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Although I have some sympathy with this view, it isn’t really fair and probably could be worked around anyway. In Saturdays national, Willie had 5 different owners represented, it wouldn’t be fair on the owner whose horse was then not able to run.

I guess what would happen with such a rule is that, Patrick Mullins would be soon taking out a licence, or horses moving to relatives, to circumvent the rule. Additionally, with such an approach you would then need another rule restricting owners to a maximum entry to address the same problem of multiple entries.

The answer really is that other owners and trainers have to up their game.

[QUOTE="Mr Whatoxo, post: 2698228, member: 68399"] Although I have some sympathy with this view, it isn’t really fair and probably could be worked around anyway. In Saturdays national, Willie had 5 different owners represented, it wouldn’t be fair on the owner whose horse was then not able to run. I guess what would happen with such a rule is that, Patrick Mullins would be soon taking out a licence, or horses moving to relatives, to circumvent the rule. Additionally, with such an approach you would then need another rule restricting owners to a maximum entry to address the same problem of multiple entries. The answer really is that other owners and trainers have to up their game. [/QUOTE]

Verification: 5 + 3 = ?