Trivia Time

[Track Collector]

I'm sitting here on a Tuesday night watching Mountaineer, and the following trivia question came to mind. What was the track designation for Mountaineer before Mnr?

[SharpCat]

I'm sitting here on a Tuesday night watching Mountaineer, and the following trivia question came to mind. What was the track designation for Mountaineer before Mnr?


Was it WP?

[rastajenk]

Waterford Park was Wat, I'm pretty sure. But I don't know if that's what TC is going for here; I get the feeling there was something else in between.

[wisconsin]

Mtn?

[nvemil]

WTF ?? No, not a question back at the OP...The answer has got to be Wtf.

[Track Collector]

Mtn?

We have a winner. Congratulations wisconsin.

Now the follow-up......why was it changed from Mtn to Mnr?

[Tom]

Why?
To screw up databases? :rolleyes:

[JustRalph]

Why?
To screw up databases? :rolleyes:

Exactly what I was thinking! :lol:

Nothing like a one or two letter change to screw a million people

[BlueShoe]

Why?
To screw up databases? :rolleyes:
Like when HOL became the Betfair nonsense and Fairplex morphed into Barretts whatever the hell it is now? :ThmbDown:

[bobbyt62]

did it have to do with mount pleasant in michigan ? i've been to wat hundreds or thousands of times, mnr not so much. but i dont even remember when it went from mtn to mnr. but there are a lot of mtp shippers at mnr.

[Just a Fan]

There's an Australian track (Manangatang) that is designated as Mtn by DRF. Can't believe that Manangatang would trump Mountaineer to get the Mtn code though.

http://www1.drf.com/entries/trackAbbreviations.html

[affirmedny]

Possibly changed when Equibase and DRF started to share data?

[Peter Berry]

There's an Australian track (Manangatang) that is designated as Mtn by DRF. Can't believe that Manangatang would trump Mountaineer to get the Mtn code though.

http://www1.drf.com/entries/trackAbbreviations.html
I might be the only person on the planet to have spent considerable time at both tracks. Huge blowies at Manangatang.

[Rise Over Run]

Huge blowies at Manangatang.
Sounds like quite the party town. :eek: :eek: :jump: :jump:

Or maybe it doesn't translate well from Australian to English. :lol: :lol:

[Peter Berry]

Sounds like quite the party town. :eek: :eek: :jump: :jump:

Or maybe it doesn't translate well from Australian to English. :lol: :lol:
We call blowflies "blowies" in Australia. Manangatang is probably the blowie capital of the world.

[JustRalph]

I'll save the curious a google search

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manangatang

[Track Collector]

Several folks have the right idea. The change was made shortly after the introduction of the Mtn code because of possible confusion of PPs between the following two tracks:

And they are..............Mtn and Mth.

Thanks for participating everyone.


Chris


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[cj]

Several folks have the right idea. The change was made shortly after the introduction of the Mtn code because of possible confusion of PPs between the following two tracks:

And they are..............Mtn and Mth.

Thanks for participating everyone.


Chris


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Hmmm....

We have:

HOO, HOU, HOL (or we did)
BEL, BEU
FP, FPX
DED, DEL
EVD, EMD
FE, FER
FNO, FON
LA, LAD
PID, PIM, PM
PLN, PNL (until of course Pinnacle closed)
PRM, PRX
SA, SAC, SAR
SR, SRP
SUF, SUN
TP, TUP

But somehow MTR and MTH were too close?

[Ocala Mike]

But somehow MTR and MTH were too close?

No, it was Mtn and Mth that were too close. I can see the problem, can't you?

[cj]

No, it was Mtn and Mth that were too close. I can see the problem, can't you?

No, not really. Doesn't look any more similar than others I see. I guess an n and an h were too close. Never really had much trouble distinguishing them myself.

[Ocala Mike]

I'm getting on in years, and my near vision is not what it used to be. Believe me, those two lower case letters are rough on visually-impaired people.

Anyway, I'm still calling Parx Philadelphia; just hate that term Parx. Thank God Betfair Hollywood is closing; hated that, too.