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Originally Posted by Tom
Here is the bottom line. It is not the clocker's job to get a horse qualified to enter. It is his job to record the workouts.
The TRAINER's job is know the rules and act/train in a way the gets his horse entered.
This is not as bad as it sounded at first, but, the way to "fix" rules that are not right is NOT to oignore them or circumvent them.
Stay in your lane, bro.
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Was no doubt ill advised to "extrapolate" the half-split. At that point it becomes work of fiction. Somebody higher should have signed off on the actual 5/8 work.
Sometimes common sense must over-ride verbatim rules. But that does require some stones. The production of horse races is not always a smooth, risk-free process. Tough calls and trouble tend to pop up.