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Originally Posted by wisconsin
Look math wizard, the old 6 furlong course allowed for 1 mile and 3/16th. There was no 1 1/4 mile start that was not on the turn. So if your angle is to card a mile and a quarter race, call the Careys and let them know the inner course would need to be 6 1/2 furlongs not the 6 it originally was. The quarter pole was ON the far turn, and the mile and 3/16th start was right where they came out of the clubhouse turn.
Were you the same guy telling me on another forum back in the '90's that they could fit a turf course inside Sportsman's?
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If the old 6-furlong turf course allowed for 1 3/16 mile races, then how could that configuration have possibly not have allowed for 1 1/4 mile races?
I did, however, make one mistake: The 1 3/16 mile start on the 6 furlong turf course had a 514-foot run into the first turn, while the 1 1/4 mile start on the 6 furlong turf course - from which the Secretariat Stakes was actually run in 1985 - had an 844-foot run into the first turn.
Even 1 5/16 mile races are possible from that configuration: The 4 1/2-furlong pole was situated exactly at the start of the backstretch - and 1 3/8 mile races can be run using the "long" far turn, thus no "distance gap" (and a Monmouth-style chute can be installed to allow 6-furlong turf races using the "long" far turn).
And I never claimed to be a "math wizard" - only a "geometry wizard."
