It Happened Again

[Dahoss9698]

Oaklawn 2nd on Sunday, jockey Shane Laviolette stops riding #8 CJ Jones midstretch. Looks like he thought the finish line they use for the mile races was the finish line...he realizes it and starts riding again, only to get beat a 1/2 length. Chart makes note of rider misjudging the line.

Hopefully he's suspended.

[cj]

He's only ridden 40+ races this meet, lets cut him a break. What is funny is that it was a 6f race, not a route where they do change the finish line.

[Dahoss9698]

He's only ridden 40+ races this meet, lets cut him a break. What is funny is that it was a 6f race, not a route where they do change the finish line.

Yep, makes it even worse.

[bigmack]

He's only ridden 40+ races this meet, lets cut him a break. What is funny is that it was a 6f race, not a route where they do change the finish line.
Never argue with chart notes.

C J JONES dueled up front in the two path, shook off the other speed to be clear when straightened for home, rider misjudged the finish wire a sixteenth out.

http://www.equibase.com/static/chart/pdf/OP021212USA2.pdf

[Rise Over Run]

Who needs ITPP when opposing jockeys can't figure out which finish line to ride to?

[Thomas Roulston]

This is why I have never liked auxiliary finish lines, and never will - although I'm puzzled as to why the tracks that do have them never use them on the turf as well as on the dirt (e.g., Keeneland).

[NTamm1215]

This is why I have never liked auxiliary finish lines, and never will - although I'm puzzled as to why the tracks that do have them never use them on the turf as well as on the dirt (e.g., Keeneland).

I don't like alternate finish lines either, but what distances would Keeneland need to accommodate on the turf by using the other wire? They can run 1m, 1 1/16, 1 1/8, and 1 3/16 already.

[Thomas Roulston]

I don't like alternate finish lines either, but what distances would Keeneland need to accommodate on the turf by using the other wire? They can run 1m, 1 1/16, 1 1/8, and 1 3/16 already.


Obviously, 7 1/2 furlongs; and if the Fair Grounds used auxiliary finish lines - and with that 1,346-foot stretch of theirs, it would actually make a lot of sense - they could even do 7 furlongs on the turf (since they do 7 1/2 now), and 1 mile on the dirt.

[wisconsin]

Obviously, 7 1/2 furlongs; and if the Fair Grounds used auxiliary finish lines - and with that 1,346-foot stretch of theirs, it would actually make a lot of sense - they could even do 7 furlongs on the turf (since they do 7 1/2 now), and 1 mile on the dirt.

Fairgrounds has used an auxiliary finsh line before for dirt races. I don't know if they still do.

[illinoisbred]

Fairgrounds has used an auxiliary finsh line before for dirt races. I don't know if they still do.
They used to...when they ran 1 mile races and maybe for their 1m +40 yard races too. No longer do.

[cj]

Obviously, 7 1/2 furlongs; and if the Fair Grounds used auxiliary finish lines - and with that 1,346-foot stretch of theirs, it would actually make a lot of sense - they could even do 7 furlongs on the turf (since they do 7 1/2 now), and 1 mile on the dirt.

Obviously? You think there is some great demand for 7.5f races?

[wisconsin]

Obviously? You think there is some great demand for 7.5f races?

The stupidest distance know to man. Poor man's route race.

[Thomas Roulston]

Obviously? You think there is some great demand for 7.5f races?


Well they were essentially unknown until Hollywood Park shortened its stretch in like 1987, making 1-mile dirt races impossible.

And I have lobbied strenuously for Aqueduct to run both 5-furlong and 7 1/2-furlong turf races for quite some time.

[cj]

Well they were essentially unknown until Hollywood Park shortened its stretch in like 1987, making 1-mile dirt races impossible.

And I have lobbied strenuously for Aqueduct to run both 5-furlong and 7 1/2-furlong turf races for quite some time.
Why???