Do the ASM conditions invite selling a popular-vote slot for $50,000+?
....... which 'emergencies' get a run ... is the $50,000, guaranteed, for running 15th, tantamount to a card that can be parlayed into an 'acceptance fee' opportunity for another horse to get a run.
.....can an owner of a 'no-hoper' is guaranteed $50k, simply for running last, sell that slot to an 'emergency' .............with a two-to-one prospect of getting $100k running 9th or 10th?
The whole ASM concept makes a parody of practical concepts of proper racing administration -- nonsense run mad is attachments to democracy among Melbourne's Murray-river-wetbacks.
................talk about a river running upside down through Melbourne ...........RVL is a regular swimmer, risking drowning.