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Originally Posted by thespaah
I pulled this quote from the article..
7 1/2 furlongs. “Horsemen are begging for them,” track president Tim Ritvo said, “because they want to run a shorter distance [than a mile].” Because these races start close to the turn, Gulfstream employs run-ups as much as 250 feet, making 7 1/2 furlongs almost as long as a mile. (Nobody ever confused horsemen with rocket scientists.)..
I find that incredibly amusing..The math states a race of 7 1/2 F with a run up of 250 ft is just 80 ft short of a mile.
This is 15/16ths of a mile. That plus 330 ft would be.....One mile..
Just goes to show, when a piece of wrong information repeated enough times, people tend to believe it..
So the trainers believe their horse is running in a race less than a mile. Sheesh..
Anyway I don't necessarily have an issue with run ups in an of themselves. I just would like the info given to the public once the gate is set so we can handicap the distance with the run up...
Send the info to the track announcer and the television production people, make the announcement and post in a graphic on the monitors.
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But why have the run-ups in the first place? Because the breeders do not want us to see the real speed of the horses during the first quarter of the race?
It's really better to see the artificial measurement of 22.00...instead of seeing the REAL time of 23.6, that we would likely see if the horses were timed from the starting gate?
Maddening...IMO.
