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jfb
11-19-2008, 03:28 AM
1st race Wednesday the 19th at Hollywood Park - every horse came out of the same race, a $12.5k claimer, which was twelve days ago. These are three year old fillies.

There are only six in the field, but it seems unlikely they would have all have met each other less than two weeks ago.

Is this unusual?

Norm
11-19-2008, 09:27 PM
It's not unusual for horses to race against each other multiple times during a meet. It's also not unusual for multiple entries from a race of a certain set of conditions to meet again in a race of the same conditions. It is mildly surprising that all entries from a recent race are meeting again to the exclusion of any others. It is a marvelous case-study opportunity. They should "theoretically" repeat their previous order of finish. In reality, they will probably not which should make you anxious to evaluate subtle differences between the two races to explain any difference in the order of finish.

jfb
11-20-2008, 01:44 AM
It is a marvelous case-study opportunity. They should "theoretically" repeat their previous order of finish.

With the help of a disqualification they finished exactly in the same order respective to each other as last time. There was a scratch, so it was five fillies.

The dq reversed the finish order of the the winner and place horse.

The one dollar trifecta payed payed $14.30

:)