Howdy

While running some of the Flat maidens this week it made me think about the class of horses entering them.
Maybe i am mistaken but i thought Maidens are a kind of Debut race for untested horses.
Now to be fair i am guilty of entering some of my rated horses in the maidens in the hope of stealing a win and because there is no other race to drop them in.
But i would be interested what others think of having a max rating of say 80 (or whatever) for horses entering Maidens.
It would give some of the lower handicap runners a chance in another race and at least they would know to expect an unrated monster if one runs.
Just a thought bubble, feel free to pop.

Cheers

A Maiden to put it simply is a race for horses who have never won a race
it has nothing to do with horses making a start in real life some horses in maidens have
had 20 runs+ If your horse has never won a race you are entitled to enter maiden races
in real life too