Overcrowding at Fairplex
 

Fairplex Park - September 9, 2010

Race 6 - 3:30 PM
MAIDEN CLAIMING $40,000 – $35,000

Purse $20,000. For Maidens, Three Years Old And Upward. Three Year Olds, 121 Lbs.; Older, 124 Lbs. Claiming Price $40,000, if for $35,000, allowed 2 Lbs. One And One Sixteenth Miles.
PP Horse Virtual
Stable A/S Med Claim $ Jockey Wgt Trainer
1 Dave's Ruler (KY) 3/R L* $40,000 M A Pedroza 121 R B Hess, Jr.
2 Cat Brando (CA) 3/G L* $40,000 D R Flores 121 D F O'Neill
Also Eligibles:
3 Derrick Do (KY) 3/G L* $40,000 121 V Cerin


Owners: 1 - Caufield or Rippey or Vaughan, Jr.; 2 - Haymes or Gardner or Sterling Stable; 3 - Holly & David Wilson

Breeders: 1 - J. Stuart, P. Bance & Liberation Farm; 2 - Martha G. Parfet; 3 - David Wilson

Its a gimmick race, TVG has been advertising the match race between Flores and Pedroza, Derrick Do is a fill in if either horse has to scratch

Byk's contest race for sure.

What's the point and why those two guys? What's Omar Berrio out of thown that day? :rolleyes:
Just makes no sense.

Martin Pedroza has won a record 606 races at Fairplex Park, with 11 consecutive titles and 12 overall...


Flores' 338 Fairplex victories rank second all time. Flores led the standings six straight years, from 1989 through 1994.

somewhere iggy puglisi is shaking his head at your post

-bt-

It will beat hearing about Shrupp's latest bonehead move, where he cost himself and his friends 35k for putting the wrong number on the end of a P6 ticket.

The sad/odd part is this applies to the theme of the entries of opening day:

12 races and an average of around 6.7 per race.

yep today is closing day at Del Mar and the next day is opening day at Fairplex.

Ok they are the 2 leading riders there ever. That justifies having a match race of two 35k claimers on a Friday afternoon? I just don't understand why they need to have a match race involving these 2 guys. You want to honor them, give them a day with a mug, t-shirt or bobblehead give away. But to have a match race on a card where they are averaging about 6 horses a race is nothing but adding insult to injury.

Martin is off his mounts today at DMR with a ''neck injury''.

It really doesnt make sense to have 12 horse fields at a bull ring track.

I like Dave's Ruler.

:eek:

Thank you. I thought you were going to bite my head off. :D