Picked this snippet up on the Betfair forum (courtesy of jb) and it is just slack on whoever is responsible for updating the harness.org.au site and once again its punters who cop the rough end of it.
Over the past week, there have been driving changes made (only 4 have been noticed) and the site hasn't been updated to reflect any of them. Changes were:
Graham Lee replaced by Gavin Lang
Graeme Lang replaced by Gavin Lang
Graeme Lang replaced by Chris Lang Jr
Graeme Lang replaced by Daryl Douglas
Anybody who follows the caper will tell you that this information is paramount for punters prior to having a bet when a premier reinsman is replacing somebody who rarely goes round. No disrespect to Graeme Lang who had a good driving career but is in his 70s now and is literally an anchor nowadays when driving.
Another thing that irks me is that when connections advise of a change of tactics it isn't listed anywhere despite the said connections having to give notice a reasonable time frame prior to the race, its no good telling punters about it when they are scoring up as all bets are placed by then. Any serious punter will have a speed map worked out and bet around it accordingly so if horse "x" is not going to keep the front as expected then punters deserve to know.
How hard would it be for a steward to make note of this on the site that is used by everybody in the industry just so things are transparent.
