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05-08-2009, 11:40 AM
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Location: Western Kentucky
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Today's Belmont Card: Post Scratches
Race 1: 4 horse field
Race 2: 5 horses
Race 3: 5 horses
Race 4: 3 horses
Race 5: 7 horse field! Maiden Claiming, d'oh!
Race 6: 8 horse field
Race 7: 5 horse field
Race 8: 3 horse field Non-graded stakes off the turf
Race 9: 5 horse field
Average field size: 5 horses.
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05-08-2009, 11:42 AM
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Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2009
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I think everyone's at Monmouth. I think they have a good meet there. Starts tomorrow!
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05-08-2009, 11:48 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New York
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I guess I'll play Calder today. Looks like nice large fields.
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05-08-2009, 11:48 AM
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velocitician
Join Date: Aug 2004
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So? it is often like that at the beginning of a meeting when the track is off.
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05-08-2009, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Onion Monster
Race 1: 4 horse field
Race 2: 5 horses
Race 3: 5 horses
Race 4: 3 horses
Race 5: 7 horse field! Maiden Claiming, d'oh!
Race 6: 8 horse field
Race 7: 5 horse field
Race 8: 3 horse field Non-graded stakes off the turf
Race 9: 5 horse field
Average field size: 5 horses.
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Doesnt everyone love the old time dirt surfaces ? If Ny had poly i am pretty sure today would have been very playable ,,,,, Oh well
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05-08-2009, 05:01 PM
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Double Secret Probation
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Luxurious Orient Heights
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brutal job by belmont
a disgrace at belmont today. any idiot could see that it was gonna rain all week, duh , let's schedule a bunch of turf races for friday.
whatever happened to "stuck" horses ? you know, when you try to scratch and they tell you "too f'n bad you're running or your stalls will be in guam next meet". if you enter and it's a short field, you're running,period.
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05-08-2009, 06:57 PM
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
Posts: 88,633
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Originally Posted by big frank
Doesnt everyone love the old time dirt surfaces ? If Ny had poly i am pretty sure today would have been very playable ,,,,, Oh well
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Synthetic won't guarantee the elimination of massive scratches for off-the-turf events...
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05-09-2009, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
Synthetic won't guarantee the elimination of massive scratches for off-the-turf events...
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most turf horses would not scratch ,,,, remember the turf horses at the breeders cup over the poly ?
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05-09-2009, 05:05 PM
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
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Like I said, it won't guarantee anything...just like it's not guaranteed you will get ulta short fields on off-the-turf races moved to dirt.
For an example, look at today's 4th and 6th from Belmont...seven and eight horses respectively went to the gate in these off-the-turfers...
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05-09-2009, 05:20 PM
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Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Originally Posted by big frank
Doesnt everyone love the old time dirt surfaces ? If Ny had poly i am pretty sure today would have been very playable ,,,,, Oh well
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Or...NY might have had to cancel today due to lack of entries. Like California did last week.
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05-09-2009, 10:02 PM
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Location: Western Kentucky
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They were off the turf again today, but the card was quite decent. The track was very kind to speed today too.
There's nothing like betting on good horses, with good jocks on a consistent strip of dirt. Throw in a juicy bias and it makes up for all those bad days and bad plays.
Off topic...But what's up with Contessa so far? His horses have been horrible.
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