How My July Log Is Constructed

This year the MET log just failed to arrive. I emailed the "Contact Us' address at Gold Circle to enquire and by the time they got back to me the final field was being announced. The NHRA had been sending their log to Gold Circle it turned out when I asked them, but they too were puzzled as to it's non-publication. No surprises here.

Therefore I have decided to take it upon myself to create a "JULY" log AND give the betting a go.

Click here to see log and prices: (http://racingandbreedingsa.blogspot.com/2010/02/who-will-win-july-betting-to-180.html)

My simple rules are as follows:

1. Use the official Merit Ratings, 3yo > 93 and 4yo+ >97
2. 4yo should have won over further than 1600m (Fabiani excepted)
3. 3yo should have won 1400m or further

The betting is just an opinion of what I think it would be, rather than should be.

As ratings change and other runners qualify I will add or remove as the ratings indicate on the NHRA's weekly update. Closer to the event some horses jump the queue by winning key races and I should add a 'numbered' column for that later.

3yo's Feature prominantly in the July Hcp in recent years so I tried to be more inclusive and stepped down the MR requirement for them.

The pricing up without official nominations proved more difficult than I thought.

The percentage for the book is 182.21%. I am completely happy with that because the top 30 (MR order) comes to 130% and in Odds order to 144%.

The top 20 comes to 125%