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Old 01-22-2010, 01:47 PM
freddymo freddymo is offline
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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
You are right. I am not a "trip handicapper". But you don't need to be a trip handicapper to know that taking up sharply at the 3/8th pole is not a good thing. Taking up sharply at the 3/8th pole is going to kill you almost every time.

If you have a horse stuck on the rail behind horses (but within striking range), saving ground all the way around the turn, I wouldn't call that a bad trip as long as the horse does not have to take up and as long as he gets out at the top of the stretch. Many people will mistaken that for a bad trip, when in reality, it is often times a really good trip.
If you are 7 lengths better then the field why is taking up at the 3/8th's SUCH a big deal. The horse laid over the field?
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