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Old 01-29-2013, 11:30 AM   #196
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TuP also cancelled today (Tue); will schedule a make-up card on Thursday.
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Old 01-29-2013, 01:15 PM   #197
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3 days. what's the deal with TUP, rain?
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Old 01-29-2013, 02:32 PM   #198
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3 days. what's the deal with TUP, rain?

Four days. They cancelled Saturday as well. It rained Friday night through Sunday pretty steadily and has been lingering about since. It doesn't take a whole lot of precipitation to finish off any chance of running for days on end.
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Old 01-29-2013, 03:46 PM   #199
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Four days. They cancelled Saturday as well. It rained Friday night through Sunday pretty steadily and has been lingering about since. It doesn't take a whole lot of precipitation to finish off any chance of running for days on end.
I dont understand why they cant run on a sloppy track, can you give me the cliff notes?
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Old 01-29-2013, 04:06 PM   #200
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I dont understand why they cant run on a sloppy track, can you give me the cliff notes?
Not really. I'm not a trackman and am one of the few that has (almost) never paced angrily at the rail and pretended to be. The track has changed in terms of depth, composition, maintenance schedules, and maintenance crew several times in my time here. The thing that has remained consistent is that it just never handles water well.

I could come with oft repeated theories about the base and caliche, but I honestly don't know why it falls apart so easily. You can generally run over it after it rains without any real problems, but the subsequent days it is completely shot after being punched up all day. I imagine if they ripped out the existing architecture and replaced the whole thing and invested a ton of money, it could probably fare better. That isn't going to happen.

Bear in mind also, this is Turf Paradise. The quality of racehorse you're dealing with is inferior to even the quality of horse you tended to see at Turf Paradise just a half-dozen years ago. I'm not going to go to the extreme and categorize the population as a bunch of cripples, but there are plenty of good old horses with problems and never was good horses that aren't overly athletic and hardly poetry in motion. Many of the same jocks that ride here now have ridden here for years and have had plenty of fun riding these eggbeaters and choppy jalopies on good tracks and don't need to find out how well the one that runs around there in his left lead from start to finish is going to handle the slippery ooze. I don't really blame them, but no need to approach the same subject in another thread in the one reserved for cancellations.
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FRIDAY, FEB 1st 2013


TURFWAY cancels their card...... too cold
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Old 02-01-2013, 06:41 PM   #202
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Charlestown Cancelled for Feb 1.
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Old 02-06-2013, 02:47 PM   #203
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Beulah just cancelled...no reason given here
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Old 02-06-2013, 04:15 PM   #204
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Beulah just cancelled...no reason given here

Beulah Park cancelled after the 3rd race today (2/06/2013).

Track looked good... no accident on track..... just stopped racing (?)

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Old 02-06-2013, 06:43 PM   #205
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Beulah Park cancelled after the 3rd race today (2/06/2013).

Track looked good... no accident on track..... just stopped racing (?)
Their site says "due to a rapidly thawing track"
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Old 02-07-2013, 04:26 PM   #206
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Aqueduct has cancelled for tomorrow 2/8 due to blizzard warning
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Old 02-07-2013, 04:32 PM   #207
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No live racing on Friday 2/08/2013 at Aqueduct... and they could cancel Saturday also if the winds get blowing ... but no official word yet....

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Old 02-07-2013, 04:49 PM   #208
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Aq - cancelled friday, 2/8

i see nyra twitter announced cancellation at aqueduct tomorrow.
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Old 02-07-2013, 07:31 PM   #209
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No live racing on Friday 2/08/2013 at Aqueduct... and they could cancel Saturday also if the winds get blowing ... but no official word yet....

On NYRA website tonight (2/07/2013)
A decision on live racing and simulcasting for Saturday, February 9 will be made Friday.
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Old 02-07-2013, 10:04 PM   #210
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The Meadowlands has cancelled their Friday night program. 8-12 inches of snow expected.
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