WHEN scratchings leave you with just three rides for the day – and one of those is a red-hot favourite – you aren’t left with a lot of margin for error.

Swan Hill jockey Harry Coffey headed for Ballarat’s synthetic track on Tuesday with a book of six rides but by the time he got there that was down to three.

Even his trainer father Austy had pulled Miss Cheviots out from beneath him.

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