STANDING START PROCEDURES-EFFECTIVE Friday 10 March 2017.
Starter to blow whistle five minutes prior to start.
Drivers to immediately proceed to start point and do gear adjustments, hopple shorteners etc.
Starter to blow second whistle at two minutes by which time all drivers are to be back in sulky and circling.
Drivers must get starters permission to get out of the sulky after the two minute whistle has sounded.
Horses to circle in an anti- clockwise direction immediately behind their handicap mark with the outside horse on each handicap mark leading the circle with runners then in descending number order.
Circles to use whole width of track regardless of number of runners on any mark.
If two lines of horses on any handicap mark then no tape to be used on the mark ten metres behind that mark.
If no tape is used on a particular handicap then a track attendant will be designated by the Starter to stand on that mark and alert starter if any runner is in front of their handicap by raising their arm and calling to the starter.
When starter calls horses up to tape outside horses on all lines immediately proceed to the top of the track and turn to face tape.
All other runners immediately turn to face tapes.
Inside runners may circle inside the marker pegs to allow sufficient room to turn and face the tape.
As soon as all starters are facing tapes starter will effect the start by calling “stand them up” and simultaneously releasing the tapes.
At Burnie, Scottsdale and St Marys runners will circle anti-clockwise on the infield immediately adjacent to the inside of the track and immediately proceed out onto the track in descending number order when called to the tapes by the starter.
Drivers who fail to comply with the above may be subject to penalty.
Procedures will be reviewed on 30 April 2017.
