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Letter of the Week

Taking one for the team?

In race five at Rosehill last Saturday Chris Waller had four runners, three of which could be described as backmarkers, or at the very least horses that need the speed on in their races. The other, Tougher Than Ever, you could argue is a leader/on-pace runner, though certainly not in a one-dimensional sense.
Glyn Schofield, on Tougher Than Ever, drew widest of the only three horses in the race that were ever going to go forward, yet he was hellbent on leading at a very fast pace.
He could easily have let Queenstown come through underneath him and get the gun trail, either on the fence behind that horse or at worse sitting outside the favourite (Romantic Moon).
Not only did Schofield give his horse no chance of winning, he also ruined the chances of the favourite and Queenstown.
Schofield’s horse at $10 ran nine lengths last, 4.7 lengths behind the second-last horse.  Waller’s other three runners, who all needed a fast pace, ran first, second, third.
Nothing in the stewards’ report questioning Glyn Schofield’s or Chris Waller’s tactics?

Dale Lomman
Cairns (Qld)
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