Australian harness vs normal racing

Which do you okes prefer?I find harness racing in Australia much easier than their thorougbred racing.Early morning normal racing and from ten they could have given us four harness meetings but no they give us normal racing.The jackpot pool today was just over R2300 when harness racing it is usually over R10 000 and the first leg is won by a 81-1 shot.I'm not a fan of Australian jockeys really,they always seem to get into trouble or leave things too late.

No big stars, no egos all the riders are triers. Brilliant to watch them at their trade and some exciting finishes as well. I often went to Moonee Valley and always enjoyed it.

Australian flat racing is imo the 2nd best in the world. Massive crowds nice tote payouts, clean tabs easy to place a bet, some fantastic tracks, Everything about it is first rate

chicken n chips wrote: No big stars, no egos all the riders are triers. Brilliant to watch them at their trade and some exciting finishes as well. I often went to Moonee Valley and always enjoyed it.

Australian flat racing is imo the 2nd best in the world. Massive crowds nice tote payouts, clean tabs easy to place a bet, some fantastic tracks, Everything about it is first rate

Couldn't agree more CNC , with SA Flat Racing being number 1 :woohoo: :whistle:

Yes Craig you are correct but only if you enjoy delays at the start of almost every race or when it rains they call off meetings bookies who cut the price in half if somebody places a 20 buck bet low tote payouts. All you have to do to realise the poor state of SA racing is read ABC as everyday its saturated by moans

Without a doubt from a punting perspective Harness racing is miles ahead of flat racing from Aus, for us here in SA. But still we are force fed the flat racing when there is Harness available.

Thor wrote: Without a doubt from a punting perspective Harness racing is miles ahead of flat racing from Aus, for us here in SA. But still we are force fed the flat racing when there is Harness available.

But the pools are commingled so you can take a bet except for exotics, tote doubles are allowed. Now that racing is broadcast from early morning it should be on Tellytrack and on the surplus channel. Bookies are either pricing up to late or not at all for harness racing that is not being broadcast on the main channel.

the big thing with harness racing is the advantage with starting positions -- the best positions are 1 to 4, and the worst are 5 and 6.
7 and 8 often get a good trial. particularly if they are behind a speedy beginner, whist 9 and 10 are bad positions

naresh wrote:

Thor wrote: Without a doubt from a punting perspective Harness racing is miles ahead of flat racing from Aus, for us here in SA. But still we are force fed the flat racing when there is Harness available.

But the pools are commingled so you can take a bet except for exotics, tote doubles are allowed. Now that racing is broadcast from early morning it should be on Tellytrack and on the surplus channel. Bookies are either pricing up to late or not at all for harness racing that is not being broadcast on the main channel.

Personally dont care what they broadcast or not, my main concern is the bets with local pools available, and that should be all the harness races, as far as availability allows. Leave the flat for the international pools only.