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Ill answer my own question, She has been awake talking and recognising matt Cropp which will be a great feeling for him and is due to be removed from the ICU Great news

Agree RSD, after they have had their fill of the 7000 extra races this year, i suspect there will be still room for elephant races from the sub continent and Yak races from inner Mongolia - I hope we can bet on those too

The easiest way to think of it is that each 3 horse combination is one 'selection' in a leg. Hence if you took a banker (horse A) with 4 other (B,C,D,E) you have 6 'selections' namely ABC, ABD, ABE, ACD, ACE and ADE (remembering that these are trio selections not trifecta selections so the three horses can place in any order). Hence for the bet you suggested you would be taking 6 selections in each leg and the number of combinations would be the same as taking a treble with 6 selections in each leg i.e. 6 x 6 x 6 = 216 so to take the bet for 5% would cost $10.80. The most this will pay you is 5% of the pool if you get all three legs (i.e. $12.5k this weekend assuming the pool is $250k) even if you are the only winner (a very nice collect but hardly the life changing result the endless TT promotion implies) and if there is more than a full winning unit the declared dividend will be less than $250k and again you will only get 5% of the declared dividend. To get the concession you need to select the trio in the first two legs. In your example if you selected the first two legs, but not the third leg you would get 30% of the concession dividend, as while you only have 5% per selection you have 6 live selections going into the last leg so you have 6 x 5% units. The one exception to the percentage payout for the concession is that provided there is at least a single live ticket after two legs, the full concession pool is paid out, so if you happened to have the only ticket live after two legs and this was only for 10%, you would get the full concession pool and not just 10% of it (I think this happened one weekend). I think what I've said here is correct, but happy to be corrected if it's not!

Again we saw a dog today, namely Homebush Kelso, smash its head on the boxes at Southland today after the lids were as usual slow to open in race 4. Every time this issue has been bought to the clubs attention, and the stipes attention, nothing is ever done about it. We normally get told that no, the dogs are hitting their heads on the lure arm and that is that, they simply don't care. It has happened to one of my dogs on more than one occasion, and after going to see the stipes one particular time he came and saw the open cut on the dogs head he simply said "oh it's not too bad", not really the point I would of thought. About 3-4 months ago a dog got knocked unconscious after doing the same thing, effectively trying to jump "too fast" , as soon as the lids begin to open then dogs will try to get out quick...go figure!! Ask most trainers who race their dogs down there and they all have dogs with a "Southland Scar" as it is commonly referred to. I will be contacting the welfare officer later tonight as it is a welfare issue in my opinion, and I encourage anyone else with similar concerns to do the same thing, as nobody at the club thinks there is an issue.

I dont see the real point about discussing driving tactics or driving skills in this case..... I too have been critical of his drives, but now that this horse is injured, maybe we just need to focus on what a good, tough horse he was racing the best. Going like the clappers, and winning off long marks. To win $400k is a great effort, even more so in this case. Best of luck to Mr Clark, I dont know the guy, but he seems to have a real passion for young trotters, and sad to hear about the horses injury. Cheers

Dogs All Gone! Good Luck To Those Concerned.

You say that like it's a bad thing DD. Nothing wrong with mouse racing. Sources confirm sensitive negotiations are underway between Trackside and the Jefferson County Fair Missouri to show their sheep and pig races. The negotiations have stalled as Trackside is demanding a race every 90 seconds and they are also currently experienced difficulties securing a race caller. http://www.examiner.com/article/jefferson-county-fair-just-outside-st-louis-craig-morgan-collective-soul-activities-for-kids

and mouse racing from Scotland....I've never heard of some of those places they show. I guess it's a free geography lesson.

If this is correct ,it is indeed sad for The Ginga and AClark. The Ginga had a mediocre career winning just the 27 races and finishing in the top 3 in over 50% of his races , not too bad when he was racing horses from the stables of the Williamson's,Purdon's,Butt's etc most of the time. I won heaps off him in trifectas and First 4...my best ever 'go to' horse !!!! AClark is a mediocre driver he knows that ,but after pottering around with horses for a few years he got passionate and got a little more serious and achieved what may seem to many impossible.....he got to drive and compete among the top Group 1 trotters in Australasia. I went to Ballarat to see him win a heat of Interdoms 2 seasons back . Continually reading the haters and negaholics on here also inspired me to visit AClark at his Taieri home around that time and after taking me on a tour of his horses in the paddocks inside the track that he built , next door to the house he built we had lunch and he talked me thru his philosophies and many made sense. Sure he worked and raced his horses hard but those horses have turned into durable tough horses who have gone on to far beyond an average -length careers. So his theory about jogging his horses young instead of letting them get fat in a paddock then risking starting on them overweight maybe has some legs. Then driving them hard...and he knows he's sometimes got it wrong .....means less sit and sprint contests. Harness guru AAB , he like a bicycle wheel....the longer the spoke the greater the tire !!!!!......only bets on Jewels day cos its the only day they all try !!!!....should at least give some credit to his aggressive style with his low cost deeds ,especially as it lessens AAB's other pet-hate ,team driving. I guess its below the moral compass of the bullies and haters to show a little begrudging sympathy for the horses injury should it be correct. I remember my neighbour some years back had his star horse suffer a similar injury and he somehow nursed his horse back to health to win some big races and enter the Hall of Fame. Here's hoping !!!! But he too ignored the knockers and had a ball doing it. Another from the other side of the tracks......self taught in a very tough industry.

Interesting reading - Catching Pens to be used from July 1 2014 http://sa.thedogs.com.au/Uploads/Userfiles/Industry%20Update%20FOL%20March%202014.pdf