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Originally Posted by cj
Saw a lot of talk about Gulfstream turf races this weekend, including some by myself. The times for the races with the no temp rail looked impossibly slow for a firm turf course.
I did some in depth research on races at the two distances that were run (7.5, 8.5f) and found there were no problems at all with the times or the distance of the races. The only conclusion I can draw is the course clearly was not firm. There is no way horses run that slowly on a firm turf course. Equibase should definitely step in here and change it, to yielding, or even soft.
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Something here is very strange - don't believe there was any rain in the area of Gulfstream for awhile before their opening day, and considering the course had several weeks to rest it looked in nice shape & to my eye horses were getting over it smoothly. If the distances & times check out on your end, what can possibly account for such ridiculously slow times? Towards the end of the last GP meet the course was putting up usual times. Did someone forget to mow the grass when everyone was at GP West?
