Stott

Which way? Because he kicked it a mile clear, then eased it up for the last 150 yards. He managed to annoy both the buyers and the sellers!

50 lengths hardly annoyed the buyers

When was the last flat race with that margin ?

Excitement…..new job got carried away a bit

Apr 14, 2023 -- 1:42PM, howard wrote:

When was the last flat race with that margin ?

think today is the new record howard, was 1 @ cork 2-3 years ago something like 30 that was the existing record

thanks wonders. been around a long time don't remember 50 on flat

was 33 @ cork, allegio 15/4/18
article I've just read says that's just the highest for flat hcaps

Is there not a maximum distance on the spreads?

Didn't they just used to say distance for anything above 30 lengths?

spreads cap it @ 12 for the flat

Apr 14, 2023 -- 1:57PM, sparrow wrote:

Didn't they just used to say distance for anything above 30 lengths?

yes red marauder's national dists were a distance & the same & the same
changed early in the 2000s

Going by memory sparrow in distant years it used to be 30-59 = distance and 60 or over = bad

I seem to remember that it was 'dist.' if the winner won by over 30 lengths, and 'bad' for anything beaten more than 30 lengths by the second. So you would have a horse winning by a distance, with a bad third. Which sounds right.

But Hayden may well be correct.

Two very good newcomers for AMO. I looked hard at the first one but no market moves but I piled into Maximum Impact. Winner of the Norfolk? Probably beat little but he won it like a horse just breezing 5 furlongs at home.

Thanks, wonders and hayden.  I forgot all about the "bad" though.