and_sand
A Maiden race is intended for horses that has yet to win.
A Class 3 race is intended for horses that have won 3 or fewer races.
If we keep going up the order of class of race we'll end up at the Group 1 race on top.
Can someone tell me exactly where those pesky 0MW (mw = metro win), 1MW, 2MW, 3MW, and 0MWLY (mwly = metro wins last year), 1MWLY, 2MWLY and 3MWLY races fall in the order of Class races (eg. - between Class 5 and Class 6 races)? Does someone know where I can find a complete list of the race types in order from Maiden to Group 1?
Also, while on the subject of class, can someone tell me if the following hypothetical horse is either coming up or going down in class:
Current race: Class 3 with $60,000 prizemoney at a metro track
Previous race: Class 6 with $10,000 prizemoney at a country track
At first glance it would seem the hypothetical horse is coming down in class, but considering the prizemoney, it should be facing far stiffer competition in the current race compared to its' previous.
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All those classes would be rated above C6 level, in theory at least anyway, but sometimes that may not be the case as the race class description can be very misleading - C6's, say in Perth, may well only be C1's, C2's etc. 0MW races may include horses that have won on a city track but those races are not considered metro wins because of the prizemoney won.
In your hypothetical the best way of judging if the horse is going up & down in class is the horse's weight - if it is going up in weight then it is probably going down in class, while if down in weight then it is probably going up in class (based on minimum weights). However, allowances would need to be made for any penalities the horse would have recieved if it had won or been placed at its previous run.
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